The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1846-03-25

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ment as ours, though its leaders aimed at doing
so, for the reason that the people were not 6t TO
the divine principles of Democratic
Liberty. They are more like the descendants off
the voluptuous Italians than of the heroes who
conquered Muly Abul Hassan, and gave Mexico
and Peru to Ferdinand aud Isabella. Glance for
a moment at Spain Look back to the timeI
when Ponce de Leon led his chivalry against Al
hama, and then pass over its history--here inI
gold umed characters, there written in blood!
here in sunbeams, there in fire down TO the
resignation of the fifth Charles, and what ma
ton! The annals of the world have no parallel.
Ages of magni6cence, grandeur and glory are
embraced in that short period, and if we include
with it the age of the Campeador, it will embrace
romance and knghtly adventure beyond what
any other nation of the earth can boast Of On
the treasures of the East and of the West, in the
land where the citron flashes from IFS emerald
leaf, and the olive and pomegranate bllsh at the
glance of the sunbeam, where the grape of Xeres
luxuriate, and the rose forever exbales IFS per-
fume, in the land where the nightingale sings in
melodious ecstasy, and nature forever arrays
herself in garments most beautiful, the descend
ants of the Visigoths revsIed for season. The
world looked on in wonder. But human pas
sions became nfamed, and sentiment and intel
lect gave way TO the maddenng influence of ar-
arce and the lust OF power. The arch that
span'd the ocean began to crumble;-a hand
wrote words upon its golden keystone ;--itfell,
and the glory of the land of Isabella departed!
So fell Babylon, Palmyra and Rome. The sword
of the Visigoth is broken, his shield is thrown
away; but is there no hope? The land that com
Imssoned the Genoese mariner and gave TO CIV
ization a New WORLD, must it be "Pleiad
ost?" The ways of Providence are nscrutable.
Out of darkness often cometh light--the Nor
MING forever succeeds the NIGHT.
AS Spain is, so is Mexico The mother with
her broken tiara upon her lap is weeping over
the past; while the beautiful daughter shows that
hectic spot upon the cheek which augurs ap-
preaching dissolution. The guilt of the parent
descended TO the child, and the blood of Monte
yuma is avenged, if God ever avenges on one
despotic race the cruelties inflicted by them on
an another equally blood thirsty and inhuman.
Is it Utopian to believe that the time is not fal
distant when our flag shall wave from the Nor
thern Shows to the isthmus of Panama~-from
the rude Atlantic to the Western Ocean. We
desire not the lands of other nations to add tc
our wealth: our country is rich enough without
them. All that we want is to see widespread
as the boundless continent the gIorIons institu
tions which our revolutionary sires beqneathed
to u.s. Cursed be the man amoug US who GOV.
cts the resplendant City of the Tropics for hei
''silver shrnes," and for gold would call her peo
pie conquered! How then can Mexico and Cal
ifornia be ours? We answer, BY ANNEXATION
BY annexation, and an Infusion of Anglo-Saxor
blood, for the blood of Alaric has run out; the
future people of Mexico may be raised from
state of semi -barbarism to the noble stature anC
strength ofintelgenl freemen -"men who know
their rights, and knowing dare maintain them
With Ango-saxon industry and enterprise en-
grated upon it, the beautiful country of the Az
tecks may yet realize the dream of Sir Thoma!
Moore, and its orange groves be vocal with tht
songs of happy people. Civil and religious
liberty, like the day spring from on high, will dis
ipel the mists Of superstition and preslcraft; fo
where truth is free to combat error it is omni
\ potent in the strife, The bible will triumph
over the missal, and christian charity, phan
tbropy, and all the other blessings ofa high civi
lizaton prevail over that state Of society whicl
holds in bondage the minds of men.