Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-02-17

MEXICAN OPINIONS Tor del Pue.
bio, one of the leading Mexican papers, gives
sad view of the condition of the Republic.
Its statements are doubtless 10 be taken
with gram OF allowance, but they show 10
some extent the feelings by which the party
of Paroles is animated. Ofthe administra-
ton Of the departments the writer says:
The pen of Jeremiah could not ado
quate!y described the fearful ravages recent
" committed by the wild savages on our
frontier settlements. We have received
papers from Satillo, Monterey, Durango
and Zacatecas. In those departments the
knife and the firebrand turn entire villages
into rivers of blood and heaps of ashes.-
There are constantly enacted those irightful
tragedies so often noticed, so often lament.
ed; there are felt the awful effects of that
guilty neglect, tina, deadly apathy. that ls-
! thargic slumber Of our governmental living
shame 20 civilization, to religion, 10 human-
ity-there the wrelched nha bitants pray
with imposing looks, but alas in vain. TOT
protecting arm to save their wives and
daughters from pollution aud murder
Year follows year and brings no relief, no
RESPITE to the dreadful sacrifice of thousands
ments is filled with suppica,ions to put
stopt to such atrocites-but they fall on
deaf ears; meanwhile, tributes, monopolies
and custom houses are kept in full force"
In regard TO Texas, the same writer as
serts that the province is gone forever, and
that a great many other Mexican provinces
are prepared to follow her example. We
should think, if his owr description OF the
probable superiority of Texas, as one OF tho
United States, has any truth in it, that tho
other provinces 10 which he alludes are I'M
der no very strong temptation TO stay where
they are.
s'Texas is gone-gone forever and be-
yend redemption to our natural enemies,
The Anglo Americans, who know but to well
how TO estimate us at our ust value. Let
us not be deceived by the promised vindica-
ton of our rights, SO pompously paraded
in public speeches and official documents.
Our threats are paper threats, as was justly
obse rived by one of the boldest statesmen
in the neighboring Republic. Texas, We
repeat it, is lost TO Mexico! and here we
are forced 10 confessional bitter one, in
deed. That Department, wrested from us
by an act of ursurpatlon and perhdy never
before equalled, will at once start OH new
career Of improvement and prospcriiy-safe
from savage inroads, arbitrary exactions,
unjust prohibitions and monopolles, fertile
soil will plentiful y reward the homes, labor
OF the husbandman, the mechanic arts will
flourish, each citizen will be free TO arm
himself for his own and his country's de-
fence, and each will have the right 10 prac-
tise, unmolested, the religion which his
conscience dictates. Texas, by renoun-
cling her separate sovereignty, will cease TO
be, as heretofore, country ofou,laws, and
become part of powerful nation, whose
growing prosperity vii! shed its beneficicnt
| Influence over the new territory. Such is
the destiny of that Department, severed from
us and now forming part Of the American
Union. The tendency of an example So
/ nernicious is clear 10 ALL"