Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-01-16
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MEXICAN NEWS.

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80 MEXICAN NEWS. 'ssa5 81
The intelligence from our neighbor-
ing confederacy is full Of warning to
US. Ambitious leaders, absorbed in
selfish designs, and pursuing them at
the expense of every public considera-
ton, have gradually undermined and
overthrown government in all essen
tials like our own The very. oppres-
sions from which, the republic emerged,
and the difficulty Of the achievement,
ought 10 have filed the present gener-
alton Of Mexicans with apprehension
and cautionto. have guarded against
the least innovation upon the popular
form Of the government, and much
more against the FIRST step towards con-
saelidating the government ina central
SfAger, and in the hands ola dictator.
~ last dreadful result must always
~ the fate of confed republican
states torn asunder by civil wars
The successful chief must necessarily
in putting down all rivals by the sword,
crush the liberties Of the sections by
which they We're supported; and the
conquering States, to subjugate thor
oughly the weaker power, must neces-
sarily put at the disposal of its victorl
Gus general military force, which
sooner or later crushes its own liber .
ties. e,. s.a.... ..,..s..ss Il.
How, then, can the American peo-s
pie, who see nothing but succession
of civil wars between the disunited
republics of South America and Next.
co; who see all domestic security, peace
and comfort, every where destroyed;
who see the tiller of the soil and,he ar
tisan robbed Of almost everything they
produce by the government or banditti,
until the industry necessary to provide
food and raiment is, to great extent
paralyzed,-how can they bear to hear
any factious leader and his partisans,
who set up to dictate for this or that
state, threaten to dissolve the Union,
unless they be permitted to compass
the selfish aims which they have at
heart' These selfish AIMS are. always
disguised under some pretended zeal
for the suffering inflicted upon the par
ticular portion Of the country which il
is necessary to combine to give terror
to the threat; but this is always mere
pretext with the malcontent disorgani-
ger, not unfrequently one created by
himself. The war whichthe Hartford
convention leaders made the cause of
discomfort, and ground for the disso-
luton of the Union, was provoked by
the very men who sought to convert it
into means of putting down theirown
government and making it prey to a
foreign power. They "lkicked," as
they said, the reluctant administration
into the war toyindicate free trade and
sailors rights: but no sooner was it in
the war IN which all the rights, of the
country were at stake, than they as
sumed chat it was war of therepub-
lican party on their commerce. And
the Union was to be dissolved to getrid
>ofthe obnoxious republican party. 1t
was, really but an effort on the part of
the federal leaders to break the Union
to pieces, or break downthe republic
can administration and put themselves
at the head of the government. The
Otises, Quincys, and Websters, labor
ed TO restore Massachusetts, dynasty
to the federal government under, Brit
ish auspices. And it was for this a
.aoae thatthe Union and everything dear
80 American patriot were to be
ksszarded. Now we have the same
party moving tothe same object under
the cover of abolitionism. But do the
people they would stir up 10 mutirny
suffer anything from the slavery in the
South. Not at all. No part of the
world flourishes more than the abolition
sections Of the Union; and they flourish
the more because, being blessed
with a white population, tits kept from
expanding into the Southern States by
the existsnce ofnegro slavery there
Restrained by the influence ofihis NOR
al cause from risking health and life in
the insalubrious regions to which their
constitutions are unsuited the northern
man makes thevast region north Of the
latitude ofthe Ohioand Potomac smile
with cultivation and civillzation--the
southern labor furnishing material for
the mechanical skill Of the northern
man, whichscarries his skill and enter
prise all over the world. Enjoying
these advantages, the northern man is
pursuaded by factious ambition that he
suffers from the evil endured by others.
Aud the Union is TO be destroyed, and
lie government comforting the great
-. ls,ass;y &c an the world ever enioyed