Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-05-04
THE yuARFz GOVERNMENT.

INTERESTING CEREMONIES ATTENDING THE REcEP
TON OF MINISTER McLANE AT VERA CBUA--A cor
respondent of the New Orleans Pieayuns, writing
from Vera Cruz under date of April 9Th, Gays: ?
The Constitutionalists are now in undisputed DOS
session Of the entire outskirts Of the republic; o.
1 the whole Gulf and Pacific coasts from the Ric
! Grande to Sisal and Guaymas to Ventosa, with
which we have commerce; Of the States of Vera
Cruz, Oajaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas, including the
lsthmus Of Tehuantepec, through which runs our
great transit route and of the States of Chihuahua
I New Leon, and Sonora where our citizens are for
the most part settled If then, there be one gov
eminent in Mexico with which it is important that
| We should be in communication, or one capable of
fulfilling its engagements with us it is the Juarez
| Government. Z
Besides, the newly recognized government is re-
ally one of substantial merit and both in its per-
sonnet and principles and administration, worthy of
our highest regard as a republican people. The
head and front of it is the President himself pure
Indian by birth, but man of profound learning in
the laws of his country strong sense, simple man
ners and true devotion to liberty. He is indeed,
the very bulwark of the Constitutional Government
in Mexico as is Alvarez its chvalric champion par
ercetence; but in his great mission he is ably sup
ported by Ocampa, Minister to Foreign Affairs;
Ruiz, Minister of Justice; and Ledro de Tejada,
Minister of Finance, whose very name is tower of
strength to the cause in which his life has been
we have relations that more commands my respect
and believe this is but the common opinion Of ali
who are personally acquainted with it.
But to return to what 1 started out Simply to de-
scribe-the ceremony of recognition. Of course we
had the soldiers out on the occasion; nothing i'm
portant takes place in Mexico except under military
patronage The battalion detailed for this purpose
was the "Fijo," or city troop handsome, soldier
like body OF men, comprising ten companies fifty
bayonets in each. They extended in double line
from the hotel where Mr.. McLane was lodged to
the National Palace where the ceremony took place
First came the president and his cabinet followed
by the municipal council and other distinguished
citizens who took their seats in the large saloon set
apart for such assemblies. Mr.. McLane left his |
apartments at precisely one p H., attended by the
Secretary of legation Mr.. La Rendrie; the United
the sloop-ofwar Brooklyn; Capt. Jarvis, Of the |
sloop-ot-war Savannah, and number of invited |
american citizens making up very handsome par
", though 1t might have been rendered much more
imposing by the presence of all the officers of the
two vessels in port
AS Mr. McLane entered the saloon, all respectful
~ arose Mr.. Ocampo, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
coming forward to meet him, conducted him in a
very gracious manner to the further end of the
room, where the President stood, the ministers of
justice and finance on one SIDE and the Governor.
lamora, and Chief Iglesias, on the
other-the Minister of Foreign Affairs retaining his
position at the left of Mr.. McLane An exchange
'f recognition all around, and the minister at once
proceeded to read his speech, first in English and
aterWards IN Spanish, in an emphatic and rather
awyer-|ike manner
Judged by the rules of rhetoric, it would be
strange if the English part of the performance was
lot better done than the Spanish; but not so syi.
lently thought the audience For though all, and
specially the President and his Cabinet, listened
especially to what they could not understand vet
noticed remarkable Frightening up of the coun-
ensnces around me when the Spanish part of the
erformances began.
=. The Presidents reply was one of the handsomest
norts Of the kind have ever seen. Though an
nu,an oenor 0uare5 is remarkablewelappearing
ian every way; indeed, among the large number Of
stlnguished gentlemen composing the assembly
would easily have been sim led out as the man Of
le occasion. -'''' VI