The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-12-07


that instead OF being able to diiuse its light amongst
others. may reach an Egyptian land which will ra
diale darkness our own We, who believe that
institutions built upon rock, against which the
storms of fate must hamlessy beat apprehend
that they may, by any chance, be topped with hdeous
ruin and combustion, down! 1t is treason to ourselves
TO postey, to the hopes OF man. No. there is not the
least danger that "our present glorious Union will be
discovered or dissolved" The shocks which, at times
may to threaten its safety, the natural
quences of its emnence. The cloud piercing height of
freedom is in the very region of the stomthe thunder
may roll, and the lightning glare around but the tenn
pest soon SUBSIDIES and there stands the eternal peak IN
purifying the atmosphere, and enabling the eye TO behold
still clearly than before the sunbeam iuminng its
halowed crest
So far indeed from there being peril to our Union in
its indefinite extension would confidently assert that
the longer grows, the stronger it becomes 1t is vast
irrefrangible balance the equilibrium Of which is best
preserved by the heaviest weights in either scale The
greater the variety of interests, the more safety there will
be-he less danger that any one OF them will become
despoticay predominantthe less danger that any one
man will acquire and misuse perious popularity Our
institutions are for mankind, and can embrace the world
and the world will be embraced by them when mankind
is prepared for their reception; and the only way IN
which mankind can be prepared is by their gradual
advance AS the supersructure reaches to the heavens
the basis should be as broad as the earth The parallel
with the Roman and other empires often drawn by for
egners in reference to our sze essentially false The
difference between the republic of Rome and the republic
of the United States is the difference between body all
OF whose parts in healthy and harmonious action,
and which is on the verge OF apopectic death
With us, the combination of municipal with State SOW
eregnties and State soveeigniies with the sovereignty
of the Unon causes the lfeblood circulate freely and
saubrousy through the various members OF the body
polite whilst in Rome with its all-absorbing head, there
was consantrush from The eSiremltes, until dlssolu-
ton was the necessary result There is nothing then in
institutions to prevent the whole world from eventu
ally entering into the brothery bonds by which we are
held together; and when it is So and until then, the
Gospel precept of love will be carried How or
how late that contamination will be reached, is not for
human eye to discern; but even out OF chaos came this
beautiful universe, and the Being who called 1t
into existence is still as powerful to convert darkness
into eulgence as when He first said Let there be light
and there was light"
In conclusion, it may be affirmed that TO Mexico her.
self there is soul OF good in this thing evil-his san
culinary Since the outset of her national career,
She has exhibited spectacle OF uninterrupted misery
and strife-a of such melancholy and terrible
hue, that the narrator OF her story may well begin
his tale in the sombre words with which the great
classic historian introduces his Annals; ior he too
will undertake work teeming with catastrophes,
atrocious with battles, discordant with sedinons'
ruthless even in peace, Blessed with land which
Providence intended to flow with milk and honey her
children have only flooded it with the waters OF bitter
nesswth brothers tears and blood Ii may in fact be
doubted whether the sacrifice of Mexican life has been
larger from the American invasion than 1t would have
been from the continued massacre OF intestine bros
And how much nober the altar which that sacrifice has
now been made How much more conducive to patriotic
sentiment the general resistance OF atoregn toe than the
butchery Of kindred and friends United for the first
time by common and elevang principle--the love OF
country instead OF the hopes OF acton--ihe Mexcans
mutual aid and thus turn with loathng Tor the future
from the horrors Of domestic strife Tha, result alone
would be sufficient to compensate them for all they have
endured from victorious arms. And the contact with
our people, the opening of their eyes to civilization so
superior to what they had heretofore known must as
suedy scatter among them germs which may npen to
the most admirable fruit-thus realizing in political
sense the beautiful figure OF German poet, that
where the poughshare Of suffering has passed over the
human heart there also is the hand OF God sowing seeds
for eternity tits possible, however, that the Mexcans
may have been weighed in the balance of eternal justice
and found completely wanting, that the fiat OF their
national destruction has at last gone forth that they
have proved unfit for the task confded to them OF
developing the riches OF one OF the garden spots OF the
earth, that has at length been assigned to ADLER and
worher hands, that in pursuance OF the threats 80 ire
uuent scripture against nations who perform not their
allotted work for the benefit OF themselves and OF mankind
great Amy has come from the north ana taken pos
session of theft soil. 1t is evident from the records OF
the human race, that when people are unable 70 unfold
the blessings OF the place that has been given them Their
dominion over it must cease, and the stranger Will be
sent who will accomplish the indispensable deed in the
happy consequences OF which the vanqushed themselves
will share Who can doubt that the establishment OF
our colonies among the Mexicans, Ike introduction OF
plough and our engine our freedom, our yigor our
brotherhood, would not renew the land and NIL the |
hungry sufferers with good things Who can seriously
appehend that instead of raising them at least proxl-
nately, to our leyel, be dragged by them
down to theirs that our institutions al home will be cor
rupted by being spread their heads instead Of theirs
truths If there really be such doubters, they are,
indeed, men of little faith, and their seepicsm is no
proof OF their wisdom they may have eyes, Dut they
not; ears, but they cannot hear.
Even, however, if that mandate against the Mexl- |
cans to their soilthe "detur dignaor-is not exc
cuted at the present juncture; their domnions
should not at once be wresed from them and they
saved from themselves by their union with the
catastrophe must ultimately be brought about by their own
act for they their worst foes Pursuing the course
Of mutual slaughter in which they have been SO long en-
ployed, they must end by almost universal determination,
and their territory will be thus vacant for The foreigner
The process is going in the States OF southern
America, where the white and the Indian have been
largely ntermxed 1t is fact, less remarkable than
certain that while the malgamation OF the white and the
black results in what is ct least Improvement upon
the latter, that of the white and the ooppercolored Is
deterioration of both. The muao is superior being TO
the negro but the halfbreed is the nadir OF humanya
creature in whom the instincts of the savage only de-
graded by the worst propenstes OF the civilized man
The foot of the Anglo Saxon is already planted in the
southern regions to which Iaude as it is upon the Mex
lean soil and the great events that coming from the
fact cast their shadows too broadly before to escape the
contempative eye Not many centuries will elapse be-
fore the Anglo-Saxon of the north may encounter the
Anglo Saxon of the south in their respective paths and
after perhaps of the unavoidable results of Greek
meeting Greek, blend in magnificent union, until
Shakespeare and the Declaration reverberaed from |
Labrador to Cape Horn.
FOR A FIJVy DAVIS Oyt.Yy