The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-03
DEPLoRABLE CONDITION OF MEXICO.

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| ..4N . Mexico, Sept. l. 1858.
The last mail from this country conveyed to you a sad
picture of demorazcd and anarchizcd condition. and
by this mail you will learn in addition that this anarchy
and this decentralization continue and have produced
many that must tax your creduy to believe
regret to say that civil has of late produced cvi
dence that il it bo continued this country must soon
very soon, become a heap of ruins embeshcd by an
overgrowth of rapacity in all its parascal forms So
far the contest has produced disasters to the
country In brief they may be summed up follows
The desolation and abandonment Of twenty or thirty
towns. s3
The Punishment from their homes of at least 200
900 persons.
The abandonment of hundreds of haciendas
The complete stagnation Of all branches Of trade and
industry. H
The outraging OF many females by the rabble sol.
diery. Et
The useless employment Of so 900 persons in keeping
up civil war, and their consequent decentralization
The sacrifice Of 500 100000 in money animals food
clothing, grain &c. taken by force the maintenance
Of the civil war; and in the property actually destroyed
consequence of these euds.
These already the proceeds of seven months STRIFE
and still the fires of civil dscord burn and the ndica
tions that tile flames but in state OF infancy
The struggle that has long been sustained nominal
political principles is now rapidly changing into demo-
MAC war Of castes to carry with 1t the enactment those
atrocities which characterize the savage and set aside all
the rules civilized or halfcyized peoples There can
be mistake in saying that ali the passions of the
native Indians being worked upon to incite them
70 make relentless war upon those who have become
their masters and converted into fruitful fields their old
hunting grounds have seen lately several most
nammatory procamatons circulated amongst their pue
Mas, urging the natives 'the rigtul owners of the
soil they pleased to call themselves to rise e,
Ddsse and cxtpae from their lands their unprinciped
plunderers and heartless task masters.
Distant rs it Is from my desire to of this kind
prosecuted must say that the false and tyrannic system
which the Spannrds established in this country gives
great coorng of deferred justice TO the present threats
of the Indians. That the dormant fire exists in the
breasts of the Indians TO avenge themselves cannot
doubt SO far as their Wills concerned The assassina
ons of San Vicente fully prove this There was clearly
shown that the asassns only sought revenge and that
not against those who wronged them but against their
kindthe Spanish When of their poor victims
pleaded that he had but lately arrived in this country
and therefore could not have offended them and in add
ton offered $40 900 If his life were spared he was an
swercd that money not their object that no excuses
would do and that they only sought the spnng Of Span
ish blood detcsted Spanish blood.
II is such elements that sought to be brought
into our civil rapacous and nhuman enough, God
knows, already And il Of casts Is once commenced
when may hope to the end OF itf With the In
dams will join many Of the half-breeds and mongrels
and but few excepting those Of wealth. win oppose this
deluge of Infatuated passion The cultivated districts
must become deserted, wasted, and many small towns
II not the cities become ruins abandoned TO the exccsses
OF savage Indians aud their corrupt companions
the mongrels Although we may pray for deliyerance
from such calamity still think tho future big with