The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-26

between the oceans for ia time there will be- rapid and
safe trallsits soil Not so much because
onght TO have and hold the hundred and fifty millions Of
trade with these Spanish American tropical lands instead
Of but ton millions which We now have. But nature
never made obstacle; easily severed
and on which such great commercial and economical re
suits depended, as thai ut Dsrien or Nicaragua She
buried mountains and valleys beneath the wave, to
row that neck and thus expand the bounds of inter
change, and cncrcle the earth with white zone of
srgosics. % gsrlgia h-t11l ll $50 Goss b H1tiflf 3
ii New Granada shall be ours--as IL should be within
tweyemonth unless the Congress of Bogota show more
honesty and wisdom in settling the claims of our Panama
sufferers than is likely II New Granada would follow the
advice Of Gonzales, her attorney goncra and enhance
her interests by applying for admission to our Union
and IL Venezuela would follow the wise inclnations of
her patriot chief General paex whose exile here has
made him love the land of his home the more for the
prospect of uniting its fortunes with ours then indeed
these Central American States tho football OF Euro
pen diplomacy must either to us, be powdered
into nothingness between tho industrial movements Of
the surrounding States Once ict the agriculture Of Ven
eAaoa be Smiled upon by protecting government, and
her magnhoents ports would fill with the kcels of
her elder commerce. Let northern energy blend with her
undireced labor and the gold mines of Upata would
geam with their olden treasures. Let Panama break
from her vassge to her irresponsible rulers and that
mart OF the golden age of Spain and her yiceroys viii
TEEN with wealth which no buccaneers ia thousand
carayels bear away These accomplished, and the
intermediate States of Nicaragua Costa Rica Salvador,
Honduras and Guatemala will follow surely as the
sheaf of the follows the seed of the spring The
trade OF all tropical America would then tall TO US nat
uraliy by proximity and by the variety of pro-
ducons with which TO barter. These tropical wastes
ought to give Coffee indigo and cocoa which fail
log in India well the cabinet woods, much in
demand In return, they will take our -four pork,
chinery fabrics and thousand other articles which they
need and which every State Of this Union produces Our
trade which counts Its hundreds, viii then count its
Millions 1910 q g-stfr e.1 "a ass gtaafta a,l
If this Congress has optic nerve enough to look few
years ahead it will at least start policy that will
cure all the islnan highways which ndispdnsa-
BILE to Development and power Its first duty s to
repe every attempt of the renotcst influence from
what quarter it may which may impede this procession
of events arrest inevitable and legitimate aggran
dzcment No nation with one harbor much less
tion with coast besrewn with harbors like ours be
long prosperous within that does not prosper and grow
without When State, which Is commercial BY situa-
tion, togcts the work of outbulding its empire, it
losses II inner vitality The day that marks its failure
to meet every rising opportunity of advancement abroad
marks its decline at home AS with the individual
so with the State il It's ambition be dead and its hopes
of expansion shoulder its dissolution is speedy and
While its intellectual and physical energies tense and
grasp large range its internal and foreign empire win
become because il has the everlasting law Of
/ GROWTH }4si'sfaagEA ati ntt e4 asf" G9tit fE
We have illustrated that law with reference to our
southern neghbor, Mexico The cffete and wasted por
tons of Mexico being half of her area lying next to
US, became nutriment to our stalwart strength The
very dirt of the ground became assimatcd with
ergy and 10 from Mexican purchases S70,0O0 900
of gold per year sucked into every conduit of Amer
lean life to enhance its happiness and give added COM
fort TO its homes 1t objected that the soil of
California, New Mexico and Arizona was poor; land
of sand and centpedes that there homogeneity
! in the people
True, she has six million Indians with Spaniards in
plenty and prde and of mixed people not a few. But
they than the Indians of soil On the
contrary, they far better They ractable, stout
and laboTious. Spain managed them with but hand
fu of soldiers for three hundred years. She managed
thcm too, under every provocaton to revolt Had an
American protectorate been the sequence of Scott occu
patton, few months of protection would have given
their industry its reward and peace its blessing Ihen
too should have apprehension to disturb pres
| cnt relations with Mexico. t an'
To these relations propose to call the attention of the
House. In the discussion need only remark, hstor-
cay that the discovery of this continent there was
but nation in North and one in South America which
seemed to DO possessed OF any civilized advancement
Peru under the Incas, whose white robes betokened the
almost divine simplicity of the people; and Mexico with
society that Arcadan in its simplicity and polity
wonderful in its complications. The State, the priest
hood the cultivators Of the SOIL the rulers and the ruled
of Mexico lived in peace under oyelier sky than that
of Naples and richer soil than that of ancient Laum
Let it be remembered that this prosperity and content
ent not alone the result of good laws but of good
land of good manners and of good mines There was, in
the Aztec tongue, no language of cupdy, though gold
rooted the temple and jasper built the altar
need repeat that this isolated of civilization
ON this northern continent mostly the result Of the
unparalleled climate and SOIL That climate and soil
remain Three hundred years of misrule have not inn
paired the salubriy of the one nor detracted from the
wealth of the other. sr q. ts.i 5s.f n s#t3 s-,
The Spanish rule at length was thrown off for a re-
public like The nborn strength to throw it of,
after long trial. showed spirit of freedom which
received its paudits from this nation at the time In Feb
rary 1921 at Iguea, Mexico declared her independence
On the 4th foctober 1924 she adopted her constitution
England the first to recognise this progress, and,
usual for her profit The lower clergy and the masses
consisting of Indians its creators and benefcarics
The upper clergy sympathized with this
i from Europe and until the revolution of Ayuta, con-
summatcd by Comonfort they never became power in