Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

eopcarned. there is not the least danger
on their side. IL YOU except q few rowing
bands on the frontier, which are becom
ing every dav smaller and smaller, they
yadisappeared from the country, which
is today either loyal, or indifferent if y0t
hike. but which is entirely detatchec
from Juarez and his cause. IhOsC
who pretend % be Juarists, now
are highway robbers who are trying
TO screen themselves by the adop
ton of partisan coiors frCn
I the penalty due their crime. But theil
numbers are decreasing every day We
! have not seen any on toe road from
! Vera Cruz 70 Mexico for the last tire,
/ months. Formerly, aud under the Re
/ public, diligences were arrested almost
/ every week il was not safe 10 so out in
I large cities after sundOWn. In the
( country, as well as i'm towns AMI villages
there was a complete absence OF security
] 10 persons and property. Now this state
J Of affairs has changed. Cities are saIe
I and the country comparatively SO. MeNl-
cans begin to understand that good laws
/ and order are. preferable % anarchy
and plunder They shake of their ira
/ ditioual lethargv and are awakening q
/ the necessity of protecting themselves.
! For the last two months all the battles
| won over the Juarists nave been won by
] the native MeXicans. The example cl
! the French has stimulated them, and re-
/ vived In their bosom the sentiment 81
] their dignity aud the pride Of their race.
/ Let the sentiment grow, let it assume
national proportions, and the MeNicans,
assisted hv the natural defenSes their
country affords, viii, like the Spaniard7
/ of wore, become invincihle.'
] O.. q i IN. aHnr /
/ that they could successfully resist All
! invasion fram the Northern States2"
Il do not suppose they would now, y
said Gen. Price; "they have suffered too
much from the yoke of forty years OF
civil war and anarchy % be possessed Of
| that affection for ones country which is
/ the source Of patriotism and OF all the
I heroic virtues. For some time the Mex
/ leans will need 80 be protected. Fortu-
uately, this protection is given them by
the nation best prepared 10 do it; aud as
/ long as it is extended tothem the Next
csns have nothing to fear.
But suppose they cease 70 De pro-
tected-suDpOse France withdraws aud
leaves them To themselves
such a proposition il not probable,
said Gen. Price, "and this for several
reasons. In the first place, the Napoleon
family is not in the habit Of backing
down I'm the accomplishment Of lis
schemes: in the second place, France Is
bound 90 Prince MaNimilian by treaties
and promises which she cannot give up
without forswearing herself; thirdly,
nothing would be easier for the French
Government, if unable to fulfil its
promise alone, than TO obtain the CO.
operation Of other nations. Every
friend OF the Empire trusts in these
considerations, which are, in their esti-
nation, sufficient 10 discard any appear
anCe of danger sn the part of the United
states. Bat let us admit your suPpOsi-
ton. Let the United States Invade this
country, drive the French out Of it. and
re-estabiish the Republic. What would
be the consequence Why when you
would have landed on Mexican territory
the landed aEistocTacv Of Mexico would
have allied itself 20 the landed aristOcracy
OF the South for the purpose Of creating
disturbances in our midst. For you
must not be deceived in regard to the
public opinion of this country. Every
man having a little property is for
the empire and against the Re
public Besides, who tells You that
the Mexican Roman Catholics would not
unite with the Americans and Irish of
into the heart Of your country, 10 your
very threshold l am not so far from
the North As 70 know the feeling Of the
Catholic population there, and I am too
near the South to ignore the opinions of
the COufederates on that subject. So,
even with victory on your side, and Gen.
Grant in the City Of Mexico, you would
be more troubled, more embarrassed,
with conquest, than If You had been re-
pulsed at the outset and drawn quietly
within your own frontiers
The General developed these ideas
more fully than ! report it here; but the
Of his observations aimed al
the same conclusion, Uiz: that war
AGAINST Mexico, successful or not, would
he the ruin of the United States; that
Mexico was ia less danger of such a war
than themselves were; that a foreign war
would, with the present order Of things,
strengthen the national feeling of the
Nexicans, and elicit from Europe
demonstrations which would forever set /
tie the question Of their integrity and in
In short, he seemed 10 me
perfectly confident i'm the establishment
Of the empire, and in its power to resist
any hostile combination on the part oi
its foes.
with the General, and IL was now time
for me 10 take leave of him, as I could
not delay my visit to the city Of Mexico
any longer. He tried 10 induce me TO
spend the night under his tent; but ]
was, 90 my great regret, compelled 10
decline. on myretUm 10 CarlOtta, where
the same wagon was waiting for me,
the General, who oas with me, showed
me several fields which he had planted
some with coffee trees, some with to-
haccu. some of the fields were under cul-
tivaton when he bought the land; so he
exported, this very year, crop Of coffee
Df about Eve Thousand dollars. and this
without including the tobacco, the beans
the cattle, the horses, the sweet potatoes
and the fruits. His field hands were
Mexicaus, whom he paid at the rate OF
three and four shiliings a day, in silver
They We're assIduOus and faithful, but
lazy: they required constant watching
Good treatment had a wonderful effect
upon them, and the General told me he
could see an improvement in the guam
tity of labor performed almost every day,
as well as in the general behavior Ol
those men. Their children We're COM
PEELED TO 20 TO school and 10 he educated. !
The Emperor had not however, COM !
pieied the legislation which was 10 pre-
pare their passage from the state Of peou
to that OF freeman. But he would soon
do so, and establish for this disiuherited
class the means Of elevating itself and of
occupying an honorable position IN the
world.