Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-03-30

MANIFEST DESTINY" ENGLsHMAN.-The wri-
ter of a series of articles in the London Morning
Chronicle, addressed 10 Colonel Peyronnet Thompson,
NJ. T., who has long been known a general abuser
of this country and its Institutions has some Yankee
notions about progress, some of which given in
the extract below. They are somewhat peculiar as
appearing in an English ministerial journal. The
writer, referring to the Mexican claim upon Texas.
says:
"lf recollect Alright. some fifty titles spread over
all parts of the earth, precede the Yo Ell Reg which
the kings of Spain, in marvellous bad writing put to
the public instruments. Jerusalem, the Two Sci
lies, Majorca, Minorca, Gibraltar, in short every
place that Spain ever claimed she still lays claim to-
So is it with Mexico. Texas finally gone, they could
not realize the idea They have not the courage to
fight, or the magnanimity TO yield. handful of
men, vexed at their obsnacy, have unwlingly over
their country and established themselves their
capital Unwillingly, for they could not imagine
how little resistance there really TO npprehend
Could the Mexican rulers have had strength of mind
enough TO submit 10 an unjust demand which they
could not resist, they might still have possessed
rounded empire. But if with Roman magnanimiy
they say, fiat ustitiq, ruat cGn, why then let them
fold their robes around them and die decently Fiat
justitiG! The words irresstibly call up pun of
the Mrs. Quickly class, when used in. a Mexican
question.
81 will not leave you to suppose that have any
peculiar sympathy with the American invaders more
mean, and better for the general progress than
those who do not know what they mean. They are,
like the transition rocks of the biologists. the
of connecting civilized life with barbarsm They
are like the Irish laborers who pull down old houses
the French laborers who pull down old despotisms
leaving clear space for new architects and rulers to
build thereon. If there be Mexican nation, it is
nation of Indians and Mestizoes, who certainly have
no peculiar affection for the descendants of Spanish
dominators; and that may very well account for the
little resistance made to the invaders And, after ALL
the progress of the of the people the point we
| have to consider. Mexico was essentially Chinese,
statonary she could not well be worse of. Ii is
not Tartar dynasty come TO conquer her and live at
free cost but progressing people, who will set COM
merce free from many 1t not all Of Its shackes; who
will establish printing presses, and provide school
| funds and give q representative government; who
will leave the priesthood free in the exercises of their
religious offices, but who will 'cvize from the face
of the airth all their political power; who will work
mines and establish factories and make railways. and
extinguish banditti; "a people whose rule will be
welcomed by every dlspaSSlOnate industrious man IN
Mexico, and whose departure would after II months
trial. be mourned by all but priests and banditti.
30 that an American army, with man like Scott,
had landed in Buenos Ayres instead of the coxcomb
| Whitelock with his misused red coats ! Had this
been French and English diplOmatiss would not now
be at work trying to reconcile the discrepancies of
| barbarian tribes.
'One possible dark side there is TO this Mexican
picture-he revival of slavery in Mexico in Tex
as; but | think that will scarcely be, because the
Mexican Indian will work. As Irishmen with due
Difference to Mr.. John O'ConneD have decreased the
value of negro slaves in the American States, will
Mexican Indians, and possibly Irishmen, decrease
their value in Mexico. AT all events such course
will tend to free Northern America from the evil and
the non-slaveholding States will increase in number
and in power, finally put down the Satan of slave
ny under their feet. There is truth certain
than that the institution of slavery is suicidal There
is great work for the anti-savers TO achieve work
the world at future time would thank them for, in
the avoidance of horrible butchery that la
ter must take place in Brazil That work is to edu-
cate and civize the children Of Brazilian slaves ere
the time comes that new and old be at feud and the
revolution of the white ends in the unrestrained
power of bldcks."-Ndt. Int