Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-06-03
a FRENCH view Of ne11ce.

Under the heading of The Truth about
Mexico" late number of the Courier des Eta.5
UHts says that nothing IS more common than to
taIk about the situation of Mexico but nothing
is more rare than to discuss the subject with
reasonable knowledge of the facts. People are
accustomed to consider not so much the govern
ment of Jusrez as the word that serves bi1l for
a battle cry and because the President of Mex
leo and his satellites call themselves Liberals,
people willingly believe that liberalism is at stake
in the dispute that is about 10 be decided ia
Mexico. Thinking it tune that 81 CD an error
should cease, and that the fscti0uists who have
100 long desolsted the Spanish republic should
be restored to their true colOrS without regard
TO the name which they have seen fit TO appIo-
pirate, the editor of the Courier copies an ably
written letter from Vera Cruz to the Paris Jour
nat des Debats, setting forth the real situation
of Mexico, exposing the contemplate adventur-
ers who fstten off OF her, and stating the legiu
mate aspirations OF the mass of tbs population
The writer of this letter s.ys that there Is
neither Liberal, nor clerical or reactionaIy party
in Mexico. There are simply auiaciouS robbers,
without scTuples of any kind on the one hand,
aud victims well used 20 the yoke ard pretty
nearly resigned to their wTetched fate on the
other hand. The population Of Mexico is not
5000 900 as is generally believed, but only six
millions, composed OF 100000 pure or bali-
braaH Arlsl5a W0cSC
blood is more or less mixed with Indians and
negroes. The Indians are so sunk in ignorance
that in some parts they believe themselves to be
still subject to Spain. A few thousand Of them
drawn away from their labOTs By the civil wars
take an active paTi in the disastrous struggles
which are waged 70 the benefit of five or six
knaves, half Of whom call themselves Liberals,
aud the other half Reactiouists. All the rest of
the population, the real people, desire only TO
work and live in peace il this country, which
would be great IN few Yeas under q true gov
eminent; for poverty is rare, and 1t would be
altogether unknown If there ives only q better
security for person and property
The two parties divide the sII bundled thou
sand Me1icsns, properly so called, pretty equal
ly, the greater part Of them affecting political
passions far enough from then real sentiments.
This ia easily enough understood when it Is taken
into considera ton that to belong to the defeated
party is 70 furnish a warrant Of spoliatiop,
which the poor victim rarely escapes, often even
suffering death; and one runs the same risks IN
his own party if he should be suspected Of any
moderation
10 sympathiae with Juare9 and his goysr-
ment because they choose TO call themselves
Liberals, would be in reality to approve of stste
Of siege, robbery, murder, the absence of all
guaranty, of all liberty, and all honesty. These
people steal from governments es well as from
individuals, as witness the $4,000 belonging TO
France stolen by the Juarez government from
the bank of NJ Penand, where tue money was
deposited and the S630,O00 stolen By Mmamon
from the English Legation. There is some dif-
ference in the amounts stolen, it is tue but the
only difference between the thieves is the regret
on the part Of JuareE that he could not steal as
much as his antagonist.
The choice made by Juarez OF his executive
officers shows well enough what lie IS PoTtriO
Leon, the chief of police in Mexico, is a uotori
GUS robbe., and served seven years in the chain
gang for Observation-Disclosures of them in the
City of Mexico itself He was the plotter Of the
recent attempt on the life of the recent French
minister, Saligny, and, by way of satisfy wing the
complaints of the French government he has
been promoted to be brigadier-generaL Carava'
ial, COsilard, Rojas, and the greater part Of the
other generals now actively employed by JuaToz
were mere brigands, and were commissioned
generals when they brought their cut-throat5 Il
take service with his party. The only thing or
gauiZed IN Mexico is highway robbery. ~
every station between Vera Cruz and Mexico
sum of money is taken from travellers tor the
benefit of the robbers. 1t is like regular tax
added to the p-ice of passage. Women some
times have to pay more than money
MARQUEE arrives at town and demands $40,
| 900 tor the defenders OF religion. If the money
cannot be supplied, he shoots twenty-five per
sons, under pretence that if they have no money
| It must be because they have given it to his en
emies In eight days sfterwsrd, Caravajal will
come to the same town and twenty-five NOR
wretches are shot under a similar pretence. Il
one district alone, about the size of a Frencl
department, fifteen hundred persons have pei
ished in this manner The correspondent of tn
Journal des DebatS concludes his graphic lette
by repeating that there are no such thing
rs political parties i'll Mexico. There are oPPreS
sors aud there are oppressed. So far as the latte
are concerned, the only difference between tn
former is, that one eats them with red sauce, an
the other with black: and as the alternative
constantly presented anew those who escape th
one are pretty sure to fall victims to the othel
The only remedy for this terrible state of thing
says the French writer is a strong government
under which 1" the good shall be reassured, an
the wicked shall tremble"