Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-06-09
EUROPEAN INTERFERENCE.

EUROPEAN INTERFERENCE
We trust our readers failed not to notice in our
last number, that article, taken from the N. Y.
S'H, which advocated or conquest and occupa-
ton of Mexico, on the ground that, should we
fail to do so, England would certainly do it,
No one can have forgotten that this same threat
was held out to hurry the annexation of Texas,
although time has since proved its fallacy. We
are disposed to regard the present threat, as
equally fallacious. Let us but observe that the
facts which this writer pretends to narrate, i'm
ply his acquaintance with important state Sc
crets-indeed, with the most confidential de-
bates of the British cabinet-and we shall cease
to feel any undue alarm at his revelations. If
the British Minister at Mexico has received
such instructions as the writer in the Sun pre-
guessed correctly he has no means of making
it certain.
But there is one important certainty about this
matter. If We seize and occupy Mexico, what
ever England may now propose to do, she will
not fail to demand the amount of the debt due
her by Mexico, of us, SO soon as we have shown
our intention of permanently occupying the
Mexican territory-provded always that she
is willing to see that territory annexed. If,
without the intention of permanent conquest, we
continue to occupy the Mexican ports, collect
her revenue, and administer her government
from year to year, the time will speedily come,
when, not only England but France, and per-
haps other Continental Powers will be asking
somthing about those treaties they have hereto
fore made with Mexico-something about debts
due their Understanding about the proba
bic continuance of the war;-with hint at our
objection to the long continuance of the preda-
tory warfare between Texas and Mexico, which
very clearly resembled the course the present
war seems about to assume.
As a family is interested In the quarrels of its
members, so are nations interested in the quar-
rels of any two or more. For reasonable time
neutral powers will submit to the Inconvenience
of state of warfare, between belligerents, but
if it be unreasonably continued, attended with
unusual barbarity, without definite object, and
without just cause, it is their right and duty to
interfere to put stop to the useless contest.
This they will unquestionably do. We do not
see, therefore, how the interference of Great
Britain can be avoided otherwise than by rea-
sonable peace, made within reasonable time.
If she consents to a permanent conquest, we
cannot avoid a. s1ming the Mexican debt of
4c,OOCOOO or upwards; if she does MOTTO course
she will try to prevent it. In either case we
must have a reckoning with her. If this view
of the subject it remains for the people to deter
mine whether the President shall be suffered to
involve them inextricably in the Labyrinth of
European Poltics,anl shipwreck their liberties
in the whirlpool of war and CONFUSION; or will
they seize the power of the government them
selves, and, by speedy and honorable peace,if
peace is to be obtained, or by PRONUNCIATION to
the world of the condition upon which they will
grant it, remove the causes of jealousy and in
reference. Every press & every tongue should
call aloud for the conditions of the of the offer
the olive branch-which the administration "a
vers has been constantly extended to Mexico
since the war commenced. "Full indemnity for
the past and security for the future" cry the
President, and his pensioned agents, which, in
terpreting iscouduct by its import, must mean,
unconditional surrender on pain of total destruc-
lion, conditions which have ever precluded all
eas of peace without the exterm!nation of ore
or the other of the parties.
Unless some unfors event should turn the
c purse of human policy, peace with Mexico, or
war with the world will soon be our alternative.
There is even now no alternative by which We
can avoid an immense debt, which must be
greatly increased before peace can be procured,
even if negotiations should be at once conclu-
ded.