The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-22
THE REPUBLIC.
WASHINGTON:


FRIDAY MOhNlN0, JUL -, AcsS. i
Prospect for \ second Punic War.
Tho difficulties which are to be anticipated
in our negotiations with Mexico are founded
not only in the important interests which
Mexico considers herself as having at stake,
but in the innate hostility with which 'the|
Roman race' regard all foreigners, ripened,
we regret 10 see in our particular case, into an
ill-disguised hatred.
We have read, with much interest, the
views Of the organ Of the Mexican govern
ment, which can, Of course, express no opinion
without the approval of the President. That
journal continues TO be filled with bitterness
against the United States, and, SO far from
pursuing that course of Cancellation to be in
ferred from the courteous language of the
Minister Of Mexico, we perceive that it abounds
with imputations against our Government and
people, and also with boasts of Mexican Prov
ess, coupled with the assertion that the United
States will find different reception if it
should again invade their country
An article of the 10Th June is devoted to the
Mesilla question and to the Union newspaper.
The first is disposed of very summarily. Mex
leo claims the Meslla under the treaty of Qua
daluPe, and, assuming that the report of the
Boundary Commission is final, seems to con-
slider the present Administration as annulIing
the acts of its predecessor. This assumption is
followed by the intimation that the govern
ment can Gas well repeal the treaty of Guada-
lupe, renew the contest which that treaty
terminated, and demand more territory in pay
8 ment for peace" Such defamation will Of
course conclude all argument. If Mexico as
sumo that the American title originates in the
violation of treaty faith, and will allow no dis
cussion as to the intent of the parties who made
the treaty, nor as to the formal execution OF
the Boundary Commission, an issue exists
between the two countries which gold or steel
can only adjust.
The Universal recites the argument of the
Union, which it considers as futile as the
phrases employed in connexion with Mexico
are inappropriate" Admitting the premises
Of the Union," says the Unirersal, s.the Re
public Of the North can designate according to
its own wishes the limits which shall divide it
from Mexico, or take as much territory from
the latter as may be desirable" 1t then indul-
ges in an ironical and declamatory strain Of in
vective:
President Polk invaded our country because
his country sought the gold of California, and de-
sired more land. There are also placers in Sono-
ra, and our lands tempt the men of the North with
the abundance and variety of their products. Why
Mr. e. AZ l.:
Democrats Why should he not extend-as they
say-the ''area offreedom, " that its blessings may
be conferred upon people who are considered as
slaves Oh! it will be an enterprise every way
worthy of the Model Republic to emancipate the
New World with the same system that it has en-
ployed in Texas, California, New Mexico, and all
other countries which it has brought under its au-
thority since it has turned out conqueror Selling
the soil and exterminating the inhabitants
Upon the remarks of the Union, that the
conduct of Mexico in occupying the Meslla
valley is not merely ''insoent but insane," the
Unirersal says:
81 Such words are unworthy government
which respects itself, but very fit to be used by
nation whose policy is founded in the brutal
right of force. The new Rome shall know that
faith of her CINCINNATI and that, although poor
and feeble, she carries in her bosom that spirit
of independence and dignity which have always
distinguished the Spanish race, in repulsng its
enemies or dying in the defence of their honor.
She shall know that we have thrown off the tor
pid thraldom with which her dark policy has en-
chained us, and that, free from fatal preudices we
not subject to her will, as the official Journal
at Washington has represented. She shall know
that we have here a GOVERNMENT; that with this
government we have recovered our hopes; and
that with these hopes the courage of our people
has been born again, and cannot be again sub
dued, in 1S47 The Government of the United
States will learn that, as we have heretofore
stated, it was not her arms which then overcame
us, but our own discords; that we are now united
under the same banner, and inspired with the same
hopes, and that amongst these hopes we nourish
one-to show to the world, if she compels us to
do so, that people inspired by true faith and vir-
tue can resist with good result-athough it
may be poor and feeble-a nation which believes
in nothing except in those material interests which
make it appear strong and powerful
To this might be added the assertion of the
same paper in regard to the claim of the Gov
eminent of the United States to the Mesilla:
''Ihat it cannot contemplate, without shudder-
ing, the idea that there exists in the New World
nation which, covered with the mantle of liber-
ty and democratic fraternity--desres to aggran-
die itself at the expense of its neighbors, and
consents that each of its sons should ordain rob
berry and theft as the law of his conduct and the
principles of his policy
Such language is no doubt intended to stimu
late popular hostility against the United States,