New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-19
MANIFEST DESTINY spEcuLArIoNs.

A manifest destiny friend, who Axes his prophetic
vision the star Of Anglo-American empire that be
fancies he can see cleaning over the Northern chain
Of Mexican border States chihuahua, Coahuila
Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Sonora and Lower Califor
MIA asserts ID the most positive and exuberantiy
patriotic TERMS that within four years they will form
Part OF this confederation. We will not argue the
question PRO or con- but will allow that it is very pro
bable that our boundary line stakes will be pulled up
and pitched few degrees farther South within four
| or fourteen wears. We should not like to be more
definite In indicating the time. We might be mis-
taken. and it is disagreeable to be mistaken When
this Government does nip off this slice Of debatable
territory we shall become tseized and possessed
something worth having-aye worth stealing to have
though doubtless, we shall come by it in an honest
enough way, as the moral laws of nations prescribe
to surrender territory voluntarily and of their owr
free will-when they can't hold on to it any longer
But we will not dgress into the discussion of the alb
stract question 80 suggested.
We only design to consider, to count over in ad
vance, what the new slice of Mexico would be worth
to us The average of each of the States named
above, exceeds that Of Lousiana--so in getting them
we should get vast amount Of land. Several Of
them dip down within the tropic which marks the
plantation. They contain exceedingly rich mines OIL
the precious metals so should get money for the
digging And last, but most important they stretch
from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific ocean-so we
should secure the very best route for Pacific rail
road, for though the line would be shorter by more
southerly location, its value would be decreased in
greater ratio than the gain from such circumstance
The route Of the Southern Pacific Railroad lays
through these States, but it further medtates pas.
sage through Sinaloa, if not Durango, and we must
confess that like the idea of adding these two to
the other six which are to be onrsfor we must have
within four or fourteen years. the country that the
Pacific Railroad of the South runs through. We are
guaranteed the privilege Of occupying it for that pur.
pose, but there is tenant right half so strong as
that of possession, and Comanches and other red,
white and brown outlaws, have habit of treating
Mexican edicts, laws and statutes with small respect
Therefore we must have the privilege of taking care
OF our railroad in our own way.
As an offset to the sundry advantages, briefly
alluded to above, of such acquisition, Uncle Sam
would add to the number Of his representative sub.
jects couple Of millions or SO of as arrant yellow
brown and coppercoored rascals as can be found on
this or any other planet but who could in the course
Of time, be made somewhat useful as laboring body
to be directed by the whites who would pour into
this extension Of the territory of the South which
would not have much trouble in extending her inHu.
ence and institution across the Rio Grande If the
South can once get over that rubicon and commence
her onward march toward the Isthmus of Darien the
North would be welcome to devour the British Pos.
sessions and stretch her outposs to the north pole
she would not reach her goal before we should ours
for il one Of the more popuous Mexican States could
for few months experience the benefits of Ameri.
can rule it is reasonable to conclude that the sent
ment Of its neighbors would soon be to seek
refuge from their fearful troubles in the same
remedy; and would it be proper and becom-
ing - emphatically, would it be doing the clean
thing by distressed fellow creatures to stand in
the door of the Union and beat them back to their
misery when striving to gain the city of refuge
Certainly not and when they tapped at the portal we
should haveto admit them by one until our protect
ing arms embraced the whole nation of the "greasers
After getting possession of them we might make
them somewhat better than no population at all,
and certainly could manage them that they would
not be much in the way of their betters With their
country open to the decent people of the world they
would soon find their level, and it would be that
which would not interfere with the more elevated
strata of American and European settlers COLOMBIA.
ton would quickly follow occupation-and should not
precede it, as has been illustrated by the disastrous
histories Of the attempts Of our citizens to settle in
that country Robbery and murder are the burden of
the chronicle and will continue to be until manifest
destiny" introduces fairer page