The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06

lands to be granted In the States OF Tamau.
lipas, New Leon, Zacatecas, Ooahuila, Du-
range, chihuahua, Sinaloa, Michiocau,
Guerrero, and Oajaca. This tender includes
q further consideration in the form of sur.
veying and plating for certain other public
lands. The gentlemen in this country con-
nected with these movements are men Of
military tact and approved courage. They
profess to obey our mentality laws they
will not infract them but if they go into
Mexico, they will 60 as emigrants, on invi-
tation, and carry the appliances of art, man.
ufacture, and agriculture. Laughter.
Of course, they cannot 60 unharmed to ouch
a country! They may reverse the millen-
ium, and beat their plowshares into revolv-
ers and their pruning hooks into bowie
knives. Laughter. Unless We give to
Juarez that aid which the treaty provides,
he cannot be blamed if he accept the offer
of three thousand emigrants for each of the
ten States, in consideration of the public
lands of those States. It will be the ultima
ratio with his Government. He will be
driven out by our non-action into the arms
of the unregulated enterprise of this country.
RESOURCES OF MEXICO.
If we could have settled relations with
Mexico, and if Mexico herself could be tran.
quilted, I doubt not that $5O,000,000 Of
silver per annum could be produced. -Four
flths Of this would come to us. Our mining
interests now give us $l2O,OOO,O0O, with
only twenty thousand persons employed.
Think of such an enterprise applied to the
silver mines of Mexico.
4 Tn al
resources were only scratched by the
rude science of the time, from the conquest
to 1886, (by official data furnished by the
Ministerio De Fomento) we find coinage
of 1886, 745, 951, figures under which the
mind reels in its romance after the wonders
of wealth! Of this amount, 1854, 49,
679 were of silver alone! The gold amount
ed to 96,892142. What fruitage from
these sterile mountains What apples of
gold in pictures of silver! No Yankee
Aladdin ever had dreams to rival this arith~
metic of ready and coined cash! Quite
lot of loose change to chink in the panta-
looms of Young America! laughter.
And yet this land of sterile sierras, with
their untold Golfers of wealth, has no paral>
lei for the salubrity of its climate, the rich.
ness of its soil, and the balmy beauty and
soft influences of its sky. Mexico has her
Tierras Calientes, her Tierras Frias but
above all, her Tierras Templadas, which
combine the virtues of all soils, and the
beauties of all heavens. -.e ..f p.
THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST A MEXICAN POLICY
MET AND ANSWERED. ,......
l. Is it objected that our Intervention,
under the fifth and sixth of the conventional
articles of the treaty, by force, will involve
US in war? believe their simple ratifca.
ton would bring England into concert with
us, drive Miramon from the country, and,
by such partial Intervention now, save
war and constant Intervention hereafter.
We must else contend with France and
England, who will do this duty. We have
the opportunity of giving to Mexico the
most liberal government which has yetarisen.
1t is inclined towards Us. Even Miramon,
when protesting to us against the treaty,
considers our recognition of the establish
ment, as he calls it, (establecimiento,) at Vera
Cruz, as thing inexplicable to him-as
utterly impossible but a few years ago,
when Mexico lived upon the rant of the
soldiery about the Yankees, and before her
statesmen had learned to understand our
aims and institutions. III; AZ
2. Is it objected that this treaty will pre-.
vent annexation? Why, Fuente, the Mex.
lean Minister of Foreign Affairs, refused to
sign it because he feared to give away the
sovereignty of Mexico. How can these
objections be reconciled? By division of
sovereignty. But what is sovereignty with.
out the concomitant power? What is the
empty crown of royalty without the head to
plan or the arm to execute. Mexico has
the right, but not the power; we furnish
the last. II, then, it be objected to this
treaty that it will prevent any annexation
to this country, because it elevates Mexico
into the dignity of an assured independence,
l ask, if this followed, would annexation be
less desirable or less probable?
8. Is it objected that we have territory
and people enough for our own happiness
and contentment =? II Mr.. Jefferson had SO
believed, we never should have had our
southwestern empire, with the Mississippi
holding by its mobile drops of water this
Union in its steadfast poise. If John
Quincy Adams had 60 reasoned, would not
Florida still have been, as Cuba is now, a
menace to our peace, and clog to our pro.
gress Had Robert J. Walker and John
Calhoun so believed, we never should have
had the lone star of Texas on our flag and
her territory in our Union. Had James K.
Polk so believed, California would still have
remained paralyzed limb of the diseased
body of Mexico. Had Pierce so believed,
the Mesilla would still be terra incognita,
and her mineral wealth would have had no
chance for development. I have no fear of
territorial expansion, sir, with the spirit of
the Confederation preserved unoorrupt and
pure.
4. Is it objected that Mexico has not a
population suited to our system of self.
government ? Had not Louisiana her
French, Florida and Texas their Spanish,
and California and New Mexico popula-
ton like that of Mexico These are be-
coming homogeneous with the lapse of time.
There is no reason why, under our system
of local selfgovernment and federal decen.
tralization, all Mexico should not live and
progress under our government with the
same success to herself and safety to US
which these acquisitions have witnessed.
5. Is it objected that already we have dis
traction and threats of dissolution? It is