Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-12-24
The French In Sonora.

Our readers already aware mat a number OF
Frenchmen headed by one Count Boulbon have bea-
ten the Mexican General Blance seized upon Sonora,
and formally annexed it to France. This proceeding
seems 10 have been pure outrage, justified by no cir
cumstance whatever Boubon had been employed by
the Mexican Government, according to accounts,
make on the paches. He succeeded in driving
off the Indians from circuit of fifty leagues, when
he was called upon by the military commandant of
Sonora who certainly. we should suppose, was his
senior officer, inasmuch as he acting under the
orders Of Mexico render account of his proceed
ingS Instead of obeying, he issued proclamation,
in which he threatened to punish the commandant.-
{Blanco) and advised the inhabitants 10 remain
fTal as he had force strong enough to accomplish
his object. Selling on a train OF mules which had
been 10 the Apache country with provisions for
the Mexican forests, he continued his march TO Arspe
The report that battle had been fought, in which
Blanco had been routed, and that the conqueror had
had annexed the State of Sonora TO France to
be rnquestionably true
That France cannot hold this acquisition, hold
to be indspuable She has not held any colony, with
the exception of few insignificant West India is
lands and Algiers, beyond the sea. will she ever
be abe,o hold them, whou: the consent Of this
try and Great Britain, and that consent, far So
nora is concerned, she never will get. Look at the
possessions which she has either lost in war, been
obliged SELL keep them out of her enemy's hands.
Where is Canada Where is Louisiana Where is
ST. Domingo? Where is Egypt? Where is the isle
of France Where are her settlements il the East
Algeris, after declaration of against Great Bril-
tain The French gallant people, as their whole
history amply tesies. They are, indeed, the most
extraordinary military nation since the Romans. The
tread of France upon the continent of Europe, must
always shake the Nation. But high water mark is
as far she can go Her people not NAUTICAL
They never have made sailors, and they will
1t was by beating them everlastingy al sea- that Eng
land acquired the false halo of naval glory, which so
long surrounded her, and which the first gun fired by
Ann lore ISciO cd Tho nd
brave soldiers 10 her colonies beyond the sea- but Eng
land the United States will beat her at sea. cut of
the supplies of her troops, sarve them into mumnes
and then beat them their leisure. AS for obtaining
Oohood in Sonora, that is of the widest dreams
that entered the Imagination of the I" Great Ma
ton" Not the vision of the tricolored flag floating
IN triumph, at the time, the rock of Lisbon
the battlemens of St. Petersburg, and the mnarets
of COnstantinople -not the magnificent dream of an
empire extending all the way from the Bosphorus to
the Ganges. from the Nile 10 Senegambia,
travagant as is this conception of dominion the
Western coast of the American continent, within gun
shot Of California. Not than two years ago
there at San Francisco alone. ten thousand
Americans, out of all employment the most daring OF
the American miners, who live with the rifle III
their hand, amidst continual danger, ready for any mil
tary enterprise that could be suggested. There are
doubtless, as many now, and to them it would be de
lIghtul to hear that the United States had determined
against this disposition of the Mexican territory They
would sweep away the conquerors, before they SHOULD
have ascertained that they were coming down upoI
them.
OF course this government will never consent to thi
occupation, and it has but to say the word in orde
that an end may be put to it. II has been the polio,
of the government, since the Monroe declaration
or if it has not, ii should have been, 10 allow Eu
ropean power TO plant new colonies, or 10 obtain
stronger foothold in America This policy must be ad
hered to- 1t is which the whole people demand
and is which no Administration can resist Franc
must seek for conquests, if Napoean ILL., thinks the,
desirable, in Europe. She cannot be permitted Il
ourselves.