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

and bid him disgorge the furve crumb - indemnity icr
the past and security for the future Fifty generals and
nation OF seven millions not knowing what may be
their fate The Agotistas hold the mony and oppress
with it, The generals murder and piliage In gross and
the bandits detail Indians before in rush
10 them for sslfpsservstion Foreigners, at the
mercy of these tickle factions, find protection In their
hsgs and hope but ia passive submission to forced
loans and open robbery This Is the spectacle OF mutt
lated Mexico to-day Tomorrow 1t may be worse
/ repeat 1t, scho shall rsuveass Some one must Our
interest Is paramount. Why this INTEREST," Not only
proximity to Mexico not alone the number Of our
citizens domicilatcd In the country but common inter
est in the development, the retouching as it WERE
into its prmeva color and grace Of that elder beauty
which Spain tarnished and snarchs have torn to shreds
Our interest lies first In Mcxicos erect and orderly indc
pendency Ithat be no longer possible then tatno power
but shall guard its weakness and administer is
estate This Is the only programmes which this nation
tolerate and by which It dare abide and survive or
grow! 3 olah 4t pdl 'N 4e.@ ...s tt- - -.
AS to our proximity the reasons this head for
intervention we'll set forth In the Presidents mes
sage cannot add to its force therefore quote 1t
from unhappy sstsr
& s @ % sSn IN that y s .sa .,s
tory Indians roam poscuousy the Mexican States Chnus
Of these perfectly helpless and ksps IN sAss Of
ss sis % m s ne yen o N s %
the border and committing depredaons remote settlers
The laws and e and property wholly insecure
s Ss % s that Ss baan IT,
southern border sufficient for their own roteoon and that Of the
wandering Mex
essaSshsd between our 4sns and Pacific
possessions This very near 70 the boundary through
for these ey and no mode restoring aw and order or '9s
States % temporary proeooras0 portions
Of Chihuahua and and establish military poss within the
may shah be essbnshsd
training the awss and preserving along the
border ,.ts54 tUg gaF -l8tF4 .ssfLsA tet4zS
temporary protectorate will efectually IL not nomi
fhasa Etnfao of E1por r1dG huA
They very spasey populated there being about three
hundred thousand to their two hundred and TWEEN
ythree thousand hundred and ten square miles
These lands represented delightful in climate aud
rich in resources agricultural and mineral They have
described the land of the blessed In Oriental story
Summer and winter, table land and valley nearer
akin than in places in the world. Silver ID in their
streams lodes with cress elevated above the ground
Spain demonstrated their riches but the nonadlc Apa
ches swept this Edorado and left but memory Of
its treasures, which American enterprise Is already vital
zing into q reality. El 3D. 4ta sel b& ~
Is it objected by southern gentleman that these States
must become free and not slave Statesf hope not You
have been claiming your constitutional rights Where s
there word about the equilibrium OF the States IN that
instrument Under it you have equality of right, and
right Of equality in the number Of States This equal
ity not Of arithmetic but of political ethics Tho mo-
ment you claim equilibrium of States, that moment your
honor is compromised and your loyalty to the constitu
ton is questioned. r.atH g tapkat lt.ft
Do you saw awe will favor this protectorate if Tamau
lipas and New Leon included r. Very we'll; try
that will vote for it, vote to include any other
State where you think you raise coffee and sugar. and
can outve with the North in the of colonization and
power will gladly vote for protecorate over an in
dependent federation of States north of the Sierra hadre
Mr.. MILLSON. want to know under what author
lily the gentleman from Ohio represents southern gentle
men desiring all these Mexican States
Mr.. COX. have not represented them. l say
southern gentlemen may perhaps not exactly wish to
take Sonora and Chihuahua, lest they might be-
come free States and not slave States. 1t was
suggestion made to me by southern member, and
I said to (omc
lipas and New Leon. We will link them hand in
hand " For myself willing to give protection to
northern Mexico if not for annexation for free trade
which will be of mutual advantage, and will he prac
tca absorption 1t will at least prepare these States for
admission Let Monterey be the nucleus Of Zacatecas
San Luis, Queretero, Tamaulipas, Coahua, New Lcon
Chihuahua and Sonora-al the States between the Rio
Bravo and the Gulf of California all natural allies in the
interest Of the United States Let them cluster In upon
ensgn-not star by star, but in galaxy by that
you do at what will in time be done by the natural
laws development Besides you raise present fec
bic trade Of millions to twentyeight, which
Great Britain enjoys You thus enhance every inch
of soil and shining particle of ore in these re-
gons. easet y. .,lt l3tatA a88 ry st3 6aa Na
Mr.. GIDDNGs win my colleague allow mo to put
q question to him ~. tes 3s tll 4Gi hs nts8t aaAia
Mr.. cox. No, sir; I have not time We will meet
and talk the matter after my friend shall be made
governor do not wish to get ont of the line OF my ar
gument. .,f ~ ss.s.f sff 7e3g sRaG .s ea .a
BY this programme we shall have, in time, with all
of Mexico practical annexation, which will allow free
trade and safe intercourse to mutual advantage.
AS to the question of protecting citizens already in
Mexico, and demanding reparation for wrongs done
them this should be capital of intervention in
Mexican matters Senator MAsoN's bill is rightly pred
Gated this cause. If Spain could make the liberals
pay for the murder and spoaton of Spanish subjects at
SIN Vincente, Chiconcuaque, Durango, and elsewhere
in Comonorts time, why asleep over the rights
of our citizensl have before list Of these claims
but very imperfect Each claim IL casas belle &
Here dozen of illegal seizure of American
property saw it noticed that some eleven millions were
already calculated at our State Department We have
grievances beyond money The sentences In relation to
illegal marriages il wrong to those without the cstab
lshed Church, and degades to crime the holy relations
of parsntage and wedlock the infamous surveance of
the post office American letters refusing to deliver
the United States consular correspondence unless it
first inspected by Mexican authorities and worse
STILL the rude cruel and brutal arrest and imprisonment
of Chaplin Stocker, Ansi, and Garcia enough to
make the Haynaus of Austria pale beside the mbruted
and unbrided scoundrelism of Mexican officers The
story of Ansi, seized American SOIL sixteen months
in the prisons of Sonora, wearing the barrd gs and
that sad saddest of all stories the Of his
bothernlaw Cabbe and his conederates, whose char
acers have been backened to rob their murder of Its
Nervousness these should the very stones to sym
pathy. i. -s15 5-.f (. T.-ssrs, ~ a.. + -.
In this matter the United States have but one duty
These sufferers citizens Wherever that char
acer of citizenship is to be found the individual boarng
1t is clothed with the nationality of the Union Who
the may be, whether native b0rn naturalizcd
semnauralized, he claim the profession Of this
government may respond to that claim without being
obliged to explain it's conduct to any foreign power for
il its duty make its nationality respected other
tions and respectable in quarter Of the globe
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