Further from Mexico. — We received
yesterday another letter from Vera Cruz, brought by the U. S. brig
Lawrence, and dated the 16th ult. It contains some
speculations upon Mexican affairs not without interest. Although it
confirms our previous reports of the perfect tranquility existing at
present under Paredes, it represents his Government as likely to
encounter peril, if not shipwreck, from two principal sources. The
Santa Anna party is said to be very strong in Vera Cruz and the city
of Mexico. Although perfectly quiet, yet the apprehension was so
strong in Vera Cruz that his partisans might at any moment, at a
signal from him, raise the standard of revolt, that commercial men
were afraid to enter into engagements ahead, and business was nearly
stagnant.
Again, prudent men in Vera Cruz were
contemplating the probability of a separation of the Northern
Departments from the Central Government, under some military
chieftain. It is not here and in Texas alone that speculations upon
this theme are indulged in; the feasibility of the project under an
able man is conceded on all hands. When to these sources of
distraction you add the defection of Yucatan, and the wavering,
dubious state of the Western Departments of Sonora and the Californias,
our correspondent thinks it quite time for the United States to strike
a determined blow, and so terminate the uncertainty of our own
relations with Mexico, and thwart the intrigues which England has been
carrying on in that country.
Source: The Daily Picayune,
March 6, 1846, p. 2, col. 1.
