The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-07
The Coming Struggle I'm Spanish Am >rica-
Return Of the IncAs and Xlx0S.

Return Of che Imc@s and zlpas.
We learn from Havana that the wife Of Santa
| Anna had arrived there, and that her coming
! was looked upon rs the srcrunner Of the ad-
vent of the exDictator himself, probably on
his way to Mexico.
| We have commefsted quite recently upon the
condition of affairs in Mexico, and our readers
are perfectly well aware of the disorganized
condition of that republic, and the probable
coming struggle betweea the Dictator Comon-
| fort and the ex-Dictatcr Santa Anna. But
! there is great under-curTent in the movements
that affect Mexico, Central America, and all Of
! the republics of South America, that is not so
evident at first glance, because it does not lie
| upon the surface of things. Yet it is the I'M
| dcviating tendency and the growing menace Of
all those countries, for it is nothing less than
| the recovery of political power and social su-
premacy by the aboriginal aud inferior races
that still inhabit the countries of Spanish
America. The white race has anna gamated
with the Indian and the negro to such degree
| that it has largely diminished in its influence,
and now seems to be on the verge of annihila-
| ton.
| A succinct citing of facts will prove this. In
| Mexico we see the native Indian overrunning
| the northern provinces of Sonora Sinaloa, Du
range, Zacatecas, Coahuila and Leon, and the
| southern ones of Yucatan, Oajaca and Guerrero,
while the ascendency of this race in the halls of
| Congress is becoming daily more evident. In
| Guatemala the Indians elevated Carrera, half
breed, to power, and now are turning against
him. Nicaragua has elected Martinez,
mulatto to the Presidency; and everywhere in
| Central America the mixed blood of the negro
| and the Indian is superseding that of the white.
In New Granada the political power of many
| of the provinces is in the hands of negroes and
| Sambos; in Venezuela Monagas holds despotc
| power through the blacks and Indians; in Peru
the native races inhabiting the mountains pay
no respect to the government at Lima, and from
time to time make their forays upon the civilized
settlements; Bolivia is rent with q civil war. in
which both parties have appealed to the native
races; in Chile the theory of popular represen-
tation is rapidly extending to them; while in
| the immense pampas from the eastern slope Of
the Andes to the waters of La Platte, the abort
ginal tribes are strong and organized, keeping
|
This is true picture of the rapid disintegra-
| ton that is going on in those countries, and
| their steady return towards the rule of the
Montezumas and the Atahualpas, the Zipas and
the lncas 1t is the knowledge of this that is
| leading the white element to seek new blood
| and rc-invigoration by an infusion from
abroad. One party, of which Santa Anna is
4 IN, tot akc
| this new blood from Spain; and another, that
has as yet no representative man, looks for it to
| come from the active communities Of the United
| States. In each of these divided streams there
is another subdivision-one portion looking to
a return of the rule of Spain, or the establish
| ment Of that of our government, and the other
desiring only the advent of individual reinforce
ments in the shape of private expeditions from
| Cuba or New Orleans. Santa Anna leads the
one, as he did in his last term of power in Mex
| leo, when he imported large number of Span
| ish officers but no soldiers; and Walker heads
| the other stream, seeking to organise il with
| out native aid. The former il assisted by the
| Spanish government but has no great body of
| people to support him. while the other is OPP
| posed by our government, but can obtain any
| quantity of recruits from the sympathising null
titudos of our population.
These movements are but in their germ, but
they will grow and grow continuously until one
| or the other triumphs. In the continued adj
vance of the native races we perceive the GER
tain dissolution of all widely extended political
organization there, and the conflict for power
between the American and Spanish flibusters.
Should Queen Christina again come into the
| feld-as Is not improbable--and fit out from
London or from Havana a new Flores expedi-
| ton to put some one Of her daughters by her
second marriage on an American throne, we see
no reason why the movement should not sue
coed. II Walker gets new foothold in Gen.
trail America under present circumstances, he,
too, stands good chance for success. The
strife will then be but just begun, and n new
element may, perhaps, be added to ii by the
migration of Brigham Young and his Mormons
TO Northern Mexico The result of all this will
be that the United States will have to come in
and take possession of the territory. governing
it M England does India, but we hope with
greater wisdom. These are not speculations
that look to distant day for their vcrfcation;
within one generation many of the present gov
ernments of Spanish America will be dissolved
and replaced either by American or European
dominion. One generation only has elapsed
since their independence, aud yet how greatly
have they retrograded
APoLoGr.-A little six-by mine, dirty-looking
sheet, which calls itself the newspaper rcprescn-
A r 4. Ill. Ia, NJ, e
much offended because, in describing the polti-
cal knowledge or character Of the French, we
called IL "half man half monkey" We believe