The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-08-02
Escobedo on Yankees and Foreigners

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The bloody minded EscoBEDo wrote letter
after the execution Of the Emperor and MS
distinguished Generals to the governor
Of Nueyo Leon, one of the Mexican STATES
from which we extract the following:
..The execution of the traitors, which had
IN. satisfaction of directing, is good food LOT
digestion, II will satisfy the Europeans, and
The Yankees, too, that TO tri1ie with Mexico Is
death by the law. Had we complied with the
request of the Yankees TO spare the llllDuslero
and his associate traitors, lLWould nave peen
taken for cowardice, and the next thins wouiu
have been 4 request to give up our lands, our
mines, and our women. After tins we snail
be allowed 10 worship our own God, I'LL our
own soil, work our own mines, ana hoI nave
our women detiled by Yankee libertmes. am
now In favor of making clean work OF the de-
tested "Gringos." This country belongs to
God and us, and just so long as one foreigner
remains on our soil our liberty is in jeopardy.
BY every means i'll our power we snoulu MAKE
the country Mexican; and rs all the property
i'm the hands of foreigners was made by our
misfortunes we should take it, now that we
have the power, and hunt them from the coun-
try. My motto now Is, Deatn 70 al Gs-
trtngeros. There is no danger OF the Yankees
interfering with us so long rs the southern
States (Estados del Sur are kept out OF the
Union besides, the black men would side
with us, and may At any Lime prohouhce
against the whites. Before we get through
are in earnest, and The time will come when
their notables will be begging for their OWE
heads instead of begging for the Austrian. LII
our struggle for liberty we have lost nearly
ALL Our lands, and our mines, and our ho
crty, and our women, and our honors we still
have, but the foreigners have all the available
wealth of the Republic; but they will see in
less than three years that MexicanS will have
what they want in Mexico. You will under.
stand from this my position, and should by
any chance whatever become candidate, you
will understand my unaltcrable platform
Whenever the time comes, you can make this
letter public i'll such manner.as you think pro-
per. ! know that you and L think alike on
these matters and l know that my country
men will applaud our patriotic determine
ton
The people of the United States have seen
nothing to flatter them from Mexico since the
overthrow of the Imperial Government in
that country. Mexico is altogether indebted
to the Federal Government for her liberation
from European influence and the re-establish-
ment of the miSgore1nalead by which she has
for so many years been cursed. Built plain
that gratitude is not one of the sentiments OF
bloody minded and revengeful people. The
Mexicans are not only ungrateful, but they
are insulting. EscoBEDo INDUCES in derision O.
the American people, and taunts their Govern
ment with his imagined difficulties in the way
of gratifying any spite or ambition 1t may nav
towards Mexico. His remark touching n pro
bablc sympathy the negroes Of the South ma.
have with his people will attract attention. IL
probably not an eXtravagant EXPECTATION an
the time may come when the negro may mann
fest that sympathy as result rather lhaA y
object of some movement. That Mexico Is
be regulated by America we have no DOUBT
and there will DO no more appropriate tore
through which to exert this control than on
or two hundred thousand able bodied negr
soldiers. Designed by nature for the latitud
of the globe in which Mexico lies, suited il
habits, tastes, and nature to its cline and it
products, the negro's sympathies with tina
land would there be spontaneous and irresist
IDLE He would become Il Radical, fixed t
the soil, and would then grow and flourish
enduringly. His introduction there would dc
no violence to that country, whose population
is so mixed up that it might be improved by /;
negro predominance.
However, we have no especial claim after
all upon Mexico, and should not censure Is.
coBgDo too sharply for his ingratitude. We
have made good deal out of that country,
and We drove out the French, not from sympa.
thy with Mexicans, but only to carry out our
policy Of Intervention of Eurouean Go.
rernments in American affairs. 1t was en-
tirely polite and selfish on our part We are
determined TO keep Mexico for our own pick.
ing So let the Mexicans look out for I,ox
GrmgoS," who won't stand much insult.
especially from those who have gold and silver
mines!