Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-13
The Stapoato.
From the Richmond Enquirer. ]
THE VExED MEXICAN QUESTION.

From the Richmond Enquirer
THE VEXED MEXICAN QUESTION.
An accounts represent Mexico, with all its I'm,
m ense naturaadvdntages, as prey TO anarchy anu
Internal warfare the sport of desperate orgsno'"Ae
leaders We condepse an article from |. cry OF
Mexico Journal in the liberal interest," wnicn we n.o
Translated In tho Charleston Nesos According to
the writer anarchy rules the whoie couh'y o
one end 70 the other of the Republic the people are
in arms; each Mexican military She, nns. horses
rlotb;nr provisions, &C., which he seizes, simply
frnisb;,o receipt therefor An enormous amount
f ronerty has been sacrificed in the present civil
var since the LIST of last January-the total amount
of money and property taken and destroyed, in the
INST seven mouths, being fairly estimated at not less
than 800 600 OOO The justice of this calculation
will be admitted, when we recur to the losses occa.
stoned by weeks heavy firing in the large city OF
Mexico q week or more firing in Guadalajara, the
battles in San Luis Zacatecas Guanauato, Durango,
Celaya, Yrapuato Moravatio, Jalapa, OIizaVa' Co.
the entire desertion Of Peroe and about twenty-five
more considerable places the abandonment OF hum
dreds of haciendas and. in addition the heavy ex-
pense of keeping up at least fifty thousand soldiers
In the above estimate are not included the injuries
To nor the losses of the thousands of ag-
rcultursts whose crops and fields will necessarily
be neglected for long time To sustain itself the
Government resorts to forcing money from It's ricn
they would not pay up $4,000 EACH when request
ed to do So the only security offered to them being
the valueess obligations of the clergy. By the i'm
prisonment Of one of these wealthy citizens, Senior
Escaudon, twenty thousand persons were thrown
out of employment. To complete the black picture,
we quote the following extract of late letter from
Mexico, as we find it in the New York Express:
"The two parties-the Church party and the Lib.
erals-bave together about 80 900 men in the field.
These forces are scattered over the country from
Yucatan to Sonora. They have no disciplined treas-
ures to sustain these forces. and they are therefore,
compelled to live upon the country: Their morality
not being the highest this necessity is easily COM
piled with, and Cities towns, villages and haciendas
are put under contribution, and made to pay with
horses provisions, gran money, clothing, DC, the
expenses of civil war. So rapacious have become
the rabbe soldery, that the grossest outrages are
committed all the populations Property is taken
and destroyed and in many cases in the central parts
of the Republic the women of the towns and vii.
lagos have been made to the usts of the SOL
diery. To such an extent have outrages been COM
mtted, that the people of hundreds of haciendas,
and score or more of considerable towns have been
forced to abandon their homes and take refuge in
the large cities Places with populations of from
ten to fifty thousand have been completely abandon
ed. Perote has been abandoned by its population
for the last four months. San Louis Potosi, place
of 30 900 population has been mostly deserted. At
last advices but three shops open in the whole
place. The citizens had fed to the mountains or the
larger cities
In the mountains, the commerce and industrial
interests of the country fast going to ruin, and
money is becoming a remarkably scarce article in
the channels of trade. Goods have now been de-
tanned in Vera Cruz for the last eight months. The
store houses of that port crowded, and much
damage has to all classes of perishable articles
by being left so long at that unfavorable point
On this capital the Government is ruling with .
rod of iron. Persons thrown into prison on the
slightest pretext; the jails filed The press is
completely sienced The priests have it under their
thumb. The President of the nation is an old monte
dealer and the Prime Minster-and soul and spirit
of the Government-is INSCRIPTIONS priest"
Terrified by the scene Of ruin around them, it is
alleged that the Puros Liberal Party and also the
British creditors of Mexico and the American claim
ants against Mexico looking to the United States
to take possession of the country in the shape of
Protectorste. Even that conservative organ, the
ton neglects the tempting opportunity" presented
by the wreck and ruin in which that unhappy coun-
try is getting to be inextricaby involved and it de-
mands sterner measures 1t goes on to say, that
"The wisest course for this government to pursue,
in this emergency, is to strengthen its Influence with
the now known to be numerous class of Mexicans,
whe, wearied with anarchy, bloodshed and robbery,
are ready to encourage whatever steps the Cabinet
at Washington may be disposed to pursue with .
view to vndicate the rights of its citizens pre-
limnarily, by quelling the factions, and restoring
something like law and order throughout the coun.
try. As things stand at present, it would seem that
this can be best done by supporting General vi.
daurri, now on his way to the capital, with effee
tive force, to upset the Zuloaga Government. A
few thousand American bayonets, between Vera
Cruz and the city of Mexico. is probably all that
would be needed. The presence of such force
there, under the prudent and experienced command
of Lieut. Gen. Scott even if Vidaurri is beaten back
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agement to the Mexicans who are in favor of Amer
ican interference, but who dare not at present, so
express themselves, and thus in any event, prepare
the way for some sort of a solution of this vexed
question. Those American troops would be sent,
not as hostile invaders, but police force to keep
the peace and to reinstate order in land where
both peace and order are virtually at an end Jus.
tice to ourselves would sanction the STEP and duty
to our neighbor would approve it. If Vidaurri sue
ceeds, we can then, in CONJUNCTION with him. come to
some mutual understanding, and, if expedient, look
to consolidation of interests. If he does not sue.
coed, even then shall be in an infinitely better
position than we are at present to protect the lives
and property of our citizens, vindicae our national
dignity, and give such turn to affairs as will even.
tuate in the settlement of what must otherwise re-
main eternally one Of the most vexed Of all our
ed questions"
Such bold proceeding on the part of the United
States, would tally with the sentiments of an extra
ordinary article in the London Times, which sub.
stantially complains that the United States do not
come forward in the cause of commerce. humanity
and good government-and, above all, we presume,
for the security of British creditors of Mexico-to
puta stop to the disgraceful state of things sin
stantly and without interfering in the slightest de-.
gree with public liberty"
The last intelligence from Mexico is that Zuloaga
relies upon alliance with the friends of Santa Anna
for assistance, and that several agents Of the ex.
Dictator had passed through Havana en- route for