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


Mexican Church 1860 about $40 600 900 In 1870;
they held So 000. O00 cash. In 1929 IL had beer
reduced to 500 900, part OF IL having been
seized by the Spanish government $4,000, 900 oil
MORTGAGES the agricultural districts around Puebla
supported the religious institutions OF that city which
In sill known as the most intensely Catholic Of all Aex
can cities. .,a'0N
The clergy had side by sidp with Coex entered Mex
tco and having the iight OF the santed religion con
fsc 70 esohsn .e .Ss Consolation Of shs h"ly Attn cr
the riches of the Indian Whether ny per uasOn the
sword, the Indians wore baptized BY thousands The
clergy forsot the injunction OF the Pope require
them TO embrace the Catholic religion and, II they
unwilling, 70 attack them with Ore and sword and
term nate or vedncc them p slavery:
their intercourse with the Indians that C0tez wrote TO
Charles 70 send him regulars instead Of secuara Said
wealth to their natural csdrsn, and give graf scandal
to tho newly converted Indiana "
Tho time which had elapsed from the conquest Of
had only served 70 enable the clergy 10 expand their
luxurious habits in the ratio OF their constantly ncreas
Ing wealth. Which, e we hays ssen, have amounted 70
sd. = asv s.s mSsss "Ac in
they set 70 their rroseiytes who, IA their gnonce have
excessive sxacsionc upon everything which might
tribute 70 the moral elevation Of tho people, and after
a.: bed % % drop
clergy took them and in their hydrauc religious press
squeezed out the treasure from their sptai develop.
proOisy aossins il this ~ Of moral dsSsssmsnt Don
Antonio Raya Bishop OF Cuzco gavc In charities three
hundred and seventy .hou Ond dollars 10 eight years
his honesty and virtue while several OF the bishops 81
Peru Asoned in part for tho mnrule Of otherA
, IlMOAALITY AND zxA0FIoNs or The CLER0Y
~. Tho viosrSy and his satellites s.s.sd effort 70 E
possibly yield revenue The whole country was given
10 70 the most wholesale system OF robbsry that the
naturally bsgot carelessness with regard 70 the future
wherein thcy could only accumulate treasure pour
tho ooers OF their masters who welded both for their
phys cal and mental oppression Tho exac0ns OF the
clergy In Mexico became great thas many wealthy
creoe prevent the loss Of bis property by the Inqus
SSnassd and svs feast days q the year did not
eave the poor Indian time enough u the
marriage fec Of from fourteen to sixteen dollars which
vice by the clergy The result that marriage tho
exception, not tho rule II very naturally In.
sIgurated = wholesale system Of concubinage, IN
or family tic appeared 70 be broken, or, at the
date OF the revolution had disappeared In the mad
deuge, had swept over the land Tho most brutal pas
slons uppernos In tho Mexican mind Three great
castesSpanasds, creoles and Indanshad been estab.
ished at the occupation Of tho country and those had
year after year taken more marked features until the
woes of the two latter finally forced conesce and
form q companionship In misery The crcoles had at
the date OF the revolution, been ground down proper
ton to tho jealousy which their constantly increasing
numbers had excited In the breasts OF the old spanard
lions and cruehies had forced upon them that they
could not be kept much longer from sharing the gov
ernment The Europeans had heaped upon misery
until Spanish America could no longer endure L. Petition
after petition was laid at the foot Of the throne; but
spurned In the most outrageous language they
turned unconsdered to the colonsts few OF the very
lowest offices in the Americas had becn doled
creoes SO late 1855 tho Minister Gavez referred To
The fact that few Mexicans held office In their country
as an abuse Thus was q wide breach opened between
the old Spaniard and his progeny So late as 1917 IL
was asserted In Spanish legislative assembly that $50
allegiance"
The effect Of this policy upon the crcoIes, who
at tho date OF the revolution were very numer-
GUS was most disastrous Ignorant, though pos
sesslng great natural talent their whole mind
had been SO warped by the cnsaving rule to
In its channels by instinct than by reason With
minds corrupted by their masters with tho most disgust
Ing vices engrafted upon their political upas tree with
the clergy panderng to every known vice OF corrupt
In the elimination Of centuries OF the
viest exc -sses; with honor myth, virtue mockery
ana buried deep in the foul pool OF crime and
ccaseess torrent they drank from this pool OF misery
until nature, overloaded shook itself free by revolution
Of the Europeans the creoes mbbed the spirit OF their
oprressofs and deemed that the only honorable employ
ments were to be found in the army in the church
In the latter, 1t had been the policy OF the royal
government TO cherish its temporaes and thus
Tho ..mayorazgos," or rights Of prmogcniture, fire..
lnently forced the younger sons into the religious
'rders; but after the right Of was abo
shed, during the revolution the church became I'M.
popular a. profession except for the lowest classes
be results Of this action both In the military and In the
,hurch. -
BuccANKERING
the only ports from which the Spanish Americans
we're Porto Beo aud Vera Cruz II was as late as l77l
before the colonies were allowed to communicate with
ach other and not until about nifty years before the
evolution that commerce from any other port than
Seville, In Spain, could DO carried on with the
'olones II was not until l7l3 that the ships Of
M aroA
sh colonial port Great Britain at that date. in
her contract TO supply slaves, had very slight
n which the slaves transported Not until I7s4
lid monthly packets commence running to Havana
Porto Beo and Buenos Ayres Spain not only claimed
he exclusive jurisdiction Of all the Spanish Americas
but even the surrounding oceans 1t was these claims
which gave SO TO the disputes between the Spanish
and Queen Elizabeth who claimed that SPAN had
actually occupy II this controversy in connection
With the attempts Of the Dutch and ENGLISH to trade in
Ions which mAdc the Gulf Of Mexico ring with the ro.
mantle deeds VI the recb0oters the capture OF richly
a'i.s spanish saIieons the plundering OF
tathedras and other riotous deeds which
gradually caused the buccaneers to sink into pirates
who then seized upon some Of the farest West Indian
ports and perchng their lookout towers upon the com
handing points were ready at any 70 dart out
upon the rich treasure ships Of Spain.
EvyRoT OF TEE INVASION or STAIN BY BONA
On the 10th July 1905 in the mids. Of the crcl,ne
Influences which the desposic policy Of Spain had
produced in tho colonies tho arrived OF The nva.
ZION OF the mother country by the troops OF Bonapartc
he deposng OF Ferdinand VII the 5th Of May 1903
Ind the resignng TO Joseph Bonapare Of all the rights
of the Bourbon family 70 the crown of Spain Il Is
necessary TO trace this phase Of Spanish history for
moment Revolutionary measures opposing he French
INVASION were immediately inaugurated, and several
untss were established In different parts OF the country
hes juntas separately claiming Jurisdiction the colo
HES occasioncd the greatest uncertainty as 10 which
hey owed allegiance which naturally assisted in
shaping the events which followed Finally these
untas resolved themselves into tho Supreme Junta
,f Seville, consisting Of twenty three members mostly
,f the nobility. II met June o, 1s0s, and proclaimed
allegiance to Ferdinand VII, whom they atested had
deposed by the French army and had been forced
10 surrender the royal rights Of family which were not
N his power to surrender Meanwhile Joseph Roma
Dartc bad summoned one hundred and ffty deputies
ninetytwo Of whom assembled and accepted the const
ution which Napoleon had prepared for them This
provided that the colonies were TO be repre
cnted IN the general Cores nj Madrid and enjoy all the
tights and privileges OF the mother country
OPPOSITION OF the MEXICAN CLERGY TO ypFxcu
OCCUPATION.
From Ferdinand VII. and tho Council of the Indies
orders were Immediately forwarded TO the colonies 10
transfer to France the allegiance OF America The
smssaries OF King Joseph we're Immediately scat
cred throughout America, 70 make the transfer more
certain and eubmfgaon NJ ~. cc,ut~v