The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-13
The condition Of Mexico.

Little doubt now remains that the revelts
against the authority OF President Juarez IN
various parts Of Mexico amount to an at
tempt to revolutionize the entire Republic
The Ttco Republics, OF the llth ut., Is tne
journal of latest date from the capital and
announces the modification and disappoint-
ment with which it is forced to retract It's
proenostications OF the prosperity the coun-
try would enjoy from the reelection OF
Juarez, and to admit that all hopes OF peace
had vanished. The revolutionists and their
sympathizers assert that the armed move
ment .will not disturb the equilibrium OF
commerce, weaken confidence, or affect
ethe industries of the country; and that 1t
"will soon be over" In other words, the
originators of the movement design merely
an old.fashioned Mexican revelation" :"
which was merely species OF military elec-
ton, with. little or no bloodshed, promptly
decided, and not very seriously interrupting
the business pursuits OF non-comeatants'
But Juarez is man of known tirmness and
pertinacity, and it remains to be seen wheth-
er fe will acquiesce in considering the new
civil war in that light.
The only recent events Of any importance
| in. that contest are the successes OF IreVlno
| at SaltilIo, and the disturbance in Sonora
and sinaloa, in which latter the people gen.
erally took no part, and 'there was no blood
..shed." The usual accompaniment oil
such affairs in Spanish h-American countries
forced loans from the merchants, with
compensatory reduction OF export and I'M
mort duties-indicale that at Mazatlan and
Guayamas, as at Monterey, the revolution
means chiefly renewal OF the time -honored
alliance between illy-paid officials and mer-
chants inclined toward smuggling. Inc
capture OF the City Saltillo by the revolu-
tionists reported at Matamoras on the 5th
instant, would be decided progress on
their part. Those familiar with the history
of General Taylor's campaign in that coun-
try in lS47, will remember the important
strategic position of that place in connec-
ton with the Pass Of Angostura or Baena
Vista, few leagues to the south OF 1t.
The country between that pass and the rich
and fertile section around the City oi san
Luis Potosi is snarsely peopled, and but for
it's mining settlements would be almost
desert. The occupation OF Saltilio BY Ire
vino vii! thus probably secure to him the
northern half OF the State OF San Luis
Potosi, and enable his allies in The States
Immediately west OF it, Zacatecas and Da-
rapgo, to revolutionize them more success
fully than they have heretofore done.
Should the supporters OF Juarez in Sonora
and Sinaloa be ut the same time Snbdued by
the revolution'sts, the latter will then be in
control CT oil. Northern Mexico, and in q
position either TO establish their Sierra
.Madre Republic" or to join Diaz in esta-
blishipg in the Central States and the nation
al capital a government which will keep
them quiet by ''free zones" }" light taxation,
or none at all, and liberal share OF offices
and public plunder to their semi-feudal chiefs.
The manifesto issued by Diaz is by no
means o brilliant document, and it Is not
surprising that it has met no cordial re-
sponse from his fellow-countrymen. He
abuses the government in general terms,
and assures the public OF his own disinter-
ested patriotism. He invites each State to
send three representatives to convention
which shall ''give the programme OF the
constitutional reconstruction, and name
provisional president of the Republic, who
..by no means ought to be the actual deposi-
"tory OF the powers oi war" The changes
be proposes in the constitution are: The
election Of president by the people directly,
instead of, as now, through the machinery
of an electoral college; iueligibility to that
office of every person who, during the pre-
yious wear, had at any time exercised ''any
authority or charge the functions OF which
.sextend to all the national territory Con-
gress not to have any power to designate or
elect high public functionaries, Gas, Tor in
stance, president when there is no choice
by the electoral college or the people;) trial
by jury to be made general; and the in
terror customhouses, iat which goods are
taxed on passing from one State TO another,)
to be abolished. 1t will strike every one
that, even if these changes are desirable, it
may well be doubted whether they are worth
civil war, even one OF the mih-mannered
style in fashion among Spanish-Americaus.
4 main point in the programme OF General
Daz, o general substitution Of outs for ins
in the public offices, is not expressed, but
is, of course, silently understood by every
body.