The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-10-27
The Ripcning of the Plot Against
Mexico.

gust and despair. firmly persuaded that the
State Department is determined TO force
quarrel upon his country. No sooner are
those negotiations broken or than news is
n;l.-hcd through the country from san An
tonic that great band of Mexican raiders
l. pundcring Castrovillc; that a stage has
been captured by them on the Fl paso turn
pike and It's driver killed and that prepare
tiuns are going ON quietly" To reinforce
thc Texan Rangers with II thousand men
"as soon as the word is given the COM
panc- now forming. adds the despatch, Ice
Ing composed for the most part Of young
MN.
The complot between Washington and
Sun Antonio has long been 50 pnlpahlc that
THIS news need surprise no one. The FL
PtSo region. whore the raid ON the stage is
reported, was the region 81 the salt sGuah-
biz between rcyan citizcns lately described
n an armed raid from Mexico; and Fort
s. 1cktou. which invrnts this new fiction,
was the source Of the former one.
Surprising that raid has been made. we
may rely that the raiders are not McNicans,
a. the dispatches pretend. but Lipan OF
Mcscallero Indians outlaws WHO plumber
NrXican settlements oitcner than our own.
j * less than a month since Gen. OKD re-
ccNcd word from Col ANpRRws. command
ing Fort Davis. that 23O Mexican regular
troops had shortly before arrived at Chihua-
hua to attack gang Of these plundcring
Indians who had just defeated the Mexican
runchcros in the northern part Of the State.
with u loss of more than twenty killed and
that at last accounts the Indians had about
forty Mexican families besieged, whom these
troops went 90 rescue.
Only malice could report gang Of out
laWcd redskins like these. hostile alike to
McAicans and Americans, to be Mexican
raj ders. As well might our Apache horse
thieves, if they turned their iavors upon
Mexico, be- described there As American in
vadcrs as VOL might SITTING BULL s band.
Oh crossing the Canadian border, have been
styled United States raiders. Such reports
Of Mexican invasions, repeatedly sent up
from Texas, are designed TO misiead the
rountry-they are Texan contributions to
shc plot against Mexico.
This Is not all Castrovlle. whore the
Mexican raiders are alleged to be plumber
Ing, is only about twenty-five miles due west
rom San Antonio, on the old VOLS road -
not more than half IA days cavalry march,
headquarters Of the military department,
aud has ample force Of cavalry and infantry
10 punish any such daring raid into its
suburbs. The distance back from Castro
vile 10 the Rio Grande by the shortest
ropds open 80 the raiders is fully 200 miles;
and ON the Rio Grande are the troops Of
i TT Duncan. BULLIss detachment AT Pre-
sidio del Grandc and 40 on. With Gen. ORD
thus perfectly capable to manage the sup
posed raiders at least "a thousand men are
h. reinforce the rangers already raised by
Gov. HUBBARD, "as soon rs the word il
given" what il this word to mean And
Will it be given nj San Antonio, or Austin, or
Washington
Such is the dlsgraccful way that the an
ncNationsts and the HAYES Administration
play into each others hands. n-rcprcscnt-
ing Mexico struggles for peace as a desire
for war, and refusing all honorable proposi-
tions for friendly settlement. Forced t.
admit the sincerity Of the DiAZ Government
ir it- professions of amity, Mr. EvARrs de-
cHred that Government To bc willing. but
not able. TO discharge it, international duty.
l,"d. them To- Increase the ability Of the
pMz Government, 10y giving it that rccog-
n',iun which even the distant republic of
Switzerland has accorded. Mr.. EvAHrs re-
fused: and Mr. i>Yls, in accepting pie
tutc OF DIAZ. carefully explained that the
aCt must haN" NO official Significance.
When S'npr MArA in Washington with
NJ EvAErs, aud simultaneously Scnlr
NaLLoRDn in the CITY Of Mexico. with Mr..
i irrn, discussed the now cXtraditiun
treaty which Mexico was willing aud eager