Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-04-02
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view between Santa Anna and Dr. Manuel VI
Escobar, who was dispatched to Carthagenia BY
the authorities of Vera Cruz on mission to the
exiled ex-President. The details of the CONVEX
satiou which passed between them are furnished
by the papers, and a translation is given by the
Now Orleans Picayune, which we copy. The
significance of the language of Santa Anna touch
ing the position of Mexico, and his display of
unmitigated hostility towards the United States,
cannot fail to command the attention Of the reader
At latest dates from the city of Mexico March 3D.
seventeen Of the States and Districts had voted for
him as President, one had voted against him. aud
the remaining five had not been heard from, but
his almost unanimous restoration to power was
confidently anticipated. Here is the account of
the interview above referred to:
Senior Escobar reached Cathagena on the LIST
of February, and found Gen. Santa Anna residing
at Turbaco, five leagues from Cathagena. Upon
meeting Santa Anna his first question was,
"What happens in our republic-what say the
Mexcans! He then asked if it was true that
another American Invasion was threatened to
which Escobar replied that 'the question of
Tehuantepec would force Mexico to cede without
fighting"
Senior Eseobar states that he then went into
along account of tho courss of the Te-
huantepec affair." of the administration of the
Government, aud such other subjects rs present
themselves when two persons meet who love
each Other He then handed the General the
letters and papers he had brought. The next
morning Santa Anna said to him:
"Your coming has made me pass very bad
night. How have been affected by the unhap-
py situation OF our beloved country, the victim of
passion, involved in anarchy and in imminent
danger of losing her nationality. Unhappy
Mexico Without revenue; owing million and
halt of back dividends on the English debit aud
unable to pay the last years interest, even the
sal aries her officers; without an army, the
frontie RS abandoned and suffering the greatest
disasters from the attacks of the savages; the
frontier States undermined by traitors Influenced
unprotected by Americans; all this tolerated for
five years by inapt leaders, who are traitors and
only worthy of universal execration. Lower
California, threatened too in such manner
that it may be invaded and oyerrlln without
resistance. Yucatan sustaining an Indian war
in which it cannot triumph. TehuanteDec
threatened, aud its military occupation by our
natural enemies delayed until the coming month
of April"
.'What situation But what has the Govern
ment of Mexico done with the millions it re-
ceived for the ubiquitous sale of great portion of
our territory :? What has t done with the reve-
nue. it has controlled for FIVE years, while the
nation has remained dumb and resigned in view
of the prodigies which the omnous Government
Of Quaretaro offered to do y
The conferences were continued for several
days. Santa Anna, manifesting great reuctance
to return, and recapitulating the marked unkind-
ness evinced towards him by the Mexican nation.
Referring to their treatment of him during and
subsequent to the Mexican war, he said:
.Words cannot define such conduct, and it in
dicates clearly what can be expected from such
citizens. A society thus accustomed to the ply
nj moral q sination its laadaro in
war of independence, that does not respect an
observing world, cannot be otherwise than in the
unhappy condition of our country. God and man
must condemn acts that are so rarely found in the
civilized world. Does such Il course encourage
our young men to give their time and their best
years to the benefit of their country. defying
danger and forgetting all that is most dear and
sweet in life, and abandon all for her safety!
"Besijes it is impossible that can return, and
meet with serenity set of men who have Gle
waited themselves to power without any thing in
past history favorable to them; or him who has
never been good son, good husband, good
friend, good citizen; men who have borne
the filthy yoke imposed upon them, and remain
cd impassve even when they saw that nothing
was done to save our country from the aggres-
sons projected by the new vandals of the
North.
"Have the Mexicnns abjured their passions7-
Do they blush for their? folies See the abyss that
il open Mt their feet7 Know they that they will be
absorbed by this modern Rome, without any re-
source hut to bend the neck; ifthey do not change
completely their course? Have they the pre-
sumption to suppose that they will be saved
without effort on their part, amid the disorders
in which they lie, and when it would seem that
patriotism has fled the land Of the Hdalgos, of
the Iturbides, and Guerreros!
"Shall present myself on that scene when
no government is possible! When the ties of
obedience are torn into shreds! When tho
wicked and vile Arista has dissolved every social
bond, and driven morality and virtue into obivion1
Do they wish me to leave this sweet repose =
That shall again risk the term of life which
Divine Providence conceded to mo, mutiated as
am, to look upon such misfortune, with the wish,
perhaps, to save, but powerless to remedy, be-
cause may not find loyal and effective CO.
operation, occurred when | made front to the
American INVASION"
Senior Escobar employed every argument cal
culated to influence SantaAn to return, repre- 1
senting to him that Aristn was universally de-
tested, that every was in favor OF Santa Anna,
and looked towards him as n lberator and bese-
factor, and that his presence md counses would
alone suffice to dispe anarchy, and restore Next
co to tranquility and order Two days after
wards Santa Anna replied to Escobar:
"lhat his heart could only be Mexican; that
Notwithstanding the past, he wished to show to
his compasriots how dear they to him; that
their misfortunes were his and he never could |
be indifferent to them; that looking at objects
from distance, tleir deformites were better
'sen; that he did not wish that history should one
lay say that he had been deaf TO the call of his |
country when she honored him with a call to
meet the common danger, and that he bad seen |
With Indifference her fate; that he desired to end
lis days in the spot he had choseras Iesidence
or his family; that his only wish was to see his
country happy, and that, casting aside every
hing tending to detain him, he resigned him
ef to give the last proof of his patriotism,
Though history taught him to place no conf
lence in the passing enthusiasm of the masses.
81 hold" he said, SHAT independence is the