The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-24

tDarDaseus splrle eeeAe Civil war Il
The civil war now raging In Mexico Il charac
tefised BY the r'oss harbarous spirit. II Ia,
country are 10 pc ctt d,tsd, both the Church M
tty and the Liberalists are guilty OF atrocit;e
that ought TO Danish both beyond the male q
civilization.
The Boetin Of Noreia says that when Gen
Degollado abandoned GuadalajarA, he left tbs
greater part Of bis wounded in the hospital, and
the soldiers of the Church got hold of them and
shot them without remorse. II also saws that
the wife, infant child, and servant maid of one
OF the officers Of Gen. Pueblita, having fallen it,
70 he hands Of band Of Church crusaders,
n,.a strangled and their bodies afterwards hung
up as warning to the impiousi What follows,
from the same paper, 10 almost too horrible for
belief:
I'VE learn from creditable persons that in
Thalpujabua Liberal Tor one OF the impous,
which is the same thing) fell into the hands Of
the men of Christ. They crucifed him, and,
covering his body with fireworks, danced around
the beautiful spectacle, contemplating with an
gelic JOY the contortions and shrieks of the un-
happy man, who expired in the midst Of the
flames and bursting fireworks"
But we have before as the evidence that the
adherents Of the Central Government or the
Church are scarcely more barbarous than the
so.called Liberalists or professed friends of the
people. The famous Vidaurri writes to Col.
Don Juan Zuazua from Monterey, under date
of June 2, as follows:
'The constitutional cause we are defending
with FIRE and sword, has already obtained very
important triumrhs. The terror you have
spread in Zacatecas, by shooting five Of the mil
itary pretorians, will produce wholesome fruits.
Should his Fxcelency Sr. Degollano obtain a
splendid triumph by taking possession of the
capital Jalisco, be must celebrate it by immedi-
ately shooting Generals Yanes, Casanova and
Bencarue; three colonies, three captains, three
lieutenants, and three sub lieutenants; from ser.
geant downwards am Of the opinion that they
be decimated, and that the act Of execution be
public and solemn by the concurrence of all our
victorious troops, SO that they may be inspired
with the consciousness of their superiority and
accustomed to make very little account Of their
adversaries."
The balance of this letter exhibits vidaurri as
a mere murderous, plundering bandit, destitute
of both conscience and patriotism. He tells his
"dear Juan" that he has made old pagan Rome
his model All its success was, he SAYS. due to |
plumber, and he intends to follow the |
example of the Romans--ihe difference being |
that they usually plundered foreign nations, |
while his field of robbery is in his own country. |
He talks, indeed, of confederation of the |
States as a counterpoise to the Central Govern
ment, but no glimmer of patriotic sentiment lea |
Sens his epistle. With Napoleonic GOODNESS he |
says:
II quote to you the example of Roman histo
y, in order that neither my troops nor their /
chiefs may lose their courage because they are
bandits aud assassins. These ncknames are on
y hnmiating when battles are lost, rot when
hey are gained"
Consistent in my principles Of initiating the
customs of ancient Rome, not those of modern,
endeavored, by following her example, that
he citizens who remained in this city might al
o enjoy the fruits ofvictories. Therefore, what
yer spois arrived from Zacetacas, l distributed
hem amongst the people, who, when receiving
hem, pronounced your name with acclamations
'fjoy and praises with benedictions" y ~
Your prisoners are still working in the farms
nd workshops. The malignant say that have
Introduced slavery here, and that appropriate
o my self the wages gained by the prisoners of
.aeatecas. Stupid fellows. The measure pro-
luced wholesome effects, and | am resolved to
o!onize New Leon and Coahuila with the reac.
ionists who be sent to me. will cure them of
he bad tricks they are given to by practising a
ealthy method am about to invent
Alas for poor Mexico! Her patriots are mere
ulgar plunderers, her church is tyrannical and
orrupt to the last degree, her government a
loody i'm becility, her industry dead, her socia!
late lamentable chaos-what hope has she for
ne futureY