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gwen to Zen. Games to invade the Mex
lean territory. 1t is said that one Of
tho earliest acts of this administration was
a proposal, made at q time when there was
much i'll humor in Mexico against the U.
States, that she should cede TO the United
States a very large portion other territory,
large enough to constitute nine States equal
in extent to Kentucky. 1t must be comics.
sed that a device better calculated TO pros
duce Jealousy, suspicion, ill-will, and ha
tired, could not have been contrived. II is
further affirmed that this overture, offensive
in itself, was made precisely at the time
when a swarm of colonists from these U
States were covering the Mexican border
with land ,jobblng, and with slaves, intro
duced in defiance of the Mexican laws, by
which slavery had been abolished through
out that republic. The war now raging
in Texas is q Mexican civil war, aud a war
for the REIMBURSEMENT of slavery where
it was abolished. 1t is not a servlle war,
but a war between slavery aud emancipa
ton, and every possible effort has been
made to drive Us into the war, on the side
Of slavery.
1t is, indeed, a circumstance eminentlv
fortunate for US that this monster, Santa
Ana, has been defeated and taken. though
| cannot participate 10 that exquisite Joy
with which we have been told that every
one having Anglo Saxon blood in his veins
must have been delighted on hearing that
this rutian has oeen shot, IN cold blood
when a prisoner Of war, by the Anglo Sax
on leader Of the victorious Texan army
Sir, | hope there is no member of this
H,use. Of other than Anglo Saxon origin.
who will deem it uncOurteous that |, being
myself in part Anglo-SaXon, must Of course,
hold that for the best blood that ever circu.
lated in human veins. Oh yes, sir. far
be il from me 10 depreciate the g!ories of
the Anglo Saxon race although there
have been times when they bowed their
necks and submitted to the law of conquest,
beneath the ascendency Of the Norman
race. But sir. it has struck me as no in-
considerable evidence of the spirit which is
squirting u, into this war Of aggression, of
Conquest and Of slave making, that all the
fires Of ancient, herid.tary national hatred
are to be klndleI, to faniliarize Us with
sacre OF prisoners in cold blood. Sir, is
there not yet hatred enough between the
races which compose your Southern popu
lation and the population of Mexico, their
next neighbour, but you must 60 back eight
hundred or thousand years, and to anolh
er hemisphere. for the fountains of bitter
ness between you and them? What is the
temper of feeling between the component
parts Of your own Southern population be-
tween your Anglo. Saxon, Norman French,
and Moorish Spanish Inhabitants of Louis
lana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri !
between them all and the Indian savage.
The original posSessor of the land from
which you are scourging him already back
to the foot of the Rocky Mountains p
What between them oil and the native
American negro, of African origin, whom
they are holding in cruel bondage? Are
these elements Of harmony, concord, and
patriotism between the Component parts oil
a nation starring upon a crusade Of con-
quest? Aud what are the feelings of al
this motley compound of your Southern
population towards the compound equally
heterogeneous Of the Mexican population
Do not you all Anglo Saxon, slaveholding
exterminatar of Indians, from the bottom
OF your soul, hate the Mexican Spaniard
lnd,an, emancipation Of slaves and abollsher
Of slavery? Aud do you think that you
hatred is not with equal cordlality returned
Go to the city of Mexico, ask any of YOU
fellow-ctizens who have been there foI
the last three or four years, whether they
scarcely dare show their faces, as Anglo
Americans, IN the streets. Be assured, sir
that, however heartily you detest the Mex
lean, his bosom burns with an equally deep
seated d@etes,atIon of you.
And this is the nation with which, a
the instigation Of your executive Govern,
ment, you are now rushing into war into
a war of conquest; commenced by aggres-
sion on your part, and for the re establish
ment of slavery, where it has been abolish
ed, throughout the American Republic
For your war will be with Mexico-with
Republic OF twenty. four States, and
population Of eight or nine millions Of souls
{ 1t seems to be considered that this victor,
, over twelve hundred men with the captur
, Of their commander, the President Of tn
: Mexican Republic, has already achieve'
the conquest of the whole Republic. Tha
, it may have achieved the Independence o
Texas is not impossible. But Texas is t
the Mexican Republic not more nor s
much as the State of Michigan is to yours
I which are in vain claiming of you the per
. IoTUlaNCe OF tndt edCTeu pFolh'se YOU u'au
t them, Of admitting her as a State into tn
o Union; that State of Michigan, which ha
greater grievances and heavier wrongs t
/ allege against you for a declaration of he
y independence. If she were disposed to dc
clare it then the People of Texas hav
Q for breaking off their union with the RI
e public of Mexico. Texas is an extrem
e boundary portion Of the Republic of Mex
CO; a wilderness inhabited only by indian
.ill after the Revolution which separate
Mexico from Spain not sufficiently pop,
j. lous at the organization of the Mexlca
If Confederacy to form a State by itself, an
therefore united with Coahulla, where tn
greatest part OF the Indigenous part of III
O population reside. Sir, the history Of a
the e,nancipated Spanish American coli
MES has been ever since their separate