The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-25

so OF Spansh America wns mat 'knowied' ana hon.
esy, money, the requisites for exercising pot-
ica power" He evidently valued the brain, not for the
gliding which enabled IL TO reflect ght but for Its pow
Never were human talents put to severcr test than
those OF Spanish America, and especially the Mexi
can portion bring order OF this pool OF the
gathered msrue OF centuries; and have patriots
worked harder In glorious cause than have those Of
Spanish America for the regeneration of their land But
amid all the clements which they found wanting to aid
them In their heroic struggle that of education was the
foremost; how tn educate the people hccnne the great
PROB en- which has to this day agitated the first minds OF
the country and which has boa fruitful In revolution.
AIRY opposition 10 It's progress The first necessity
10 coohne within proper limits the influence OF the
Church; and in Mexico constant hammering at It's power
for fifty years although with ccbie force has produced
the eject only by abrasion, TO tear OF OF its ten
gress IN the land and which had spread their Shiny
upon every effort at mental development Never did q
more bitter tide dow over land than that OF the clergy
ton rom one end Of the country TO tho other in its
MAD efforts to drown progress or at least 70
L has been unable d fsy ' TO bnr r sacn
Its vast monopolies Of estates have held, one
balf OF the country In mortmain and have made tho
whole land pampsist, where, age after age furse
has been rubbed In TO give place 10 the next. What
wonder that their land IS revolutionary what wonder II
this eper spot upon the soil We, born under happier
sky. and with religious wars fought out for b. almost
half century Of revolutionary conflict In Europe should
look witt more sympathy upon the struggle Of people
for religious and civil freedom Though,essy the great
mass Of our counrymen point TO N xico aud South
huu WOu0 why the pOntiCal etemeOt9 are 70
stormy The North American child was waited across
the ocean born Of tho very Of German Anglo
Saxon prosess with It's religious oil fought IL
laws all shaped 10 the times, and carrying with
It but curse-slavery Even this one last cure has
taken four years Of the brain, blood, and though
but OF slight moment OF the country sink
among the dark barbariiies Of the past. How much
time them should we give to people to shake on at
effort all the curses herein enumeratedf The nurslIng
wh ch the Spanards brought 70 the New World tho
very concentration Of the religious bigotrv VIII had
sou ht refuge h Spain at the end OF the fteenth
~1.l
woven in tie religious looms Of the dark ssss o.
European history, was an exponent eerm Of al the
the cs "' era 8 Ss time .'e s sn s II
modern civilization broke In upon Europe. Il
wore . garment woven by the seven crusades.
stretched across the Mediterranean, from Cologne
Metz had preceded by goat and . goose. SWEPT
Land It vas wrapped in ali the dark mysteries which
the Clergy OF Rome could smugge Of the light which
Was at that time breaking In 70 civze Europe Rocked
under the upas shade Of the Inqustion breahed the
polluted atmosphere which bad been poisoned By tho
ecclesiastical vengeance which was born Of such mas
Mary Magdaien. By ten years Of savage warfare
Spanish America unrolled the reeklng rags Of the
fifteenth century and the light Of liberty shons upon the
new birth. Warped by all that eccl statistical fanaticis
linked to Spanish avarice could concentrate in single
element. IL was plunged into the mad whirlpool OF our
present and expected at singlo stride 70 attain
level But to give them but nity years 70 attain point
which has taken three hundred years reach B TO
acknowledge their mental superiority over They
want time; heir revolutions absolutely essential to
their progress The Mexican Emperor, Yturbide, In his
cstracism Leghorn, apty slludcs 10 the false view
Nature produces nothing by sudden leaps she operates
by informed ute degrees The moral world follows tho
laws Of the physical. To think that We could emerge
oil al once from q state OF debasesncnt such
that OF slavery and from state of ignorance such
has been Inflicted upon for three hundred years. dur
Ing which have had neither books instructors;
and the possession Of knowledge has been thought suf
ncient for persecution; 10 think that could gain
information and refinement in = moment II by
Chantmeut that could ncuuir0
prcjudces and give up false preiensions, vain
pecaton: and could only have entered into the vision
In Mexico up to tho time Of yuarsz the holy Catholic
church has been the fsaa~sc In every constitution
have not introduced . religious element having ten-
dency maintain the fast rooted bigotry their spiritual
power Their religious linked V their moneyed influence,
has always enabled them 70 svertun al the efforts Of the
noby chung the task OF overhrowing this curse upon
their body polite In 1883 the combinations Of the
Rressonists had somewhat Nammelled tho clery, but
they BY bloody rsvolutops upset the Presidents who
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won over 70 their paryto seae themselves almost
TREY free from any STATE aAaence BY this the bishops
ing the great bankers Of ne country sssctine loans
taking mortgages upon all kids of property and acting
In ell respects like immsass commscialand monsysd
In the proclamation Of the "Bssss Of Political orsani-
zation Of the Mexican RsVablic' the "Holy Catholic
faith again the sstont feature Il still held
In Ne vicelike grasp the elements NJ progress aud re
fused 70 berate them. 20 early 1874 attempt
made In tho State OF Gaadsaxera 70 connscaic tho
Church properly but IL was mot by decree from the
General Congress which opposed tho measure. Con-
grsss, however, passed aw Astonishing Church tithes,
which TAI upon the asculturs products Of the country
bad yielded the clergy large revenue This decree OF
Congress did not however have the esscs Intended for
oosn Of the Church tho Cd tax, which their religion
teaches thsm IL would b. sscrslegious 70 withhold
From 1883 revolution after rsvolut'en followed in
Church. Oae party trying - grasp ~ portion Of the
Church properly that they irh, rid Their county OF
wagins war 70 retain The property intact During the
government OF FerriAs and Bsrrgan, In 1895. rucss
leading 70 another sosay var was made 70 con-
the public debt Tue liberals had Succession OF and
presidential overturnngs, been gradually gaining ground
though eminenily superior h financial resources still
found itself forced make great effort bold the
ana sSs she
from the United Ststes constantly infringing upon
its bsrder In 1865 the bsral psrsy had far gained
cusd the presidential chair The ecclss astcal parry
Santa Anna had D heroic struggle against tho
Of Gss.r.is Ds. Carer. 1. vss. .sd alvarez Who
had each in turn occupied tho unsssy PRESIDENTIAL seat
.coxoSFoRr's ADMINISTRATION.
commonfot ruled from 1888 70 1853. waxing .
prty OF which be connscased IN part, and forbade
the clergy 10 hold real eseake. Every element Of
against the bcrals For three yes tbs ivIsation Of
t6e ninstsenth century boldly fsd tho armed spectre
Of the middle ages and deuged the valleys Of Mexico
with the blood which II was hoped would wash out the
stains which the maddened power Of The Clergy had
bottsd upon the land For three Ioag pears with vary
ing fortunes the red tide ebbcd and bowed boryng In
IL dseth- gnppic both bigory and sdssncement The
star Of hope for Mexico gre. dim but her patriots be-
sr%sd ~ me me nat s os year. Of ev
The wave, In It's valley, but ever hopeful, ever
boldly sashing ct the moas,sr With had fAlssnsd lie
boaied carcass upon their fair land cemonfort sunk
In The tide at the moment when Mexico about 70
grasp at her regeneration, he proved too weak
Tor the task The result u the successes OF the
liberals had been the embodiment Of the nights
and ideas Of the people 10 charter which, endorsed BY
the az Constituent Assembly on the i2h of January 1861
and being submitted 10 the ratification Of the people
confirmed by all the Mexican States and sworn u by
General Comonfort. who. by virtue Of ia article rs had
been appointed President BY the laws rsssec by this
Assembly Ito rights OF the church 70 property held In
mortmain had been assailcd In part The great fault
was that the laws were not sufficiently ewceping and
The policy Of partial attack upon the clerical do
main the canse Of the success at the moment
comOnfort. hating between the dictates u bis re-
gioas and liberal views and attacked by all
tho moral force OF the clergy, overthrow the
ronstilution TO which he had madd oath sixteen
Jays previously The srear.ionis,s nsssted by Coraon
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