The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-09

Political PROSPECTS OF MExICO.-Our unfor-
tunate and eccentric republican neghbor has
been for years past exhibiting sort of comedy
oferrors. ofwhich the whole nation is the theatre,
and Of which the denouement is hardly yet
foreshadowed. Whether the political and social
changes that have been recently taking place
there, and which would puzzle the most syste.
matte Of historians to recount will end in the
establishment of = real republic. instead of the
phantasm of one which has hitherto existed or
in despotic dictatorship, with Santa Anna in
the seat Of power. or in a total disruption Of
the federation. it would be extremely dangerous
to venture prediction. Arista was too tempo
rizing and vacillating and had too little Of the
Louis Napoleon temperament to be able to hold
his position as head Of the State he consequently
threw down the rcins of government which he
had so feebly held. and soughta more congenial
occupation in private life. His successor, Senior
Cevallos, entered on the discharge of the dicta.
torial duties with which the Congress invested
him, with seemingly more energy and determi-
nation; but he, too, soon found, himself incompe-
tent to cope with the perplexing difficulties
which on every side surrounded hinr; and SO he
went to keep Arista company in his retirement.
The political chiefs heading and directing tie
revolutionary party were great at resolving
and re-resolving-now pledging themselves to
the plan of Guadalajara or Jalisco and anon
casting them aside as rubbish, and substituting
for them new plan, adopted in the City q
Mexico Thus they run and it would puzzle
the most astute and Industrious systematizer to
know where they are now what they are dri-
wing at. or what will be the upshOt Of all these
,mystifcatiens.
In the doubt and uncertainty with which the
future Of Mexico is enveloped, we have how
ever, two salient points which may serve as the
basis for more reasonable conjecture. They
are first. the ratification, so far as the Mexican
government is concerned Of the grant to an
American company for the construction ola road
across the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec, and the other
the formal national recall of General Santa
Anna to Nexico and, as a matter of conse-
quence, to his ancient dictatorial seat.
AS to the Tehuantepec grant. it will be diff
cult to say what our government will do in the
matter Though they OF first demanded from
stipnlatons, yet the great desideratum was,
that the road should be in the hands of an
American company That point is now settled,
and we presume there will be no more impede
ments in the way of the final acquisition of this
route. From the American enterprise, activity
and influence which will be thus developed and
operative in the territory of Mexico. we may
indulge in the hope that the greatest benefits
will follow to that country. We have the high
est assurance that "a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump"
The recall Of General Santa Anna opens up,
on the other side, new vista ofhope for Mexico
That old warrior and statesman has passed
through those vicissitudes which serve to re-
move the clouds of prejudices and error from
human vision. and to enable men to discern
public affairs in clearer light. Experience
will have taught him the secret Of national
existence. He will have been impressed with
the firm conviction that the only hope for the
permanency and security Of Mexican independ
e1ce lies in a strong federal government alike
free from the weakness Of too much decentrali-
cation and from the dangers Of despotism. Such
a government we trust, Santa Anna will CON
strict, if rests5lishcd the bead Of the republic
as we have no doubt he will be. A good op-
portunity will also be afforded for rcmodclling
the whole political fabric on a more secure
basis, in the convention which Il e. meet ii
June next for the revision Of the Constitution
That task if entered on with The H. = spirit.
would be very easy one, a. all "a 4 .,cccss sry
would be TO take the constitution u H. United
States. and adopt and initiate H. We conf
IDENTIFY recommend IL to the delegates indiyi-
dually and collectively In these two points
alone is there anything like lgbt ~ illuminate
be dark page Of Mexican history