Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-06-30

that however heartily you detest the Mex
lean, his bosom burns with an equally
deepseated detestation of you.
And this is the nation with which, at
the lnstlgation of your Executive govern
ment, you are now rushing into war-in-
to war OF conquest; commenced by ag-
erosion on your part, and for the re-es-
adjustment Of slavery where it has been
abolished, throughout the Mexican Re-
public. For your war will be with Mex
lco-wlth Republic oftwenty-four states,
and population Of eight or nine millions
OF souls. 1t seems to be considered that
this victory over twelve hundred men,
with the capture of their commander, the
President of the Mexican Republic, has
already achieved the conquest of the whole
Republic. That it may have achieved
the independence of Texas is not impos-
slble. But Texas is to the Mexican Re-
public not more nor so much as the State
of Michigan is to yours. That State of
Michigan, the people of which are in vain
claiming of you the performance of that
sacred promise you made them, of admit
ting her as state into the Union that
State michigan which has greater griev-
ances and heavier wrongs to allege a.
galnst you for declaration Of her indie
pendence, if she were disposed to declare
it, than the people of Texas have for
breaking offtheir union with the Repub-
lie Of Mexico. Texas is an extreme bound
airy portion of the Republic OF Mexico; a
wilderness inhabited on y by Indians till
after the revolution which separated Mex
lct' from Spain; not sufficiently populous
at the organization of the Mexican Con-
tederacy to form a State by itself and
therefore united with Coahuila, where the
greatest part Of the indigenous portion OF
the population reside. Sir, the history OF
all the emanci pated Spanish American
colonies has been, ever since their separa-
ton from Spain, history of convulsionarv
wars Of revolutions, accomplished by
single and often very insignificant battles
of chieftains whose title to power has been
the murder of their immediate predeces-
sors. They have all partaken ofthe char
acter Of the first conquest OF Mexico by
Corez, and Of Peru by Pizarro; and this,
sir, makes me shudder at the thought of
connecting our destinles indissolublv with
theirs. 1t may be that new revolution
in Mexico will follow upon this captivity
or death Of their President and command
ing general; We have rumors, indeed, that
such revolution had happened even be.
fore his defeat; but l cannot vet see nv
way clear to the conclusion that either the
independence Of Texas, or the capture and
military execution of Santa Anna, will
save you from war with Mexico Santa
Anna was but one ola breed of which Span
ism America for the last twenty-five years
has been teemlng mother-soldiers oil
fortune, who, by the sword or the musker
ball, have risen to supreme power, and
by the sword or by the musket ball, have
fallen from it. The breed is not extinct
the very last intelligence from Peru tells
of one who has fallen there as Yturbide
and Nina, and Guerrero and Santa Anna
have fallen in Mexico. The same sol
which produced them is yet fertile to pro
duce Others They reproduce themselves
with nothing but a change of the name
and of the man. Your war, sir, is to be
war of races-the Anglo-Saxon Amer
can pitted against the Moorish-Spanish
Mexican American; war between the
Northern and Southern halves of North
America; from Passamaquoddy to Pana
ma Are you prepared for such war?
= And again | ask, what will be you
cause in such war? Aggression, con
quest, and the re-establshment of slavery
where it has been abolished. In that wa
sir, the banners of freedom will be the ban
ners of Mexico; and your banners. blush
to speak the word, will be the banners @
= slavery.
: Sir, in considering these United State
and the United Mexican States as mer
masses of power comingto collision agains
each other, cannot doubt that MeNic
will be the greatest sufferer by the shock
( The conquest of all Mexico would seer
} to be no improbable result of the confic
f especially if the war should extend n
t farther than to the two mighty combatant
+ But will it be so confined! Mexico
= clearly the weaker of the two Powers =
= but she is not the least prepared for actor
= She has the more recent experience
), war. She has the greatest number Of
G eran warriors; and although her highe
If. chief has just suffered fatal and ignomir
2 ious defeat, yet that has happened often b
V fore to leaders Of armies too confident
d success and contemptuous of their enem!
n Even now, Mexico is better prepared te
Fl war OF invasion upon you, than YOU al
J. for war of invasion upon her. Ihel
e may be found a successor to Santa Ann
n infamed with the desire, not on y ofaven
le inc his disaster but what he and his nj
Of ton will consider your perfdious hosti]
Ye ty. The national spirit may go Wi
,e him. He may not only turn the tabl
N upon the Texan conquerors, but dri
Or them for refuge within your borders, al
II nrre,,o theno into the heart of vo,,r ~,