The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-09
The Regeneration OF Mexlco-How 10 Il 20 be
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The Regeneration OF Mexioo-How u it 70 be
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
SIR would like to state TO Americana" In an.
swer to his communication the HERALD that only
asserted that the class Of persons who form the prnc
pal part of the emgrants to California were the ones
who would not invest their capital and the thing
their labor in the Mexican mines for 1t is
necessary to recaptulatc and which remain still
troverted
or course am aware that there Is vast amount Of
capital invested in these Mines and also that II pays
handsome interest great European capitalists seek
ing profitable investments and proportionate risks form
but small class of the people
1t Ia from these last that must expect the regene
ration Of Mexico they be induced to 60 there and
not from the Mexicans themselves
From observation Of the Spanish race, acquired by
twenty years Of personal experience both in Spain and
South America, am deeply convinced that nothing
but large admixture Of some foreign stock
regenerate them in the used by AmeYicsnus"
All the reasons have for thinking would occupy
too much space, but would ask why, since they gained
their independence have they VIGOROUSLY refrigerated
In thing destroyed the great works they inherited
from the mother country and substituted In the place
Of order, opulence and prosperity public and private
and leaee,ios de la paria-who better merit halter
The great wealth of the mines has been secret from
the time Of the yceroys even Men know it and yet thsrc
United States, while foreign emigrants crowd to the
latter country in myriads.
The Mexican government has invited Europeans-par
ticularly Roman Catholcs-and offered every induce
ment to em lands cheap and fertile and protection
and credit in abundance until established Still the
country remains unsettled comparatively. While Cali
fsrna Ia filled with laborious and, therefore pros
porous population, her neghbor, Sonora-probably in
poor and degraded population, while the whole OF
northern Mexico is exposed to the ncursions of Indians
offered for sale at the upset price of fifty cents per head
for the cattle grazing on them-land buildings, horses,
poems and all.
In the face Of such state of things exists in
the republic how any predict Regeneration"
is astonishing to admitting that mining securities
good-which chcerully do-and also tho fact that
there are many other good and excellent securities in
Mexico. Guanauata s doubtless better than Mississippi
Arkansasor perhaps even than Pennsylvania Guy
anaottc" stocks, howbeit not quoted exchange.
That robberies and murders exist here well rs In
Mexico, also admit perhaps the numbers Of both,
country, which think not improbable, stl the punish
ments In our favor again while our neighbours can
tcsly hailed by the shpwrecked sailor who fancied
himself thrown upon unknown shore.
In both countries too, the and froth Of the po
ltical csudron are thrown by the agitation Of the
body polite and occupy all the offices. Possibly in
rgue bribery and corruption rife here there
could easily prevent by sparing little more time from
the generally prosperous private matters to attend to
public ones and the thing Is done while the ensaved
booted masters and hard ridden to the music Of drum
ecclesiastic"
from the most undoubted authorities-the inorma
ton he has coated and laid before is valuable and
most interesting, as far as he has gons and look with
your valuable journal on . subject of vast inte-
rest the public generally his object show to
bor may have fair field in Mexico in California
How can we go there and live without being inter
in0 car we
ceeds Of exerions in the country itself without
paying that awful difference Of exchange against
of the world and whchthe expectation Of the precious
metals being forbidden-we have to pay if want to
send money to England or the United StatesY
How, if we settle, in the American sense, and 60
to public land and squat buy Of liberal minded
hacendado can we escape paying the ss or enths to
shall we b excused from military service, supposng
pronunciamento in nsghborhoodS and how in case
refuse to serve shall escape being poked at with
lances by party being given the benefit Of an
entrada, (served out,) or "harried" by the other
These and many other things We should like to know
for 'know, friend Sancho Panza, said the cdbetero
lustrssmo mirror Of knghthood and defender of the
must fail from our eyes by purgaton and fasting before
can the good state of things not only promised
but which actually exist invisible though they be-"
If "Americanus" can insure equal rights or equal
safety would far prefer residence in Mexico to any
and sotness Of temperature Of many parts Of it
equaled in North or South America.
The women are amiable and beautiful; nor am dis
posed not to do full justice to the virtues Of the Spanish
characteristics generous hospitality and the lofty and
unaffected politeness OF all classes With all this, how
must maintain that at present and in the future
they cannot be capable Of segovement and that the
question Of annexation is merely one of time.
To develope the Of the country large I'D
mixture Of must take place with them and to
make believe that they themselves able to regene
rate their country and themselves, would be difficult
as II would be to believe (although Roman Catholc)
the absurd legend Of Nuesrs Sonora do Guadalupe
that Our lady Of Aocha made Of the real sdngre
carne-fesh and blood-which the most enlightened
Mesicans will tell you With grave face full Of belief
great particularly to those who pretend to
the sublimest patriots and actually inscrbe their
in gold in the council chamber Of the national
palace such the feeble and vacillatng imperial
puppet Augustih Yturbide, the cruel and foresworn
Hghness Santa Anna. CROCKETT.