The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-15

place " al liberty To adopt the FORM Vi government
most suitable to It's wishes, each sacrificing his
own individual convictions 10 the Will ofthe major
ity. How, indeed, can the minority, however wise,
Opuleut, and powerful they may be, pretend 10
assume TO themselves the right 10 regulate the al
fairs Of the community, or TO govern the majority,
without an express delegation from the latter, given
Of their own accord, not presumed nor stu less
extorted by fDrce' This may be among people who
are ignorant of their own rights, and where the
want Of the means Of independent subsistence sub.
jsets the many to the few, who have m"nopolzed
every lhlRgj but II IL not 10 he 6hecIed among a.,
ia whom the democratic splrit, m the midst OF so
macy tayOTug circumstances, has been deVelopl'g
itself for thIrty-slx years AID now renders imne-
nous and decisive, the necessity OF concentrating ny
practice, tie political axiom OF the sovereignty ol
the hatrOH.
Tins mos, essential circumstance has been disre-
garded and desprsed IN all the CONSTITUTIONS hitherto
gwen TO tie country and IN the only one wh'ch mas
appeared most popular, the antag nlsm OF the PIlh'
clpes adopted, has rendered 1t metueuvei 81 mat
democracy which alone can serve as s'la ohsis
for dur social edrfcs, has been unable Ia develop
istli and thus TO auTd the peace which Is IT'S lhshc-
i've aE and The other ber eRIs inehtbe, ~hchn pro-
duces Hence the Commissions which have so long
agtated US, aud Of which some European writers
have taken advantage, 80 far as TO depreciaie our
race; opposing the liberty and independence OF the
republic; manllestng the necessity Of interference,
IN order 10 strengthen 1t against the febre INVASION
Of the United Staes and declaring, In hne that II
would be easy u conquer Mexico with poruon
Of the troops now quaTtered in the ISLAND OF Cuba
as IL was in the time of the native Mexican princes
My blood bOlls on seeing the contempt with which
we thus treated, by men who either do
not know well, or who, Interested IN
transplantng among US the fruits Of their old
social systems, and Of the times IN which they
originated, consider America in the same state
N which il was during the 18th century. Should
any attempts be made, as Indicated, TO carry these
I'd plans into effect all interests Of race would be
slenced, and but voice would be heard through
out the continent The one hemisphere would then
be arrayed az inst the other, and for the dlsas
tsrs which would fail on the rash aggressor who
should thus attempt 10 interfere with the internal adj
,nnstraton Of other nations, he alone would be re-
spohsible
To pronounce thus against the many nations
which form the great HIspan1 American family, 10
declare them incapable Of enjoying republican inSli'
tutons, u.s. 10 fact TO be ignorant Of or to conceal
what is proved by the testimony Of Chill, New Gre
NADIA, and Venezuela in contradiction Of such asser-
uons. IL Is 10 attrbule, doubt with evil lnien-
ions, N Of certain race defects OF admins
rratiyc forms, which, not being entirely democratic,
have produced the bitter fruits Of the mpnarchcal
forms, engralted on them, without adyetIng TO the
fatal influence Of the latter the lot of the others
To expect, moreover, TO strengthen the nation by
existence in it Of elements for the establishment and
maintenance of that system; that, wearied by lis
struggle to conquer its liberty, the nation signs for
European mast RS or for anything else Than the
peace which alone it wants. Erroneous, most erro-
neOus indie d Is this idea. In the efforts of the ma
uon to emancIpate itself from the power OF the few,
who IN good or in bad faith, have endeavored to rule
it,, in their way, its democratic tendencies have
acquired such degree Of intensity and e"ergy that to
oppose them, to attempt to destroy the hopes to
which they give birth, by project such az that I'D
yancrd, would he to provoke desperate measure;
10 Cndeayor to cure an evil by the means calculated
70 exasperIte It. Fascinated by the example Of a
cation not yeta century old, and which, under lis
government, has attained degree Of prosperity
nd advantages not enjoyed by those Of the OH
World, Notwithstanding their antiquity, and the
slow progress Of their political sysieIns, our reruh-
lie aspires only to the management Of It's own al
talrs either by itself, through representatives IN
whom il has confidence, in order to develop the vast
resources Of power and wealth IN lts bosom.
This being therefore its dominant, it's absorbing
idea It would have resisted the other plan with al
might; and il attempt had been made TO change
t. direction by the employment of foreign hayonsts
It would have flown to arms, and war would have
burst forth throughout Its immense territory, renew
ing even more dIsastrousy the bloody scenes oi
1920, and the succeeding years. From such state
II things, the Ango-Americsn race would have de
rived great advantage for the progress OF It's ambh
iious schemes, or for forming u new republic from
our interior departments, by exciting their sympa
hes and gratitude for the services rendered them II
repeng project no less injurious 10 itself. lhl'
tendency, which has been excited In some depart
merits by disappointment from not obtaining pro
vincal liberties, which they desired would have be
come general throughout all; and no force would
have been able to restrain them from carrying sucf
views into effect
On the other hand the republic being com
posed for the most part of young men, who
have mo- knowledge of the past, excep
from the sinister accounts Of their fathers
and who, educated with republi can ideas, rely with
confidence on a government eminently popular t
lead their country to prosperity and greatness
where are the internal supports on which the mon
archy presented as the OF our salvation car
We founded That which was has disappeared
Habits Of passive obedience no longer exist and !
there remains a sentiment of religion time has un
ermined the political power Of the directors of con
| sciences. An influential arlstocracy, so necessary
for the permanence OF monarchies snch as exist II
old Europe the only proper place for institutions o
that class, is not to be found, nor can 1t ever be or
gan zed here. In Europe, the misery Of the grea
mass of the overloaded popuIa ion, which depends
| on its own labor to obtain what is strictly ant
merely necessary for its subsistence, in the mids
| Of an industry which is so severely tasked, al
lows time to the people to think OF their pollti
| cal rights, nor means to free themselves from tn
tyranny of the parican families, on whom they dc
pend, all the landed property being in their hands
But such state Of things can he found in the re
public; in which all is uncuvated, virgin, rich,
fruitful, offering to man, in the utmost abundance
and with the greatest facility, all that he as
for his labor-all that lead to that individual in
dependence which favors the development of demo
cratic instincts.
These difficulties being, therefore, of such ma
'ure to render nearly impossible the establishment
Of monarchy in our country, attempts have bee
made, in order to overcome them, to throw the al
fairs Of the republic into the greatest disorder, pre-
venting the organization Of its government within
and aggravating the most serious question of on
northern frontiers with another nation.
! In this manner the faction which fostered that
parcide project, having attained the first of its end
by many years Of articles and manopuvring, mex
proposed to carry the second into effect, by pre-
Voking, in manner almost direct, the government @
the United States to aggrandize itself by taking on
rich department of Texas, and then advancing int
he very heart Of our country. To involve on
people in the evils Of fearful invasion has been il
ast resource, in order to force them to accept il
painful MISUNDERSTANDING them either to becom
the prey Of Anglo merriam ambition, or to fly, 70
the safetv of their national existence, to monarch