The Mississippi lynx. (Panola, Miss.) 1846-18??, 1846-08-01
Saturday August 4, 1916.

of blood necessary to be shed, be fore
ambition is satisfied, or peace conquer
ed--the great tax, it imposes upon the
industry and energy of a people, while
at the same time, it dlsarranges and
partially destroys their commercial and
social greatness, it may well be enti-
tied to the appelIation. Those who in
it, are victorious, feel themselves i'm
PEELED onward, TO great victories by the
wonder and admiration Of the world.
Ambition growing big with what it feeds
on, is never sated He who commences
at the head Of an army, a patriot at
heart, by success, becomes changed
from the man, to the praise inflated
Hero with his worshippers. To make
one man mighty among men, blood
must be shed, and the greater the guam
tity shed, the greater the Hero. Sc
sostris, the eldest conqueror we have
on the record of history, opened the
first scene in the tragedy of man, by
a destruction Of millions Of his own
species. From that, TO the present, no
Heros have been made-no revolutions
have been accomplished-no nations
have been christianized or civiliz ed- no
rights or privileges, belonging to man,
by nature, have been obtained, without
the destruction Of millions of souls.
Before Freedom can be established on
the ruins of Tyranny, nations must
wade through blood. Such seems to be
the natural order Of things. 1t would
seem as if an all-wise Providence had
chosen war, as one Of the means Of car
rying out his plans, and working his
will among the nations of the Earth.
Although, therefore, we may derive
little honor or profit, from the present
war between us and Mexico, yet we
may consider ourselves as the instru-
ments, under God, Of spreading among
a semi bar barian people, the blessings
Of true religion, civilization, arts aud
sciences; and the people of Mexico, as
distinguished from the military despots,
that rule them with a rod Of Iron, should
look upon it as blessing, and not
calamity. To the seven millions Of
the poor opposed, humble, and cub
misslve Indian race, the victims Of all
changes, the SWORD Of the conquer
or has brought relief from bondage.
And lhough they have little or none Of
that energetic, and enterprising char
acter which distinguishes the North
American in all parts Of the world,
yet the presence of our army seems to
have infused into them hopelulness
Of spirit, of which under the reign of
Military tyrants they have shown
themselves entirely destitute.
Such is the effect produced upon them
that the states Of Taumaulipas, Chihua-
hua, Zacetecas, and others among the
chief Of the provinces of the Republic,
have heard of our victories with JOY.
and are clamorous to be released from
the Mexican Yoke.
The miserable condition Of that ma
ton, fills the mind with melancholy re-
Elections. One million of the Mexico
Spanish blood, from which are taken
the clergy, the soldiery, and the office
holders, lord it, with a worse than
Eastern despotsm, over the seven
millions of the Indian race. The Ca
tholic clergy of Mexico, many of whom
are more ignorant, and degraded than
their flocks, are in as bad a condition
as their fathers were in the days OF
inqulsitorial acknowledgement i'm
moral issipated-g growing fat with re-
gal pomp-while their people are suf-
fering in squalid poverty. They have
the wealth Of the country in their hands
Their churches they decorate with
barbaric splendor; butthey have crush-
ed and enslaved the minds of their
people, with their grossly superstitious
dogmas, until there is neither spirit or
manliness in them. No wonder, in
view OF such state of affairs, many of
our best citizens should fear the pre-
valence of such doctrines, and the i'm
mense Influence which they give the
clergy over their focks. Their reli-
glon, as it exists, is 10 them an incum-
bus crushing all their energies. They
require some modern Luther to sink
deep to the root of secular oppression
his Saxon steel; we hope he may be
found IN some Of our fighting clerpv-