The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-16
Final Collapse OF santa Anna.

Santa Anna is again in trouble. Ever since
his exile by the JuareS government this head
less rooster has excited the pity of the world
All the arts OF revolutionists have been ex-
hausted by him in the vain effort to get an
egg from which to hatch fnll-blooded revolu-
ton in Mexico. Every one Of them, however,
has proved added. The old hero's cork leg
evidently can no longer bear spur, and the
strategy of the cockpit will not avail with
slippery customers like the greasers. Santa
Anna should have profted by his experience
Of the last few years in the United States. He
came here with the belief that his revolution
airy plans would be aided and abeised by the
American government This was natural, for
the policy of our State Department has been
and still is one of irrepressible conflict. But
Santa Anna did not prove irrepressiblc. lie
showed himself to be heaoless rooster, tit TO
be consigned to the care of Mr. Bergh's society
for the prevention of cruelty to animals. With
the full determination to again bleed his native
country the old gamecock went into the arena
only to be bied himself. He get entangled in
lawsuits for the equipments necessary to first
class flibustering raid, left here in tow of his
heartiest enemies, to get up proIsas1ct0nase'st0
in Vera Cruz, was captured and would have
forfeited his life but for the fact that the
Juarez government knew him to be headless
rooster. Not deferred by his hitter ex-
perience the old hero would venture on slippery
ground again, presuming on the American
stability of his game leg. This time, again, he
took into his confidence emissaries of the very
government he was seeking to overthrow.
Colonel Cosme Garcia Padilla pumped the
whole secret out of Santa Anna, General Ia
boada and the rest of the interventiOnists who
have their headquarters at Havana. Accord
ing to the revelations made to the Mexican
Congress Santa Anna was to restore the laws
of the late empire, renew relations with Eu-
rope and give the United States to understand
that their annexation policy should go no fur
ther. His addresses to the Mexican people
were to set forth that the United States wanted
the northern frontier States Of Mexico in con-
sideration Of our assuming the foreign debt
of that republic. The late mission of Minister
Romero was to be marked as the opening
WouSo VI OuCic OdIu III tAC Observation-Disclosures
and eventual annexation of the republic. But
all this fine scheme failed; PadiIla got the
secret, divulged it, and Captain General Ler-
sundi ordered the headless rooster to be re-
moved from the Havana cockpit.
Without doubt Santa Anna has been cruelty
treated in all this business. He needs and
will get the sympathy of many in our COM
munity. When such a society as Mr.. Bergh's
can prosper here there must certainly be
large class of sympatbizers with one 80 cruelty
treated as Santa Anna has been. We fear,
however, that he is mostly to blame himself;
although it is undoubtedly cruel to encourage
an old headless rooster with but one leg to
enter the arena with a cock that is Justify
Growing over having pulled feathers from the
eagle of France and drawn blood from q scion
of the Hapsburgs.