The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-28

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can Louis Napoleon master he hydra headed
spirit of the age.
Affairs In msxico-The Necessity OF a Strong
Moral support or Pr~sadeAs JuA,c 81 Ivy Our
Government.
The news from Mexico, received yesterday by
telegraph frou New Orleans is of an important
and exciting character 1t is brief in its details
| aud may be summed up in few words.
| After his failure to take, or even attack, Vera
Cruz, MramoD, the young President of the
church party, retreated to Orizaba. The const-
tutional forces from the west had in the mean
while laid siege to the city Of Mexico, and those
Of the State of Vera Cruz endeavored to pre-
vent Mramon from going to its relief by taking
| up strong positions in the pass of Aculcingc,
leading from the valley Of Orizsba to the plains
| of Puebla. This route was the only one practi
cable for artillery that Miramon could take in
his march from Orizaba to the capital. Our ad
vices today inform us that be had forced the
lines Of the constitutionalists at Acucingo, aud
reached Mexico on the 18th inst flushed with
success His subsequent conduct there is more
! that of mailman than Of the leader Of
strong party, and proves the desperate con-
| dition to which the clergy and their tools
| are reduced. He Immediately commenced an
attack on the foreign residents, going so far &C.
cordipg to the dispatches, as to murder them in
Discriminatory issued formal protest against
| the recognition of the liberal government OF
President Juarez by the United States, and With
drew the exequatur of Mr.. Black, our Consul,
and banshed him from the country.
This conduct on the part of Miramon is not at
all surprising to us. From his first accession to
| command his course toward the foreign residents
generally in Mexico has been in utter defiance OF
law, friendly comfy and the laws of nations !;
| and much if not the entire blame of hi1 persis
tence in this course is due to Mons. Gabriac the
Minister. The first named Of these has been,
from the inception Of the church party govern
ment under Zuloaga to the present moment the
active adviser and plotter Of its couusels. In
the prosecution of his designs he has utterly
abandoned the interests Of the French subjects
and so completely has he awakened their i'll will
towards himself, that several memorials against
him, numerously signed by French merchants
| and residents in Mexico have been RENTED to
Paris Mr.. Otway the British Minister, ar
rived in Mexico after the establishment Of the
Zuloaga government and the first official act he
was called upon to perform, after presenting his
| credentials, was a claim for PREPARATION to two
| British merchants at San Luis Potosi, who had
| been forced into the ranks of the Mexican army
| by Miramon, and compelled to pay $4,000
ransom therefrom. Since this outrageous act
| Miramon has continued his attacks upon British
and all other foreign residents in those parts of
the country where he had jurisdiction; aud yet
Mr.. Otway not only withdrew the demand he
had made on President Zuloaga-that General
Miramon should be dismissed but when this sol
der displaced Zuloaga, and assumed the Presi-
dency, he, with Mons. Gabriac, FASTENED to be the
first to lick the hand that had smitten their
fellow countrymcn, and to give it moral and
even physical power by their official recognition
and secret counsels and aid.
Besides all this, the conduct Of the English
and French ministers in Mexico towards the
LIBERAL and constitutional government of Pres-
dent Juarez has been such as to establish in
effect an Intervention Of the worst kind in the
domestic affairs of Mexico, and against the rights
of the Mexican people BY so timing the just
demands of their governments on that Of Mexico,
and the enforcement of their concession upon
President Juarez, whom they refused to recog-
Mise as to weaken his material power at the
moment when it was called upon to resist
the NEST violent attacks Of Miramon, they
managed to give practical aid to his efforts to
overthrow the constitution and the government
that maintained it. They even went farther than
this. When the French and British fleets before
Vera Cruz forced President Juarez to give up to
them the larger share of the revenues Of that
port which obeyed his rule, the diplomatic
representatives. of those Powers demanded also
that Juarez, the constitutional President Of the
republic, should divide with the rebel Miramon
the pittancc Of revenue which they left to him.
In this they failed, and now we learn that the
British Minister has instructed Capt. Dunlop
the commander Of the British fleet at Vera Cruz
to demand of President Juarez one and half
millions Of dollars from the Custom House in
that port and in case Of refusal to lombard the
city. We hope Capt. Dunlop will do no such
thing, as he has refused TO do other similar out
rageous acts, instigated from the same source.
IL be does y, he will merit the condemnation Of
every RICH. and liberty loving people in the
world.
Affairs in Mexico are drawing to crisis. The
church party, with the mailman Miramon at their
head, are lighting the fight of desperation. The
constitutonalists, under the leadership of Presi-
dent Joarez, have regained the entrc possession Of
the republic, excepting only The cities Of Pueblo
and Mexico. If they succeed in taking these,
Congress will he at once called together, and the
law confscating the vast possessions of the Next
can ecclesiastical corporations will be enacted.
This viii install religious schism and revolution
there. hnefd mon nnltical necnssilina Tho