more talented divisional commanders, never of Santa Anna who 
leads him by the nose as though he were an aged child. 

It seems to me to be typical of the war that, despite wrong or 
inadequate orders from their cur, every division and every single 
small body of men at all times srussorniy make for their objectives, 
SPONTANEOUSLY exploiting every incident, so that in the end a 
measure of wholeness emerges. A Yankee sense of independence 
and individual proficiency greater, perhaps, than that of the 
Anglo-Saxons. 

The Spanish are already degenerate. But a degenerate Spaniard, 
a Mexican, is an ideal. All the Spanish vices, braggadocio, swagger 
and Don Quixotry, raised to the third power, but little or nothing 
of the steadiness which the Spaniards possess. The Mexican 
guerrilla war a caricature of the Spanish,° and even the sauve qui 
peut of the regular armies infinitely surpassed. But then the 
Spaniards have produced no talent comparable to that of Santa 
Anna. 

Vale, 
Your 

K. M. 

Have you seen the fulminations against Heine by Jacobus 
Venedey—Kobes I” of Cologne—in the feuilleton of Saturday’s 
Kolnische Zeitung? It’s a pleasure you should not deny yourself. 
And Kossuth’s promotion to general!!!