Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-02-17
For the Indiana State Sentinel.
The Mexican War.
The House adjourned.

Messrs. Editors In your paper of Tuesday, you
were kind enough to my article TO give place, and
you have here few thoughts additional.
Let one draw conclusion from that article that
"a LooKER-ON" is n lover of war and blOodshed, or
that he would subdue and absorb into the nation of the
United States the people of the British provinces the
abOrlglnes or the Mexicans by mere brute force. he
looks upon as he does upon earthquakes lorna
does, pestience and famine, fires and floods,
rOtdG6Le 10 be met with rmness and wisdom, so that
their horrors may be mgated far possible, and
good brought of evil. These things all come, and
come equally, in the order of Gods providence, and
belong the endless chain of Cause and Effect that
binds Angel and man-bird and beast, and reptile,
and insect-suns and planets-worlds, with noun
tains and hillocks-oceans and rivulets-and atoms
to The THRONE THRONES. l am not fatalist,
but believer In philosophical necessity, i. e. that
there was, not, and never will be, effect with
out being preceded by adequate cause. When that
Cause Is unseen and unknown, man uses the words
happened accident, &C.. but in reality he hairs of
heads all numbered" and man ever had, by
Gccidnt or ever happened to have, one more or one
less. This is not infdel fatalism, but Christian phi
losophy.
During the last twenty years the non-resistants and
peace men have said much about Congress of ma
tions," to settle all difficulties without What is
the Congress of the United States but Congress of
THIRTY NATIONS And what is there impracticable
improbable of its becoming Congress of an hum
dred nations q greater number If the people in
the several States of Mexicu and in the British pro-
vinces this continent, and Of Cuba and other ISL
ands should desire to be admitted into the Union,
did the people of Louisiana, Florida and Texas, tohy
should we refuse to grant their request? We should
not; could not. Sooner or later they TO
ask TO come IN. and we are sure to say unto them,
Cone there is room enough and to spare. They
will not come all at once, but in their order.
New Mexico and California first. Afterwards one
State after another upon their borders-and in due
time Cuba and the British provinces. Most of this
will be accomplished during the present generation,
and all within the next. The present may be the last
in which the United States will be engaged.
1t is present evil, but it unavoidable, and its
results will be glorious to the conquerors, and highly
beneficial to the conquered.
No one acquainted with the history of The NORTH
that understands the restless and adven-
turous character of the American Ango-Saxon, whose
treleSs spirit and physical power has been greatly
mented by mixing his blood with all the nations Of
Europe since he left the Island home of his ancestors
doubts that his empire upon this continent will stretch
from to sea, and from the rivers to the extreme
north and south, and the Islands The French
man. the Spanlard, the Portuguese, and the German
emgrants mix, and become part and parcel of other
nations, and lose their identity. The Anglo-Saxon
never. He remains from generation to generation a
distinct being, In Asia and America and only
stoops 10 mnge his blood with others to identify them
with his race and blot them out by adoption while
he remains the identical NOrthman invigora ted
and rendered even more adventurous and powerful.
A LOOKER-ON.