Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05
Maxino and Santa Anna.

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merce in some of its articles had taken his
side, but a recent correspondent handles his
conducts with great severity. We publish a
portion of his structures:
He mas impoverished, bankrupt and humil-
lated Mexico, and east her out of the circle
of civilized nations, until she can recover her
birth-right in self-government He has sub
sidized an army, through the monied power,
to subjugate and plumber. Every act of the
Dictator" is for self-aggrandizement and
national humiliation. He has strengthened
his power by an utilization of the spiritual
with the temporal faculties of government;
for the Mexican Church is the proprietor, d.
rectly or indirectly, of fully one-fourth of the
realities of Mexico. The estimate of one-half
would approximate nearer TO the truth. The
vast domains and other property of the Jesu-
its, which, if not confscated, were placed in
allegiance on their expulsion by the Legiti-
mate Government of Mexico, have not been
restored without the usual tribute to Santa
Anna, who robs the Republic of millions of
property, in order TO divide the spoil with an
obnoxious and previously expelled order
He has in his arbitrary DEGREES broken down
credit, and in his onerous and cruel taxations
alarmed capital. Not an object escapes
Trade, intercourse, pretended protection, re-
creations, privileges, door stills, windows,
signs, balconies, and at the garitas, all the
garden productions, even to ornamental flow
ers, have alike to pay tribute to the unsatis-
fed appetite to this Algerine Dey. Industry,
enterprise, ingenuity, nave all lost their
stimuli, in the withdrawn and concealed
money bags of those who know that they
cannot escape plumber if their property is ex-
hibited or made visible. He has restricted
and embarrassed trade and multiplied mono
poles; not for public revenue, but individual
aggrandizement, in farming them out to ia
vorites, to participate in the spoils.
OF the seven millions received from the
United States, not less than two have been
divided between these political blood-suckers;
while only five millions have passed into the
public treasury, and the 100000 still due
have been anticipated at a usurious profit, to
be divided as usual. He has Frustrated the
reputation and credit of country, of illimit-
able resources, under the guidance of wise
and just counsels, in openly repudiating SOL
emn engagements under treaty. He has re-
duced the foreign securities of Mexico to 20
funded debt. which was guaranteed by the
imposts, has descended to 9 in the 100. He
is man of no education nor policy, and of nc
government which looks outside of the in
stincts for individual plumber, and gewgaw
display in imperial costume. Steady on the
track of these objects alone, he beirays friends,
and in perfdy to his country combines with a
monied oligarchy, who, like the money chan
gers in the Temple, rob every individual, and
every interest, allured within their influences;
all have to suffer under the exactions impos-
ed with an iron hand-on wealth, povety,
industry and enterprise. None can escape.
The jewel of the grandee, and the to'tula OF
the humbled, subugated and abused descen-
dants of Montezuma, are alike the subjects OF
tribute. He sells the privilege of Mexico, as
if they belonged to him, and were not held
in trust To administer to his sordid diges.
ton, the perlius of the Palace swarms with
brokers, negotiating in behalf of adventurous
foreigners, for some privilege or charter, fo
which bonus is paid to the liberal dispenser
Such is the character Of every charter of con
cession, to citizens of the United States
They purchase this "Fomsnto" of Mexico
They receive nothing. Conspicuous among
these liberal grants, is that which stands &C
corded to Mr.. j. B. Moor; but not the indi
vidual, it is supposed, whose publication Hi
dalgo has felt the obligations to notice.
In the qualification of the demoralizing in.
stincts of man, Santa Anna has out Heroded
Herod, in his higher aspiration for the impe.
rial power In his advances to the purple
he entails on Mexico an aristocracy, in the
Spiritual and Catholic order of Grand Cruces
in Church and State. He has made progress
in this holy work, by affiliations with Rome
and with the absolute elements of Europe
through the legitimate and hereditary head.
of the arbitrary and restrictive Capitalization
of power, antagonistic to the Liberal anC
Federal. In example, and in the courteous
invitations of Grand Cruces 4" of the Orde
of Guadalupe to crowned heads, be has beer
, received into the circles of royalty, by Bel
J GUM, Prussia, France and Spain-in the Or
ders of the Red Eagle, the Legion of Honor
and of Charles the Third. That the Carte
has not been returned, is explained in tn,
condescending and patronizing language il
: which the Mexican Ministers of Relation
rendered the Grand Cross to Queen Victoria
t Prince Albert might have accepted. To ever,
foreign minister accredited at this pdTVsnl
: Court Except the Americana were one o
the orders graciously accorded, and all &C
{ cepted, save by her Britannia Majesty's En-
. voy. He, in common with all the Others
however, paid tribute and homage to tn
. occasion, too evidently designed to be mis-
3 TAKEN "as the reintroduction or recoloniZa
ton" of spiritual and temporal power, ALSO
/ lutte, infallble, and perpetual in the Americas
If there are not already secret alliances will
, all who have responded to Santa Anna
} courteous and gracious invitations Of politica
4 determination, they, one and all, in sympathy
are rapidly drifting into the element. Tn
Dictator is struggling to impose permanent,
} on the Land of the Aztecs. He is circula
! ting likewise into European alliances, for tina
, very "recolonzation in the Americas, whicl
the United States has manifested to tn,
world, cannot be looked upon l0stsin indifference
: In sympathy with Spain, 1.-THE Prince Presi
dent" openly declares through the publ
prints, that Mexico cannot withhold allianc'
with France and England, against :" the com
mon enemy and great ag2ressor" in the New
, World. Articles recognized as from the pro
/ life pen of the Minister OF Relations, in the
semi official journal, the Universal, define tn,
policy and the obligations of Mexico, in ii
civil aud spiritual polity, TO itself and the
Castilian caste.
To repel and arrest Anglo-Ameiican van
dalism, is affirmed as a sacred and unavoida
bic responsibility, to rescue from subjugatioT
and humiliation the Spanish race. TO orig
mate war Of castles; to bring the absolute
and concentrated again in conflict, in the
Americas, with the Liberal and Federal, il
not disguised. The Minister, in his specula
tons, compares or contrasts expanding ant
overshadowing Russia with the United States
in their relations to Europe aud America
Both aggressive, though acting under oppo
site stimuii-the one leading to expansion o
domain to rule and Cypress; and other witt
the opposite object TO 6ar6oriss in anaroh!
and disorder. AS civilized Europe has slliet
TO check the Russian Bear, so Mexico is bouno
to take the lead in bringing in combination
the Castilian chivalry of the South American
States, to clip the wings Of the American