New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-28
Our siater Republics.

renee which forbid farther Indifference. How far
the project may be pushed-how its prosecution
may be affected by the reported and natural rePug
nance of the Mexican People-how it may be re-
earded by Santa Ana, Paroles and other wielders
of Mexican opinion or Mexican bayonets-are not
vet clearly evident but that the plan has been con-
sdered if not positively adopted and that monarch
cal emissaries are now at work in Mex leo. we can
hardly doubt We trust all their Vaccinations Will
be foiled and that nearest sister republic Will
maintain her independence, her integrity and her
freedom.
But should different fate be 10 store for her, and
North like South America become the seat OF an ex-
tensive Monarchy, governed by scion OF European
Royalty surrounded by mimic Aristocracy, let 1t
never be forgotten that this Country will rest the
sin and the shame OF that deplorabe transformation
The impulse thereto is abstraction Of vast pro
vince, large enough for spacious Empire, from the
original patrmony of the Mexican People. All our
shufes and bubbles and special pleadings, by which
the act of separating Texas from the parent State TO
render it Slave market and that of annexing it 10
this Country in order to mako the most OF that mar
ke,, are sought to be disconnected deceive no one
who has not a personal interest in seeming TO be
dipped by them. The world regards the whole trans
action in the gross and nstinctvely percelyes that
from the sending of Sam Houston from Washington
to Texas to raise the standard ofrebeon there down
to the sending him back from Texasto Washington
Senator of the United States. is really one drama
In which, through the various scenes and acts the
unites have been preserved with more than CLASSIC
exactness. Nay more: the world realizes that inc
impunity which has attended the Texas lniquity |
has had its natural effect in infamng the act
ors in that business with passion for more plumber
no that while many clamor for the Annexation OF
California and thousands have already gone thither
to play the Houston game over again, others are
writing home how DESTROYS the People OF Santa Ft,
New Mexico and Sonora are for their Annexation;
while Texas openly calculates on the extension oil
her boundaries to the Sierra Madre far beyond the
Rio del Norte, and as to bring all the Western
tributaries Of that river within the boundaries of our
Union-and in truth the Western bank OF the lilo
del Norte is Just much part of Texas as the
Eastern-thut is, not at all. Meantime hundreds are
openly clamorous for speedy march on Mexico
the plumber of her rich churches and the confscaton
of her mines and our Army of Occupation. has just
moved down from Corpus Christi to the bank OF the
Rio del Norte expecting thereby to provoke if not
compel the Mexicans to fight pitched battle Eu-
rope sees, therefore, what only the blind could fail
to see, that we are the point of reducing Mexico
to the condition of an AFFECT dependency II not OF
an ayowed conquest, and is probably preparing
after her own bad fashion, TO avert this DOOM Should
the Liberties of Mexico be subverted, the original
cause of that subverson lies the door of the rapa
city and wickedness originating in and sanctioned
by our Country.
We have said that the subversion of Mexican
Liberty by the establishment of Monarchy would
be deplorable event-a calamity to our Continent
and the cause of Human Progress 1t would be re-
earded as an evidence of the unhtness of our South
ern neighbors enjoy maintain Free Institutions
The past history of the Spanish American Republics
has seemed to favor this theory but it s only SEEM
ing On this subject we find some most judicious
and pertinent remarks the fruits of personal obser
walton, in a Journal of Voyage Round the World
In ls3l-4, by ]. N. Reynolds" which, because OF
their appositeness and justice, we commend 10 the
regard of every reader. They are found on pages
475-s, Harpers edition, 1885. and are as follows:
"The true condition of these Spanish Americana
countries 1t appears to has Of late been but too gem
too frequently misreprcsened We alude to the opin
Ion becoming prevalent that these people upnt for
free institutions and segovernment and their frequent
disturbances are referred TO as conclusive evidence In
support OF this opinion.
aNow only maintain that this opinion Is unjust
end uncundcd In truth impolitc, so far as It shall mis-
lead tho people of the United Staes and render our gov
ernment less wschfu of what Is going in these coun
tries where blythe BY every thing is not always turned
TO the beat account but that the very reverse OF the
proposition 10 true-vz that these people, notwith
standing all their internal convulsons nevertheless
working out their political salvation and that they will
ultimately succeed in the consolidation OF their liberty
e
achieving their independence establish governments the
rnoat free adopting, almost without exception, the
very spirit and often the forms of our own haowed in
sttutionsi From that moment TO the present. who
point out sngle instance In which they have wavercd
from their determination to establish and maintain their
independence notwithstanding all their sacrces civil
connections. and abuses Of men trusted too implicitly
with powera
II they had not resolved the establishment of free
Institutions, why did they not adopt despotis or some
government moro analogous than republic TO the ono
shey had lived UNDER The anewer is easy and at hand
despotsm can only exist where the people are igno-
rant and supe-stitious but these people, In ourstng
their political bonds in good measure got rid Of many
decepdsns and greatly weakened the force OF numerous
supertitions The elements for the establishment of
permanent despotc government therefore do not exist
"If the numerous instances in which men entrusted
With the administration of affairs In these countries
through misguided views or bad motives, have ryran'
aizsd over the people for Time be brought against ihs
assertion then refer to the discomfort Of the people
which revolts in the districts and the final over
ulcW Oh tnen nppressors, as triumphant reply
we have travelled In these countries, from the
oesento the their capitals principal towns
anu remote distrcs have witnessed the celebration of
tneir national jubilees and days rendered memorable
on "nisn ngnal Victories have been won by armed
peasaey against superior numbers ard discipline have
seen inc mS:Nde rejoice. and the serious appear full
OF nope N .ne prospect Of better tues and following
and mnglipg in the train the youth of the cosntrv
chanting their patriotic songs and we could NOT doubt
that these people would snstey succeed in the esab
lishment Of their liberty The soN thet na, drank 40
much blood shed In the cause OF freedom cannot forever
maintain race of slaves Indeed. the love of liberty
scarcely deeply rooted IN the sequesered des
Of Switzerland thsn Il 10 IN these countries o. this lib
erty their IDEAS confess often rude and lido
fined; bot stiii the germ Is here.
.Of bold OF tho ignorance and incapscty
ofthese people who much cause OF alarm and are
for ever drawing sinister conclusions from their frequent
internal conyulsons would ask. II any philosopher or
statesman has been able 20 reduce 70 system the
the process By which people advance 70 freedom or to
graduate the precise degree information necessary be-
fora they commence the work OF reformS
WIN those persons who maintain that the South
Americans are YET ignorant unit for selfgov
ernnen have the goodness state the period when
would have been more wise In them to have made the
eforsf Ought they TO have waited until their country