The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-11

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The News from Mextco-Importance OF the
Defeat O Miramon and European Interven-
ton.
We ublished yesterday the accounts from
Mexi 20 that Gen. Miramon had been compelled
to retreat from before Vera Cruz without attack
ing that ty, and that while the cons itutional
lists were in strong force, under Gen. Ampudia, to
cut off his retreat, another body, four thousand
strong, under Gov. Degollado, was menacing the
city of Mexico.
For nine months Miramon has been the young
hero of that republic. Wherever he appeared
victory seemed to attend him, and in his previous
campaigns he has exhibited great energy and &C.
tivity. When the Echeagaray and Robes pro-
nuaadmhen.os overthrow the administration of
President Zuloaga, he was in the North, and re-
fused to recognise the change of government In
asserted that the Zuloaga administration had
failed to give peace to the country, because Gen.
Echeagaray, who commanded on the eastern line
of operations had failed to carry out his instruc
tons to take Vera Cruz. Returning at once to
the capital he reinstated President Zuloaga
and after causing him to assume by decree the
right to appoint his own successor he
compelled him to resign the Presidency
to himself. This occurred in Janu-
ary and he at once set about organizing
his campaign against Vera Cruz. On the 10th
of February he left the capital to take command
in person Of his forces, which were already in
possession of the line to Vera Cruz, on the ORR
zaba route to the mountain passes down to the
coast plain, within three days march Of that
city. Yet be did not appear before it until the
18th Of March, and on the 9th he broke up his
camp and commenced his retreat, without having
made any attempt on the city.
This result may be looked upon as the first
step in the final downfall of the Church in the
republic of Mexico, and the others must soon
follow. It has endeavored to restore to power
in the nineteenth century theories which belong
only to the sixteenth century; and it has failed
All the hopes Of the priests aud their partisans
were centered in Miramon. His prestige is now
broken and victory has deserted his standard in
the very attempt whose success he had pro-
nounced necessary for the triumph Of the cause
be had embraced. This defeat will give the con-
siitutionalists new energy, and we shall, no
doubt, soon see them concentrating their move
ments on the capital. Alvarez is preparing to
send his pintos from the South, Degollado is
said to have already brought his forces from the
West, Vidaurri and Cara are actively preparing
to advance from the North, and President Juarez
will, no doubt, order the jarochos to follow
up Miramon from the East. Thus from every
point of the compass the Mexican people are
pouring down upon the Church aud its partisans,
who have their tents pitched in the valleys of
Mexico and Puebla. The result will be the
reinstatement of President Jaurez in the palace
of Mexico, and the reestablishment of the con-
stitution of 1857.
But there is something more in this event.
1t is the first defeat Of the newly developed
policy of European Intervention in the Spanish
American republics. The French Minister in
ard the British Minister there has been his sub
servent tool. They have proclaimed war
against the republican constitutional form Of
government, and have done all they could to
destroy it in Mexico, as they are doing in Cen
trail America. In the defeat Of Miramon at
Vera Cruz their schemes are thwarted, and the
triumph of President Juarez will re-establish in
Mexico institutions modelled after our own 1t
is no small pc mt in these events that our new
Minister, Mr.. McLane, arrived at Vera Cruz in
the midst of the general joy at the success of the
liberals. He will, no doubt, at once recognise
the constitutional government leaving the Euro
pean representatives to cling to the falling for
tunes of the Church and Miramon. The moral
force this will bring to Juarez and his early
triumph, will teach the other republics of Span
ish America that the United States is not
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