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verified sooner or later. It will inevitably be the triumph of the holy cause of Mexican independence.
The French will soon fail of even the aid of the Church party. That party hoped, and to a certain extent, with reason, that when the French army should occupy the City of Mexico, the Imperial Government would annul the laws of reform issued by the Liberal Government of that Republic, and, the first thing, would restore to the clergy the property that had been taken from them, and nationalized and sold.
But it happened that among the persons who had purchased the ecclesiastical property, there were a considerable number of French subjects, who would be injured by the restitution of that property, if it should take place; and this consideration has led the French Government, not only not to abrogate the reform laws, but to prevent its satellites, who have assumed the name of regency in Mexico, from themselves attempting to abrogate them. If, then, the French Government should persist in the policy which they have commenced to follow, it will not be long before the Church party will begin to make as decided opposition o the intervention, as they did a year ago to the Constitutional Government.
In conclusion, there is one remark that cannot be withheld. It is regarding the striking similarity which exists between the Church party of Mexico and the Slavery party in the United States.
The Church was there a power stronger than the State; so was slavery in this country. The Church has there been the only cause of our civil wars; so now
