The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-14
MONDAY, MAY Ia, 1866.
Santa Anna Rediyivus.


never again emerge from the retirement to
which the execration of his countrymen and
a personal sense of his odious career, even
tually drove him in 1856. II. is now, however,
announced that he reached Elizabethport on
the morning of the 18th instant from st.
Thomas, and that be is soon to appear in New
York city, with the understood object of 're-
uniting his efforts with those of the Liberal
party in Mexico in expelling MAMMALIAN
from that country"
What authority there is for this statement
as to the purpose of SANTA ANNA is not yet
disclosed, and it may well be received with
considerable distrust, in view not only of
the bypocritical character Of the eX-President
of the Mexican Republic, but also of the
course he has pursued towards his country
since he deemed it best for its peace and his
own safety to betake himself to foreign lands
for refuge. The papers have just published
a correspondence of SANTA ANNA's, COM
municated to the State Department at Wash
ington by Mr.. ROMERO, the Mexican Minis
ter, in which it appears that the miserable
exile, who, it is now said, is coming to the
United States with the design of aiding
Mexico in her present struggle against the
Austl o French invasion, was among the first
to invite that attempt to destroy Mexican
nationality and independence, and to offer his
personal services to the invaders.
AS early as July, 1854, SANTA ANNA, act
ing by authority with which he claimed to
have been invested by the Mexican nation,
conferred on GUTIERREZ ESTRADA "full
powers to enter into arrangements and make
the proper offers to the Courts of London,
Paris, Madrid, and Vienna, to obtain from
those Governments, or from any one of them,
the establishment lin MeXico) of a monarchy
derived from any of the royal races of those
powers, under qualifications and considera-
tions to be established by special instruc-
tions." ESTRADA could do nothing towards
eflecting the mission committed to him by
SANTA ANNA until 1861, at which time the
allied powers, having concluded to set up an
empire in Mexico, with the Archduke MAXI
MILAN as its head, SANTA ANNA wrote to
ESTRADA, under date of st. Thomas, October
Is, 1851, approving of the conspiracy to sub
iugate and provincialize his country, and ex-
pressing hope that Providence would give
him strength to take an active part in the
wicked and dishonorable enterprise. Less
than two months later, writing to the same
correspondent on the same subject, he said:-
'God grant that our dreams may come to pass
as soon as possible. The candidate you men
tiOn (his Imperial Highness ArChduke FERDI-
NAED MAXIMILIAN) is uneXCeptionable, and |
therefore hasten TO give my appreciation. Do
mo a N inf fnrn1 h1In nf mo
as our friends, but with all reserve, for you well
know that in politics there are things that must
not be published before the proper time, on ac
count OF the harm that might be caused. Con
vinced that the time to act has come, am ready
to return Immediately to my native land, deter
mined to labor with all my strength till the
realization of the undertaking is completed.
VIII let you know of my departure from this
island by the mail of the 18th of December, and
| will tell you where to address your letters to
me-"
And finally, by way of Gaping the climax
of his base desertion of that native land which
had so often sustained and honored him, he
addressed 10 MAMMALIAN, under date OF st.
Thomas, December o. 1868, private letter,
in which he told him that his soul "overhowed
with pleasure" when he heared that the Duke
was "to be called to the throne Of Mexico"
and then closed with these tulsome words OF
abject sycOphancy - ....
''I hope your Imperial Highness will conde
seend 10 acknowledge, in the dean of the Megi.
can army, devoted and disinterested friend,
very obedient servant, who wishes you the
greatest happiness, and terUenty Kisses the Inlpe-
rial hands OF yOoT Imperial Hig6neSS'
And it is in the face of this disgraceful
record of his actual completely with the
scheme of the allied powers to conquer
Mexico, and subject it to the sway of a
foreign despot that ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA
ANNA has the audacity to come, now, to
this republic, with a pretense of sympathy
with the Liberalists under JUAREz, and
an intention to ask the favor OF our people
and Government in his professed purpose to
defend the liberties and independence of a
nation which he recently labored so actively
to destroy! No one at all familiar with the
history Of the man will trust his personal
honesty or his patriotism. He has been all
his life "a selfish, INSCRIPTIONS, cruel, and
double-dealing demagogue. He never
served his country on any occasion
without superior purpose to serve
himself; and it is, therefore, not at all
remarkable that the sudden revival of a
regard for the Independence of his nation
which seems to have seized him, is co-inci.
dent with the proposed withdrawal of the
French troops from Mexico, under the
pressure of influence from Washington, and
a near prospect of the final and utter failure
of that very European plot for the establish