New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-06


SrATEs.-Gen. Mariana Arista, late President Of
Mexico, writes letter from London, dated July
u, IN which he Indignantly denies the author
ship of the letter to the Minister of War and
Marine, expressing sentiments favorable to the
annexation of Mexico to the United States
He declares the letter referred to, dated May
5, 1858, forgery. In it he was made to say
81 desire the happiness of my country, and to
attain it see no road but through Federal in
situations, and, if it be desired, annexation to
the United States, in which Mexico will meet an
inexhaustible fountain of riches and prosperity,
notwithstanding she may lose that grand enig-
ma, that squaring of the circle, called by Santa
Anna nationality. The day will arrive when
this will happen
General Arista, in his communication to the
Herald, says:
''The moment the surreptitious document
came under my notice here, publicly denounced
it as apocryphal, and forged for the sole pur-
pose of covering with infamy my name in Mexico.
81 have been told that the surreptitious an
swer, supposed to contain my political views,
has been favorably received in the United States
but it is not to be credited for moment that
distinguished and patriotic citizens of free and
IL
lean whom they believed to be in his heart an
annexationist, or, more properly, traitor
With how much more contempt would they look
on one who, besides being Mexican, had been
raised by the free votes of his fellow citizens to
the supreme magistracy of his country, should
he shamelessly proclaim the extinction Of its
nationality
''After a life spent in my countrys service
and in upholding its independence as a nation,
hard uph a ofp
lous enemies, should still be called on to de-
clare, that am no annexationist that am no
traitor to Mexico; that in its defense, and to
secure its liberties and nationality, | will ever
be ready to fight, and would willingly shed the
last drop OF my blood, ere | would consent that
our race should disappear, that our country
should succumb to the domination Of any foreign
power under the SUM-
This denial by the ExP President amply yndi-
Gates his patriotism, and however disagreeabe
it may be to the apostles of g Manifest Destiny
and Annexation, it relieves the character of the
General from the stain of treachery.
This letter, it appears, was forged in Havana,
and first published in the Diari0 De Ia Hq5ana
with full knowledge of its want Of authenti
city. 1t was afterwards copied in the principal
papers in the United States, where it obtained
general credit.
This forged letter afterwards found its way
to Mexico, where the enemies of Arista used it
to blacken his fame, affecting to credit it as
genuine. But lbs friends pronounced it a for
gerry, and finally retuted it by the production
of the genuine letter. In the mean time the
effect of il was to excite popular Indignation
against him and to justify his Punishment
There is no doubt that the entire invention
was the work of the minions of Santa Anna,
who found fair means insufficient to destroy the
vast popularity which Arista had acquired
among the people.
The General heartily disapproyes the idea of
annexation to the United States How long
will it be before he will be compelled to witness
what he so earnestly depreeates