New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-01-12
gsh 0rltans 9ailp Grsstsnt.
TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12. 1858.


The old story repeated-civil war, revolution and
the subversion naturalization OF all civil and judi
cia functions, while robbery apins and murder run
riot over the land, unchecked and unpunished. An
ambitious man in authority, grasping at supreme
power and supporting his pretensons BY the military
arm the people, who have before experienced die.
tators rule arayng themselves nstinctively against
him and bis myrmidons, and lawless bands calling
themselves pTonunciados or reactionists taking ad-
vantage OF this state OF things to ravage and plunder
the country at will Such according TO the latest a
vices appears to be the present condition Of Mexico
that unhappy country which destined never to
enjoy two consecutive years of domestic tranquility
but to be eternally the prey Of faction anarchy and
misrule.
We had formed an idea that Comonfort was a
patriot OF staunch integrity having only the welfare
Of his country at heart bot the coup etat Of last
month compels the belief that lie aspires to some
thing like imperial honors and powers and that du-
ring the short time that has elapsed since he was
made constitutional head Of the Republics position
he acquired through the seabnegaton of the heroic
Gen. Alvarezhe has nurtured plans for the erection
of more absolute form Of government. The trainers
OF the constitution Of February 1857, were earnest
in their desire for the paccation Of the country and
for its future prosperity and had Comonfort re-
mained true to that instrument Mexico might have
enjoyed long term Of tranquility, interrupted occa-
sionaly, perhaps by petty factionsts whom it would
have been easy to subdue, or by the incursions OF
savages upon her northern borders. Neither in the
document called the Plan Of Taeubaya nor in Comon-
forts address to the people is anything particularly
urged against the character of the constitution Of
1857 though both assert that it was unsatisfactory to
majority Of the people-an assertion not borne out
by the popular manifestations regarding the revou.
ton Of the 18th ut But of course the character Of
the constitution to be suppressed mattered very little
Its excellence could be but triiing obstacle in the
path of an ambitious man, and could be of no conse
quence except so far it might create or influence
an opposition to his schemes.
1t is pretty safe to predict that civil war viii fol
low this attempt OF Comonfort and his advisers to
establish Government clothed with absolute powers
But it is not 50 very easy to oresee what that civil
war may result in. We venture the opinion, however
that one Of its most important features will be the
return to prominent public life of Sr. vidaurri man
quite as ambitious as Comonfort and Of far greater
ability. The time and the condition of the country
seem most auspcous for the revival and prosecution
of his scheme for Sierra Madre republic, and the
brief history of his former political career leads us
to believe that he will not let good an opportunity
slip Should he make the attempt, he will almo 81
surely succeed, and the republic of Mexico will be
sundered. What then