The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-11-26


alien in feeling, affection and sympathy,
towards the power which has so long
borne her down. Every Irishman hates,
with mortal hatred, his Saxon oppress-
or. Although there are great territorial
differences between the condition of Eng
land and ireland, as compared to that of
the United States and Mexico. there are
some points of striking resemblance be-
tween them. Both the Irish and the
Mexicans are probably of the same Gel
tic race. Both the English and the A.
mericans are of the same Saxon origin.
The Catholic religion predominates in
both the former, and the Protestant a.
mong the latter. Religion has been the
fruitful cause of dissatisfaction and dis.
content between the Irish and the Eng
lish nations. Is there no reason to APP
prehend that il would become so between
the people of the United States and
those of Mexico, if they were united to-
getherl Why should we seek to inter-
fere with them, in their mode of worship
of common Saviour? We believe that
they are wrong, especially in the exclu-
sive character of their faith, and that we
are right. They think that they are right
and we are wrong. What other rule can
there be than to leave the followers of
religion to their own solemn convictioss
Of concientious duty towards Godl Who
but the great Arbter of the Universe.
can judge in such question? For my
own part, sincerely believe and hope,
that those, who belong to all the depart
meuts of the great church of Christ, if,
in truth and purity, they conform to the
doctrines which they profess, will ulti-
mattel ly secure an abode in those regions
of bliss, which all aim finally to reach.
think that there is no potentate in Eu-
rope, whatever his religion may be, more
enlightened or at this moment so interest
ing as the liberal head of the Papal See.
But | suppose it to be impossible that
those who favor, if there be any who fa-
vor the annexation of Mexico to the Uni
ted States, can think that it ought to be
perpetually governed by military sway.
Certainly no votary of human liberty
could deem il right that violation should
be perpetrated of the great principles of
our own revolution, according to which,
laws ought not be enacted and taxes
ought not to be levied, without represen-
tation on the part of those who are to
obey The one, and pay the other. Then.
Mexico is to participate in our councils
and equally share our legislation and go
vernment. But, suppose she would not
voluntarily choose representatives to the
national Congress, is our soldiery to fol-
low the electors to the ballot-b box, and by
force to compel them. at the point of the
bayonct, to deposit their ballotsl 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 United States of the Re.
public of Mexico combined? Is every
Mexican without regard to color or caste;
per capitum. to exercise the elective
franchisel How is the qnota of repre-
sentation between the two Republics, to
be ixedl Where is their Seat of Com
mon Government to be establshed?-
And who can foresee or foretell, if Mex
ico. voluntarily or by force, were to share
IN the common government what would
be the consequences to her or to us?-
Unprepared, as fear her population yet
is, for the practical enjoyment ofself gov
crnment, and of habits, customs, Ian.
guage, laws and religion, so totally differ
ent from our own, we should present the
revolving spectacle of confused. dis
tracted motley government. We should
have aMexican Party, al acifcO Ocean Par
iy,ian Atlantic Party in addition to other
Parties, which exist, or with which we
are threatened, each striving to execute
its own particular views and purposes,
and reproaching the others with thwart-
ing and disappointing them. The Mex.
ican representation, in Congress, would
probably form separate and impene-
trable corps, always ready to throw itself
into the scale of any other party, to ad-
vance and promote Mexican interests
Such state of things could not long en-
dure. Those, whom God and Geogra-
ply have pronounced should live asun.
der, could never be permanently and
harmoniously united together.
Do we want for our own happiness or
greatness the addition of Mexico to the
existing Union of our Statesl If our
population was too dense for our terrific.
ry, and there was a difficulty in obtaining
honorably the means of subsistence, there
might be some excuse, for an attempt to
enlarge ouI dominions. But we have no
such an apology. We have already, in
our glorious country, vast and almost
boundless territory. Beginning at the
North, in the frozen regions of the Brit
ish Provinces, it stretches thousands of
miles along the coast of the Atlantic
Ocean and the Mexican Gulf until it al
most reaches the Tropics. 1t extends to
the Pacific Ocean, borders on those great
inland seas, the Lakes, which separate
us from the posse ssions of Great Britain
and it embraces the great father of rivers,
from its uppermost source to the Balize,
and the still longer Missouri, from its
mouth to the gorges of the Rocky Noun
tains. 1t comprchends the greatest va.
riety ofthe richest soils, capable of al
most all the productions of the earth, ex-
cept tea and coffee and the spices, and it
includes every variety of climate. which
the heart could wish or desire. We have
more than ten thousand millions nf acres