The Kanzas news., 1858-05-15
From the Washington States.
The Voice of Sonora.

From the Washington States.
The Voice Of Sonora.
Far away among the hills of Sonora they
print spirited little semi-ocossional sheet
styled La Eoz, which now and then works
its way out into the daylight of civilization,
and reads the AngloAmericans homily
on their wicked appetite for land acqui-
sition.
This voice of Sonora admits that. while
it has fine soil. deliciously healthy eli
truly marvellous from its variety and abun
dance," the country is in the last extremes
of poverty and distress, through the alter
nate exactions and neglect of !he Govern
ment. The Indians are rayaging its towns,
and extinguishing villages and estates by
whole districts, year after year, real estate
is ceasing to have any value, ard capitalists
cannot think of introducing machinery and
exploring mines in this state of insecurity
and anarchy. This is the admission of its
own press, and yet it says the thought of
becoming free and prosperous partner in
the imperial advantages of the Union is
''mortal wound to the generous hearts of
Sonora" The Voz feels the presentiment,
so intolerable to noble and digniied spir-
it, that the chivalric nationality of the
Latin race is destined to be sufocated by
those Unsuitable freeholders of the north
Uho haze already carried oiCay Louisiana,
1eras, NeW MEXICO and California, in their
overwhelming march. This forces from
Sonora last cry of distress ''as it sinks to
the tomb"
We question whether the French and
-hr1d 1V,f
States" which have had the deploraole mis-
fortune to fall from the high blessings of
colonial dignity and Mexican nationality in
to the lowly estate of sovereign co-partners
in the Union, would wish to return to the
glorious beatitudes of their earlier condi-
ton. There was a party among us so ten
derly considerate of the rights of Mexican
tyranny, so much more anxious to keep its
military despots in power than to sustain
the rights of man and humanity, that they
moved earth and heaven to keep Texas un
der the knife of Santa Anna; and they will
repeat the maudlin sentimentalit:es when
we step forward to rescue our fair but very
forlorn neighbor, Sonora, from the mire of
afliction. We cannot allow this poor sick
child to die of starvation, or be slaughtered
by the Indians at our threshold. We do
not wish to kill her for her effects" We
never administer" in the British fashion of
Mosquito protectorates and kingdoms of
Dude. Our history is not blotted with a
single one of these bideous stains of piracy
and perfdy. We take the helpless and op
oppressed, and seat them clothed in purple
and fine linen, among the princes of the
earth. We have no colonies, no yassals, no
kaA
a half-Iepresented Scotland, in our Confed-
Grafton. We have spoiled child of Ter
ritory sometimes like Kanzas, or rebeliious
one ike Utah, but the laws of justice. equal
ity, and wise forbearance settles all these
troubles, without much real damage any
where.
Sonora and Lower California are now but
poverty stricken orphans at best, for all their
rich, natural resources are buried beyond
the reach of their feeble powers to mine out
and bring to use; but, under the guardian
care and vigorous direction of the Union,
they would become rich and powerful States.
In all kindness we would ask the Sonora
press to say whether it is not better to be an
honored partner in a great empire, than
grope away life the feeble and unregarded
child of the bankrupt and unquiet anarchy
of Mexico
We cannot leave beautiful Sonora to this
fate. She blocks our way to the Pacific,
and we must open the gate. That is the
short, simple, and inevitable law of self
preservation, and we may as well declare it,
and act upon the necessity. The entire
West needs the best and most direct path to
the Gulf of California, and that lies through
Sonora The need of this domain viii be
so obvious to all capacities, in very short
time, that the solid vote of the valley of
the Mississippi will unite in pressing the
demand for Its acquisition. In this there
will be no dissenting voice from Iowa to
Texas. except where fanaticism blinds the
reason, or God has smitten the brain with a
natural lncapacity TO reason from cause to
effect
If some other measure of high and gen.
eral interest does not recall our scattered
Democracy back to their dropping standard,
there are now at work on the borders of the
Bravo that will summon them before long
to stand shoulder to shoulder, and give 8
new State to freedom.
Interesting to Widows.
The Macon, Ga, Telegraph thus refers