The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-25
THE RECALLOF SANTA ANA.

| HE RECALL OF SANTA ANA. Cd. f.
Santa Ana is called to the supreme power
in Mexico for the sixth time. The ablest man
of his country, he is her evil genius; always
distrusted, and resorted TO by the people only
when all is desperate, and anarchy and disso-
luton stare them in the face. His temporary
popularity has not failed to be followed by
universal execration; on each former occasion
he has only made worse state of things
already intolerable; and now his return wears
n gloomy and sinister aspect. 1t is like the
calling in of an executioner to end the life
and the sufferings of patient who cannot
hope to recover, and is resolved no longer TO
struggle with his pangs
For quarter of century Mexico has
steadily approached her doom. public debt
whose interest she has not paid; an Ignorant
clergy owning great part oft the property and
hinderng all Improvement; people so des-
titute of native energy as to tend perpetually
to lose themselves in the native Indian races,
not to absorb or eXpel the latter, to make
room for manlier and stronger breed-wIth-
out education and trained only to be plum
dercd and led by the nose by the great men
or the great scamps above them; with no in
dustry and no security for property; with al
horde of military officers to prey upon the
nation and to make of its government the
prize of lawless violence; where has there
been any solid ground to hope that Mexico
could rise to IN honorable position among
the nations of the world? There has been
none, and however benevolent sentlmentaIlty
might deplore the fact, and dream OF, better
times for the future, Mexico has made no
advances toward real independence and sub
stantial power For these twenty years the
nominal expenses of her administration have
exceeded the revenue, and the deficit has been
covered by leaving the foreign creditor I'M
satisfied, and referring the domestic employee
to private taxation, in the shape of brides and
robbery, for payment, which the Treasury
could not make. As is always the case under
such circumstances, the rich have grown
richer and the poor poorer, while the country
has been torn by political feuds, Federalists
disputing with Centralists the possession of
the unhappy people Then the war with the
United States came to give a fatal shock to
the decdVng system; and now at last with
faction raging more nsatiably than ever, with
all genuine national spirit eXtingushed, the
unprincipled ntriguer is brought back to I'M
dertake the Government in which his highest
success has been tyranny, and his best skill
has only served to envenom its diseases. We
may be sure that whatever he now does will
only contribute to precipitate the ruin Of his
country.-Net0 York Tribune.
A Michigan correspondent is responsible
for the following: He is speaking of min
lister who, in taking 4 view Of his audience
during a somewhat protracted sermon, found
some who preferred being EMBODIED in the
earns of Murphy" rather than the true folds
of his faith. Whereupon, raising his voice,
he cooiy remarked that it was usual to charge
for lodging in public houses, and he hoped
the brethren would raise no objection if he
asked of them the shilling fee On another
occasion, the same worthy divine, in the
midst of an exciting sermon, united his cravat
and threw it from him, with the remark that
he "belieyed the devil was trying to choke
him to death?"