Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1863-11-07
Interesting fr0na Mexico.


the iAto lnlOliH5 US llab utDeIul DuuduO mas
been placed at the head of the Cabinet of the
Juarez Government, and that he proposes the fol-
loving plan to oppose the intervention, Or avail
himself of its advantages:
!. To confne the war with tha Franco MeSi-
can army to the mountains permitting them to
occupy the capitals Of the departments.
2. 10 gather together independent men Of all
parties to form national one.
B. 10 agree to such an Intervention as that
proposed in the treaty of London, adding also the
United States, and dsown all political acts now
done in Mexico.
MANUEL DOBLADo GOVERNOR or THE STATE OF
GuANAJUATo, TO lTs INHABITANTS.
FalIow ClTzENs The honorable Congress Of
the State upon terminating its legislative labors
has delegated to me the exercise Of its powers
ampliryins tho extraordinary facilities with which
it had before Invested me.
This new testimony of confidence imposes upon
ne the duty of addressing you, in order to make
known to you the use that propose to make of
the authority which has been deposited inmy per-
son.
The events which have recently occurred in tho
city Of Mexico have placed the foreign question
in its truc hght and presented it with precision
and an exacttude which removes all possibility Of
error These events reveal nothing less than the
deliberate intention of converting the Republic Of
Mexico into colony Of France.
The theatrical farce by which it has been sought
to divide and to distract public opinion has no
other object than to place tho country, by means
OF certain artificial transitions, under the DONNA.
ton Of French arms.
In all this there is only the good faith that
conquered people may hope to receive from their
ConQueror.
The invading General has affected to believe
that the military question was concluded, when he
yet has the intimate conviction that ii has only
commenced.
No one now, is ignorant ofthe deploNble causes
which contributed to bring about the disasters
which occurred to tie armies of the east and Of
the center,
The invading General also knows them, and he
knows that without the aid Of those causes he
would not to-day be in Mexico.
The military question begins now on the day
when the country raised the flag of resistance
The solution Of this question is yet known ouy
to Providence. lie will award to each that which
is bic just due.
The political question is a question Of right
and on this field Mexico is omnipotent.
Nationality is the life Of people, The Mexi-
cans have inherited independence from their faith
ers They achieved their independence by virtue
of their courage and their sacrifices, not by in
trigue; nor did they purchase it with corrupt
gold
The right which exists on our side evident; it
is inControvortibc, unpresCrptible. 1t IS the
right which England has, and Spain and France,
under their respective natiOnalities; and to place
this right in doubt is to reject all public law, is to
imperil the very existence Of nations as indepen-
dent States; to attack at its very base, the princ-
pal ofnatutOl right, and to introduce chaos into
established international relations.
Force is not right 1t is necessary to repeat
this principle thousand times, however hito 1t
may seem Force disposed many years ago of
Poland but the rights Of the Poles still exist, and
only burst forth the more brilliantly each time the
sacred fire Of insurrection appears
The Emperor Napoleon has had the power to
invade Mexico, but it has no right to convert 1t
into colony OF France. 1t has been attempted
to found Alright upon the unhappy condition Of
the Republic and upon its continual revolutions
But this is only the sophistry Of bad faith in
which even its authors do not believe. 1t is true
that we have committed many errors, and that all
parties, in attempting to put in practice their res
pective theories, have failed devoured by the TO-
youtiouary spirit. But only the Mexlcans have a
right to complain Of these evils. The right to re.
proach Is exclusively our own. Foreigners have
no right to take cOgnizance of our domestic dis
sensons, and still less to bring charges against u:
for acts done in the exercise Of our natOnal soy-
ereignty
The invader well knows these truths, and it Il
for this reason that each step he takes in The
country he repeats the deceitfu watchwaTd of hi.
desigDs-"We do not come to impose govern
nent upon Mexico; We come to protect the fret
choice Of that the Mexlcans wish to give them
selves" This hypocritcal pretence does not mer
it relutation; it has already been set aside by thu
nation en- masse when it laughed with scorn a
the news Of the monarchy Of MaximiliOn
| The good sense of the inhabitants Of the coun
try has comprehended that there cannot be free
4 dom where there is compulsion that the Frencl
: army is not a protector but usurper; that thes
n phrases with which 1t is sought to deceive th
people, are only the set phrases which conquer
Q ors in all times have used with lying tongues
4 diplomatic expedentS invented in order to par
alyze resistance; involuntary confessions, but ver
q significant Of our right to freely govern ourselve