Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-10
A MEXICAN OPINION.

Daily Aguardiente of Pololtica, Mexico.

Daily Aguardiente of Pololtica, Mexico.
"Wepropose giving to our beloved
country constitution and govern.
ment founded upon the great prin.
ciples of the United States of the
North" So says the party of Ler-
do. Let us impartially examine the
merits of this famous government
which the gentlemen of the Lerdist
party patronizingly hold up for the
admiration of the descendants of
Montezuma and the Conquistadores.
The United States of America are
nominally republic, practically a
plutecracy qualified by mObocracy.
There money is the lever which
moves the vast machinery of poll
tics, society, religion itself. Is it,
notso? Let us take glance at their
history for the past thirty years:
Thirty years ago the tGringOs" of
the model Republic began the work
of regenerating Mexico by waging
war upon their republican sister.
and robbing us of half our fairest
territory. They seized the great do
main ofTeXas-larger than all Spain
and Portugal-and Immediately
converted it into a land of negro
slavery. They then proceeded to
fight among themselves about con-
verting the rest of our stolen terri
tory into slave States; and seven
teen years ago the selfgoverning
citizens of that self-vaunted "L.and !
of the Free" plunged into a civil war
unequaied on this continent in dura- |
ton, cost and blOodshed. Incident |
al to this reign of anarchy, our own
Mexico was made the prey of Euro
pean intrigue, and cursed with dis i
astrous foreign invasion.
Thirteen years ago, thesuperiority
of "Anglo-Saxon self-governmenth
eliminated in the assassination of
the ruling President, for which they
valiantly hanged a woman. Two
years later the Presidents successor
was impeached for misdemeanors.
Ten years ago a military chieftain,
in whose character the humanity OF
Santa Anna was combined with the
abnegation of Pizarro, was chosen
to the Presidency. At the end of
his four years term of Office, he was
almost unanimously reelected. He
was very popular ruler. During
his term of Office the Vice President
of the country, the Secretary of the
Interior, (Or Hacienda) the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, the Secretary of
War, the Secretary of the the Navy,
the Minister to England, the Presi-
dents Private Secretary, the Speak
or of the House of Representatives,
and an army of minor dignitaries,
were all found guilty of public and
private robbery. Some were inn .
but the popular President
pardoned them. A
public man in the United States is
'arely brought to trial for crime.
He either valves a trial by "plead-
ng his privilege" as it is called, or
Else submits his case to caucus of !
lis party, or, in ecclesiastical cases,
If his church, and is always tri-
vindicated.
Two years ago the quadrennial :
election for President occurred.
senior Tilden received majority of .
/ quarter of a million of votes, but
he party in power favoring his OPP Z
and threatening to use the
lrmy in favor of the latter, a COM =
,romise was effected, by which fif-
cen of the purest men of both par Z
les were chosen to decide the ques- !
ion. These fifteen pure men y
'roved their superiority by voting :
n court exactly as they had voted u
t the election. So pure were the
fifteen purest men found in Sodom! 3
NE self-governing Anglo-Saxons at =
he North are now Investigating y
his affair, and uncovering mass OF :
Orrupt bargain and sale such as :
ever disgraced the vilest pueblo of =
Iorth or South America. No, =
enor Lerdo, if you wish to gain the q =
1ffrages of free Mexicans, you must y
old up a loftier exemplar than that ',
f the corrupt, anarchical Republic p
of the North. We are "
ot yet prepared to exchange our II
for your prize-ring, our .,
eligious liberty for your Methodist ~
tate Church, nor the legacy of Boil " "
var for either an Austrian scepter q
r a mock Republic Disgusting a u y,
Military PlutOcracy. ~ =,