Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1854-01-09
Mexican News.

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The news from Mexico confirms the
statement that Santa Anna has been de-
clared Emperor. He is to go by the title
of the most Sereae Highness. and is IN
have the power to elect bis successor
Ills address to the people i. characteristic
Of the man re depicts in black colors
tue coho.lon Of the country when he
was allied to the helm of affairs, and rep.
.ese1a's glowingly the promise which
opens up before It under its new auspices.
We have no doubt that if Santa Anna sue
ceeds in consolidating the masses, and
forming stable government Of any kind
that it will be mach preferable and more
conducive to the general prosperity Of the
country, than the chaotic state in which. il
has been ever since it falsely assumed the
name of Republic. Its history has been
succession Of revolutions, and a contin-
ucd contention of factious men, for su.
premacy. The character of the people
may be properly adjudged by the rapid
and repeated changes of the public MUD
from frown to favor, and rice rersa, to-
wards the ambitious cockpit president
who now is invested with royal peroga-
tives. We are glad, ard so should every
American be, that this stigma upon the
name Of Republic has been blotted out,
and the people who know not how to en-
JOY the privileges they assumed, have been
reduced to state corresponding with their
mental atlainments. They are only fitted
to be ruled.
VIM. Walker, who took possession BY
frce,o Sonora and established the Repub-
lie Of Lower California, has addressed
paper to the sister Republic Of the United
aies,giving the reasons that induced him
to the course he has pursued. He saws
that the territory. having been cut off b,
the treaty Of Guadalupe H,dalgo from all
direct communication with the Mexican
government, the authorities of that coun-
try manifested little or no interest in the
affairs Of the California peninsula. That
its geographical position renders it sepa.
rate and distinct from the Mexican repub-
lie proper, ana that the moral and social
ties that bind them together are sill weak
er than the physical. That the soil is
naturally susceptible of high state Of cul.
tivation, but if suffered to remain in its
original relations to Me xico, it would ever
have remained wild, half-savage and un'
cultivated. And that in order to develop
its resoyrcesait was necessary it should be
independent, aad social order ard govern
mental laws, should exist, 10 protect labor,
and secure to it just compensation.
These are the reasons Str. Walker adj
vances to justify the creation Of his Re-
public. l: may not be uninte, esting to
subjoin brief biography of this New
President, who il would seem has risen
to his present eralted position at a very
early age. He is ouly % years of age,
native of Tennessee, born in Nashville,
where his father still lives, secretary of an
insurance company there. He studied
medicine in Paris, law in New Orleans,
and in the winter Of 1S48-49 became d.
rectly connected with the press OF New
Orleans as one Of the proprietors and edi-
Tors of the Crescent. The enterprise did
not prove profitable. The paper was sold
to other parties in the fall of that year.
and Mr.. Walker soon after followed the
tide of emigration to San Francisco. He
resumed his profession there. at the same
lime continuing his pursuits as Journalist.
In one Of the disputes which grew out of
the newspaper articles he became involved
in a duel with one Of his contemporaries,
in which he was wounded.