The northern tribune. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1847-1855, 1847-12-03

removed from country, family. and friends,
breathed his last on the distant and inhospita-
BILE rock of st. Helena. The Alps and the
Rhine had been claimed as the natural boun-
DIARIES of France, but even these could not be
secured in the treaties to which she was re-
duced to submit Do you believe that the
people of Macedon or Greece, of Rome, or of
France, where benefited, individually or COL
leetively, by the triumphs of their great Cap
tains Their sad lot was immense sacrifice of
life, heavy and intolerable burdens, and the
ultimate loss of liberty itself.
That the power of the United States is COM
potent to the conquest of Mexico, is quite
probable. But it could not be achieved with
out frightful carnage, dreadful sacrifices of
human life, and the creation of an onerous
national debt; nor could it be completely eff
fected, in all probability, until after the lapse
OF many years. 1t would be necessary to &C.
cupy all its strongholds, to disarm its inhabi-
| tants and to keep them in constant fear and
subsection. To consummate the work, pre-
sumo that standing armies, not less than a
hundred thousand men, would be necessary,
| to be kept, perhaps, always in the bosom of
their country. These standing armies, revel-
ling in foreign land, and accustomed to
trample upon the liberties of foreign people,
at some distant day, might be fit and ready
|
and unprincipled chieftain, to return to their
country, and PROSTATE the public liberty.
Surprising the conquest to be once made,
what is to be done with 1T Is it to be gov
erned, like Roman provinces, by Proconsulas
Would it be compatible with the genius,
character, and safety of our free institutions,
to keep such great country as Mexico, with
a population of not less than nine millions, in
state of constant military subsection
Shall it be annexed to the United States
Does any considerate man believe it possible
that two such immense countries, with terrific
ries of nearly equal extent, with populations
so homogeneous, SO different in race, in Ian
guage in religion and in laws, could be blend
ed together in one harmonious mass, and hap
| PLY governed by one common authority p
Murmurs, discomfort, Instructions, rebellion,
would inevitably ensue, until the incompati.
BILE parts would be broken asunder, and posi-
bly,, in the frightful struggle, our present glo-
rious Union itself would be discovered or dis
solved. We ought not to forget the warning
voice of all history, which teaches the Difficult
ty of combining and consolidating together,
conquering and conquered nations. After the
lapse of eight hundred years, during which
the Moors held their conquest of Spain, the
indomitable courage perseverance, and obsti-
macy of the Spanish race finally triumphed,
and expelled the African invaders from the
Peninsula. And, even within our own time,
the colossal power of Napoleon, when at its
Hottest height, was incompetent to subdue and
subjugate the proud Castilian. And here, in
our own neighborhood, Lower Canada, which
near one hundred years ago, after the conclu-
sion Of the seven years war, was coded by
France to Great Britain, remains a foreign
land in the midst of the British provinces,
Co.
in laws, language and religion. And what has
been the fact with poor, gallant generous, and
oppressed Irelands Centuries have passed
since the overbearing Saxon overrun and SUBJ
jugated the Emerald Isle. Rivers of Irish
blood have flowed, during the long and ardu-
Gus contest. Instruction and rebellion have
been the order of the day /; and yet, up to this
time, Ireland remains alien in feeling, affec
ton, and sympathy, towards the power which
has so long borne her down. Every Irshman
hates, with mortal hatred, his Saxon oppres-
sor. Although there are great territorial Diff
ferences between the condition of England
and Ireland, as compared to that of the United
States and Mexico, there are some points of
striking resemblance between them. Both the
Irish and the Mexicans are probably of the
same Celtic race. Both the English and the
Americans are of the same Saxon origin. The
Catholic religion predominates in both the
former, the Protestant among both the latter
Religion has been the fruitful cause of dissat-
| isfaction and discomfort between the Irish and
the English nations. Is there no reason to APP
| prehend that it would become SO between the
people of the United States and those OF Mex
leo, if they were united together: Why
| should we seek to interfere with them in their
mode of worship of common Savior We
believe that they are wrong, especially in the
| exclusive character of their faith, and that we
are right. They think that they are right, and
we wrong What other rule can there be,
than to leave the followers of each religion to
their own solemn convictions of conscientious