The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-30
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From the ". Y. World
Yucatan is peninsula almost isolated from
the main country of Mexico. The nearest ap-
proach to 1t from the capital is by sea. 1t is
inhabited chiefly by barbarous Indian race,
which has never been quite subdued by the
national government, and which has rarely
taken part in national revolt. Our meagre
accounts of the military revolution" at
Merida, the State capital, and at Sisal, the
principal port, do not therefore lead US to re-
gard it as so threatening in any respect, ex-
cept one, as the disturbances in Mexican
States farther north. The port of Sisal, pos
sessed by force inimical to the general gov
ernment, would be a convenient rendezvous
- Tor revolutionary or filibustering expedition,
which, according to an untrustworthy rumor,
Santa Anna and certain adherents of the late
empire are preparing in Cuba.
These outbreaks, in Tamaulipas, Durango,
Jalsco, San Luis Potosi, Yucatan, and else.
where are repetitiOns of kind which have
occurred every year since Mexico began the
republican experiment. They are inspired by
local grievances, not by any broad, patriotic
national sentiment; and, as every revolt has
its own leaders, and the people of different
sections are usually divided by sectional jea-
louses, fusion of the many revolts into one
making combined assault against the gene
raj government under single standard bearer,
will depend upon an accident or a successful
intrigue. At this time three men only are
supposed to be striving, with the slightest
chance Of success, to overthrow Juarez
and assume in his place the Presidency or
Dictatorship of Mexico. These are Santa
Anna, Ortega, and Porfrio Diaz. The first is
an exile who has just again narrowly escaped,
in his extreme old age, death at the hands of
his countrymen. He is hated not only by
Juarez but by both the other aspirants. He
cannot be expected to trust his neck in Mexico
until his prospects are a good deal brighter
than they now appear. Ortega is a prisoner,
to be disposed of as Juarez wills. Diaz has
been described as sufficiently discreet and fair
minded to refrain from heading fOrcible
revolution.
Unless an outbreak should occur in the city
of Mexico itself-an event which is possible
but unlikely-Juarez will retain for several
months the Presidency of miscalled republic,
where the people, continually quarrelling
among themselves, will make a divided and
consequently weak cause against him; where
highway robbery will continue, as now, to
render travel unsafe and check interior COM
merce; and where civil officials and military
chiefs will rob the inhabitants and defraud
the national treasury by levying forced loans
and laying an embargo on the customs. Like
sent one will be powerless to oppose one-half
these evils. The lack Of swift oommunication
will prevent the quick despatch of troops to
distant and disturbed localities. A paucity of
means to pay troops will force their officers to
Oppress the country through which they pass.
And so widespread is the decentralization
among government officers, that very few OF
them can be depended upon to administer
Justice or institute reform in cases where
their personal popularity may be at stake.
The great need of the Government is money.
The resources of Mexico itself cannot be very
available under such a condition of affairs; and
what security can Mexican government with
such tenure give for a foreign loan? If the
Congress now assembled at the capital does
not contrive some miraculous financial expe-
dent to quell the demands Of debtors at home,
and bribe majority Of maleontents to cease
from troubling, Juarez, his Cabinet, and all
the fine projects of which we have lately
heard, will simmer awhile and be finally
merged among the chaotic Ingredients Of the
Mexican political oaldrOn.