The New York herald., 1867-06-22


will be worse confounded, and in the midst OF
it all the struggle between the adverse factions
Of the government will forthwith be renewed
more fiercely than ever.
The Revolutionary Movement Of Santa Anna.
There appears 70 be strange fatality gov
erning the movements of those who have
figured in the Mexican maelstrom. The whole
sale murder Of the Aztec kings and their
people by Ferdinand Cortez left curse upon
the country. which, deepened by subsequent
Spanish rule, appears to cling to it yet The
Emperor of an hour, Yhrbide, after being
banished, returned and was shot near Tampico.
The French, in their attempts to "restore" to
the Indian what they call "the prestige Of the
Latin race" left the bones of at least twenty
thousand Frenchmen in Mexico. They have
strangely reversed the picture Of 1920; then
Europe, through Cortez, was in possession Of
the native monarch Montezuma. To-day, after
a lapse Of three hundred and forty-seven years,
the native Indian Dictator, Juarez, is in posses
sion of the European monarch Maximilian.
Santa Anna, who did more than any one man
to invite the establishing Of the late monarchy
in Mexico, has, pursuing the Mexican bauble,
at length fallen into the hands of his boldest
and worst enemies, and it Is doubtful If be be
alive at this moment.
The revolution attsmpted by him appears to
have been on level with oil his late acts, and
rather indicates decay Of intellect. He,
at the inception Of the allied Intervention, was
ONE of the leading wire pullers in the interests
Of the Mexican clergy. The allied armies once
masters Of the position, they kicked him aside;
he then denounced them and offered bis ser
vices to the liberals. These, knowing that the
services Of Santa Anna meant the ruin OF Mex
leo, refused all dealing with him. Then, when
Maximilian espoused fully the cause of the
priest party, Santa Anna offered his services
again to the imperialists; but the rebuff given
him by Macmillan caused the old chieftain to
lose all hope Of gaining foothold again in his
own country, unless by raising his own Gag and
issuing Q pronunciomiento. The moment Sc
lected was the last that could promise success;
and at Vera Cruz, ss 10 seen by our corre-
spondence, the old Church party champion
Napoleon and Macmillan lave dropped, and
nearly set the retrogrades on their legs again.
As in the case Of Orega, 30 in
that Of Santa Anna, the United States
appear determined to assist In restoring Mex
leo to order, and, by keeping out Of the country
all the revolutionary elements possible, give
it sufficient breathing time to establish stable
government. For this we deem the action Of
Commander Roe, Of the Tacony, very timely
one, although the result which followed may
prove tragic The hot-headed liberal Mex
lean officers at Sisal, the commercial port Of
Yucatan, had no right to board the steamer
Virginia, and the act cannot be too highly
condemned as an outrage against the laws Of
nations, and will demand q prompt apology
from the Mexican government
Our news from Tampico indicates that Santa
Anna had taken advantage of the constantly
disturbed condition Of the province Of Tamau-
lipas to raise his flag there also. This, how
ever, is no indication Of his popularity there
Tamaulipas, bordering as 1t does on our Rio
Grande frontier, is the worst Of oil the Mexican
States, and owes the greater part of its revo-
lutionary outbreaks to our city Of Brownsville
Here the most Of it's pronmciamientos are
Matched out, supplied with the material
Of war and all the necessary elements
for the holding and successful plundering
of Matamoros or Tampico-especially the
former. Serbando Canales has, within
a year, proclaimed himself Governor Of
Tamaulipas, taken possession OF Matamoros
aided by some one hundred Americans from
Brownsville, plundered the Matamoros Custom
House and every merchant in the city, whipped
Escobedo, been driven out by the United States
troops, retreated to Southern Tamaulipas with
his six hundred followers, and now, with some
kindred cutthroats, turns up at Tampico, pro-
nouncing for Santa Anna The object, how
ever, is plain for it is evident that once the
liberal army have finished with the city Of
Mexico and Vera Cruz, they will wheel about
and dispose Of the bandit Canales and all his
companions. They are outside the pale Of all
Mexican law, and have been for long time.
The only object that these robbers have Is to
all their pockets at Tampico and, with their
ill-rotten funds, escape to Texas, where they
can enjoy them.
The failure Of the expedition Of Santa Anna
is also tho last and most miserable failure Of
the Mexican retrograde party, in whose inter-
ests Il was attempted. II 10 wisdom for them
now 70 desist from all further attempts at revo.