Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-04-01
Mexican NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The Washington cores pOndent Of r,
Richmond South has some speculatops ur,n
future acquisitions" and "annexatiop,p :,
Mexico, which we SUTTON:
! There is every reason to believe tina, =,
President will soon make a treaty with Ma,
leo for the acquisition Of one or more of -,
| Northern provinces of that country ".
shall then have upon US the old question rs
slavery, and how important 10 the stru,,s
for empire, that we shall have the adyaptsga
of the precedent in the case of Kansas. ",
have already been warned by Seward tho.
we arc to have renewed in Mexico the s,ruc,
gle between free and slave labor. LET ne
then, be ready in time for the combat. for :,
will surely come. The exigeDcies Of bo,b
Administrations point to a treaty 10 which
one shall get money and the other land. Thu
present Government, or any Goyernmp,,
which may be formed in Mexico, will wan,
money to sustain itself and to pay the ia.
nissaries by which its power is maintained
Our own Government is anxious to perpe,.
uate itself and to secure another lease of
power. An acquisition of new territo,1
from Mexico, it will regard as a capital a..
vice to this end, and the treaty will bs
pushed through to certainty.
The advantage to the South OF acquirin,
territory from Mexico at this time, is greatly
doubted by our wisest Southern statesmen
This reasoning appears to me well-ouniei
At present there are indications of the dIsip.
tegration Of Mexico. The Federal bond !,
being rapidly loosened The Central au.
thority is weak. A few months may witness
Sierra Madre Republic, into which Amer.
cans from Texas and other Southern States
will go.and establish there slavehOlding ipsti.
tutions. They will 60 to develop rapidly the
sugar and cotton lands now lying waste.
revive the African slave trade and build IN
a State equal in power and in wealth to
Texas, without draining slaves from the
South. Such State would in due time
present herself for admission into the Union.
and if the Free-soilers would not lie, Der
come to US, the Southern States could 90 10
her. This would be the course of things in
Sonora and other States. The result would
be, that the South would receive from time
to time accessions CT strength, new slave
States with supply Of labor, drawn from
Africa instead Of Maryland and Elrgiuis.
Ia a word, Time is our ally, and "master,
ly inactivity" will give Us everything We
want.
This desirable result Mr. Buchanan's bun.
combe project will only serve to mar. Sup
pose the territory acquired. Sonora will a.
once be populated from California, with
freesoil emigration, many of them Euro
\ tb l,sa ,hot l.
certain that we would have the prepOndcr,
ance OF the emigration to Nueva Leon, Ia
maulipas or chihuahua? There is alreadya
considerable Mexican population in those
States, whose prejudices to slavery few
Yankees could easily excite. What would
be the policy of the ExecutiveI Would it
be non-interventiOn, or the species OF fair
play which kept Robt. j. Walker SO long in
Office as Governor of Kansas, 10 spite Of
Southern protests? Would not the Offices be
packed against US, and Executive patronage
used to hatch free soil States, if party eIi.
gency dictated III But more than all there
remains the question, what shall be the
status Of the so called Mexican population
These are really half barbarans, Ignorant,
brutal and utterly unfit for the exercise Of
political rights. The South would resist
placing these debased and mixed races
on an equality with her citizens. The
North, true to her doctrines Of universal
equality, would contend in their behalf, and
the Administration, judging it by Its Ncara
guam policy, would take the same course. 1t
the doubtful experiment of anneIing Mexican
Territory is to be tried again, and 1t is to be
brought in as territory to be struggled for by
the North and South, let it at least be under
the Administration of Southern President
and with an influence in the State Depart
ment, in which we can repose confidence.
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