The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-09
BENITO JUAREz.

We fHd in the New Orleans Times
come interesting "reminiscences of Bsnsto
Juarsz, the President Of Mexico. It
says:
''In the year 1859, '5s, "a and 1855
there lived in this city, on st. Anne street,
between DsuphiHs and Bourbon, mid
1le-aged' quiet, dsrk-complexionOd, gem
uenanly personsge, Who either by him.
seit OF associates, conducted small man
oiaetoFy OF cigarettes. A very small
cossLlc OF friends knew the history OF this
Individual and cultivated his society.
his life was that of q student, 4 close
and silent observer Of men and events.
ana his habits were those of great sim
Pielty aud reserve. He was q cafeful
reader of the newspapers. and to crafty
his curiosity frequent visitor at the ed
itorial sanctum Of the old Courier, on
Chatres and Customhouse streets, when
it wasscouductsd by that amiabls, intetlli.
gent and energetic citizen, Emile La Sers
whom we are happy to meet frequently
on our streets in well preserved vigor and
good spirits. There was q cordial inti-
macy -subsisting between Mr. LaSere and
his visitor, and in their conversations they
always employed the familiar appellations
of Emile" and "Bsnito."
Mr.. LaSere's friend Benito ia the same
gentleman whom recent and indeed pre-
vious eveats have assigned the principal
part IN the interesting drama now being
enacted in Mexico-Don Benito Juarez,
President of the Republic of Mexico, and
the head of the party and people who
have crushed the scheme of impsTializiug
that long desolated and unhappy country.
At the time of his quiet soiOurn in 81.
Anne street he was an exile and refugee
from his native land, having abandoned
it to escape4hs penalty which the invari-
able but detestable policy of that people
never fails to indict upon the chief of a
defeated or minority party. Attached to
the administration of Commonfort until
the downfall of that chief, through the
intrigues and partisan triumphs of Santa
Anna, Juarez had followed the example
of many other defeated chiefs, and found
an asylum in this country.
The time of his soiourn was ussfulIy
and industriously employed in the study
Of our institutions and laws, SO that on
his return to Mexico be was we'll prepar-
ed TO apply to the administration of his
own country a miRd that is we'll stored
with sound Republican ideas and upon
much valuable information.
There ia perhaps no Mexican of posi-
ton now in the country, who is better i'm
formed in regard to our political aud ju-
dicial systems than JUarez. He may not
be equal in resources, il sagacity and
general accomplishments to Almonta-
now in Paris-Who was also long resi-.
dent in this country, and served his time
at mechanical trade in Cincinnati, but
in the combination of moral and intellect
ual qualities, in tsnacity of purpose, hon.
esty and purity of personal character and
habits, he is unquSstionably the first OF
the public men in Mexico.
Those who conclude from the fact of his
being an Indian of pure blood that he
must necessarily possess the craft, cruelty
yindictiveness and savaasry, which are
generally attributed to the aboriginal race,
will, we think, on a clearer view of his
life and character, find nothing therein to
justify their opinion. Indeed, the history
of Mexico does not support this idea of
the aboriginal character. The best, the
the most honorable, honest and patriotic
of the chiefs who have figured il the long
train of bloody revolutions in that coun-
try have sprung from the aboriginal stock.
and from Cortez down to Miramon and
Marquee, the principal actors in the trag.
ic scenes which have disgracsd the coun-
try, have been of those who boastsd
blood.'