The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-09-26
lrexlcan View of the Great Republic.

The following article has Been trans
lated from the daily Agnardicute, of Pol
oiteca, Mexico. and published in the
Boston Pilot. It affords an opportunity
TO Americans to sec themselves as they
| appear through Mexican spectacles
The view is neither cheerful nor compli.
mentaTy:
We purpose giving to our beloved
country o constitution and Government
founded upon the great principles of the
United States of the North. So says the
party of Lerdo. Let us impartialiy ex-
anime the merits of this famous Gov
ernment, which the gentlemen of the
Lerdist party patronizingly held up for
the admiration of the descendants ci
Montezuma and the Cenquistadores.
The United Stateg of America are nom.
inally republic; practically q plutoc-
racy, qualified by mobocracy. There.
money is the lever which moves the vast
machinery of politics, society, religion
itself. Is it not SO? Let us glance at
the history for the past twenty years.
Twenty years ago, the "gringoesh of the
North began the work OF "regeuerating
Mexico" by robbing US of 1.-THE of our
fairest territory, which they Immediately
converted into land Of negro slavery.
Seventeen years ago, the selfgoverning
citizens of the North plunged into d
civil war, unequaled ON this continent
in duration, cost and bloodshed. Incl
dental to this reign of anarchy, our own
Mexico was made the prey of European
intrigue, and cursed with 8 disastrous
foreign invasion. Thirteen years ago
the supremacy of "Anglo-Saxon self
government" eliminated in the assassi-
nation of the ruling President. For
which they valiently hanged woman.
Two years later the Presidents successor
was impeachcd for misdemeanors.
Ten years age a military adventurer,
in whose character the humanity of q
Santa Anna was combined with the ab-
| negation of PiZarro, was chosen to the
Presidency. At the end of his four
years term of Office, he was almost .unan-
imously reelected. He Mas o very
popular ruler. During his term of Ct
fee the Vice President of the country,
the Secretary of the Interior thacinda),
the Secretary of War, the Secretary oi
the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury,
the minister to England, the Presidents
private Secretary, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, and an army
OF minor dignitaries, were all found gull.
| ty or pubic or private robbery. Some
were imprisoned, but the popular Presi.
| dent Immediately pardoned them. A
! public man in the United States is sci.
dom brought to trial for crime. He
either valves trial by "pleading his
privilege" as it is called, or else submits
his case to caucus" Of his party, or
in ecclesiastical cases, of his church
and is always triumphantly vindcated
Two years ago the quadrennial cleo
tion for President occurred. Senior Til
den received o majority of half million
voters but the party in power fsvor:nf
his opponents, and threatening to use The
army in favor of the latter, a compro
mise was effected by which fifteen of ths
puTest men Of both parties were cnoser
TO decide The question. Those fifteer
pure men proved their superiority by vo
ting in court exactly as they had votet
at the election. So pure were the fifteer
purest men found in Sodoml
Tho seif.goyerning Angio.Saxons a
the North are now investigating this af
fair, and Gucovering q mass of corrup
bargain aHi asle such as never disgraced
the vilest pueblo of North or Soutt
| America.
No, Senor Lerdo, if you wish to gain
sufrages of flee Mexicans, you must
hole W a loftier exemplar than that Of
the corrupt, anarchial republic-despo.
tism Of the North. We are not vet pre-.
pared to exchange our bull-fghts for your
prize-ring, our religious liberty for your
Methodist State church, nor the legacy
OF Bolivar for either on Austrin scepter,
or q mock republic Disgusting military
plutocracy.