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[From the New Orleans Picayune.]

A MEXICAN'S VIEW OF MEXICO.

A gentleman has furnished us with a translation of an article which he found in a late number of "La Voz del Pueblo," a paper published in the city of Mexico. It is manifestly a clever performance, and, if we do not mistake, there lurks a deeper meaning beneath its plausible surface than will at first strike the reader. We very gladly give it place:

The pen of Jeremiah could not adequately describe the fearful ravages recently committed by the wild savages on our frontier settlements. We have received papers from Saltillo, Monterey, Durango and Zacatecas. In those departments the knife and the firebrand turn entire villages into rivers of blood and heaps of ashes. There are constantly enacted those frightful tragedies so often noticed, so often lamented: there are felt the awful effects of that guilty neglect, that deadly apathy, that lethargic slumber of our Government—a living shame to civilization, to religion, to humanity—there the wretched inhabitants pray with imploring looks, but alas! in vain, for a protecting arm to save their wives and daughters from pollution and murder. Year follows year and brings no relief, no respite to the dreadful sacrifice of thousands of human victims. The press of the Departments is filled with supplications to put a stop to such atrocities,—but they fall on deaf ears; meanwhile, tributes, monopolies and custom-houses are kept in full force. Curse upon it! Under what other Government could people be so wretched? No step is taken, no provisions made by those in power, indicating that even a passing thought is given to such tribulation.

Texas is gone—gone forever and beyond redemption to our natural enemies, the Anglo-Americans, who know but too well how to estimate us at our just value. Let us not be deceived by the promised vindication of our rights, so pompously paraded in public speeches and official documents. Our threats are paper threats, as was justly observed by one of the boldest statesmen in the neighboring Republic. Texas, we repeat it, is lost to Mexico! and here we are forced to a confession—a bitter one, indeed. That Department, wrested from us by an act of usurpation and perfidy never before equalled, will at once start on a new career of improvement and prosperity—safe from savage inroads, arbitrary exactions, unjust prohibitions and monopolies, a fertile soil will plentifully reward the honest labor of the husbandman, the mechanic arts will flourish, each citizen will be free to arm himself for his own and his country's defence, and each will have the right to practise, unmolested, the religion which his conscience dictates. Texas, by renouncing her separate sovereignty, will cease to be, as heretofore, a country of outlaws, and become a part of a powerful nation, whose growing prosperity will shed its beneficent influence over the new territory. Such is the destiny of that Department, severed from us and now forming part of the American Union. The tendency of an example so pernicious is clear to all.

The numerous towns composing the Department so exposed to the depredation of the Indians, have become weary of supplicating in vain for protection—their power of endurance is exhausted, and the spirit of nationality which binds them to the Mexican Republic is well nigh extinguished. Indeed, when they contrast their present destitute situation, the dreadful future which awaits them, crushed under the burthen of taxation in every form, in daily dread of savage attacks—when they contrast all this with the blessings of safety and plenty, the secure tenure of property, the freedom of trade so essential to develope the resources of a young people, all based upon institutions truly republican, it requires no prophet to foretell the consequences.

We say it from the bottom of our heart, that we feel an indescribable aversion to the Anglo-American race, attributable, no doubt, to the many and unmerited outrages suffered at their hands; and if ever our country, sinking deeper and deeper, were doomed to lose its independence, and we were so unfortunate as to live to witness it, we would rather see it subject to the Mahomedan yoke, rather bend our neck under the scimitar of the children of Ishmael, than see the odious stars and stripes waving over our cupolas.

But it were vain to attempt to stay the destiny which impels our beloved country. We see that Texas is not the only loss which threatens the Republic. Tamaulipas, New Leon, Coahuilo, New Mexico, Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas and San Luis are threatened with a dreadful end. It has long since been proposed, as a desperate alternative, to establish a Northern Mexican Republic. The scheme is kept alive, whilst the reasons which gave birth to it are daily acquiring more weight—all hopes of a less deplorable state of things being annihilated. A powerful and sagacious nation, profiting by our dissentions, already stretches out her hand to seize the prize. The example of Texas holds out good prospects of success; and whilst the savages are strewing the ground with the bleeding limbs of our brethren, robbing our women of their honor, and firing our towns, there are in those Departments numbers of influential men, rendered perfectly desperate by their misfortunes, who are ready to change their nationality. And what does the Government? The Government is defunct—the consequences are obvious.