New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-31

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Gently issued, purporting to come from the OK.
President and ex-Dietator Santa Anna, and
calling upon all the parties of the country 70
unite for the restoration of the Republic and
the overthrow Of the Empire. Surprising tho
document to BIS authentic, the nane Of it
author undoubtedly clothes it with great polii.
cal importance.
I Santa Anna has been longer and mon promi.
! gently active upon the political stage Of Mexico
than any other Mexican statesman now living.
de has been himself seven times President and
twice Dictator, and was once even supposed to
be on the point Of being elevated to an imperial
throne. On the great questions which have
agitated Mexico, Santa Anna has repeatedly
changed party connections, being, in turn,
Centralist, Federalist, an opponent and
q friend Of the Church claims The procls-
mstion just issued explains these veristions
from the desire to respect always the decision
Of the majority Of the people. The saDs desire,
the, proclamation fui thor states, led Santa Anna
to the recognition OF the Empire. On this
point, however, the author Of the proc, anation
feels the need Of more detailed apology.
Santa Anna, in recognizing, in 1854, the En-
pire, said: 1.-The last word Of my conscience
AMI of my convictions is Constitutional Mon.
archy." This, he Deserts, was extor-sd from
him by the French authorities at Vsra Cruz
His stay in Mexico was made depen1sQ upon
thu recognition Of the French intervention aud
upon his keeping quiet. This he wosld not
have done had not the suferings Of bis wifa
ard the advice Of several friends who came To
meet him overcome his doubts. He,was will
ing TO recognize and to accept Maxim lillian -
the choice Of the majority Of the Mexican
people, but not as the tool Of the E9anch I'm.
peror.
Santa Anna claims 10 have now aimed the
conviction that MGximlsn has no in tentisn t0
pursue truly national and reforrlau)ry policy,
Sut that he is establishing despd,ism which
oil Mexioans should unite to overchrow. THAI
this appeal will meet with responses, and that
: viii add to the opposition which is still made
to the Empire, cannot be dcdb ted. Santa
Anna is name known to every Ihexican. and
which has always had ard st4 jlas the power
TO rail- around it party. The re are, more
over, few Mexicans who have 4 b etter acquaint-
ance Of the current opinion anI ing their coun.
,trymen than Santa Anna, ard who have been
moro eager TO turn this knowledge to theis
own advantage. The recent pronuncamento
NAV, therefore. be taken as proof that it,
author has satisfactory information Of the de-
cline of the csuse of the Empire among his
countrymen.
Although, 10 general rale, thu war bulletins
of both tho bslhgerent pas,ss in Mexico cannot
10 received with TOO great cau5on, there arc
many indications, entirely Trustworthy, that in
the Government circles OF Mexico the situation
is not regarded as satisfactory. There are
ominous admissions in the letters written by the
most devoted partisans of the Empire THAI
the Jnsrst officers who Tad given in then
submission show again tendency 7"
join the Republican armyj that eonsIde'Ao''
bodies of Republican foxes are maintaining
themselves in every State of the Confederation
and that no progress is made in the pacfesua"
OF the Western States. Letters published ~
French. Austrian aud Belgian papers @s"
CLEARLY prove that many Of the foreign mer's~
aries who have been sent to Mexico to su0d~
the people begin to sec that the task Is %i''
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and that they are as far as ever rom rean'."t'
Two things seem to us to be well eStabisleu
the unpopularity of the cause OF tho hmp".
in Mexico as well as in Europe and the Pops
larity Of the Republican cause at homo sEs ="
on tie increase.