Year: 1860

lish these reforms. The English, French and Pms
sian Ministers have recognized the Church party.
1t will be perceived that the Congress which
framed the Constitution of 1857 took for its guide
in the organic construction of the new Government
for Mexico the Constitution of the United States.
OF course this new organization was diametrically
opposed to and by the Church party President
Comonfort, having rendered himself obnoxious
to the Constitutional party and thereby unable to
sustain himself in the Executive office, fed from
the country, leaving the capital in the possession
of the Church Government. Under the new Con-
stitutional Government it is provided that in such
contingency the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Mexico becomes its President. Thus it is
that President Juarez is now at the head of the
Constitutional Government, having been the Chief
Justice under Comonfort. The State of Vera Cruz
adhering to the Constitutional party, and Juarez,
being unable to hold the capital, escaped to San
Bias, where he embarked, taking Panama and New
Orleans in his route for Vera Cruz. Here he estab-
lished the capital or seat Of the Constitutional
Government while Miramon holds the City of
Mexico as the seat of the Church Government.


Zuloaga succeeded to the occupancy of the
capital when Comonfort fled and assumed the
reins Of the Church Government but finding the ne
cessity for the strong of the military to sup
port his authority he appointed Miramon President
substitute Recently Zuloaga reclaimed the Presi-
dency, whereupon Miramon made him prisoner
and took him from the capital ON one Of his ex-
peditions Of war. Thereupon the European Minis
ters protested against Miramon, and refused
longer recognition Of the Church Government, and
now recognize no Government in Mexico. This is
| rather strong evidence Of the wisdom and saga
city of the American representative since the Lib
| eral Government has been ably battling for its
principles and with every prospect of success in
the reestabshing Of peace the basis Of the con
stitutonal guarantees of political civil and religi
GUS liberty, and the nationalizing the church
property.


The treaty concluded by the American Minister
with this Constitutional Government, and known
as the McLane-O Ocampo treaty, proposes for con
sideration to be paid to secure certain privileges
and transits to the United States, which will re-
dound more to the advantage of our people than
the actual present acquisition Of Mexico while at
| the same time it will secure to Mexico that per-
manence of peace that will exalt her as nation,
and identify her in sympathy and interest with our
| own as free and independent Republic. Did we
| acquire the country we would be responsible for
4 her national debt--we would be saddled with her
| 100000 of people, and a perpetual civil war
| would be waged between our native and adopted
citizens by the very conflicts which would arise
here in their diversified interests. Our people
would seek Mexico to attain gold and not for fields
! of agriculture and legitimate industrial pursuits
| by which to improve this country. The condition
of the Mexicans would not be improved, and a
standing army to keep them in subjection would
cost the United States more than Mexico could be
made to reimburse.
4 What is needed here is not to turn loose the
| Americans upon this country but first to make it
/ secure in peace, and then, as proposed BY the
| treaty to which have referred open it out to
| American enterprise, by which this people will
learn that the blessings of peace, the liberty Of
conscience, and the right to possess their homes
free from Church exaction, will develope by labor


and honest toll that happiness without which they
i can never be free.


i The Mexicans are naturally inclined to industry


and if the avenues were once opened to them, by


which to distinguish at one and the same time the


blessings of freedom and labor, with an adequate


reward and market for their products, they would


rise rapidly in the scale of Improvement, intelli
gence and moral worth.


i The humber class of Mexieans have many ex


cellent traits of character. They are civil, gentle
I and polite, industrious and temperate, and are


infinitely better than many representatives of the


same class inhabitinp the United States from
Europe. have been in Europe, in almost every


city il the United States lin twenty -four Of them)


in the West Indies, and the second time resident


in Mexico. and assert as my firm belief that the


Mexcans. under proper government, would de


velop into nation of as valuable and refined citi


zens as any ON the globe, Take ten thousand Irish


Germans French spaniards or Americans, three


fourtbs of whom were day laborers or loafers


ekinp ont existence by necessity from day to day


and substitute them in Vera Cruz for a like popu


lation now resident here. within a walled cit,


scarce e.fourths of mile square, and drunken
ness riot and debauehery. plunder and murder


wond deyastate Vera Cruz in less than one week,


time


eii0.


good throughout Mexico, as it respects the Mexi
can people, if they were not cursed by the miser
able factions that breed discomfort under tn
/ damnng desecration of "thy name, Religion


The Liberals of this country are aware Of this, AM
hence their contest for the change they seek tt
/ IIn,ta Cfoton 20,