Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-25
ANOTHER REASON FOR FILLIBUsTER.
ING IN MEXICO.

Our chivalrous, Strengthening government
which finds its chief honor and employment in
the suppression Of free principles. abroad as well
as at home, will find new reason for prosecuting its
covetous purposes towards Mexico, in the declar-
alton of principles embodied in the lately promul-
gated Mexican Constitution. This Constitution was
ratified on the l7th Of February last, and promul
gated at the city of Mexico on the 18th of March,
amid general public rejoicing. 1t goes into full
effect in September next.
Our flliOusterers have taught US that the Mex
lean people are ignorant barbarians, and their
rulers destitute of oil skill and knowledge of
craftsmanship, and this inferiority of character is
deemed ample justification for all the wholesale
roberies and piracies inflicted and plated
by our avaricious masters who govern this nation.
But the new Constitution proves these Mexicans
quite equal to our lauded selves in the theory of u
free Government and greatly to have excelled us
in the application of the theory. They make the
attempt honestly to carry out the principles they
profess. But this will doubtless 60 a great way
liz proof of their ignorance and barbarism. For
have not we, the enlightened, civilized, christian,
Anglo-Saxon Americans Of this Nineteenth Cen
fury, found out the method of reconciling the
principles of the Declaration of American InGe.
pendence, with eternal Slavery ? And in pity for
b~enighted Mexicnns, should we not by an army OF
fllibusterers, convert them to the like precious
faith of Liberty and practice of Slaveryi
The new Constitution embraces a Declaration Of
Rights like that of our own Declaration of indie.
pendence. 1t declares that all men are born free
in the Republic, and that persons claimed as
Slaves, touching the national territory are free
by that act and are entitled to the protection OF
The law. This recognition of the higher law Of
liberty and justice, was proclaimed the supreme
law of the land amid the applauding shouts of the
Mexican people, almost at the identical time thai
Judge fancy and his Judicial associates were
affirming directly the opposite, as the principles O
our own Constitution and Governments.
Another Article shows the wisdom rs well n
the honest purpose Of the Mexicans. The chat
tells belonging 20 the Texan patriarchs, are quit,
in the habit Of giving their worthy masters Mt
little trouble by their escape into Mexican terri
tory, and when once there, the Mexican barba
rians, ignorant of interstate comfy, are Otter
quite unmindful of the duty of restoring them t.
their anxious masters. This induces on their par
a resort to all sorts of pretenses, as in this region
for the seizure of their chattels specially the,
often attempt to reclaim them under the pretens,
that they are f~ugitives from justice abscondin.
thieves, murderers, or other criminals. To meet
this trick of the ~chiyalry, another article of tn,
Constitution prohibits the extraditipn of politica
offenders or of common delinquents who have hell
the condition of Slaves in the country where tn,
crime was committed, under the pretext that the,
are ~fugitives from Justice. Thus the game of Slave
catching in Mexico seems to be effectually block Q,
even though national diplomacy comes to its aid
that is, if the provisions Of the Mexican Cons titu
ton are to be observed,
There are other provisions Of this Mexican Con
stitu.ion that might be advantagoously adopted a.
amendments to our own. For example, the mem
bers of the Supreme Court ere elected by tn
people and hold their Office only for six years
The legislative body consists of a single assembl,
elected every two years by the people, which il
the passage of all laws has only concurrent powe
with the President and Legislatures of the severa
States. No ecclesiastic can ever fill the Office o
President.
The PRONUNCIATION of so much incen liarism b.
the people of Mexico will afford a powerful stimu
lus to our Government, to urge on with new yea
the absorption of Mexican territory and its speed,
conversion to slaveholdiDg and slavehunting soil
Mr.. Buchanan's policy of enlarging the nationa
domain by honorable purchase" will probably b,
called into speedy and successful exercise. SucI