The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-03-02
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might swallow all OF Mexico without its killing US and
my attention has lately been called TO letter from the
second oihcer IN this government to public meeting in
New York, in which he seemed to consider it neither
an improbable nor ingorlous idea that
the guardianship OF crowded and conederated contl
nent' Where are we, Mr. President What has be-
come oil those maNlms OF prudence and caution by which
we used 10 regulate the of public affairs
nat new lights have beamed upon since and under
what shadow Is hidden the DIM religious ray of that
lamp OF experience by which our fathers were wont TO
guide their feet II have been lost sight Of in
me intensity oil our gaze upon the Aurora Boreas OF $40
4U or the more attractive lustre OF the Southern Cross
towards which our god Terminus seems TO be ad-
yanclng with ali the speed OF forced marches Can
II be grayey contemplated, Mr.. President to incor
porae eight or nine millions OF such people, aliens
IN race and hostile in feeling with our own? Is
there nothing IN the free Anglo Saxon spirit which re-
volts at the idea OF an equal association with such
mixture of Spaniard Indian, and negro; Would our PEG
pie ever agree TO admit such population to equal rights
and privileges with themselves would they submit to
la government in which 1t was felt a powerful pol
cal element Where, then, would be found that
sound and enlightened public opinion which is the
ing power and living principle OF government ?
Where the cohesive bond of the fraerna spirit of ho
mogeneous people, which essential to Just and har
monlous action The Mexlcans have tried the expert
ment OF administering government like and failed
they become better by ASSOCIATION with us, or should
become worse Mr. President, should the experiment
ever be attempted OF incorporating such population
with ourselves, II will be found that people will not
submit 10 It, The Union would be dissolved, or our
form OF government would be changed, in eHectng it.
But the senator IRON Arkansas has summary mode of
dlSposng OF this difficulty He says, if understand him.
that he would "enact proper naturalization laws which
treated The white man as white man. and the Indian
an Indian" Does the gentleman forget that the In,
dian and mixed races constitute -sevenths of the
entire Mexican population Does he remember that
these Indians are the descendants of those who
more than two centuries ago had established civ
lllzatlon whose monuments still strike the beholder
with wonder and admiration "a civilization, perhaps,
not very greatly inferior to that of his invader Does he
forget that these people, after the first Mexican reyou
ton were admitted to equal rights and privileges with
the other races, and to some extent have enjoyed share
in the administration of justice and the direction of the
government When he reflects upon the nature and
constitution of legislature, does he expect to be
allowed TO place these people under the government of
Indian agents! Is he quite sure that he would have to
meet none OF those questions to which southern
most sensitive IN his attempts regulate this Indian gov
eminent according to his wishes?
But there is another form of the proposition, which is
more dangerous, because it is more plausible mean
the annexation OF Mexico as dependent province-a
scheme which, fear, many entertain and which, some
Of my friends assure me, is daily GROWN in popular
favor Where, sir, the warrant for such proposition
either IN the spirit or letter OF the constitution The let
ter certainly contains such authority; and if the
spnt OF our past professions and institutions assert any
one thing more emphatcaly than another it is the right
OF people to self-government TO hold foreign
province tor military purposes during war, undoubt-
eddy legitimate; but to hold peoped provinces as per-
manen dependencies, Is utterly incompatible with
system OF government 1t requires the pencil of no
extravagan fancy to depict many ruinous consequent
ces OF Such a measure; but who point
Its benefits What to gain by it? We should
have the and trouble of governing them; and if they
paid the expenses, they would do more than done by
most provinces for any of the civilized nations in modern
times The taxes to support their government are
as much, more, than any civilized people have borne
in later days. There is, believe, dependency of the
It's people contributed. There government in Eu-
rope, heavily taxed as its people, which has mol in
Cured debt in addition to the expenditure of all that
could be raised by annual taxation The expenses of
their governments and OF the necessarily incident
their separate national existence have been greater than
any civilized nation has paid-our own being no excep-
ton to the rule; Tor all in debt and debt incurred
for the support of their governments How them can
we expect to secure pecunlary indemnity by retaining
Mexico as provnce' With all the inducements of ma
ona PRIDE they have been able support the gov
eminent OF their own choice and Is to be expected that
they would domoe, could be made to do more for gov.
eminent of foreigners which odious to them? If not
raised by axalon where the money for indemnity to be
obtained They have no national domain of much value
of which we aware The mines are private property,
and would probably yield but little more than they
have already produced in taxation to the Mexican gov
eminent No one would propose to conliscate private
property that OF the church. Sir the result would be-
that ourselves should be forced to contribute largely
detested us and our yoke 1t would constitute an
nual drain upon OF millions, to sustain the public Off
and the army necessary for their permanent subec
ton repeat the very pertinent inquiry of the sena
tor from Tennessee, What should we do with their
church establishments The senator from Arkansas
said as understood him. that other nations had over
come such difficulties, and why might not we do the
same thing The gentleman forgets that we have
special difficulty IN the way, which they did not have to
encounter Ours is the only government, with which
am acquainted whose constitution positively forbids a
connexion between church and state In all other gov
ernments with perhaps exception, such connexion
exists but constitution forbds it, and the religious
and political feelings OF this country would both require
that there should be church established by any gov
eminent over which we had control
There the senator from Arkansas informed Mr. H. that
he had misunderstood him; he had proposed religious
federation as mode of escaping the difficulty
beg pardon, Mr. President; did not mean to msrep-
resent the senator from Arkansas but his correction
only brings the speedily to the conclusion to
which was arriving in another mode. Yes, sir; we
should have 10 introduce religious liberation, and dis
solve all connexon between church and state, if
increase vastly the difficulty of holding that country as
dependent province Whoever will examine the nature
and consuence Of that population and survey their past
history, must be convinced that the church is the key
stone of the arch which has sustained the fabric of Mex
can society -Four seveDhs of that entire population are
Indians sevenths of the mixed race and only
seventh of the pure white hierarchy seems to
have been peculiarly suitable to the genius and tastes of
the larger and more suffering portion of that people
mean the Indian race II is difficult TO believe that
without this common bond of church establishment
there would not have been frequent wars between the
races or that should have seen even the little
of unity and harmony of national movement which
their history has exhibited DESTROY this-as we
Eshould be constrained to do if we assumed their gov
ernmen-and should not only destroy whatever So
cia unity exists, but should have to encounter
their positive hostility, inlamed by religious zeal, in
addition to the opposition of the U,s inertia of Span
sh character formidable enough in itself Sir, with
these difficulties in way, the is yet born who
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