The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-05-31
Vera Cruz, May 8, 1853.

1Here Is Il STeut Slint aritS III tne pr0cecC.
ings, if not the positions, of Santa Anna and
Louis Napoleon. Among the earliest acts of
both were the overtlrew Of the freedom of the
press and the independence of the Legislative
bodies. The next step of the Mexican dictator
will be the Capitalization the Mexican States.
Santa Anna is evidently proceeding on the
same assumption as Louis Napoleon, that the
Mexicans are unfit for the representative insti.
tutfons. 1t would appear, in fact, that the lat
ter has made the earlier Dictator his model
and examper. The Western, however, will
have harder task to pro.ong his tenure of
of personal soveriegnlty than the Eastern dicta.
tor.
Louis Napoleon has homogeneous popula.
tion and'natioRal unity as helps to his authori-
ty. He has n full exchequer and unimpaired
credit as auX:iaries.s Santa Anna has to gov
ern country .disintegrated not only politically
but socially. Mexico is confederacy without
cohesion-her people without assmllation.-
Her population is SO separated into dssimilar
races that fusion is not only impossible, but
secret hostility places in social aatagotism the
classes that occupy her territory.
These sources of internal division and dis
order, find in a bankrupt treasury and ruined
credit, the precise circumstances that must
lead to national dissolution. How can Santa
Anna, shrewd statesman as he is allowed to be,
expect to prolong his authority beyond very
few years, perhaps months, with such elements
of discord all around him? What permanent
aid can an imbecle government afford him like
that OF old Spain?
There is only one mode, by which his da
ring assumption of power could be maintained
But that mode is revolutionary, which is the
the antithess to his system of rule, if it is not
alien to the national feeling. The government
cannot be carried on without more ample fiscal
resources than the make.shift expedients to
which his predecessors have uf late resorted
A system that would compel the priesthood of
Mexico to yield up for the service of the State
the large revenues they have engrossed, pres.
ents, perhaps: the only scheme Of relief. This
of course would be called confiscation But
until some arrangement is made by which i'm
mense estates, now locked up in the hands Of
an unproductive class, is released, for the pur.
poses ol~iinp provement: how can revenue be
raised adequate to the public wants? How
can those slimulants be supplied to private en-
terprise that would add to the resources of tax.
alton.
Will Santa Anna have the courage, suppc.
sing it compatible with his policy, to do this?
We think not. lie will endeavor to conciiatc
the priesthood Of Mexico, as Louis Napoleon
did the priesthood of France. lie is aware
that the influence. over the minds of the bulk
of the Mexican population of those who con-
troll them, in all the acts and purposes Of life,
may defeat any scheme for obtaining the con-
sent of the majority, in breaking up the landed
monop!y that the priesthood of Mexico enjoys.
The foundations Of his power cannot be laid
sufficiently deep without popular sympathies
as their basis. The ignorance of the masses
will prevent an appreciation of any compre
hensivc measure of reform What remains for
him to do, therefore, but to resort to temporary
expedients for the prolongation of his power.
He will adopt, on a scale commensurate with
his means, the ordinary, flimsy appliances in
support OF usurped authority, that will be fol-
lowed, us usual, by reaction in short period
of time.-Charleston Evening News.