The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-26
THE SITUATION IN MEXICO.
Another Revolution by which President
LerdO's Government Is In Immi-
nent leopard y-High-H Handed
Measures Taken by Cen
craI In barra,

Uent 0cOparOy-Hl&nsH
Measures Taken by Gem
cral I.abarra.
1t would seem that the spirit Of revo-
luton is innate with the Mexicans in
general, or that that unfortunate and
feeble race is too prone to follow the
spare neither the peoples blood, nor the
merchants money to further their
schemes Il personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
The administration of President Lerdo
though not without its blemishes, las
what administration is p had with
IL most Of the elem tents that
could have insured peace and prosper
ity with race less turbulent and easily
led astray. 1t represented the moderate
party, and apparently was disposed to
correct abuses and encourage progress,
but that very standing it assumed made
enemies OF both extreme parties, viz,
the church party, which it had already
stripped of 100000 900 of property, and
the Reds or Radicals, who are ever dis
satisfied, because, under pretext Of re-
form, their end is license. and through
license their object is power.
Both parties thus united against the
government have by this day sapped its
very foundations, and few persons doubt
of it's downfall
1t is above year since the opposition
has been steadily Mt work in the CITY Of
Mexico, and all the ingenuity Of the
President and his friends could hardly
keep down the factious elements.
President Lerdo even came very near
falling a victim to a conspiracy headed
by Gen. Rocha That officer was at the
time commanding division in the cap
ital, and his plan was to have seized the
person of the President at a review
which he had ordered ostensibly for the
purpose of inspection, but the Presi-
dent was informed in time, and Rocha
was arrested.
The ball, however, was in motion, and
the revolutionary movement cOncen-
trated and took strength in the South
ern and Eastern States, around
the name of Porfirio Diaz, an adherent
OF Juarez and member OF the Mexican
Congress, who is for the present estab-
lished at Brownsville. The headquar-
ters Of the revolutionists are Jalapa and
the surrounding country. Puebla is
aroused, and Vera Cruz leans towards
the cause. Since the defeat of General
Aatorre, the insurgents have possession
of large part of the country and are
the city Of Monterey. When
that city falls the prospects Of Lerdo
will be gloomy indeed.
Meanwhile the Mexican Generals are
raising money in the usual way-by
forced loans. A dispatch of the oath
inst, dated Galveston, and coming from
Brownsville, states that Gen. Labarra.
on the 23d, gave the merchants and
business men Of Matamoros /. peremp-
tory order to furnish him with 5000, 900,
to pay his troops and place the city in
state of defense. Senior Antonio Ian
goria being unable to subscribe, was inn
mediately confined in the artillery quar-
ters, and can only recover his liberty by
his friends subscribing $4,000 for his
release. The same sum has been de-
Of Don Francisco Armedais,
the manager OF whose firm is an Ameri
can city now in New Orleans. In addi-
ton to this so-called loan, the Mexican
has levied tax Of
one per cent upon capital, property,
etc The American citizens have sub
5cribed to this tax, but, in view Of ulte-
rior measures on the part of Gen. La
barra, have applied to the American
Consul for protection.
Gen. Dilse is near Matamoros with q
force of over thousand men, and it is
will attack shortly.
We certainly pity the unfortunate
Mexicans, though it is by their own
fault that they suffer, through their
weakness and general deprayity Of the
masses but the United States Govern
ment has citizens living in that
country who are ground down by
the rapacity Of the Mexican chieftains,
and by the necessity, ever renewed,
on the part Of the variously succeed
ing Mexican Governments, OF levylng
subsidies and taxes to
fight the hydra revolutions con-
tinually springing up, each to destroy
the administration which former revo-
luton has established. This vicious
circle must either be dissolved by the
Diplomatic interference Of the United
States Government, or broken by its
strong arm.