Latest from Mexico.
The news from
Mexico is alarming.
It is now an admitted fact that the Mexican Congress has granted permission to the
Lincoln Government to march a hostile force through
Mexico to attack the exposed Western frontier of the Southern Confederacy.
It is admitted that the consultation of four Governors which was held at
Guanajuato had no friendly object in view towards the
South, for
Messrs. Doblado and
Escandon fully understand the necessarily aggressive policy of the
Southern Government.
And it is also admitted that our friend
Latham's ancient bed-fellow,
Don Juan Nepamuceno Cortina, is now publicly enlisting Mexicans in the towns of
Guerrero,
Comargo, and Mier, for the purpose of making another foray into the now comparatively defenceless counties between
Cameron and
Webb.
In fact, whatever the enemies of the
Fort Brown Flag may say on the
Texas side of the
Rio Grande, we have the experience of thirteen years, and the immediate declaration of the Mexicans themselves that they intended, and have acted, to depopulate and render worthless this frontier, even at the expense of a war with the
Americans.
All we say is that we have been the first to denounce this unprincipled and unfriendly conduct, and have enunciated the only policy calculated to counteract the evil.
The
valley of the Rio Grande has been declining in wealth and population since the close of the war, and
Mexican rulers see in our present war with the
North a favorable opportunity to accomplish their design of entirely destroying the
Texan settlements on the
Rio Grande, and thus driving our frontier back to the
Nucces Valley.
We are still the objects of this disastrous movement, as any one may see who is willing to look at the matter philosophically.
It now takes most alarming proportions, for if the bandit
Cortina is making the movement rumor credits him with, he is doing it with the connivance of the authorities of
Mexico.
The charge is publicly made by
Texas officers, that
General Garcia, during his late trip along the river, met Cortina, and had a lengthy conversation with him; and it is a well known fact that the rascal could have been taken twenty times if the authorities on the
Western bank of the
Rio Grande had ever desired to arrest him.--But they have never had the disposition to interfere.
And now we demand that our people shall take this matter in hand.
The disgrace of being cheated and robbed by a cut-throat who is protected and assisted by Mexican officials, calls for redress, and the
State owes it to its own dignity and to the interests of this valley, that the nuisance of a Government which exists for our annoyance, between the
Rio Grande and Sierra Madre mountains, should be abated.
