Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-04
7RenitoJuarez..

We find in the Ne,o Orleans Times some
interesting reminiscence of Benito Juarez,4
the President of Mexico, 1t says: "a
I'm the years 1882, '53, .54 and 1855, there
lived In this city, on ST. Anne street, be-
tween Dauplline and Bourbons a middle
aged, quiet, Gsrk-comp mplsxioned, gentle
manly parsonage. who. either by himself
. or associates. conducted a small n1anufac-
tory Of cigarettes. very small, select
ecoterie of friends knew the history of this
Individual and cultivated his society. His
life was that of student, "a close and silent
observer of men and events, and his habits
were those of great simplicity and reserve
He was careful reader of,the newspapers,
and to crafty his curiosity, a frequent Wis
itor of the editorial sanctum OF the old
) streets, when it was conducted by that
amiabls, intelligent and energetic citizen,
Emile La Sere-whom we are happy to
meet frequently on eur streets, In we'll
preserved vigor and coed spirits. There
was q cordial intimacy subsisting between
Mr.. La Sere and his visitor, and In their
conversations they always employed the
familiar appellations of Emile and 'Benito'
= xzssMr. La lSere,s friend .Benito the same
gentleman whom recent and indeed previ-s
GUS events have assigned the principal part
in the interesting drama now being en-
acted lin INexico-Don Benito = Jaarez,
President Of the Republic OF Mexico, and
y
have crushed the scheme of imperializing
that long desolated and unhappy country.
At the time of hisquiets sojourn In st. Anne
street, he was an exile and refugee from
his native land, having abandoned 1t to es-
cape the penalty which the invariable but
detes table policy of that people never fails
to infiict upon the chief of defeated or
minority party. Attached to the admins
tration of Comonfort, until the downfall OF
that chief through the intrigues and parti-
zan triumphs of Santa Anna. Juarez had
followed the example of many other de-
feated chiefs, and found an asylum in this
country. The timeofhis sejourn was useful
" and industriously employed In the study
of our institutions and laws, 30 that on his
return to Mexico he was we'll prepared to
apply to the administration of his own
country mind stored with sound Repub-
lican ideas and much valuable information.
There is, perhaps, no Mexican of position
now in the country, who Is better Informed
in regard to our political and Judicial sys-
TENS than Juarez. He may not be equal in
resources, in sagacity and general accom-
plishments to Almonfe-now in Paris
who was also q long resident in this coun-
try, and served his time at q mechanical
trade in Cincinnati, but in the combination
of moral and intellectual qualities, in tena-
city of purpose honesty and purity of per-
sonal = character and habits, he is
unquestionably 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
I; the craft, cruelty, vindictiyenessy and
: sayagery which are generally attributed
to the aboriginal race, will, we think, on q
clearer view of his lite and character, find
nothing therein to justify their opinion.
Indeed, the history of Mexico does not
support this idea of the aboriginal charac-
9 ter, The best, the most honorable, honest
and patriotic of the chiefs who have fig
-ured In the long train Of bloody revolutions
In that country have sprung from the
aboriginal stock. sna from Cortez down to
Niramon and MARQUEE the principal actors
In the tragic scenes which have disgraced
the country have been of those who boast
ed of their Castilian blood" -