The New York herald., 1846-06-05

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nine millions the white population scarcely ex-
ceecs one million. The remainder is composed
of Indians, Zambos, Mestizoes, Mulattoes, Ne
groes, and confused tumble OF every color and
character that can be imagined from an inter-
mixture of red, white, and black, and their varie-
ties of bronze, coppercolor, and pale yellow
Sluggish nertness and intellectual imbecility are
the unhappy characteristics Of the race, and it is
not to be wondered that the people, since they
Shrew off the yoke of Spain, have been always at
the mercy of their military despots, and that revo-
lutons and counter revolutions have succeeded
each other, sin numbers numberless," the fruit
fu parents of bloodshed, rapine, and political sla
very
The Spaniards had no sooner set foot in Mexi-
co than they began to put in practice that worst
doctrine of the abolitionists of the present day
amalgamation of the races. The Incidence OF
barbarism soon sapped and undermined the en-
ergetic characteristics of the Spanish race The
people became emasculated and totally incapable
Of self government. This went on without in
convenience or molestation to foreign nations,
whilst Mexico was but Spanish province, and
it was the policy of Spain to keep the people in
servitude and ignorance. But when Mexico
shiOW Oh eiiC 5puiliS yOkc,
the people for self government became wofully
apparent, and the whole history Of the country,
from that period to the present, preseAts but one
continued series of fmentes scarcely deserving the
name of revolutions. Mexico has been St. Do
mingo on larger scale.
This fact proves, in the most conclusive manner,
the dangerous tendency of abolition doctrines 1t
is absurd to refer the imbecility and degradation
OF the Mexican people to any other cause than the
amalgamation of races, and there is no doubt that
tins same deterioration of national character would
follow the success of the abolition doctrines in this
country. The idea of amalgamation has been
always abhorrent to the Anglo-Saxon race on this
continent. Wherever they have spread them
selves, they have kept aloof from the inferior races,
and the result is apparent in the fact that barbar-
ism has receded before the face of civilization It
is the manifest destiny of the Anglo Saxon race to
people this vast continent. A new order of things
has sprung up in this country. Healthy, vigorous
republics, unknown and undreamt of among the
threadbare dynastes of the old world, have sprung
up and fourished with prospect Of healthy per-
manency. But wherever the experiment of de-
mocratic government has succ eeded it is only in
cases where the distinct purity of the Caucasian
order of humanity. The United States and Mexi-
co furnish q case in point. In the former the sa-
wage Indian has receded, at the approach of the
civilized white man, into his native wilds and fast
nesses, and in fifty years from the present period
the race will be extinct, in obedience to a saluta-
ry law of nature which makes barbarism subser-
Went to civilization. But the moment the barrier
which, for the wisest purposes, has been design
ed to keep the races distinct, has been over
ieaped, as in the case of the Spanish
race in Mexico, civilization loses its force, and
the worst features of barbarism are engrafted on
the characters OF those who let themselves down
to its level. The consequence is an antagonistic
Jumble OF divergent characteristics, and q more
remote though certain national degradation both
moral and physical This has been, to a sad
extent, the result of the abolition experiment in
Mexico. The large mass of the population is
sunk i'll deplorable ignorance. OF the entire po-
pulation, there are not probably moro than sO0,-
600 that can read and write; and, for warke opc.
rations, they cannot bring more than fifty thou
sand troops into the field, and they are very
Ineffective, except those of them that have been
trained and disciplined in the intestine wars OF
the last thirty years.
we cannot be surprised that few men of energy
and talent, such as Bustamente, Santa Anna, Pa
redes, and others, have exercised despotic sway
over the country. The American revolution was
a fierce, desperate and bloody struggle, well
fought on both sides, and ending in triumph of
liberty at last. The French revolution was SUBJ
lime spectacle, Of awful and terrific grandeur. II
burst on astonished Europe like tornado, carry.
ing every thing with it in its course 1t exhibited
some revolving scenes of cold blooled nhumani-
ty, but the effect was brilliant and dazzling as
well as beneficial. But here is a nation whose
revolutions succeed each other with such rapidity
that one cannot keep count Of her president SOL
ders and upsart dictators. Most of them bloodess,
too merely got up for the fun of the thing because
those Generals have thirst for power, and the
people acquiesce with the tame submission OF so
many spaniels, and kiss the last hand that strikes
them with just as much obsequiousness as they
did the preceding ones. This want of energy and
total indifference to their wrongs is solely attribu-
table to the deterioration consequent on the COM
mixture of races in Mexico. The natives Of old
Spain are remarkable for their bravery; and had
they kept their race pure, there is no doubt that
they would have succeeded in rearing in Mexico
u glorious nation. But the fact is, unhappiy,
otherwise and it is now the manifest destiny OF
this republic to extend its empire and civilization
over the rich and fertile plains of Mexico. Our
hardy western pioneers cannot be prevented from
settling down in the northern provinces, and from
thencethey are certain to spread over the entire
country. The political rulers of Mexico have pre-
cptated this result, by unwisely provoking the
concentration of an armed United States force
upon their border. The terms of peace, when
ever peace is proclaimed must embrace a
guaranty of protection to emigrants from the
United States The tide Of emigration will set
towards Mexico, and the mbecle race that now
inhabits that country is as sure to melt away at
the approach of Anglo-Saxon energy and enter
prise as snow before southern sun. Their fate
will be similar to that of the Indians Of this
try-the race, before century rolls over us, will
becomc eytipcf