The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-01-04


their property has been sometimes forcibly
| appropriated and sometimes destroyed their
lives afe often in peril, and have frequently
been taken there lie no remedy allowed in
the courts, and all appeals and remonstran.
ces have been In vain, and the following 10
tho remedy which he proposes;
| We must penetrate into the interior before
we can reach the offenders, and this can only
be done BY passing through the territory in
| the occupation OF the constitutional govern
ment. That is, the government OF Juarex
The most acceptable and least difficult mode
OF accomplishing the object will be to act in
| concert with that government. Their con-
sent and their aid might, ] believe, be OBJ
tanned but il not, our obligations to pro-
tect our own citizens in their just rights, Sc
cured by treaty, would not be the less i'm.
perative. For these reasons. recommend
to Congress TO pass law authorizing the
President under such conditions as they may
deem expedient, TO employ sufficient mill
tary force to enter Mexico for the purpose OF
obtaining indemnity for the past and securi-~
ty for the future. =.
purpossiy refrain from any suggestion AZ
to whether this force shall consist Of regulaif
troops or volunteers, or both. This question
may be most appropriately left to the decis-
ion of Congress. II would merely observe
that, should volunteers be selected, such q
force could be easily raised In this country
among those who sympathize with the suffer-
ings Of our unfortunate fellow citizens in
Mexico, and with the unhappy condition of
that republic. In that event there is no reas-
on to doubt that the just claims of our citi-
xens would be satisfied and adequate redress
obtained for the injuries inflicted upon them.
The constitutional government have ever
eviueea o strong desire ID ns justice, and
this might be secured in advance by prelim-
mary treaty.
Ii may be said that these measures will, at
least indirectly, be inconsistent with our wise
and settled policy mott interfere in the do
mestio concerns of foreign nations. But
does not the present case fairly constitute an
exceptionp An adjoining republic 10 in
state of anarchy and confusion from which
she has proved wholly unable to extricate
herself. She is entirely destitute of the pow
er to maintain peace upon her borders, or to
prevent the iocurslons OF banditti into our
territory. Ia her fate and in her fortune--in
her power to establish and maintain set
tied government--ws have a far deeper in
terest, socially, commercially and politically
than any other nation. She is now wreck
upoo the ocean, driven about as she is i'm
PEELED by different factions. As good neigh.
Dor, shall we not extend to her helping
hand to save her2 If we do not, ii would
not be surprising should some other nation
undertake the task, and thus force US TO in
terfere at last, under circumstances of in-
creased difficulty. for the N maintenance of our
established policy.
repeat the recommendation contained In
my last annual message that authority may
be given to the President to establish one or
more temporary military posts across the
Mexican line In Sonora and Chihuahua, where
these may DO necessary to protect the lives
and property OF American and Mexican citi-
gems against the incursions and depredations
of the Indians, as well as Of lawless rovers
on that remote region. The establishment
OF one such post at point called Arispe, in
Sonora, in a country now almost depopulated
BY the hostile inroads of the Indians from
our side Of the line, would, it is believed,
have prevented mneh injury and cruelty du-
ring the past season. state of lawlessness
and violence prevails on that distant From
tier. Life and property are there wholly in
secure. The population of Arizona, now
numbering more than ten thousand souls, are
practically destitute OF government, of laws,
or OF any regular administration OF Justice.
Murder, rapine and other crimes are commit.
ted with impunity. /, therefore, again call
the attention Of Congress to the necessity for
establishing territorial government over
Arizona.