Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-09
NORTHERN MEXICO.
The Reported Programme for lis An-
nCNmIiOm 90 the UmLleh SlMIcs.


ncXHtiOn tO the United States.
4 letter from Matzatlan to the San Fran
cisco Times, written on the 22d ult., previous
to the raising of the blockade Of that port
by the steamer Chanticleer, says
Gin connection with the postponement Of
further action by the Captain of the Chanti-
cleer until advices are received from head
quarters at Victoria, heard from a source
sufficiently reliable to authorize its publica-
tion, news Of the following programme Of
operations ia which the governments of
England, France, Mexico, and the
United States, and the private holders Of
claims against Mexico, are concerned.
First, II ia impossible for Juarez, or any
other man, to maintain himself in the Pres
idency of Mexico, beset by internal cOnspi-
racies against him, without means, and har-
rasscd hy constant demands for the pay
ment Of obligations due foreigners. Money
can he obtained only by an alienation of
territory. The Northern Mexican states
are i source Of weakness instead of strength
TO the central government. The United
States government needs these states. Jua-
rez is willing to sell, bat the Mexicans are
SO ayerse 10 dispose Of any more territory
that shrewd diplomacy, absolute necessity,
and especially a conviction Of some great
advantage to be gained, will alone reconcile
them 10 "a sale. The confscaliOn hv the
supreme government Of the railroad be-
tween Vera Cruz and the City Of Mexico
fully iusiilies the English in assuming Of
lensiye operations against the republic, and
ia addition 10 a claim of indemnity for this
coniiscIlion, they will press the payment
OF Mexican bonds held by English subject.
Citizens of the United States, as we'll IA
European capitalists, will urge the settle
ment of their claims aginst Mexico. Juarez,
pressed hv these complications, must have
money or he OyerthrOwn; and money can
only be obtained from the United States.
All holders OF claims against Mexico, of
whatever nationality, are satisfied that
their only hope Of payment lies in the gov
ernment of the United States and the IN
terferanee and assumption by our govern
ment Of all the Indebtedness Of Mexico in
consideration of the transfer to us hy Mex.
ico of her northern tier of states, is conf
IDENTIFY expected 10 be the result of the en-
fOrcemenl by England Of 4 vigorous block
ade of the Mexican ports. know that
business arrangements are now being ef-
fected with view to the accomplishment
Of the foregoing programme. Mexico.
freed from her load ofindebtedness, and rid
Of territory notorious for breeding civil
c0mmotious, may then be able to establish
a republican government on a firm basis
while with such settlement she will sink
deeper and deeper into the gulf Of anarchy.
A very strong opposition TO JOarez exists
throughout the country, based upon a con-
stitutional limitation OF the Presidency 10
anH fvfI IN In,
in proportion to population, politicians are
vastly more numerous than in the United
States. Every individual who can read
and write and some even minus these
qualifications, are aspirants for office, which
accounts, in great degree, for these inces-
SAINT revolutions The outs vastly Outnum-
ber the ina, and excuses are never wanting
to justify the intrigues OF disappointed as
pirats 10 power and place. The forei gn
debt fthe government furnishes 8 constant