Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-05-19
BRILLIANT TRIUMPH!
A Glimpse az the Future.

Army. consequent upon our previous adviccs from
the seat Of war. were electrified yesterday NOR
ming by the glorious tidings which reached us 10y
the Southern mail-tdings which we FASTENED to
spread before city readers in extra sheet,
and which will be found in our columns this
morning.
The details of this splendid achievement are
yet vague and indefinite but no doubt be n
tertsined Of the entire accuracy of the most i'm
portant and substantial features of the intelligence.
IL may now, therefore, be safely assumed,
think, Notwithstanding the immense disproportion
between the opposing forces, that THE ARMY Is
SAFE, and that. though inadequate to the purpo-
ses of offensive warfare, il is fully able TO main-
tain its position until it shall be reinforced by the
thousands of volunteers, who, in all quarters of
the Union, are organizing and preparing to pour
like flood into the Mexican territory, unless,
grown wiser by the bloody lesson they have Just
received, the Mexcans shall promptly for
peace. Should this he the policy of the Mexican
Government, the terms of qualification will be OF
course dictated by the conqueror but we hope,
notwithstanding recent events, that the requsi-
lions Of our Government will be characterized 10y
that magnanimity and generosity which, while 1t
will secure ample reparalion for the past, and
curity for the future, will reflect lustre upon
our national character than even the most splen-
did series of triumphs. IT, however, under the
influence of that faulty, bordering upon madness,
by which her public men seem lately to have &C
ted Mexico should protract the war until the i'm
mense force authorized to be raised by Congress
shall cross the frontier, it may well be doubted
whether it will be in the power of the govern
ments themselves to prevent her speedy dsmem-
her ha hX of
her own citizens, combined with the revolutionary
elements which will he introduced into their midst,
of some other border States, to the American
Union.
That this is the natural tendency Of things, in.
deed, has long been perceived. The internal
tranquility, order, prosperity, and federation of
opinion civil and religious, existing in the United
States, contrasted with the eternal dssentions
and revolutions, the poverty, oppression and into
lerance prevalent in the Mexican States, must
have led necessarily, even in the absence of a
warlke collision, the enquiring and rejecting por-
tion OF the Mexican population TO investigate the
causes Of these marked differences in the relative
condition of the two countres-the more striking
the closer the approximation of the two coun-
tries consequent upon the rapid population of the
neighboriDg State of Texas. Indeed, the change
that has passed,as if by magic, over that State
but yesterday, it were, Mexican province,
and exhibiting in her tardy growth and in the fee.
bic development of her natural resources the un.
mistakeable impress OF Mexican misrue-and
now, under better political system, rapidly fill
ing up with hardy, industrious and enterprisng
population, who are bringing into cultivation her
fertile SOIL opening her ports to foreign commerce
and her rivers to internal trade, and filling her vast
solitudes with the hum of lndustry-this rapid and
benefcent change, wrought within the brief space
of ten years, would Of itself have induced the
people of the border States OF Mexico, at no dis
tant day, TO follow in the footsteps of the Texan
RevOutionists-to sunder their connection with
Government, Of Government it may be called,
which changes its principles and its rulers with
every change of the moon,) by which all their
energies paralyzed and their prosperity blight
ed, and to unite themselves to the great Northern
Confederation, in which all the guarantees that
security TO life, liberty and property can give,
afforded by its Constitution, and every incentive
to industry and enterprise presented by its
laws. With this broad contrast constantly pre-
scented TO their contemplation, repeat il is i'm
possible TO doubt that many Of the Mexican States,
even if peace had been preserved, would, one
after another, have thrown off the yoke of the mo-
ther country, and united their destinies with ours.
And not less certain is il that the war, unless
speedily terminated, will facilitate that state of
things.
The Nelo York Mirror, in vein Of pleasantly,
concealing a deep under.current Of truth, fore
shadows future events, in case Of a successful in
vasion of Mexico by large bodies Of American
volunteers-many of whom will be mere adven-
II
terest to draw them back, and who will be strong.
Iy tempted therefore, even in the event of the
restoration Of peace, to become permanent set
tiers in the pleasant land into which they will
be introduced 1t requires indeed, ghost from
the grave to predict the final result, which il play.
fully glanced at in the following article:
From the Nss York Mirror.
s'Ta TRuE MEAuvo o. TGRu AENy o. OocU-
rL11oN'The Morni3g News - IN distress and perpeTty
a. 10 the utirs movement Of the President and asks in dc
epeir what next Whist j. 10 be done with the
my Of 50 OOO ir tho mautendnce Of which speaks Of the
fnrRnhcint little aum' II ten millions % utterly con'cmp
tbe. The csrtainly small enough II tho srny Is
be carried 70 Mexico and brought back agoiH but the
latter step dc.rsbo1 Does Mexico the
land Of sunwhefc the naked sky better she ter
an half the roofs Of the besk NORTH and where the east
possible dggog produces toe largest imaginable toruas-
where wives faithful, snd the u the best
insured fellows In ihe wod-does not Meuc'-noi 10Th
pert peopled or cuuvaed-oher mnny inducements 10 d
residonoel Certainly doe5; snd Of the 5OOnO, 100000
Rnllant fellows who will q there army u Cccupa-
don not IN hundred will come back again
and they WON'T be shot either Give Yankce loothoid
and u worth holding. he will kept Ills govoruuien
val never be- able ~ recall him. hs General won't wan
when the i' over: no will stay, dig cultivate, g
married. and usde. lie will then fovouuonizo the land
end u will be impossible not him when he de
sfesF The whole present MeNcan system utterly rot
u-. The land BE- unouuvated. commerce there is none
Of the finest regions in the world
che people literally slaves 70 the landed propsors
utterly vulnerable; the different military despo-ms as
she other are ssnces; tho mines Of the county slrea
d. In the hand of foregnsfthe land is inevitable pre-
the frs comet and JOnathan s the II might b
wished that The hsHcans stronger With grea-
indusry and The power II preserving honorable
uonaly, bot wishes Wil aval nohing against ssts A
surely ihat he shts this hfsntic frontier wa
dssnsd 20 b. he of The Indian By superiority
rscr, surely the and industry u The United
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