The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1860-01-06

presented his credentials to President Juarez
having no hesitation "in pronouncing the
government of Juarez to be the only exist
ing government of the Republic" He was
cordially received by the authorit les at
Vera Cruz, and they have ever since mcni-
tested the most friendly disposition towards
the United States. Unhappily however,
the constitutional government has not been
able to establish its power over the whole
Republic. 1t is supported by large ma
jority of the people of the States, but there
are important parts of the country where it
can enforce no obedience.
General MiramOn maintains himself at
the capital and in some of the distant pro-
vinces there are military governors who pay
little respect to the DEGREES of either govern.
ment. In the meantime the excesses which
attend upon civil war, especially in Mexico,
are constantly recurring. Outrages of the
worst description are committed both upon
persons and property. There is scarcely
any form of injury which has not been suf-
fered by our citizens in Mexico during the
last few years. We have been nominally
at peace with that republic, but " so far as
the interests of our commerce or of our citi-
zens who have visited the country as mer-
chants, shipmasters, or in other capacities,
are concerned, we might as we'll have been
at war;" Life has been insecure, property
unprotected, and trade impossible except at
a risk of loss which prudent men cannot be
expected to incur. Important contracts,
involving large expenditures, entered into
by the central government, have been set at
defiance by the local governments. Peace
full American residents, occupying their
rightful possessions, have been suddenly ex-
PEELED from the country, in defiance of trea-
ties, and by the mere force of arbitrary
power. Even the course of justice has not
been safe from control, and recent decree
of Miramon permits the Intervention of gov
ernment in all suits where either party is a
foreigner. Vessels of the United States
have been seized without law, and a consular
officer who protested against such seizure,
has heen fined and imprisoned for disrepect
to the authorities. Military contributions
have been levied in violation Of every prin'
ciple of right, and the American who resist
ed the lawess demand has had his property
forcibly taken away, and has been himself
banished. From conflict of authority in
different parts of the country, tariff duties
which have been paid in one place have
been exacted over again in another place.
Large numbers of our citizens have been
arrested and imprisoned without any form
OF examination or any opportunity for a
hearing, and even when released have only
obtained their liberty after much suffering
and injury and without any hope of redress
The wholesale massacre of Crabbe and his
associates without trial in Sonora, as we'll
as the seizure and murder of four sick Anne.
ricans who had taken shelter in the house of
an American, upon the soil of the United
States, was communicated to Congress at
its last session. Murders of still more
atrocious character have been committed in
the very heart of Mexico, under the authori-
ty OF Miramon's government, during the
present year. Some of these were only
worthy of barbarous age, and, if they had
not been clearly proven, would have seemed
impossible in country which claims to be
civilized. Of this description was the brutal
massacre in April last, by order of General
Marquee, of three American physicians, who
were seized in the hospital at Tacubaya while
attenddg upon the sick and dying of both
parties, and without trial, as without crime,
were hurried away to speedy execution.
Little less shocking was the fate of Ormond
Chase, who was shot in Topic on the 7th
of August by order of the same Mexican
general, not only without trial, but with
out any conjecture by his friends of the
cause of his arrest. He is represented as a
young man of good character and intelli-
gence, who had made numerous friends in
Topic by the courage and humanity which
he had displayed on several trying occasions,
and his death was as unexpected as it Was
shocking to the whole community. Other
outrageS might be enumerated, but these
are sufficient to illustrate the wretched state
of the country and the unprotected condi.
tion of the persons and property of our cit.
izens in Mexico.
In all these cases our ministers have been
constant and faithful in their demands for
redress, but both they and this Government
which they have successfully represented,
have been wholly powerless to make their
demands effective. Their testimony in this
respect, and In reference to the only remedy
which, In their judgments, would meet the
exigency, has been both uniform and EN-.
phatic. Nothing but manifestation of
the power of the Government of the United
States (wrote our late minister in 1861
and of its purpose to punish these wrongs
will avail. l assure you that the universal
belief here is that there is nothing to be ap.
pretended from the Government of the Un-
tied States, and that local Mexican officials
can commit these outrages upon American
citizens with absolute impunity." 81 hope
the President " (wrote our present minister
in August LAST will feel authorized to ask
from Congress the power to enter Mexico
with the military forces of the United
States, at the call of the constitutional au.
thorities, in order to protect the citizens and
the treaty rights of the United States. Un-
less such power is conferred upon him,
neither the one nor the other will be re-
spected in the existing state of anarchy and
disorder, and the Outrages already perpe.
trated will never be chastised and, as as
sured you in my No. %, all these evils must
increase until every vestige of order and gov
ernment disappears from the country" l
have been reluctantly led to the same
opinion, and, in justice to my countrymen