Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-03-14
State of Mexico,

The revolution in Mexico has attained
power and consistency which demonstrate,
il they be not speedily checked, that Santa
Anna will again have to retire to private life,
and to the joys Of his hacienda at Cartha-
gena. The revolutionary parties have deci-
ded to unite under the leadership of Alvarez,
and the chances are decidedly in favor of
his success in overturning the existing gov.
ernment. He is already master Of the most
important Mexican possessions on the Pacific
coast, and the villages and towns of the
interior are rapidly declaring in his fovor.
Santa Annals generals, whose patriotism is
always at the command of the highest bid
der, already perceiving the danger, are de-
serting him, and it is altogether probable
that in few weeks we strall hear of his
total overthrow and the accession Of Alvarez
to the supreme power.
What will be the future of Mexico, wheth-
er under Santa Anna or Alvarez, OF perhaps
under some new aspirant who may roust
them both, it would be in vain 20 predict.
The political history of the country shows
no progress-it is continuously scene OF
troubles and wars, and of succeeding rulers,
who bring to the people no additional secu-
rity for life or property. 1t would be diff
cult now to say what principles, if there be
any, are proposed as The ultimate object of
the present struggle, and it would be almost
faulty to expect from it any results Of per.
manent benefit to the country. Corrupt and
bad as Santa Annals government is, there is
no prospect Of an improvement by his sue.
cessor. Mexico has in truth no men Of
patriotic impulses or Of honest intentions,
who can rally the people to the reformation
Of abuses, the protection of order and lber-
ty, and the establishment of permanent in
stitutions. Bankrupt in her finances and
crippled in her resources, she is still more
hopelessly bereft of honest public men and
reliable independent citizens. Money is q
primary necessity to the stability of the
government, and unless it obtains plenty Of
it the administration must fall. Santa Anna
has proved an unscrupulous adept in the pro.
curement of means, but in spite of his exer-
lions and willingness to sacrifice everything
10 the exigencies of his position, he seems to
be unable longer to supply his treasury with
the money to purchase the fidelity Of his
officers and the subsection of unruly parti.
sans.
Mexico will only learn from experience
the vulue Of liberty and peace, and the les
son must be taught through a long course
of turbulent revolutions, which in the end
may leave her upabe to profit even by the
schooling which has cost her SO dearly
Her great fruits are inherent in her people
they belong to her race-and have been bred
into streng 9TH during the centuries she has
suffered under the despotism of her rulers
and of the church. The tendency to revo.
luton has become with her people achronic
affection, and they fly to it after each brief
interval oil peace with q readiness that ever
places them at the mercy of aspiring chief.
tains, whose object is limited to the gratifi.
cation of their own ambition and greed Of
gain. We can promise ourselves, therefore,
no improvement for Mexico from the change
Of her rulers, now apparently on the verge
OF consummation. Alvarez, who is mental
ly inferior to Santa Anna, has no character
for uprightness, patriotism, or craftsmanship
that will enable him to relieve the country
from lis desperate condition. A blef reign
and the certain disappointment Of whatever
expectations may been placed upon his gov.
ernment will turn the tide more strongly
against him than it now runs against Santa
Anna, and another revolution will be de.
manded in the vain hope of escaping from
evils that only patient habits of selI.restraint
can cure. Until her. people at large acquire
the capabiity Of governing themselves, Mex
leo must be rent by discord and harassed by
succession of feuds, dignified under the
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