Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-12-09

. during the long and arduous contest. lnsurectoi
and rebellion have been the order of the day; AM
yet, up to this time, Ireland remains alien in feel
b ing, affection and sympathy, towards the rowe
1 which has so long borne her down. every lrishmar
, hates, with mortal hatred, his Saxon oppressor
+ Although there are great territorial differences
, between the condition of England and ireland
as compared to that Of the United States ant
, Mexico, there are some points of striking resem
biance between them. Both the Irish and Mex
5 leans are probably Of the same Celtic race. Boil
! the English and the Americans are of the sam,
Saxon origin. The Catholic religion predomin
: ates in both the former; the Protestant in bo,l
the latter Religion has been the fruitful cause
} of dissatisfaction and discomfort between tn,
, Irish and the English nations. Is there no rea
son to apprehend that it would become so be
tween the people of the United States and thost
: of Mexico if they were united together?
; Why should we seek to interfere with thea
in their mode of worship OF a common Savior
We believe that they are wrong, especially II
the exclusive character of their faith, and tina
we are right. They think that they are rrh
and we wrong. What other rule can there b.
than TO leave the followers of each religion &
their own solemn convictions of conscious lut,
, towards God? Who, but the great Arbiter o
the Universe, can Judge in such question Fo
my own part, sincerely believe and hope tina
those who belong TO all the departments of the
great church of Christ, it, in truth and purity
they conform % the doctrines they profess, vii
ultimately secure an abode in those regions o.
bliss which all aim finally to reach. | think thai
} there is potentate in Europe, whatever his re.
llgon may be, more enlightened, or at This mo-
ment so interesting, as the liberal head of the
Papal See.
But suppose it to be impossible that those
who favor, if there be any who favor the annex
alton OF Mexico to the United States can think
that 1t ought to be perpetually governed by mil
Itary sway. Certainly no votary of human lib
erty could deem it right that violation should
De perpetrated Of the great principles of our
own revolution, according to which, laws ought
not to be enacted and taxes ought not to be lev
! led, without representation on the part of those
VINO are to obey the one and pay the other.
| lhen, Mexico is 10 participate in our councils
and equally share in our legislation and govern
ment. But, suppose she would not voluntarily
| choose representatives to the national Congress,
IS our soldiery to follow the electors to the bal
lot box, aud by force compel them, at the point
OF The bayonet, to deposit their ballots : And
how are the nine millions of Mexican people to
be represented IN the Congress of the United
States OF America and the Congress of the Unit.
cd States Of the Republic Of Mexico combined |?
IL every Mexican, without regard to color or
caste, per capitum, TO exercise the elective fran
chlse? How is the quota of representation be.
tween the two republics to be fixed ?-Where is
their seat of common government to be estab-
lished?
And who can forsee or foretell, if Mexico, vol
unfairly or by force, were 10 share in the com
mon government, what would be the consequent
ces to him or us' Unprepared, as | fear her
population yet is for the practical enjoyment of
sell government and Of habits, customs, Ian
guage, laws and religion, so totally different
from our own, we should present the revolving
spectacle of confused, distracted and motley
government. We should have a Mexican parlv
Pacific Ocean party, an Atlantic party, IN adj
dillon to the other parties which exist, or with
which we are threatened, each striving to exc
cute its own particular views and purposes, and
reproducing the others with thwarlng and dis.
appointing them. The Mexican representation
IN Congress would probably form separate and
impenetrable corps, always ready to throw it.
sell into the scale Of any other party, to advance
and promote Mexican interests. Such state of
things could not long endure. Those whom
God and geography have pronounced should
live asunder, could never be permanently and
tremendously united together.
DO we want for our own happiness or great
ness, the addition of Mexico 10 the existing Tn.
ION OF our States? II our population was too
dense Tor our territory, and there were difficulty
IN obtaining honorable means of subsistence,
there might be some excuse for an attempt to en-
large our dominions. But we have no such
apology. We have already, in orr glorious
| country, vast and boundless territory. Begin
ming at the north in the frozen regions of the
British provinces, it stretches thousands of miles
along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the
Mexican Gulf, until it almost reaches the tropics.
1t extends to the Pacific Ocean, borders on
the great inland seas, the Lakes, which sepa-
rate US from the possessions of Great Britain,
and 1t embraces the great father of rivers, from
its upperncst course 20 the Balize, and the still
longer Missouri, from lis mouth to the gorges of
the Rocky Mountains. 1t comprehends the
greatest variety of The richest soils, capable Of
almost all the productions Of the earth, except
tea, coffee and spices, and it includes every va.
rity of climate which the heart could wish or de.
SIRE We have more than ten thousand millions
of acres o. waste and unsettled lands, enough
for the subsistence OF ten or twenty times our
present population.
Ought VIC not to be satisfied with such coun-
try Ought we not to be profoundly thankful TO
the Glver of all good things for such vast and
bouDtiiul land Is it not the height of ingrati.
tude to Him to seek, by war and conquest, in
dulging in spirit of rapacity, to acquire other
lands, the homes and hlbtations of large por-
ton Of his common children? If we pursue The
object of such a conquest, besides mortgaging
the revenues aud resources of this country for
-es to come, IN the form Of an onorous national
debt, we should have greatly to augment that
deot, by an assumption of sixty or seventy mil
lions OF the national debt Of Mexico. For take
1t that nothing is more certain than that if we
OBTAIN voluntarily or by conquest, a foreign ma
ton, we acquire 1t with all the encumberances
attached to 1t. In my humble opinion we are
now bound, in honor and morality to pay the
Just debt of Texas. And we should be equally
bound, by the same obligations, to pay the debt
OF Mexico, if it were annexed to the United
States.
OF the possessions which appertain to man, in
his collective or individual condition, none should
be preserved and cherished with more sedulous
and nnremi,tlng care, than that of an unsullied
character 1t is Impossible to estimate it too
highly IN society, when attached to an ndivdu.
al, nor can 1t be exaggerated or too greatly mag
nlied in a nation. Those who lose or are IN
different to it, become just objects of scorn and
contempt. OF all the abomlnable transactions
which sully the page of history, none exceed in
enormity the ACKNOWLEDGMENT and the partition
of Poland, by the three great continental powers,
Russia, Austria and Prussia. Ages may pass
away, and centuries roll around, but as ong
as human records endure, all mankind will
unite IN execrating the rapacious and execrable
DEED That was accomplished by overwhelming
force ana the unfortunate existence of fatal dis
sentslons and divisions in the bosom of Poland.
Let us avoid atixlng to our name and national
character similar, if not worse stipma. am