Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-10-28

with the powsss Of health, growth, and
long life, or with constitutions full OF
sucipient disease that must lead to ear
u decay. A healthy parentage gen
orally gives healthy and vigorous OH
spring, ifthe climate is propitlons' and
proper care be taken IN early infancy.
So will offspring, Of diseased, equity,
bilious, and consumptive parents he
full Of those in6rmities which character
ICED those psrents. :,
Such il the case with the Colonia'
offspring Of England and spain. Old
John Bull possessed . sturdy, hardy,
and iron constitution. He loved sports
of the open sir, the freedom Of bully
ing, Dragging, and eating enormously
Of beef, which expanded his muscles,
and gave him a physical organization
that could Withstand the rough events
fife. His offspring, and particularly
his son Jonathan, are possessed by his
body vigor, with q great deal more
energy and will to make it useful.
Not 80 with Mexico: Spain was
pampered, enfeebled, bedizzened old
bag, who had covered up her lean ribs,
and salIow skin, with the gov gaws Of
the Western Continent and when she
gave birth to Mexico, she was full of
bodily infirmities, which she transmit
ted to her daughter. Thus we see
Mexico, like her mother, old Spain,
growing more and more debllitated,
and 80 consumptse that medicine fails
to retard the progress Of the disease.
She has called upon her mother for
help, but the old woman is SO decrepit
that she cannot cross the waters at
the call Of her daughter. She has
called in numerous quack doctors, and
have taken their nostrums only to &C
celcrats the progress of the disease
DR.. Santa Anna was her great State
Physician, but he so peTtinaciously adj
hesed to the old practice Of "bleeding"
that she sent him out of her household
and called in new quack. He was
worse than Santa Anna, and the ord
"blecder" was recalled. This time he
drew 80 much blood that the limbs
were nearly paralized, and again he
was discharged, and his successor was
compelled to lop off the limbs to save
the body, and California, Texas, and
New Mexico were given to the Yam
KEGS.
Comonfort was called to revive the
venerated constitution of his Mistress
and for time his cordials promised to
work wonders, but there was thOur-
ough congestion of the lungs, and a
rupture Of the arteries Of the Treasury,
and again Mexico is in all the worst
spasms Of national death.
There are wise men in that forlorn
land who look to the restoring medi
cine of Jonathan as the last means of
saving life. They would senl an es-
cort for this famous doctor, but the ten
thousand quacks, belonging to the
"regular society" Of her military doc
tors, raise such a clamor, that the
experiment is at present deemed dan
gerous.
If Mexico is to be.saved from speedy
death, the government Of this Union
must be called in to save her from her
own insanity. She presents to the
world spectacle of rabid insanity, un-
parallelei since the days Of Grecian
wars, without any Of the redeeming
traits which marked those wars. Her
soil is infested with military robbers.
Life is the sport Of every chief, of every
subaltern, Of every highwayman. Even
the country Of the Black Feet Indians
is more secure for the traveller than is
Mexico. Eventually she will become
. portion Of this Union. The laws Of
events point with unerring certainty to
such an issue. 1t is clearly then, our
duty to interfere and prevent the
maniac from tearing out her own eyes.
A protectorate would be the certain
means of restoring order, establishing
the seeds of a permanent civilization,
and prepare those States for ultimate
union with the United States upon
terms Of full equality. We trust that
our Executive will commence the
movement tending to this result, and
secure the consent of the men of influ-
ence in Mexico, and recommend to
Congress in his next message some &C.
ton that will save that distracted couu-
try from her own madness and folly.
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