New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-21
MIR. NcLANE A. A nupI.OMArss-

1t has become fashionable of late to represen!
the habitants of the Spanish American States to
the south of us as an inferior race, to great ex-
tent Indan-even the Spanish portion of it greatly
deteriorated by Indian internixture and the whole
destined to undergo the fate of our own Indian
tribes-to vanish before us, and to yield up their
territories to increase the limits of our spread
eagle Republic. Mr. McLane's late negotiations
With Mexico appear to have been based on this
idea. and to have been conducted on the model of
much of our diplomacy with the Indian
tribes As in most of our Indian negotiations,
20 the great object had in view In the
recently attempted treaty with Mexico seems
TO have been the acquisition Of territory.
But where the Indians have been unwilling to
cede us land we have often been content to pre-
pare the way for the future appropriation OF their
territory, by obtaining the right of passage and of
travel through it, and of sending troops into the
country to protect such passage and travel as
the object sought to be obtained by the Mexican
negotiation had so close resemblance TO the sub
ice. matter of so many of our Indian treaties so
the method of pursuing that negotiation seems 70
have been based on the same model. In our deal
inss with the Indians it has been our custom to
recognize as the true chiefs Of the tribe that party
Of them from whom We could obtain treaty such
as we desired Many instances have occurred IN
which very important treaties of cession, Ike that,
for instance, under which We compelled the Chero-
KEGS to transfer themselves from Georgia and
North Carolina to the territory which they
now occupy, have been made, not with
the main body of the nation, but with a faction
often an nconsider ,ble one-whch, since it was
willing to ceie the land that we wanted we
chose to regard as acting and authorized to act Tor
the whole tribe. Such seems to have been the
policy recently adopted in the case OF Mexico MOI
succeeding in getting q satisfactory treaty from
the Government which held the City Of Mexico,
and which We had recognized, in common with
Great Britain and France, as the actual possessor
of the sovereignty of the nation, Mr.. McLane
turned about and recognized Juarez and his Cab
net a. the Mexican Government, in opes Of better
success with them. Unfortunately, however, for
the success Of this experiment, the strength, and
the Pre'ensions Of the rival factions In Mexico TO
represent the nation, ale TOO equally balanced.
1t is easy, a. We have found in our dealings with
the Indian tribes, to persuade chiefs entirely de-
pendent upon Us, and without any hope of being
msiniained in their position by the favor and sup
port of their clansmen, to concede anything We
might ask. But Juarez does not consider himself
as occupying such position. He desires our assist,
ance, no dOubt-at least in the shape Of a hand
some sum Of money; but as be BY no means dee
pairs of his own internal strength, be is not dis
posed to risk the destruction Of it BY ruaning
counter to the national sentiment against any fur
ther cessions of territory or the allowing Of any
entering wedge toward that results sentiment
participated in not less strongly BY his parti,ans
than BY thOse who support the rival Government q.
the CITY Of Mexico.
But though Mr. MeLaus haa faded u Til, par.