New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-08

bers come within our inviting and more stable
Union. Indeed, so strong is the unthinkins
faith in that manifest destiny, which it is be-.
leyed will ultimately, and at no remots
period, give us possession of the entire Con.
tinent, that il is almost considered a certainty
that the CONFUSION in question cannot result
otherwise than in dropping anew very con.
siderable slice of Mexican territory into our
capacious NAV
We dissent from the conclusion. We see
no reason why Mexico cannot turn and over
turn within herself, without any portion Of her
territory being slOughed of, or any portion Of
her people tumbled out upon us. The Mexi-
cans Get up revolutions, as do also the people Of
various parts ofSouth America, Tor the purpose
of proving upon one another. Aud the sum total
of each revolution is, in the main, that one set
of plunderers 30 out of, and another set 90
into power. Ii is simply turn OF the great
national kaleidoscope The same particles re-
main Just as good as before They merely as
sumo new forms Doubtless there is often
great difference in the integrity and good IN
tentions of the men who find their way 70 the
head of affairs. And more than usual sympa-
thy should be and is felt for the government of
Mexico in its present trying condition from he
circumstance that it is believed President
Arista is doing the best he can for HE dis
tracted country, and that revolution could
NOT fail to make things worse Yet even
in the present case we can hardly perceive that
a new revolution aud new administration
would result in anything more serious than q
deeper bankruptcy of the rotten organization
which is denominated the Mexican Govern.
ment We can hardly conceive of the ma
chinery falling into such utter wreck that the
means will be wanting 10 maintain a show OF
law and order and the administration of JUS
tice.
II is thus we look rather for a series of dis
solving views in Mexican affairs, than for
marked and wel-deined rupture that shall
set of portion of the country with its IN
habitants upon us. Doubtless there are those
among the Mexcans who would like annexs-
ton TO our Confedcracy of States, but we
have as yet no evidence that that class com
pose any considerable portion of the popula-
ton. But our confident expectation that We
are not at present at least, TO absorb Mexi-
can territory and people in the event of
fresh oyerturn of that Government, rests
upon the fact that there is no great inter
est in this country to favor such an Access
sion Of territory. The Slayeholding in.
terest brought us Texas and with Texas came
war, and then, necessarily came New.Mexico
and California. But TO the annexation of the
two last named provinces, the late Mr.. Calhoun
and all far.seeing Southemers were strictly
opposed They believed in opposition to the
views of Dir. Clay that the war rendered their
acquisition inevitable, and only fought for their
half for Slavery, since they must come. But
Mr. Calhoun always felt the deepest repug.
nance TO the acquisition of Mexican pOpula-
ton, dreading the effect of such accession
upon the institution of Slavery. Extension
in that quarter he always deprecated and his
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the South upon that subject at this moment.
And we do not believe that, without the aid Of
the slave power in their favor, any State or
States of the Mexican Confederation could
gain admittance into the Union, notwithstand
Ing the all-conqucring rapacity OF the Anglo
Saxon race and the illbustiering temper Of our
tines and Of portion Of our people. We
give our cOuntrymen credit for some sense, at
lea in those eases where they are not bad.
gercd with folly and wickedness by the urgent
imperiOusncss of the slaycholding interest.
And We have yet to see the first important
step forward taken in the action of the Gov.
eminent or the legislation of Congress where
that interest had resOlutely thrown itself into
the breeching. With Slavery interests quies
cent, fibustierism in this country is far from
being in the ascendant but with Slavery in
the field in opposition, it is utterly pOwerless
We may be mistaken, but we look to see some
significant Illustration of this truth during Mr.
Pierce's administration.