Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-06-17
VOL. Ii.


neighboring g Republic" is now read with
interest. We Gull the following from g Re
collections Of ,Merico,' by Gen. Waddy
Thompson, late Minister, &C., book just
published, from which we find copious ex-
tracts in our New York exchanges.
Performance and sympathy should CONT
nue. TO mark our course towards Mexico
Our system of government sanctions no
wars for conquest or rational aggrandize-
ment-no provincial or colonial depend
ancies, governed by force: yet there is an
inevitable instinct of observation, which
sees in that rarely gifted region, a future
field for the display of the energies and
abilities of our people. The more perfect.
development of its resources, and the
greatly increased amount of human happi-
ness which would attend tie occupation
gifts soil by the people of the United States,
are considerations irresistibly forced upon
the mind. Gen. Thompson propheticaIly
remarks: That our language and laws
are destined to pervade this continent,
regard as more certain than anv other
event which is in the future That the
Indian race Of Mexico must recede before
us, is quite as certain as that this is the
destiny Of our own Indians, who, in mi
litary point of view, if in no other, are SUI
perior % Them" As to the Spanish race
about cne-seventh Of the PopuIation-they
must either 1--WE say,) quit revolutions"
turn orderly citizens, and annex to and
amalgamate with us, as have the French
in Louisiana, or take refuge from the NIGH
ty Ang.o-SaXOn or Teutonic tide, in South
America and the Spanish West Indies.
do not know that have ever seen a
more beautiful spot than the city Of Ja-
lapa. When the atmosphere is clear, you
may see the shipping IN the harbor of We
IA Cruz with an ordinary spy-gIass, and
the white caps of the waves with the max.
ed eye. The elevation Of Joapa above
the sea is a little more than four thousand
feet Ii is situated on shelf Of the noun
tain; the summit of which at Perote, a
distance in a direct line of about twenty
miles, Is still four thousand five hundred
feet higher than JaIapa. The whole no.
Tizon, except in the direction of Vera
Cruz, is bounded by mountains amongst
them Orizaba, which is distant from Jalapa
about twenty-five miles. But from the
remarkable cIearneSs of the atmosphere,
and the sun shining upon the snow with
which il is always covered, it does not
seem to be five miles. All the tropical
fruit grows there, and is cultivated with
great care and taste. 1t is not exaggera,
ton to say that it is impossible for one
who has not heen on the table lands Oh
Mexico 10 conceive of a climate so ely
sian. There is not Il day and scarcely ar
hour in 'he year when one could say,
wish it were a little warmer or little
cooler. Its never warm enough to pul
off your coat, and rarely cold enough t.
button it.
No spot on the earth will be more dcsi
rable than this for a residence wheneve
it is in the possession of our race, witt
the government and laws which they car
~ with them wherever they 90. The
march Of time is not more certain thar
that this will be, and probably at no dis
tant day.
believe 1t is true, and it is most re
markable if true, that there is not in tht
world such a thing as a railroad in an,
country where the Spanish language i
spoken, with the exception of a short ont
in Cuba, which owes its existence to Anne
rican enterprise. During my residence
in Mexico, constantly as the contrast be
tween every thing there and in my owl
country was presented to me, the feeling
which were excited, were not so much 0
pride and eXultatIon in our own happie
destiny, and superiority in every thing, q
the more generous one Of profound sym
patty for the wretChed condition Of
country upon which a bountlful PrOvi
dence has showered its blessings with
more proluse hand than upon any othe
on the face of the earth. Whilst in on
cities and towns you hear the busy hun
OF Incessant industry, and the shril whis
tie OF the sleam-engines, there you hea
nothing but the drum and fife; whilst w
have been making railroads, they hay,
been making revolutions.
A more striking proof of the unconquer
able repugnance of the Mexican to labo
cannot be given, than the fact that shOr
staple cotton sells there at from forty f
fOrty-tve cenls per pound. while the
have land and climate as good and as we
adapted TO It's culture as ours, and thes
lands dirt cheap; yet they never max
enough for their own small CONSUMPTION
The importation of cotton is posirivel
forbidden by law; but this law is lelaxe
by selling The privilege 10 mercantile con
panies to import certain number {
bales. # such prices could be obtaine