New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-15
TIE RECALL OF SANTA ANA.

Santa Ana is called 70 the supreme power IN
Mexico for the sixth time. The ablcst man of
bis country, he is her evil genius; always dis
trusted, and resOrted TO by the people only
when all is desperate, and anarchy and dissolu-
ton stare them in the face. His temporary
popularity has not failed 10 be followed by uni
versal execration on each former occasion no
has only made worse q state Of things already
intolerable; and now his returnw wears gloomy
and sinister aspect. 1t lis like the calling in Of
an executioner to end the life and the suffer
ings 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. A public debt
whose interest she has not paid; an ignorant
clergy owning great part of the property and
hindering all improvement people so des-
ttute of native energy as TO tend perpetually
not to absorb or expel the latter, TO make
room for manler and stronger breed-with.
out education and trained only to be pundered
and led by the nose by the great men or the great
scamps above them with no industry aud ne Sc
curity for property with horde Of military Of
ficers TO prey upon the nation and TO make Gifts
government the prize of lawless violence;-
where has there been any solid ground to hope
that Mexico coHld rise to an honorable position
among the nations Of the world There has
been none, aud however benevolent sentiment
tally 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 credi-
tor unsatisfed, and referring the domestic
emplOye 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 fatal
shock 10 the decaying system; and now at last
with faction raging more insatiably than ever,
With all genuine national spirit extinguished,
this unprincipled intriguer is brought back to
undertake the Government, in which his high.
est success has been tyranny, and his best skill
has only served TO euyenOm It's diseases. We
may be sure that whatever he nov does will
only contribute to preeipitate the ruin of his
country.
How the Mexican Nationality viii disappear
is problem which time only can solve. The
ordinary impression is that the entire country
viii be incorporated into the United States. But
there are reasons why such an'eyent cannot
easily or rapidly be accomplished. The Next
cans do not love the Yankees. They dread
being swallowed up by that omniverous North
ern people. They fear that their religion viii
be swept away in food of federation and Prot.
estaniism. And they must desire BY every
and any means to avert that fate. II is true
that on the other hand, the wealthy and pow
erful dass-the clergy alone excepted perhaps
fearful Of theruin tina, now threatens to over.
whelm everything, would gladly sell the nation
out to any bidder offering security for them
selves as the price. The bargain proposed to
Gen Scorr shows how greedily transaction of
this sort would be taken hold Of BY the class in
question But the people of the United States
are necessarily the other party to the bargain,
md the last experiment in the admission of |
Mexican territory was not an easy or pleas
mt one. Along with the question Of admit |
ing new States beyond the Rio Grande, the
'tssr Srsst;Ss Of Slavery AID :ss W-Gss Pc |