The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-03-11
For the Cresce ant.
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The Trist Treaty.

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disproportioned to the ordinary effects of similar
causes. Minds more acute and inquisitive than
they are broad and powerful, fall into the mistake
of atributing great events to small causes and are
fond of tracing changes in Government and religion
to the outraged feelings of all insulted husband or
the angry disappointment of an Augustin monk.
But it is not in speculations founded on such mario"
principles that we are to look for the great general
| laws hv which the moral and intellectual world Is
governed The force of mans wi--the power of
his intellect make him feel that his destiny Is not
| deDendent on slight and trivial circumstances-tha
| he is not the frail and feeble nautilus whose tiny
sail is spread only when the sea is smooth and the
| breezes gentle. whose shell rs tossed about, the
snort of winds and waves, but rather the mighty
| ocean-steamer, propelled by an umvarying agent.
| and guided by the compass and the rudder.
| In searching for the causes of past events, and
| endeavoring to deduce therefrom the probabilities
of the future. we should not look so much to the
acts of legislators and dplomasts as to those almost
| mperceiyed but yet irresistible influences which
determine the opinions of the masses of mankind
And from all that we know of the past and from
all that we have thought of the FUTURE we can only
arrive at one conclusion in regard to the ultimate
termination of our difficulties with Mexico. Ameri
can Senators and Presidents, and President-C om-
missioners may, by temporary cooperation with
Mexican Congresses and Mexican Commissioners
put off for time the completion of what must
| necessarily happen-they may cryN' peace peace
when there is no peace - and to delude the people
with the idea that they have really accomplished
what they so loudly profess to have DONE But the
delusion will soon pass away, and Americans and
Mexicans will find themselves face to face with
fact which they cannot conceal, and whose conse
quences they cannot avert. They will see that
peace between the United States and Mexico is i'm.
possible and it needs no great learning wise re-
Election to perceive, that when such relation exists
between States, the weaker must yield to and be.
come incorporated with the stronger,
We say they will see that peace between this
country and Mexico is impossible There may be
truce but there cannot be permanent and lasting
peace Two very good reasons lead to this con-
clusion A great difference exists between the two
nations as to the terms of treaty-one expecting
considerable cession of territory, and the other
almost dying with anger at the mere mention of
giving up an inch of land it has been accustomed
to call its own. Added to this cause of difficulty,
there is greater and still more nsuperable There
is no such thing as a Government in Mexico and
it is as clear as any proposition in geometry, that
nothing short of miracle, or foreign nterposition
can bring about the establishment of order and
organization among people so separated and ex-
hausted as the Mexicans now are. Let the legisla-
tors who call themselves the representatives of the
Mexican people look around their hall at Queretaro
and see if it is not written the walls as clearly
as at Belshazzar's feast" Meme, Meme, Tekel.
Upharsin!' Without Daniel, they can surely
read the Interpretation thereof. "Mene:" God hath
numbered thy kingdom and finished it. "Tekel:''
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting. "Peres:' Thy kingdom is divided, and
given to the Modes and Persians.. Truly, Mexico
has been weighed in the balances, and found want.
ing. For twenty-five years, she has been trying to
maintain place among the nations of the Garth
For twenty-five years, other nations have borne
with her wrong.doings and shorts omings During
this period, she has been left almost entirely to hep
self; and if revolutionary experience could teach
wisdom, she ought to have learned it. Statesman
after ACKNOWLEDGMENT after Genera1-Congress
after Congress, has been placed at the head of
Mexican affairs; and the country has groaned sue.
cessivey under the rule of them ALL Her sufferines
have taught her nothing; or, if they have incul.
Gated lessons of government, they have taken away
the strength necessary for putting them in practice
neighboring nation, better skilled than herself in
the science of government. Is there but one Nay
by which the unfortunate people of Mexico can he
reclaimed from anarchy and semi-barbarisme The
only conclusion we can see, is in the words of the
prophet, Peres: Thy kingdom is divided, and
given to the Modes and Persans''
The Trist treaty may be very good ghino ;ss
Ito way-a very good piece of diplomacy, for ex-
ample-as almost all diplomacy is intended for
delay. But 1t cannot change the fate of Mexico
suppose 1t Is ratified by the American Senate af
Ter some OF the conditions are stricken out and
some OF the articles remodeled. Then there is the
probability that it will he rejected by the Mexican
Congress, If such body has the good fortune 60
exist whes she modified treaty get. to Queretars
or suppose that the treaty, it drawn clio
by the signers of the proje, should he signed hy
duly authorized commissioners of the two govern
snents; will there he the pemotest probability of
Mexico adherlng 10 the treaty moment after ouQ
sroops have left the country and Santa Anna ce
some "thep General makes % pronunciamiento
against she administration which negotiated the |
peacee Both sides must see these difficulties: and
with such prospects, we do not think that the farce
OF duly signing treaty. will ever take place
How could commissioners appointed for ouch o |
purpose meet each other with grave faces becom- |
ing the dignity of diplomatic personageso The |
treaty, however, which has been sent to the Amer
Acan Senate will, if refused by the Mexican au- !
shortes prove 20 the good people of the United |
States that there 10 no longer any thing to be gain.
ed by consulting Mexico as to the onannep of
bringing the present war =" close And dn. 7
ring the Presidential canvass of the coming sum- !
mer and fall, when political questions will be moss
md fhpr bI1ri
our country, the American people will probably |
determine for themselves what is to be done in
regard to our difficulties with Mexico Whether.
however. treaty be negotiated or not, the whole
subject of our relations with our Southern neigh |
Dor will, III the coming canvass, engage the atten-
ton OF the people. The masses will have an op-
portunlty of forming and expressing their opinions
and in the mean while, the slow and gentle. but
influence of time will be preparing
the Mexican people for hearty concurrence in
those plans we may devise for the benefit of both
nations.