The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-01
Count Tie Raousset BoulhOn.
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To N. r. DuLoS, CoSsrL OF FRANCE:
MONSIEUR ~ Consul When this letter reaches you
shan have lett California, and IL viii be longer in
your power in that OF any other person 10 prevent
my going From you, above all others was bound to
conceal my departure well that you would have
exertcd every effort 10 prevent IL.
In taking 90 grave step owe il to myself to state
allow neither error malevolencc TO misreprcsent
them, 10 blacken memory IL II should prove my
fate to perish in my enterprise.
You know. Monsieur lie Consul, that by virtue OF q
contract made at the city Of Mexico, on tho 7th of
April, 1852, hundred and eighty Frenchmen left
California for Sonora under orders TO work. without
prejudice TO any one the mines Of Arisona. You know
how they depoled Of their rights by the superior
oned their allegiance TO France or to re-
embark you know how they reduced for their
defence and after having received the first are to com
bat the General who commanded in 9onora.
Some time after these events had taken place, you did
me the homer to express your sympathy and wrote
which have religiously preserved.
II aiude TO these particulars, which have, pre-
pose Of clearly estvblishing that In the opinion Of
man OF your enlightened judgment had rights which
Since that period you have, as public functonary
and In conformity with superior orders thrown every
Obstacle IN the way Of my projects Of returning to seno-
ry 1t is true that in all other matters and in your
private capacity you have manifested towards me feel
bound to add, kind to comyromit in the
least your Official character If remind you thereof
n Tor the ois Of ankg you for
your hostility Consul
yasseur Minister OF France al Mexico pressing
letters to induce me TO repair To Mexico General Santa
ANITA having expressed Ia him desire 10 there.
General Santa Anna" wrote Mr.. Levasseur "has ex-
proceed himself TO me in the following terms: i know
and appreciate NJ de Raousscts character and courage
accept with pleasure, the offer you make me in his
OF placing his sword at the service of my country
From this hour shall deem him my friend, he may
deem me his Let him come forthwh 1t Is in his power
TO help US TO do great deal Of good for Mexico. am,
for my part quite willing to do everything in my power
TO indemnify him for the injustice done him BY unn.
clligent administration '-Ict.cr of the Goth March,
1859; signed Leyasseur.)
The earnest enreay Of Mr. Lyasseur and of yourself
decided upon avng for Mexico remained In that city
four months entertaining the purcst and most straight
forward intentions and holding myself the whole time at
the results Why General Santa Anna ted with mef de-
eved me, did everything, in worp to make his Bit
persecution so rslpaby on its face that foreign
newspapers denounced unanimously, in severcr terms
that now employ. II is true, General Santa Anna Of
tered me positions which might have created for in
dvidually an honorable existence and capable of
satisfying my private ambition; but these not what
wanted and did not constitute adequate indemnity
for the wrongs done. went TO Mexico not to solicit
but to obtain justice-a justice due to my comrades
well to my SELF As a consul and a man you would
have blamed my conduct if, consulting my sole inter-
ess, had neglected those of my former associates 1t
was for them and not for myself that had determined
undertaking the journey to Mexico
When returned to California Mr.. Luis Del Vale, Con-
sui OF Mexico at San Francisco, informed his govern
susie party in his country and Of my intention to sup
port movement against the present Dictator Gen Santa
me was to draw over my comrades by promising them
lands IN Sonora, after years military service The
hundred men left for Guaymas.
These men never enlisted one, Monsieur lie Consul
knows this better than you. They only accepted pro-
visionaly (sous benece dinrentdre) the propositions
OF the Mexican government. They know that 1t Is "a
government which rarely keeps its promises and it
would have been Of folly place themselves un-
10 N
ton of all is to establish themselves In Sonora but they
think the consent of the inhabitants thereto is quite
sufficient Strong in their anterior rights and justly
mistrustfu OF treachery, they will not adopt without
due elaboration the DEGREES of government which is
port, their arrival at Guaymas attempt was made
by the authorities of the country to dispense these men,
conflict. Although this IS in all probability,
unfoundep it seems to me sufficiently probable to mako
enveigling them into Sonora the Mexican government
quite clear from the tenor of their instructions to
NJ Del Vale had chiefly in view to parayze their and
my means oil action Justice demands that that
ment should pay the penalty Of its own perfdy.
Whilst giving accounts of my preparations whilst pub
papers have often confounded them with what they
term ilibusterism The Mexican government itself af
fleets to therein en- act Of piracy You know, now
Monsieur lie Consul what my projects really are AID how
essentially they differ from enterprises denomAated
stranger to Sonora have no right to take the i.a
tive in its domestic affairs, for its COCA This in
tative belongs to the inhabitants alone they
about to take it, they call to their call have
and not piratical movement to which am about to
lend my cooperation.
The favorable impression ii retains of first visit the
state in which it left by the central gov
ceiye from it. leave doubt in my mind in regard to the
disposition Of the inhabitants Their duly matured and
den,t,se intentions are to institute civil government
throw open 70 the industry OF man country naturally
rich and fertile but condemned by the most deporabe
administration to the most heart rendidg misery.
The ambition of my comrades is to second such
volution which interests all mankind; my own ambition
to devote myself to its cause and perish is necessary
to ensure its Those among who have already
visited Sonora, and who know it, love it adopted
country 1t is not the ravages Of war nor spoliaton
but peace and its concomant blessings that propose
is 10 be feared that these results cannot be attained
without sanguinary struggle with certain whose
interest IT is to maintain Sonora in state of servitude
which the people detest, and impatient to rid them
tlty secret for but IL fully Of It. also
know that the impatient for liberty and that
they thirst for peace and progress its necessary
quences.
You see, Monsieur lie Consul, and merely mention
facts which you know as well do, that looking to
the people themselves for support, commencing the
struggle in their ranks against few tyrants, rich,
shrewd perhdious, surrounded and supported by mer
pelng with energy every epithet calculated to bring
into a'sTepute my projects and those Of my comrades
s Of
Undoubtedly this might have been done If Mr.. Dano,
Charge dAairs of France at Mexico had supported me
of colonization which then proposed had the govern
ment but accepted it, would have enriched Sonora while
it Unidentified, in just ratio my comrades who had been
despoied of their rights in the matter of the mines of
Arisona. Mr.. pano conducted himself towards us with
the UTMOST reserve and regret It, has met with the full
appreciation of his SUPERIOR the Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs My comrades, instead of being Loyalty invited to
Sonora aured hther to be dispersed to be used by
tyrants for their selfish purposes and then thrown
aside as useless lumber To-day as in the month Of
October 1882 they placed under the cruel necessity
of resisting with in their hands It is for the peo
Sonora themselves
compel the adoption by the Central government of
forms of progressive policy in which their very exist
ence is interested
have deemed it duty, Monsieur lie Consul to mark,
thus distinctly the character of my enterprise and the
course which my comrades mean to pursue in Sonora.
have the honor to be- Monsieur lie Consul your very
humble and respectful servant