Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1836-06-17
FRIDAY, JUNE II, 1886.

meeting our destinies indlssolubly with
theirs. II may be that a new revolution in
Mexico Will follow upon this captivity or
death OF their President and COMMANDING.
general; We have rumors, indeed, that such
a revolution had happened even before his
defeat; but ! cannot yet see my way clear
to the conclusion that either The indepen.
dence ofTexas, or the capture and mill.
tary execution of Santa Ana. will save
you from war with Mexico. Santa Ana,
was but one OF a breed of which Spanish
America for the last twenty-fi years has
been a teeming mother soldiers OF fortune
who, by the sword or the musket ball have
risen to supreme power, and by the sword
or the musket ball have fallen from it,
That breed is not extinct; the very last in
lelliseuce from Peru tells of one who has
fallen there as Ytutbide, aud Nina, and
Guerrero. and Santa Ana have fallen in
Mexico. The same soil which produced them
is yet fertile to produce others. They re-
produce themselves, with nothing but q
charge of the name and of the man. Your
war. sir, is to be a war Of races-ihe Anglo-
Saxon American pitted against the Moorish
Spanish. Mexican American; a war between
the Northern and southern halves OF North
America /; from Passamaquodddy to Pana-
ma. Are you prepared for such a war?
And again | ask, what will be your cause
in such a war? Aggression, conquest, and
the re.eslabllshment OF slavery, where it
has been abolished. In that war, sir, the
banners of freedom will be the banners of
Mexico; and your banners, | blush TO
speak the word, will be the banners of
slavery.
Sir, in considering these United States,
avl Tho I1pit1I h,-- S
masses of power coming to collision against
each other, cannot doubt that Mexico
will be the greatest sufferer by the shock.
The conquest of all Mexico would seem to
be no improbable result of the conflict, es
pecially If the war should extend no farther
than to the two mighty combatants. But
will it be so confined? Mexico is clearly
the weakest of the Powers +; but she is not
the least prepared for action. She has the
more recent experience Of war. She has
the greatest number of veteran warriors I;
and although her highest chief has Just
suffered a fatal and ignominious defeat, yet
that has happened often before to leaders
Of armies too confident OF success and con.
temptuous of their enemy. Even now,
Mexico is better prepared for a war of in
vasion upon you than you are tor q war OF
bvoo' upou ~ uetc may w 'Ouuu q
successor TO Santa Ana, infllmed with the
desire not only of avenging his disaster but
what he aud his nation will consider your
perfdlous hostility. The national spirit
may 60 with hun. He may not only turn
the tables upon the Texan conquerors, bu'
drive them for refuge within your borders,
aud pursue them into the heart of your
own territories. Are you in q condition TO
resist him! Is the success Of your whole
army, oil your veteran generals, and all
your militia calls and your mutinous vOlun.
teers against q miserable band of five o. six
hundred invisible Seminole Indians in your
late campaign an earnest Of the energy and
vigor with which you are ready to carry on
that far otherwise formidable and compilca.
ted war ?-compllcatcd did | saw? And
how complicated /? Your Seminole war is
already spreading to the Creeks: and. in
their march of desola,ion, they sweep along
with them your negro slaves. and put arms
into their hands to make common cause
with them against you and how far will
1t spread. SIT, should a Mexican invader.
with the torch of liberty IN his hand, and
the standard of freedom floating over his
head, proclaiming emancipation 10 the
slave and revenge TO the native Indian, as
, he goes, invade your soil ! What will be
your States of Louisiana, OF Mississippi, Of
Alabama, Of Arkansas. of Missouri, and of
Georgia? Where will be your negroes ?
Where will be that combined and cpncen
tIated mass Of Indian tribes, whom by an
lnconce'vable policy. you have expelled
from their widely distant habita'iohs, to
embody them within a small compass on
the very borders of Mexico, as if on purpose
TO give that country a nation of natural
allies in their hostilities against you Sir,
you have a MEXICAN, an Indian, and a Ne
a gro war upon your hands. and you are
a pl~unging.into it blindfold you are talking
about acknowledging the independence OF
v the republic Of Texas, and you are thirsting
e to annex Texas, ay, Coahulia, and Taniau
. lipas, and Santa Fe, from the source to the
d mouth of the Rio Bravo, to your already
v er.distended dominions. FIVE hundred
f thousand square miles of the territory Of
O Mexico would not even now quench your
o burning thirst for aggrandIzement.
But will your foreign war for this be
IL with Mexico alone No, sir. As the
weaker party, Mexico, when the contest
c shall have once begun, will look abroad, as
e well as among your negroes and your In
dams, for assistance. Neither Great Brit.
ain nor France will suffer you to make such
a conquest from Mexico no, nor even to
annex the independent state of Texas to
your confederation. without their interpo.
sition. You will have Anglo Saxon inter
twined with a Mexican War to wage.-
i Great Britain may have no serious objec.
lion to the independence Of Texas, and may
be willing enough to take her under her
, protection, as a barrier both against Mex
n leo and against you. But as aggrandlze
ment to you, she will not readily suffer it
'e and above all she will not suffer you to &C.
le quire it by conquest and the re. establish
ment of slavery. Urged on by the ~irresist
D ible, overwhelming torrent Of public opinion
N Great Britain has recently, at a cost of one