The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-05-30
Santa Anna Defines the object Of His Visit
...He Repudiates Macmillan and the French.

-Neao York journal OF Commerce.
Santa Anna Defines the Object Of His Visit
--.He Repudiates Macmillan and the French.
Gen. Santa Anna is still at Elizabethport,
N. j., where, it is stated, he will remain for
few days longer The New York Herald of
yesterday publishes the following account of
an interview between one of its representa-
tives and the General. In reply to question
as to his real object in visiting the United
States, he said =:
You wish to know the object of my unex-
pected visit, and also wish to have it well
and clearly understood by the great mass of
Americans who sympathize with the strug-
Cling republic of Mexico. In leaving my
tranquil home at St. Thomas to help restore
the republic of Mexico which l created over
forty years ago, I have no sordid motive, no
ambitious aim to satisfy. 1 hope, however,
to have the qualification of seeing the backs
of the Frech in hasty flight, as I once saw at
Vera Cruz, when drove the invaders from
the city. For months past, in my quiet re-
tirement of St. Thomas, have been receiv-
ing letters from all parts of Mexico, not only
friends and quondam adherents, but even
| from Mexicans who have been antagonistic
to me, complaining of the futility of the eff
| forts made by Mexican republicans to throw
| off their foreign yoke and drive Macmillan
! and his French usurpers from my native soil,
| and urging me to once more present myself
! as the champion of the Mexican people and
| the republic. There are many reasons why |
| did not at once respond to those appeals. In
| the first place there was the expectation that
the Liberal government, judging from the OBJ
stinate resistance offered by them to foreign
| intervention at the first, and their frequent
successes, would prove strong enough to
maintain the integrity of the Republic. Then
there was the probability that the govern
ment of the United States, by re-assertion
of the Monroe doctrine would diminish the
question to one of pecuniary indemnity. But
the Liberals-and all Mexicans are Liberals
except those who are in the service of Maxi
milan and the pay of Louis Napoleon
weakened and demoralized by previous in
ternal dissensions, cut off, as it were from
the rest of the world, and, owing to the Sc
cession war, deprived of all aid from the
United States after battling long and val
| iantly against superior forces in number, and
superior in arms, discipline, and supplies,
have at length become exhausted and dis
heartened, until they are now scattered over
| the country in small detachments, some of
them being in favor Of this Liberal general,
and some of another, while the 'usurpers
forces are concentrated and united. Without
unity there is no strength. President Juarez,
a man whom l highly esteem and respect, as
one deserving of all praise for his efforts to
restore the Republic, is unable to preserve the
| Liberal party as unit but there is Ortega,
who disputes his right to the Presidency, I'M
der the existing constitution, and Escobedo,
Cortina. and others are warning among them
| selves while a powerful enemy is at the
throat of republican Mexico.
Here we inquired, Z" Well, General, how do
you propose to harmonic them ?"
| SANTA ANNA.-It is my profound convlc-
ton that can conciliate AM concentrate all
| the dissentient elements of the Liberals and
| Conservatives, and unite them in powerful
front against the French invaders. l am
ready to cooperate with Juarez, and take
the field at the head of united army against
the Imperialists. bah p the old General
exclaimed, enthusiastically. slapping his cork
leg, "I lost this leg in driving the French
from Vera Cruz, and am willing to lose the
other in driving them out of the City of
Mexico. can sit in the saddle yet twenty
| four hours on a stretch, warrant you" he
continued, with flashing eyes. sin the next
campaign against the French"
| "But, General" we queried, "supposing
you could thus unite all the loyal Mexicans
under your banner, do you think you could
carry on campaign with more success than
the Liberals have had during the past two or
three years? You must have money to COM
pete with your well paid, well-armed, and
well-fed foes" ~
SANTA ANNA.-H the war for Mexican lib
erty is to be conducted as it has been of late
you might spend hundreds of millions with
out achieving any important result.
"Still," we interrupted, you must have
money in order to carry on war, and that
money must be derived outside of Mexico,
| must it not 2"
SANTA Annals matters now stand
Mexico is evidently in great need of money
for war purposes and that money, to GER
tain extent. may have to be raised outside of
Mexico; but I am convinced that there are
many loyal Mexicans who are able to and
have not subscribed funds to the cause, see
ing of late that the money would produce no
| good With vast consolidated republican
party and strong srmy these men would
feel confidence and render all the pecuniary
| aid in their power to the cause Then,
again, there are vast natural resources lying
dormant in the country because the natives
are unable and foreigners unwilling to devel-
op them in the present unsettled state of af-
fairs, when town or State is occupied
often one day by the Imperialists and the
next by the Liberals, and oice oersa. All
these would be speedily developed by the
introduction of American capital and labor,
and the consequent stimulus that would be
given to native enterprise as the grand ma
tional army marched forward, sweeping
away the foreign invaders before it.