The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-12

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| in fact the merest child's pl9-
Instead of ability, originality an @~4
he exhibited the more common qualis.
itation, love of show, and incapacity to dea.
his situation. His pride, too-which should ha.
been satisfied at the unanimous voice with which
the nation confessed its former ingratitude to
him, recalled him from exile, placed the reins of
government in his hands, and made 0vations
before him, strewing, it may be said, "branches
of palm in his blinded him to his duties,
usurped bis reason, and led him to covet and
tograsp, not the Presidency Of the nation, based
upon the love of the people and their apprecia
ton OF his great services, but an absolute and
perpetual dictatorship, supported by the
bayonets Of his Pratorian guards. Old and
mutilated as he is, he was caught by the empty
tinsel Of royalty, and with all the vanity of a
girl longed to wear the imperial purple. To
support his arrogant and silly pretensions he
disposed of portion of the territory of the
nation; and with the proceeds thereof nego-
tiated for Swiss hireling soldiers, purchased
vessels Of war, and by every means known to
tyrants, sought to place himself above the will
Of the people true despot
Even with nation 80 sickened and ex-
hausted by intestine feuds as poor Mexico,
this reckless and imbecile course of Santa
Anna could have but one result 1t
too soon became evident that Mexico had
relied upon broken reed, and that he whom
she had hailed as her deliverer had not those
qualities of mind which would justify the
choice. Acts Of petty tyranny and injustice on
his part were manifested on every side; the
country, instead of advancing in the ways OF
prosperity, was actually retrograding there
was no protection for life or property through
out the State; the soldiery, which should have
defended the frontiers from Indian incursions,
was kept in the capital for the amusement or
the protection Of His Most Serene Highness --as
he had the ridiculous vanity of causing himself
to be styled; trade and commerce were in
every possible way injured and oppressed, and
the country seemed to lie helpless, powerless
and nerveless at the feet Of the dictator and
his clique. But still it was not wholly dead |;
petty chief, named Alvarez-a Pinto Iu-
dian, exercising in one Of the Southern
departments an official and almost patri.
arcbal sway-gave offence to Santa Anns,
in CONTEMPORARY refusing decoration of
the order of Guadalupe, was notified that he
was superseded in his governorship, refused to
acknowledge the power Of the dictator, and
finally raised the standard of revolt and took
up arms against the government troops With
almost UNMARRIED success on the part OF the
rebels, the revolution has spread throughout
the country. It's leader has assumed admins
trative powers in all the States where he holds
sway; his troops have advanced within
few leagues of the capital, and now, as our
despatch from New Orleans informed us yes.
terday, the whole country is again in arms
And yet Santa Anna, with his insane vanity
has been making tour to some distance In
an opposite direction from the revolutionists,
has been receiving addresses from the little
towns through which he passed, has been
marching under triumphal arches and pub
fishing through his slavish press the most full
some encomiums on himself and the valiant
deeds of his army, and with bold effrontery az
surfing the residents Of the capital that the
revolution is drawing to close. Such 10 the
folly, such the absurdity Of the man.
True, the revolt is approaching finale, but
its denouement will show the vain and imbecile
hero Of Vera Cruz once more an exile and q
fugitive. His villa and cockpit may be again
set in order for him at Carthagena, for there we
think he will soon have the only opportunity
1c ~,,I;uox 90 a docnot and af wafrhfnr tha
chances of the field. And for that alone have
the last two years of his life warranted his CON-
potency. Whether his poor, prosecuted country
will ever recover from the injuries his sway
has in ficted upon her, and ever enter upon q
great national career, is question in which
the probabilities are decidedly In the negative.
His obsequious press endeavors to kindle hos.
tility of race against these United States, but
we wecn their hostility and their efforts will be