New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-19
When we charged the other day that the proje,

When We charged the other day that the project
of The n. Y. Times, for establishing protectorats
over Mexico. wss only proposing in masked terms
the conquest Of that country, The Times sought to
eyade and TO deny it. Upon reconsideration, how
ever, that journal (Which seems to have mount
ed this Mexican hobby, without much considering
beforehand precisely into what uncomfortable place
the ride might bring it) fully admits that We were
right. Still sticking however, to its proposition
that the United States should take Mexico in charge
il proceeds to yindicate that operation expressly
IAN acquisition Of territory" Having acquired
Louisiana Florida, Texas and California, why, it
asks, should We stick at the acquisition of Mexico
But il appears to us that there are marked and
serious distinctions between these cases, which The
". Y. Times, in its hasty susceptibility to the new
the ories and isns (flbusterism particularly now
floating across the political sky, appears to have
overlooked. In the case Of Louisiana, Florida,
Texas and California, what We acquired and what
We wished TO acquire Was not people, whether
white men, black men, red men or men of mixed
rsces-if The n. T. Times, in its contempt for
these latter classes will allow US to speak of them
as mtn-but land. Louisiana, Florids, Texas and
California, when they passed into the hands of the
people of the United States, were all unsettled.
The inhabitants were SO few as to count for little
or nothing in the arrangement. We took them, not
because We wanted them, not because We would
not have much preferred to dispense with them,
but as an incumbrance on the soil, which alone we
wanted, SO slight that it might easily be put up with
In very short time these few inhabitants either
withdrew or were absorbed into and dissolved
among the much larger infowing volume of citizens
of the United States, which, by occupying the un.
settled lands, in due time converted these scqui-
sitops into integral portions of the Americ an Union.
homogeneous in population, institutions, and ideas,
with the rest Of il.
Tie Times will at once perceive that the condi-
ton of Mexico is in this respect, totally different.
The better portions Of the Mexican territory are,
ard have been for ages, as thckly settled as the
most pOpIous portions Of the American Union. l.
the population of the interior and northern prov.
inces is more sparse, the reason is the barrenuess
and drouth OF these regions, which can only be cul.
tiyated in few spots susceptible ofirngation. The
scouisition of Mexico would thus fail to bring with
if, "a in the cases relied upon BY The N. Y Times,
an immense area Of fertile land easy of cultivation
aid open to settlement, which, in fact, was the
indrcement to the acquisition of Louisiana, Florida,
Texas and CaIfornia- AL the land in Mexico worth
bavine-and, for that matter, the greater part Of
that which is not worth having-has long since
become private property. But not only shau We
Get DO land by this operation-the only thing that
we want, or could put to any use-we should get
what We do not want and could not put to any
use, some seven millions of peoPle-people whom
The n. Y. Times descIibes as Indians, negroes,
"enervsted CIeoies and mixed"-an, according to
it. account sliae unfit for selfeOvernment"
Pray. whatJoes The w. TimtS proPose 70 do with