Litchfield enquirer., 1853-04-21
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 The necessios sssI SnnIa AnSla GO tue Presidency Of AlexicO is an WnpOrtan' event ,D that unfortunate rep0blic and an Impor taRI event in Ihe career -OG lhat aISn Ol etranae and varied EIflunes. Rich in eve " thing but industry pnd skill, Mexicn, lacking these, is among the most helpless and degraded of Sl6iIans. BGave in. every thing but action, aud eloquent and wise in speech, Santa Anna. tb0ugh. PopuIar a"d admired, has ever proved nr'sI Impoteni lor good. Heenlegs Wpisn the station to when ne has been called appealing to the pr'ce and warllke passions of his co"nrymen aS the only feelln9 ne can arouse io sustain him in lasi desperate etfori Tor llse pres- ervaiiOn of her independence.
 We look tO tie commencement Ol hIs administration with c0ncern,- bu, without hope. The era pr. hope Co: ihal na'i"n IS past. Distracted disafiected al home, there is n0 strength, or power in her gov eFnment, ,aMd in her rela ih'ns with tie world at large she cOmman ands no consideration beyond the hopes that arises i0 other na lions of appUpriaiing To tIeWselves ihe wealth within her d0mlni0ns that she can neither profit by nor pro,ecr.
 How slrlkingly is exempIitied, m iiie eOmpar,s0n between the two IepnbIlcs 0l North America, the iHdacnce ot lnie'leciu- al aud religious freednin On the one hand, and Of ignorance aud biNotry OH the O'Eer Neither race, nor climate nns soil, nor "ri' uiual nationality, nor all of these iOgeiter, will serve iO explain the great dspart'y.- = There are parallels of lat Jude, there arc similari,ies ln climate, there are identities Ol origin in varDtis sections .nf tue two eounir es but there are no socia! nor I'o h,ical resemblances. Freedom of thought, freedom oi conscience. and freedom Oi ac> lion. reflect their iiyIiismo0n Ihe intellectual, moral, and physical world around us while mental imhecIli,y, n,0ral de1rada,mn, and Dhysical enervaiinn- cllaTacierize the wide nevu,ns over which the renowned Santa Anna has been summoned ts preside.
 In the premature decay of' that nation we are regarded by her as her great and rnvious npprrssor. But viih how little truth The nunber uf ihOse 0f our cuizens who were averse iO maktng cOnQmes,s Oi her sOil was very considerable, il IS true {; but their opposition was based upon their unwin0ness that Omr nation should pns. sess it ra,he: than upon the conviction that Mexuco had nu, offended against the priDci- ples of cOmi,y aud iis'icc, nor are they yet eonv,nced of tl,e drsira blencss of the ac- anisiimns we have made. Should differ ences ye. arise between the two countries, we would regret the absence of all n,hes means of indemnity than that of the acq'i- si,iaR "f territory. We hold in reverence the declaration which f'Tms the lun'linIen- tai principle 0l our Cons,i'o,ipn that ''G"v- ernmen,s derive their just pO vers from lhe f Al, 4eSs nnH all avnidalae cnnq ,es.s as in pslpable vi'> la,inn of this principle. rerrit"ry thus nc. Qured frms, indeed, a dangerous and nn> printable elemen, n our national domain, tending inevitably "a weaken the 4feal,y of our people and ,I'e bonds Of our U"i"n.- For the acquisitions we have in past tunes thus made, may we hereafter have no ca use to repent; aud, in tue future, may tue ne- eessiIy fresh c"nques's never he impress. ed upon the minds Of our people.