Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-18
AMERICAN INTRIaUEs IN MEXICO.

The following paragraph, which we find in the
editorial columns Of the Alexandra VA Gazette
of the 31st inst, furnishes a key to some move
ments now on foot, of n more Importance perhaps,
than the editor himself realized when he penned
its
"Late advices from Mexico represent tho prog
ress of the revolutionists in that country, from Mat
amoras to Acapulco, as almost certain to result
either in the overthrow Of Santa Anna and q COM
plete reconstruction of the central government, or
in the secession of three or four of tho northern
and western States, and their organization into an
independent republic, a la Texas, with precisely
the same ultimate object in view"
Here we havo foreshadowed tho fruits Of Mr..
Minister Gadsden's diplomacy in Mexico. Some
months ago intelligence reached us that he was
trying to invest fifty millions of United States
money in Mexican territory; now there is reason
to believe that he is encouraging a plan of disin-
t~egration less expensive to the United States and
equally suspicious to the slave interest which he
was especially selected to represent.
The Texas process is to BIO repeated. Three or
four Of the northern states of Mexico are to revolt
declare their independence, and with such aid from
citizens of the United States as they doubtless
could readily procure in such a struggle, hold the
territory by adverse possession until the American
Congress should invite them into this republic,
under the new principles of popular and State
sovereignty set up President Pierce and Judge
Kane.
We infer from these givings-out that the plan OF
further purchases in Mexico, for the present al
least, is abandoned. Perhaps the little glory &C
quircd by the administration in its Messilla Val
ley operation may have disinclined it to any more
land-trades at present in that quarter; or perhap'
it is thought rather more thrifty for the govern
ment to wait until three or four Mexican State,
are in open rebellion, when the parent government
may be induced to accept more moderate terms thar
would be entertained in times of repose.
1t may be ~emembere that more than a yea
ago we stated that the real purpose of the issu,
made upon the Kansas and Nebraska territorial
bills was not so much to secure those tcrritorie
for the uses of slavery rs to establish a principl
+ which would apply to the future territorial acqui
? sitions we may make in Mexico, Central Americ
and the West Indies. 1t being once recognized a
the settled policy of our government, that Con
v gross can pass no laws restricting the limits of sG
4 very, the additions to our territory southwar
d would soon repair all the losses which the slav
: States have sustained by all the Jeffersonian ord
n nances, Wilmot provisos and Emancipation law
since the foundation of the government.
t The process Of acquiescence in this princirl
l. has been much slower than was expected, and o
:, that account tie Presidents foreign policy has nj
s been as demonstrative of late as it was expecte
to be. But there is great confidence among til
/, Presidents latterers and dependents that the PEE
@ Pile will become reconciled to his notions of pop
o lar sovereignty sooner or later, and in anticipate
Of that, Mr.. Gadsdcn appears to be actively Ell
If ployed in getting a good slice of Mexico ready f
s the earliest opportunity."-N Y. Fee. Post.