The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-07

querors OF the desert to the Of wished for
atey west Of their great mart of New Orleans. The
Mexicans, unwilling to surrender territory which
nominay appersined to them but upon the occupancy
Of which they had entered dc faco, refused to
comply with the wishes Of their neghbors The VIII
and power to the disputed territory were the main
Mexico was based upon duly formal diplomatic titles
The Americans resolved to bide their time"
The dog-in the manger character Of the tenacious
grasp laid upon Texas BY Mexico became apparent
The Mexcan unable to colonies invited citizens
Of tho United States to do it for them The calculation
of the Mexcans that American energy would do
what they ceud not-render available wealth
of Texas-and that the thriving Yankee settlers would
remain contented subjects and tributaries OF Mexico
In this Ballet the government at Mexico began rather
too to apply to the sturdy settlers IL had called in
the of Justice IL had been in the hsbit of
plying to its Spanish and Indian populations The re-
suit insurrection in the courseof which the a
most exclusively Anglo American population OF Texas
emancipated itself from all dependence Cd, conuec-
ton with, the central government in Mexico Texas
was recognized independent State by France and
England. Now the time had come for which the 60
vernment at Washington as representative of the Anne
rcsu people, had so patiently waited Texas free from
its former ties at liberty in virtue of It's indspen
dsnce to contract Its adult ozsns had almost to
man. been born citizens Of the United States they
naturally DESTROYS Of reapsiDg into their old cha
raoter and Texas was incorporated into the U MON
Still Mexico had not recognized the indepe ndence of
Texas and dreams Of reannexipg to the Republic had
not ceased to haunt Its rulers Though warned by the
government at Washington that Texas having now be.
integral part OF the United States would bs
defended by the troops Of the Union against any foreign
Mexican
centrated them In direction of the Texan frontier
The predsposon both sides to decide the disputed
right to the soil Of Texas by arms was stimulated by
whole host OF grievances less real both sides
Mexicans and Auicticans alike eager for and
was inevitable which party demonstrsbly the
aggressor may DO left to the pedants Of diplomacy to
decide.
In this war the Mexcans have been beaten at all
hands In wonderfully short time, with seemingly
most mad quats means the mericsns have made them
masters Of four northern states of the Mexican
Union Of all the Mexican sesboard on the Gulf Ct Next
and Of the capital Of the republic The Mexican
mics have been again aud again beaten and broken up
There is no real Mexican government The Americans,
,ims sn,sa 70 Sstass hs term, Of pnaca Thsv have
fought we'll and they have fought fairly Had they not
obtained fral and uuequivoca recognition OF their
to be- contented with the frontier Of the Rio Gande
But soveregns Of Oregon the xaton OF San Fer
nsndo is an object to them; they hold and can con-
tnus to hold that harbor and the territory
towards their frontier and there be little doubt
that they will exac. this ceseon at least the part OF
Mexico, . compensation for the expenses the has
entailed upon them.
We do not take upon u. to say that there has been
these transactions, Of which Mexico has to
complain but could show that Mexico has repeated
And Mexico in the wifu ignorance of vanity has pro-
voked collision with power far its overmatch In
strength Even yet, though drubbed in a manner of
which women might be ashamed, the rulers OF Mexico
f any there be) appear unaware Of how entirely they
have BEEN beaten They seem not disinclned TO pro-
tract indefinitely not struggle but the settlement of
only be the Of still heavier concessions by
their antagonists.
The Mexicans have their own want Of prudence and
energy to thank for the scrape they have got into That
the s. resolved to turn the burders OF their rivals
to account may not square with the dictates of ideal
morality but, for proposing to retain their hold upon
the northern part ofCsorhia where the State entitled
to throw the first stone at them! Not France, while
1t retains the Paansts on one hand and AL esia en-
the other not Prussis while it holds fast the Saxon
province; not Rus.s, while 1t reigns Warsaw; not
England while it retains half its colonies to say
thing Of India 1t is ridiculous to attempt to make that
crime on the part of the government ut Washington
which, In the case Of European governments is Gllowed
to be the Inevitable consequence OF the more powerful
nation in all of international quarrel being obliged
ia be judge in its OWE causss
This is the light in which the question Is vewed by
immense majority Of the practical influential statesmen
of the North American Union, and the successful
didate for the presidency will be the who s pre-;
pared to act it. That the victories gained BY the
Americans in Mexico will be source OF advantage to
theis republic, may be questioned 1t is more than
doubtful whether they viii be able to renquish their
hold any part Of the Mexican territory and they
cannot Mexico Ii likely to prove their ireland But
thew have gone too far to recede, without however
haviog done anything justify that viruous indgna-
ton which would write the annals Of the Mexican
lii q romance with the American Union for the unmi-
tgated villain Of the story, and the Mexican republic
for the suffering saint"