The Nevada journal., 1855-09-21
NEVADA JOURNAL.
Mexico.

HIS Poor uisuacteu country, ever prey 10
civil war and internal dissentions, is again
without head. Santa Anna, the Dictator,
has again been obliged to bend to the will of
a capricious people, ard surrender a worthless
rule into the hands ofthose who ought 70 know
their true interests but do not Since 1922
Mexico has enjoyed but few short intervals
of repose. Some ambitious military upstart
has been continually shaking out strip of tri-
colored bunting in the provinces remote from
the capital, ,and acquiring short lived immortal
ity whether successful or not, at the head Of q
swarthy, ragged squad of ignorant and super
stitious men who profess republicanism, but
are better fitted to be governed by the unspar.
ing hand of an autocrat, and the bloody code
of Draco, than by chosen leader of their own,
and statutes Of their own enacting. One after
another has been seen, a popinjay "clad in the
panoply of glorious war''-astride Rosinante
that exhibited more points than the steed of
! Don Quixote armed cap pie, booted, mailed
and spurred--not with trenchant blade TO
ledo trusty," but that nondcscript weapon Used
by Greasers, deneminnted "cheese knifc"-a
!, plume growing longer and longer as the feath-
cred race, and not those who had feathered
their nests at the expense of the country, fell
before the onslaught of his hungry rabble, tand
marching to music from banjos, castanets and
beans in bladder, to the tune of chow we
apples SWIM" Such have been the men who
have ruled and ruined Mexico, who have i'm
| paled her and fed upon her vitals.
Look upon the ephemeral sway of dozens,
, all to endless execration gone down,-their
memory is marked like the visit Of the liar.
: pies to Encas. with pollution. The land that
: produced them knows them to its shame.
!, Of all the Dictators who have swayed the
seepter, (or rather, the aforesaid cheese knife)
over Mexico, Santa Anna is incompara bly, the
: best fitted to govern an inconstant people.
Had he surrounded himself with a body of
Swiss guards such as watched the palace of
Napoleon in troublous times, he might have
crushed the puny attempts to overthrow his
rule by an enervated and bestialized popula
+, tion-his own countrymen. And better had
4 it been for Mexico if Santa Anna had possessed
: the men of nerve on whom he could rely, to
|; stihe in an instant the breath of an insurrec-
tion in any quarter of the State. Men must
r first learn to obey before they are competent to
rule. The Mexicans have not learned the one,
and whether from this cause or not, it is known
to the world they are not qualified for the
|. other.
True, Santa Anna, from his avariciousness
; and luxurious habits, might have emptied the
national exchequer, and kept the people poor,
but they may as well be taxed to support ru-
Ter and a government which they cannot over
throw, and which, keeping them in their prop
er places, turns their thoughts from petty in,
surrections to the peaceful pursuits of life, as
to feed lazy. theving, multitudnous priest
; hood that not only sleeps the people in power
ty, and enslayes the body, but debases the mind
Santa Anna has been accused of cowardice
|. The fault is not so much in him, or his wooden
leg, as in the Mexican people. He well knows
there is no reliance ON !hem in the hour of
danger. Patriotism with them is extinct
An artificial warmth for home and country,
; may be temporarily created by the aid of
Aguardiente and Chile Colorado, but cold
, pallor follows at the booming of hostile can
non. He knows the swarthy barelegged le-
gions he has been accustomed to command had
rather fill their hollow bodies with sweet pota-
toes and red pepper. THAN piece Of ordnance
, with balls and slugs-that they had rather
march bravely up and attack kettle of clans,
than a mortar loaded with shells-that they
had rather flesh the knives before mentioned
in the carcass of bullock than in the enemies
, of their country, and the only patriotic mar
tyrdom they arc ambitious of suffering, is at
!, steak of beef.
What General wouldn't be coward under
such circumstances Well might Santa Anna
, after battle say to his struggling cattle:--
!, "The fault, dear Brutes, is OF in our stars
f but in ourselves that we are underlings"
But the Dictator has abdicated-left his
country--we hope in disgust. There is no
power left in poor distracted Mexico to unite
the discordant States Of that so called Repub
f lie. When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth
Rock, they found the country prepared by
Providence for their reception--there was no
arm to oppose. Mexico never was weaker
the parts are discovered, and never can be add
ed together, and by AMI b.. not long hence,
a great sponge will wiz H., IN from the slate
of nations, like "sum," the bewidered brain
e of the Ounce has failed to add.
a RIOTS IN LoUIsvrLL riots
!. occurred in Louisville on election day in
which number of lives were lost. Ac-
. cording to Phalanx journals, the Ameri-
d cans were the aggressors. Of course