The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-29

mines to disembowe no cities to build no new States
raise up in the bosom of America There are there
The interests of the Union-thc honor of America the
welfare of nankindthe cause of republican government
religion and Of sympahies of race of the
noble blood Of Europe-invoke to cast eye OF
thoughtfulncss towards those rich regions of the New
World, the dominion Of Spain and the prey OF
anarchy, and Of social rather than civil and all
these considerations do most especially invoke to send
forth the too full of vital force for the redemp
ton and regeneration OF unhappy Mexico. u
Unhappy Mexico The initial step of her national in
dependence not like Congress OF the colonies
deliberately pronouncing and preparing to maintain IT,
but tunultuary uprising OF Indians warning on white
men, Such the revolutionary Grilo OF Dolores nn
der the auspices of the Priest Hidgo The second step
that Of the Priest Morelos better for this also
was but another tumutuary insurrection of Indians
The third step ltnrbdes plan Of iguala, poiessed to
give equality to the two races European aud Indian but
that of course, did not satisfy the latter Since then
forty of revolution and Of domestic foreign
have elapsed with gradual expulsion extinction OF the
white race and now, from end to end of the land, while
the Silly pretent4ns party cries Of Liberal constitu
tonal, Federal, Central, Pure, and what not the
watchwords of contending factions efficient alike only
to waste their country-that country, plague
spot of social all over fast losing all the attributes
OF civilized State, and reapsng into aboriginal barba
rsm Those Of the departments nearest to the United
States already hafdepopulated by the ncusons of
the nomad savages the central and populous de-
partmens overrun by red guros and robbers their
plantations ravaged their cities off than sacked by
foreign foes and their white covering in presence of
the omens of coming disaster while the extreme south
departments already the mercy Of their resident
Pueblo aud Sierra Indians.
AS to Intervention to stay this surgng deluge of
calamity it is question of amicabe International nego
ation, not Of unconstitutional ntermeddling with affairs
not righfully concerning it is not question Of the
conquest oa ncghboring people, but OF their salvaton
1t is not question of hostilities but Of commercial
union and protective alliance
When America had been discovered by Europe, it
not the voice Of the Pope but the voice of God which
gave to them the New World to occupy, to Chrsanizc
and to civilze. Aud the will of God by evil
dent signs and portens to intervene nation for the
salvation Of the people of Mexico
We frequently hear Of the American policy of cxclu
ding Europeans from America think that much of
what said that subject is somewhat vaguely said
since they who to remember that all along
northern frontier there is British America the
and British Columbia the other; and that
while absorbed in the discussion of metaphysical
subtletes, England is with aid in, attaching those
colonies closely to herself by oceanic telegraph
and to another by continental railway that not
ours, tough to be- but hers shall be the line of com
munication from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Let that
pass British America after all has her republican
future plain and assured before her assume that
predestned line of expansion at least, is to the
West and to the South If Cuba lies in the path of that
destiny, much the better; but that Mexico must and
does, religously believe and would have it so not
in the Of anmosy, but Of friendship not by the
act of frivolous irresponsible mischieyous private in
vadcrs, but by the deliberate, ecaoous, and official
tion of the government of the United States
question of expcdency they doubt its rghtulness and
therefore oppose the continuation Of the advancement of
the United States-let them tell by what arguments
they justify the beginnings Of that advancement and its
progress thus farnay let them tell by what rule of
right we stand anywhere in Americas Where is Pow
hatan Where is Nassasoit Is not the occupation of
any portion Of the earth by those competent to hold and
till it proydenal law of national life Can you
to tho tide that it ought not ow or the rains to
fall reply, it must And SO 1t is with well-consti-
tnted and therefore progressive and expansive nations
They cannot help advancing it is the condition of their
existence. 4 te
When in celebrated State paper Of the last adminis-
traton three eminent statesmen alluded to this law of
natural life applicable, in assigned contingencies, to
the relation Of the United States to Cuba the suggestion
was Reproduced, in quarters, political heresy
Was it such Did not Washington himself, reserved as
he was usually In speech Of such matters express the
idea, in of his letters to Lee, anticipating,
twenty years beforehand the acquisition of Louisiana
whenever the States, said he ''become popu-
lous and extended to the westward really to need it,
there will be power which deprive them of the
use OF the Mississippi pray you to weigh well these
words penetrate into their inner thought then
decide you cam at what point the continent of North
America they cease TO have significance 8a ~ t
The United States are already most bene6centy as
well as gorionsy involved within the fortunes of Mex
CO What waste wldernesses Of undiscovered wealth,
prosperity, and happiness not Texas and California
before their association with us Nay the presence
of the armies Of the United States in Mexico bene
mt to her rather than prejudice before nor since
flourish; before since did she enjoy of sub
stantia peace security of persons property
elsewhere conquered country favored and so |
treated the friend and ally instead of the prey, Of the
conqueror When Zachary Taylor, that ilustrous son
of Virginia. led the victorious eagles of the Union from
Palo Alto to Resaca and from Monterey to Bucna Wis
Ia when that other illustlious of Virginia. Winfield
Scott led the victorious eagles from Vera Cruz to
Cerro Gordo and from Padiena to Churubusco and Cha
puepec and at length planted the banner of the Unien
the site of the old Teocalli of the Azecs they
sevcray marched onward from triumph to triumph they
vanqushed hostile armes in fair encounter of course
but they respected the and property of the people
of the country carefully if it had been their
and they occupied the Territory of Mexoo Its cities aud
its hamlets, peaceful governors not as hostile mas
tiers. And II you, tho of Virginia, who right
well know, furnished to that the most and
best appointed of all the many regiments Of volunteers
that served in it, did not have the good fortune to par
ticpae in its glorious battles it honor enough for
you to have been the birthplace Of the mother Of
its great commanders, Taylor and Scott They, say,
occupied in the spirit of friends rather than Of enencs
and the federal government Of that day James K Polk
its President James Buchanan and William L. Marcy its
Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of War, manifested, in
the conduct and conclusion of the war, the most noble
forbearance towards Mexico the most considerae gem
erosityas indeed in less critical emergencies have
other administrators of the federal government ret
crate them that the of national action respect
ing Mexico has been conceived beneicenty and
uced And assert what believe to I've true the dou-
bic proposition first, that the people of the United
States desire, expect aud intend later to in
terposc in MEXICO and secondly that the inerposon
will be in good will towards her. and with conviction Of
the utility Of such intervention we'll to Mex