The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-11-27

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tional life, and spread starvation a.
mong our working classes. And this
is the conclusion to which events
are tcnding in rapid and accumu-
ting food, that must inevitably bear
down oil such Himsy barriers as Sam
ia Annals countrymen can set up a
gainst it.
That Tie United States are bent
on Selling the whole Mexican terri
tory, is fact they scarcely conde-
scend to deny. Tie manner in Which
they intend to effect their purpose
is also appa.ent; it is tie same as
that by which they have already Sc
cured Texas; the same piratical sys-
TEN as that by which they lad be-
gun to possess themselves of Louisi-
and, before they had tie opportuni-
ty Of acquiring it in the more legiti-
mate way of purchase. The present
petty warfare they are waging on
the frontier is but an episode in the
great plot. Gen. TayIor's force is
but the precursor Of the real army
Of invasion--the squatter and back
woodsman, men in whom it is a he
reditary and invincible instinct al
ways to depart from before the APP
Yroach Of civilization, to avoid every
spot where law has become estab-
liShed, and never 10 feel themselves
thoroughly at home except on de-
bateabIe ground. BY men like these,
coming by twos and thrccs, then by
scores and hundreds, and finally in
mu,tituAes, like carrion birds to the
F. quarry, the Northern provinces OF
the Republic will be overrun; and
. thence the process viii be continued
uatil the whole territory is filled and
mastered by the unprincipled and
and desperately energetic inmi-
/ grants. Already many of tie PROV
inccs have shown a willing alocrity
to meet the destiny they forcsee !;
not from any affection they bear to
their encroaching neigllbors, but be-
cause they are weary Of anarchy,
fopo!ySS cf relief from their own
wrctched nominal Governments. and
eager TO accede TO the blessings O!
law and order from any power strong
enough to secure them.
Mexico must be tranquilizcd, and
her strength consolidated by good
and stable government or she is lost.
This has long been felt by her allies.
and they have even suggested and
indire city urged the adoption Of TIC
means !hsstt seemed to them mos,
likely to bring about Ike desired re-
suit Tie proposed panacca was
ihc conversion Of the Republic into
a Monarchy, the sceptre Of which
Should be swayed by some European
Royal cadet. 1t is needless 10 dis
coss the abstract merits olthis plan,
since It is mere fgmcnt of political
speculation, at present beyond tic
scope Of aly practical discussion.
! There is but one sure way to save
! Mcyico, and that is to transfer fresh
healthy blood into her languid veins
TO colonjze portion Of her mognih.
cent territory wi'h people WORTHY
to occupy and able to defend it, /
Mexico were to minSlc portion OF
the Angio-Saxon element with t.cil
population, sic might venture &c
cope with the moicIy Of t'at inGomi-
tab.eracc that now threatens her eX-
istcncc. In on: paper, last week,
on tie projcc Of cutting a sAip-cana.
through the great American istlmus
We pointed cut the admirable oppor,
.tunity now offered for pcopling thc
i>tmus # Tehu0ntepec, and rcaliz
ing the incalculablc natural aLvan.
tascs Of one oGthe most eligible com
mcrcilI sites on the face Of The globe
That majestic region tceming with
bound,eSs wealth, washed by two
oceans, traversed BY habits breadtl
by navigah!c river, which offers al
lis mouth the finest hurbor in the
Gulf of Mexico, may now be sccurec
by Engiisamen. VIII they rcfus,
to accept Il region which was select
Cd By tire sagacious mind Of the
great conquers Cortcz 20 constitute
his own private domain? If so, the
French will be delighted to graSI
the lr.ze we dislain.
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