The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-04

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The recall of SANTA ANNA seems to have
been deliberate acknowledgment on the part
of Mexico that she was unworthy to be a re
public Collspsng under the languor of de
spair she seems to endure without murmur
the fetters which this memorable tyrant i'm
poses upon her plant limbs. The rapid sue
cession OF measures aimed at the liberty of the
citizen leaves no doubt of the imperial inten
tons with which the government of Mexico is
to be reconstructed.
We proceeded to consider few DAYS
since whether SANTA ANNA entertained any
uouo' Oh Inc entire submission of Mexico to
ms VIII. We thought that he perhaps EN-
Pioyed the national prejudice against the Uni
Ted States as an apology for assuming despotic'
power. But We now believe he was sincere
In ms hostility, and, confident of the inca pacity
OF his country to resist him. She has surren-
dersd at discretion
Since his accession we have carefully noted
the language of the Universal for an explana-
hon OF his intentions. The organ of his gov
ernment Is nothing but an editorial amanuensis
through whom SANTA ANNA, like Cesar, refers
to his own deeds and purposes as to those of
another person.
According to this authority, it is obvious that
ne believes the late conquest of Mexico was
owing to her civil dissensons, and that with
his military genius, and the force of central
despotlsm at his disposal, he can restore the
honor and perhaps regain the territory which
Mexico has lost. We believe this error, com
pounded of vanity and maeyolence, will cost
HIM his throne, and perhaps the q,Od restat of
his unhappy country.
We do not doubt that, with every man pos
sesslDg sagaclty enough to become successful
usurper, SANTA ANNA comprehends perfectly
the character of his eountrymen A Mexican
writer has terseIy and with truth observed that
the difference between the uncontrolled tenden-
cles OF the American and Mexican people is,
that whilst the first become some out of many !"
the other becomes "many out of one" ...
IL IS therefore natural that the Dictator
should attribute the subjugation of Mexico to
her civil dissensions. The late war commenced
with revolution, under authority of which
PAREDEs deprived the authorities of the gov
eminent, and assumed supreme executive
power. During the progress of the war Pa
REDEs was oyerthrown, and a total reorganiza
ton OF the government effected. The capacity
OF Mexico foraself defence was of course much
impaired by the want of concert and positive
anlmOsities Of her leaders, and the concentra
Of all har tha r,,1a Of
man.
Inspired with animosity and ambition, SANTA
ANNA desires to make his despotsm as efficient
as possible. He degrades the States into mill
tary departments; makes their governors but
generals of division, responsible to himself as
commander in chief lie directs the State
revenues to be paid into the central treasury,
and he recognizes and strengthens the national
army. To stimulate the popular hostility
against the United States, he has exhumed the
fallen soldiers of the republic, and revived the
feelings which their fate oceasoned. We
should think it would have been more accept
able TO the widows and orphans and to the
manned survivors TO have received a pension
or grant Of land. He has moreover ordered
the trial of those who gave aid to the
invaders, and DEGREES American sympathy
TO be political crime. Thus we see that
Colonel JUsrISIANI protects himself against
any imputaton of the latter offence by re-
questing General TRIAs to enrol him as a pri-
yate Gin any war which may break out with
the Emitted States in consequence of their in
VssiOn of Mexican territory"
In regard to this gentleman, who secures a
says: cit may be presented as an evidence of
patriotism which ws l1ould 10 God ,Cere fol-
: lOaoed By all our soldiers
These measures will no doubt concur to es-
tablish prejudice against the United States
which may be carried even to the point of ac-
tusl hostility.
We note another article reviving at the
same time the national courage and demonstrat-
ing the necessity of despotiSm: 1.-The Mex
lean republic was not yanquished by General
Scorr, nor by his soldiers; they were neither
so numerous powerful as to subdue ma
ton numbering seven millions of inhabitants.
Mexico was conquered because, far from hay-
ing good system of government, she was
ruled by system expressly devised to divide
her sons, that they might be weakened and
their nationality destroyed. She was CON
quered because that systematic everlasting
source Of intestine discord-had placed a sub
divided power in the hands of se6shness and
ignOrsnee-consigning good citizens to obi
won. She was conquered because honest
men became the subjects of unmerlted con-
tempt" xe., &c.
The political principles of the United States
are held responsible for much of the misfortunes
of Mexico: They suggested Ahe adoption at
the date of our national birth of a system
which has destroyed rs; and when they saw
that the fatal seed had produced its bitter
fruit, when they saw that we were already
sufficiently divided and sufficiently weak and
dispirited, they send their legions to invade
the soil which our errors and our misfortunes
bad abandoned to them. The triumph, then
of the American arms in our country was,
therefore, owing not to the power Of their ar