Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-01-14
NUMBER, 25,:...

| uoubt OF the V0ifuNy of our title, / need
scarcely ada that, in sdy evsttt, Aaierisar.
citizens we're 20 bs placed On Z footine III
least a. asfav0rsbie % that 'of British suks
jects sis being understood THAT Capt. Pick.
sits compatiy 'skonld rsinain on chs ~
land. 1t ID proper TO obserys that, con sid.
eeing the distance fron, the scene Of action,
and in ignorance Of what mi sht have trAn &
PRED on the spot before the Generals ar.
rival, it was necessary, 10 leave tntfch to
his discretion, and am happy to state the
event has proven that this discretion could
not have bee7, 7,intrusted To more com petent
hands. Gen. Scott has recently re-
turned fron' bis mission, having snccess.
fully accomplished hs objects, and shsfe 10
no longer any gocd rea-on to apprehend
a collision between the forces q the Two
countries during the pendeney of the exl
istin. negotiations h a s7s8zsEw ta.E75
| regret to inform Won that there haa
been no improvement in the affairs q VI
Mexice since my last annual me ssage, and
l am again obliged to ask the earnest at.
,enticn Of Congress to the unhsppy condi-
tion Of that Republic. as5saaGs r1ne4s
The constituent Congress Of Mexieo,
which adjourned on the 18th Of February,
1857, adopted q Constitution and provided
for popular eection. This took oplace
on the foilcwing July, 1851 and General
Comnnfort was chosen President, almost
without opposition. At the same election
a new Congress was chosen. whose FIRST
session commenced onathe 10th % Sep
ternber. 1851. by ,he Constitution of
1857, the presidential term WIS to hesin
on the lst OF December, 1857 and con.
tlnue for four years. On that dav General
Ccmon'ort appeared before the a.sem bisd
Congress in the city of Mex ira took the
oath " snpport the rev Constitution, and
was duly inaus surated as President With.
in month afterwards he hi al bee driven
from the capital and Il military rebeihon
hHd assigned the supreme pcwerof the
Republic 70 General Iulosga. The Con.
stituticn provided lha, in the absence of
the President his office should devuivs
upon the Chief Justice OF the Supreme
Court, and General Comontort having lett
the country this funetionary.s General
Juarez. proceeded to form, ut Guaniuato,
a Constitutional Government. @--~ltsE.
Before this was officially known. how
ever At the capital, the Government of Zu-
lnaga had been recognized tv the entire
diplomatic corps, including the Minister
of he United States, as the 3e Jacto Gov.
ernment OF Mexico. The Constitutional
President, nevertheless, maintained his
position with hrmness and WIS soon ~.
tahlished withihis Cabinet at Vera Cruz.
Meanwhile. the Government Of Zuloaga
was earnestly resisted in many PARTS of the
Repabhc, and even in the cap AL a por-
ton Of the army having t9onoumed
against ii, its func,ions were 6eci red tar
minated. and an assembly of citizens was
invited for the choice Of new presiisnt.
This assembly eecte G-nsral Mira mon,
but that officer repudia,ed the plan under
which he was chosen, and Iuioaga was
thus restored TO his previousposition. He
assumed it, however, ouly to Withdraw from
il, and Mlramon having become, by his
appointment Presiden Substiute,a y con
tinues, with that title, at the head of the
Insurgent party. =zs4
In my last ANIMAL message comnuni-
Gated to Congress the circumstances under
which the late minister of tire L. 5. sus-
pended his official relations with the GEN.
trail Government, and withdrew from the
country 1t was impossible TO maintain
friendly intercourse with a government, like
that at the capital under whose usurred
authority wrongs were cons stsntiv commit
ted, but never redressed Had this been
an established government with its power
extending, by the consent OF the peope.
over the whole of Mexico, a resort to hos
tiiities against ii would have been quite
jnstifab'e, and indeed necessary. Batthe
country was prev 10 civil war and IL
was hoped that the success of. the Consti--
tutional President nigh, lead to cond-
tlon of things less injurious to ths uMtsf
States. This success became so probable
that IN January last. employed relia-
bic agent to visit Mexico, aud 10 report 10
me the actual condiSion aud nrospects Of
the contending parties. In consequence
of his report, and from inform alton which
reached me from other sources. favorable
to the prospects of the constitutional caase
tttt justified in appointing = new minis
terto Mexico, who might embrace tha
earliest snitahl~ opportunity OF restoring
our diplomatic relations with that Repub-
lie. For this purpose dstin guished ci-
tizen of MARYLAND was selected, who pro-
ceeded on his mission on the Stu day Of
March last, with discretionary authority -
recognize the government of President
Juarez, if on his arrival in Mexico he
should find ii entitled to such recognition,
according to the established practice Of
the u. s. -E Fj.ar Hsa'- ~ 5a
On the 7th If April following, Mr. Nc
Lane presented his credentials to- presi
dent Jaarez, having no hesitation lin pro-
nouncing the government of Jnarez to be
the only existing government of the Re-
public He was received by the Authari-
ties OF Vera Cruz. and They have ever s,nta
manifested tho most Friendly disposition
towards the U. s. Unhappily, however.
the constitutional govern snens has not
been ahse to establish its power over the
whole Republic. 1t is supported BY
large majority Of the people and the
states, bat there are important parts Of
the country where it can enforce no o5e-
self at the capital and in some OF the
distant provinces there are military gov
ernors who pay little respec, to the de-
crees OF either government. In the mean
time the excesses which always attend
upon civil war, especially in Mexico, are
recurring. outrages of tha
worst description are committed both up
on person and property There is scarcely
any form OF injury which has no, beeu sof.
iered by our citizens of Mexico during hs
last few years. We have been nominaliy
at peace with that Republic, but $50 faras
the nterss,s''of our commerce or of our c, i
zens who have visited the country as me-.
chants. ship masters, or ia other capaG
ties, are concerned, we might ~ we'll have
been at war; @ sa sr