Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-07-03
THE LONDON TINES OPINION OF
TIE MEXICAN WAR.

III IbAlC AN w y IL.
In the city of Mexico all order and law
are at an end. The government is extinct
the army defeated and dissolved. If a
nation could suddenly expire. this would
be the supreme hour of the Mexican peo-
pie; and as it is, the horrors inflicted on
the aboriginal inhabitants of the country
by their Spanish conquerors have been
faithfully revenged upon the abiect de-
scendents Of those conquerors by race
Of men animated by equal passions, and
armed with equal superiority. The stand
ard Of the Spanish race in Mexico has
been tramp!ed on as brutaly and fercelv
as the ensigns of the ingenious and unfor.
tunate people which preceded them'in the
occupation of that magnificent region. The
compassion which these calalnities natur-
ally excite in our minds is, indeed, consid-
erabIy mitigated by the Irresistible con.
tempt the world must entertain for PEG.
pie which has shown itself to be so thor.
oughly incapable of the first duties of ex-
istence, of government, and of sef.defence.
On both sides, the spectacle we have be.
fore our eyes is the opprohrum of the
age we live in, and an indelble disgrace
to the people Of the New World. who pro-
fessed to have planted their institutions on
higher basis than the lust of bloodshed
and aggrandizement which have so often
devastated the elder continent. The SAN
culinary spoliation which incitcs the ar.
mics of the United States is as degrading
to mankind as the poltroonery of their
victims, for we cannot call them antago-
nists; and whilst we should blush to applaud
tho To- trim, &c tbo
we can hardly deign to pity the woful
discontinue of an emasculated people. 1t
is, however, as certain as the lesson of his
tory and the Justice Of Providence can
make it. that these great acts of political
wrong lead straight to their own chastise-
ment, and that every hour of success in
this fatal war will be expiated by years of
trouble and embarrassment to the aggres.
sors. The annexation of Texas, the rapa-
cious seizure Of the province Of a neigh.
boring State which had long been plotted
at Washington, was consummated by Mr.
Tyler in the last hours Of his pi,iable adj
miniStration. The act was contaminated.
but its consequences only began. 1t has
already cost the American people the rev.
enuc Of years. Even now there is no rea-
o'h~DIO PtOSPCCL VI eliminating ll!c wal
by a sound or stable peace. and the Ameri-
can armies may yet be decimated by dis
case on the coast or by the banditti Of the
interior. But grant they are successful.
They coveted province, and the entire
mass Of q territory and population which
they can neither govern nor abandon falls
with all its responsibility upon their heads
llencelorward the influence of the United
States will be continually involved, orralhcr
entangled in the anarchy Of her sister re-
public. A foreign dependency, incapable
OF soIt:governmcnt, yet detesting lis north
crn rulers, will under one form or another
be connoctcd with the Union; for what
ever Government it may be possible to re-
establish in Mexico. will only exist in scr.
vile fear Of Anglo American ascendencv
Nor vii. these consequences be confined to
Mexico itself The course of these events
has materially affected the disposition Of
the American people. Their easy triumphs
have inflated TO the last degree their es,i-
mate Of the military and naval power Of
their country. Military popularity will
place one of the heroes of this war in the
Presidential chair ct the next election; and
as the passions which are most fatal to
the peace and welfare Of mankind ap.
pear to extend their baneful influence over
tho mass of the democracy of the United
States, we do not question but they vii,
eventually impair the political institutions
Of the country whose political morality
they have already eXtnruished,