Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-01-24
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
From the Richnond Wing.
OUR MEXICAN RELATIONS,

We wish it were possible to make rlom for a series
Of able and instructive essays comunca ted the
Charleston Courier, by who that paper informs
us, lis familiar with Mexico and MeNicans" The
winter takes occasion 10 give expression TO his
renee IN all the csding measures m This Admnlsta ion.
except lis in relation 10 the Mexican and,
"a well for that reason from other features of
his essays, conjecture that they the productions
OF joe, r. Ponset, Esq who COR many years represent
ted the United States at the Mexican capital and was
Subsequently member Of Mr. Van Buren's Cabinet
The views OF the writer are in many respects iIenl
cal with those Of Mr. Cahaun, upon whom he besons
glowing compliment, though he tai rs occasion add
that he has hecn Of thai geneinan's syco-
phauls foowers & that he 'neyet s,oped latte
him when he had political aspirations" which he has no
longer Enianaing from sconrce at once intelligent
and 50 entirely exempt lrom personal hostility towards
the Administration. the views Of this writer to
US 10 be ennenty entitled TO consideration AMI respect
aud Tor thai resson well because Of our general con
currence IN those views, dc regret that the crowded
slate oil columns viii not permit 10 copy them al
length Some Of them, however, present The subject in
such Impressive and imposing 10 the people Of
the slas ehoIdng States, hat cannot withhold them
from ON readers To the following extract. particular
~ invite the earnest attention of readers
-. To The slayoholdlng States what sonr, advantage
will result from the annexation Of all part IF
Mexico Believing, as havsong done that such Is
The tendency ot things, have anAionsly looked or
rumpensang good, which is result to thai section
aud III all truth aud sincerity, declare that |
none. If proposition made annex tho British
poss, ss 'ns, It Is nol believed that Southern
would approve 'he measure and wh,2 MAINLY btcausc
II would aid eight or ten non sayehodlng States 10 The
Jnon. his Won d not be any degrce certain
than that these Mexican States would be non la vehul-
| ding. haye predicted car ago, thai the 9n slave
~ party will advocate the conquest Of all MrAicn
repeat the prediction. Ii such Is the If lac
free States generally, Will only be bfcause the aboll
Ton party Is not numerous as II Is supposed 10 be
The organization and esprit du corps ol pariy-ihe con
servave character OF the whig party and the general
and CONSCIENTIOUS conclusion that the val UNJUST have
hitherto prevented this result 1t may be that habit Of
looking too much upon The gloomy SHE OF things, the
natural effect OF advancing Yeas, may have had IN
fhence me, of which am unconscious But it
is my deliberate opinion that the annexation 81 Mexc to
this country viii be fatal blow TO the ins tuition oi
slavery, and will he speedily followed by its abolition
1t is true in minority now-bnt The majority is
not large to destroy our Influence. But, let that
MAJORITY increased. until The free States double the
number OF slave States, and the sceptre will have depar
ted from us forever You will then not be worth
couring, and i'll speedily become degraded CASTE
The idea OF retaining the country as province. is an IN
practicable absurdity. standing army Of an hundred
thousand would be required to maintain such gov
eminent. That army too ust be peIpetual Tor the We
nv moment il WAS Withdrawn there would be gen
era revolt. The ruling influence in Mexico is that OF
the Spanish descendan Of those Cloths who manlaned
war OF eight hundred years, and intimately expelled
their yaders, and the native Mexcans constitute the
mass Of The population. The oi their hatred 10
their Spanish conqueIors is deep and almost gener-
al at The period OF the conquest, aud even now
{ If an attempt were made with any reasonable hope Of
success. eapel the Spanards from Mexico ienths
Of tho Indian population would rally 10 the stan
dard
''Wha, is there believe that it would be 9th
erwise with us? France, after years ST confc, aud the
expenditure of lions has no, five miles square n AleeIs
+, which she call her own.
=" The class of our people who would emigraie 10
Mexico. province, would be the least worthy and
palrlotc-fpr, the privilege, most highly priced by ev-
cry American the right participate in the govern
, nent under which he lives The emgranis 10 Mexico
would be needy and reckless adyenturtr and little more
> 10 be relied on than the native population
"Ifhy some act OF an omnipo,en, powell our own In
e dian population could be removed from BORDERS is
is there any man who would not consider II blessing 3
10 Thus is lmposble and we must endure the biraeu and
(, Inconvenience which they cause us. But why desire