Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-02-12
A MANIFEST DESTINY ENGLIsHMAN.

The writer of series of articles in the Londor
Morning Chronicle, addressed to Col. Peyronne
Thompson, M. p, who has long been known as /
general abuser of this country and its institutions
has some Yankee notions about progress, some OF
which are given in the extract below. They are
somewhat peculiar appearing in an English min
isteral Journal The writer, referring to the Mexi-
can claim upon Texas, says:
recoect Alright fifty titles spread all parts
ofhe earth, precede the 70 Reg which the kings of Span
in marvellous bad writing put to public instruments. Jeru-
saem the Two Scies Maoca, Mnorca, Gibraltar short
every place that Spain claimed she stu lays claim
So is with Mexico Texas finally gone, they could
aze the idea. They have the courage fight the
magnanimy yield handful of men, vexed at their OBJ
stinacy, have unwngy their country and establish
ed themselves in their capital Unwilngy, for they could
not imagine how little resistance there really apprehend
Gould the Mexican rulers have had strength Of mind enough
to submit to unjust demand which they could not resist
they might still have possessed rounded empire But if with
Roman magnanimiy, they say fiat justitia rua calum
why then let them fold their robes around them aud die de-
Gently. Fiat jushar The words irresstbIy call up
pun of the Mrs. Quickly class when used in Mexican
question
81 will not leave you TO suppose that have any peculiar
sympathy with the American invaders than that they
people who know what they and better for the gen.
era progress than those who do know what they
They are like the transition rocks of the geoogs the
of connecting civilized life with babarsm. They are like
the Irish aborers who pull down old houses, the French
abores who pull down old despotsms leaving clear space
for architects and rulers build hereonS If there be
Mexican nation, nation OF Indians and Meszoes who
certainly have no peculiar affection for descendants SPAN
h domnators and that may very well account for the little
resistance made the invaders And after ALL the progress
the of the people the point have to consider Mex
essentially Chinese stationary she could well be
worse off 1t is not Tartar dynasty 10 conquer her
and live at free cost; but progressing people, who will set
commerce free from many if not all gifts shackIes; who will
establish printing presses and provide school funds and
representative government who will leave the priesthood
free in the exercise Of their religious Offices but who will
lie from the face Of the airh all their political power who
will work mines and establish factories and make railways
and exnguish banditt people whose rule will be wecom-
ed every dispassonae industrious Mexico and whose
but priests and banditti.
tsOh, that American army with man like Scott, had
landed in Buenos Ayres instead Of the coxcomb Wheoc
with his msused redcoats Had this BEEN French and Eng
fish dplomaiss would not DO at work trying to reconcile
the discrepancies Of barbarian tribes.
"One possible dark side there is to this Mexican picture
the revival of slavery Mexico Texas but think that
will scarcely be, because the Mexican Indian will work AS
Ishmen with due Difference to Mr. John OConnel) have
decreased the value of negro slaves the American States
will Mexican Indians and possibly Ishmen, decrease their
value in Mexico At all events, such will tend 70
free Northern America from the evil and the non-sayehodng
States will increase in number and in power finally to put
down the of slavery under their feet There truth
certain than that the institution of slavery suicidal
There is great work for the anti savers TO achieve work
that the world at future time would thank them for in the
avoidance Of horrible bucher that later must take
place in Brazil That work is educate and cyize the chill
dren of Brazilian slaves the time that and old
be eud and the revolution Of white ends in the unrc
strained power Of blacks"