New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-12
Mexican Troubles Coming
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WASHINGTON, January 4.-InformatioR
has been received here from MatamOras
that General Juan Cortina, the bandit of
the Mexican army. is fast maturing his ar
engagements, and that he will surely pro-
n0unce against the government of Lerdo
within a month or six weeks from the pres
ent time. AS Cortina is we'll known to be
stronger than the President or Congress
along the Bravo, the outlook is bad for our
own side of the river, which has had suffi-
Gent experience of Cortina in the past to
grow apprehensive over his present move
ments. In the report of the American COM
missioners on the cattle depredations Gen
eral C0rtina is put forward as the
chief instigator, operator and beneficiary
of the plumber system practised from the
Mexican side upon the rancheros of Texas,
and the commissioners have recommended
that the government make an immediate
demand upon President Lerdo to bring the
late commander of the line of the Bravo to
trial by court martial for his repeated use
OF the government troops OF Mexico in the
acts of robbery and murder set forth, with
the evidence, in the commissioners report.
Our government well understands that
President LerdO has no more power over
COrtina than the late President, and that
as the new and sincere policy of the present
executive does not admit of q continuance
of the active support, protection and defer
ence extended by Juarez, Cortina, not salts
fed with mere immunity for past misdeeds,
can not be held in check by Lerdo.
But the duty of protection to our own
side is held to be none the less imperative
because OF the impotency of tie Mexican
government to regulate its frontier pOpula-
ton and it's military chieftains, and it is
thought that the intended outbreak of Cor
tina in the border State of Tamaulipas will
serve to hasten the direca intervention that
everybody here, including the President
and excepting only Secretary Fish, admits
to be the only and the final means of afford
ing security to Texas and indemnity for
past spoliations. Even the foreign lega
tons, where the subject was very much
discussed at the time Of the appearance of
the report OF the border commission, take
The same view and hold that such action as
the commissioners propose THAT is, the pur-
suit and punishment OF tho banditti on
Mexican territory by the United States)
would be reasonable in view OF the enforced
supineness of the Mexican government, and
that such justifable violation of the terri
torial sovereignty of Mexico would inevitas
bly, and logically end i'll the establishment
of the United States on the northern from
tier of Mexico, and the extension of the
boundary line to the mountains beyond the
Rio Grande. In view of the probable rising
of Cortina against the supreme govern.
ment, and the double motive of necessity
and revenge that will lead him to come
over the river and further despOil the
cattle ranches, 1t is the intention of
the Texas delegation in Congress to
introduce and urge on the reassem-
bling of Congress a bill to raise a force
OF Texan rangers, with field officers and
captains OF companies taken as the border
commissioners suggest, from the regular
army officers serving in Texas. The gov
ernment has not troops enough Of any arm
for present protective needs, and the exist
ence of revolution on the Mexican side
would greatly add to the present insecurity
st the Texas rancherOs. The question being
fairly up, through the action of Congress,
the President does not intend to let it drag
as 1t has dragged for nearly six years in tho
State Department and the American and
Mexican legations in the cities of Mexico
and Washington, and he is alive to the fact
that the people of Texas, having now had
their hope and expectation of relief fully
aroused, will not submit to relapse into
the old condition of being murdered and
plundered by Mexican outlaws: officials and
soldiers, and by Indians sheltered by the
Mexican officials. while Intellectual dis
patches were psss!nS betSise %, the 3xso "a
tiOnal capitals,
Secretary Fish 10 sad 90 be Gar from
pleased with the commissioners and their
report, the former transacting Coo much 4
business direct at the White House and the
Capitol, and the latter being 30" energetic
III statement and suggestion sor o State
paper of tbs routine m0deb
Fabius j. Mead. from Mississippi, IA.
been retired from the commission. and his
place will probably be filled by General g.
borne, of Chicags VINO is represented az
possessing the requisite ability and energy
Tor the position. FINS Seintrced, aud with
a sufficient sum for expenses. tie remaining
commissioners, Messrs. Robb and esa.a .e.
VIZ stsEs for she Rio Grande 90 . s.,x Gn.