The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-07-17
THE ANGLO AMERICAN AND THE Gel
TIC MEXICANO.

THE ANGLO AMERICAN AND THE GEL |
TIC MEXICANO.
The subjoined striking and beautifully ex-
pressed reflections, upon the capture of the CT
ty of Mexico by the American Army, are from
the concluding pages of Mansfeld's Mexican
War:
On the morning Of the 18th of September all
was quiet. Mexico, the capital of the ancient
Aztecs, the seat of the Spanish American en-
pire in America-had passed from Aztec and
from Spaniard, TO the Anglo American-the
Northman of the Goths, the Saxon of Germa-
ny, the Englishman of America-the same
bold, hardy, energetic, ingenious, invincible.
ambitious and adventuresome being, whose ge-
Mus the forms of civilization cannot confine.
and to whose dominion, continents are made
ouate.. IL what hour Of time, or limit of space,
shall this nan Of the moderns-this conoueror
over land and seas, nations and governments
find rest, in the completion of his mighty
progressf Commencing his march in the cold
regions of Scandinavia no ice chilled his blood
mo wilderness delayed his steps-no labor
wearied his industry-Do arms arrested his
march-no empire subdued his power. Over
armies and over empires-over lands and over
oCdS--lu uCet Oltu IOi0, hlluClbCcS ouu llOON
amidst the desolatiou Of death and the decays
Of disease-this Northman has moved on in
might and majesty, steady as the footsteps Of
Time, and fixed as the DEGREES of Fatei
How singular-how Economically strange is
this-his wild adventures and marvellous con-
quest in the valley OF valleys How came the
Northman and the Moorish Celt here 10 meet,
and here TO battle in this North American val
ley? Look at IT. inquiries Ask yourself how
they came here? Are they the citizens by ma
ture, of this CONTINENT Never! How came
they then TO be contending for the lands and
graves Of / hose whose children they are not!
In the beginning of the 10th century, Her
nando Cortes landed on the coast of Mexico.
and at the head of Spanish troops marched on
TO the conquest Of Mexico, over whose eiiemi-
nate inha bitants the Spaniard has for three
hundred years, held undivided dominion. Not
many years after, the Anglo Saxon landed on
the coasts of the Northern Atlantic. He, too,
marched on to conquest. The native citizens
of the forest disappeared before him. Forests,
Mountains and Indians, were Intellectual to
! oppose him. From the banks of the st. Law
renee to the Sabine of Texas, he is a conqueroI
over nature. In the South, the natives die,
or become slaves to the Spaniard In the north
they fade and perish before the Anglo Ameri
can. The one spreads his empire from the
Gulf Of Mexico 10 the far shores Of California;
the other from the hills Of St. Francis TO the
mountains of Oregon. Both extend ovel
breadths of land, and power Ct resources, un-
known 10 the widest empire of antiquity
Egypt and her millions, with the famed vale,
Of the Nile, fade before the broad magnificenct
the mighty growth Of these American empires
Even the terrible and far-seeing eagles of Rome
grow dizzy and dim in their sight, as they look
| down from the SUBMITS of history upon these
| continental nations-these colossal giants o
the modern world. And now, this Spaniarl
1 and this Northman meet in battle panoply, il
this valley of volcanoes, by the ancient graves
Of unknown nations, on the lava covered sol
where nature once poured forth her awe inspi
II ring flames, and the brave Tlascalan once sung
of glory and Of greatness. Three centurie
since, these warrior nations had left their hom
beyond the wide Atlantic. Two thousan'
miles from each other, they had planted th'
seats of their empire; and now, as II time II
the moral world had completed another o. ~
grand revolutions, they have met in morta
conflict Like the eagle and the Vultrue VIII
| had long pursued different circles in the heav
( ems, and long made prey of the weak tenants o
, the air, thei, tenants having enlarged till the.
cross each other. They shriek!-they fight
| The victorious Eagle bears the Vulture TO IN
earth and screams forth through the clouds HI
{ triumphant song! Has the bold bird receive
no wound! Has no blood ,insed the feather
: of his wing? Is there no secret flow of hi
D from the portals of his heart? Will he contln
n ue to look with unblended eye on the blazln
5 glories Of the Sun? Hid in the eternal decree
Of God is the life of nations; and not till IL
has drawn away the curtains of time, will moi
!, tails know the secrets of His will in the govern
4 ment Of Nations!