New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-23


/ the fret place, it will ent.fge our army and in
crease its expenses indefinitely. With q military
force in Mexico, another in Nicaragua, another u
Honduras and others elsewhere in Central Ameri
ca, we shall soon have pretty mess on cue hands
We shaa have a great standing army before we
know it, and on foreign soil, paid by our people to
take care Of mahogany -colored ragamufins In.
dinns, Mexicans, and cross breeds Of all sorts.
What sort Of job il this for us What do we
want to go down into that country for, with fleets
and armies, any way What is the object TO
protect our transit routes 10 the Pacifci We had
better build two or three Pacific Railroads. as a
mere matter of economy, 10 preference.
Is it to obtain the country We had far better
buy il outright. The real truth IT, as we have re-
Gently said that this military foOthod it il proposed
TO obtain, is designed es shelter to gradual
colonization OF the country with slave labor. That
is the whole of it. The Slave Power desire an en-
largement of the army. They are opposed to popu-
lar sovereignty, and prefer governments based on
" military principles" They know full well that
unless the military srm is extended over Northern
Mexico and elsewhere in the available countries
south OF us, those countries will be Overrun by o
free emigration. This is just what they want TO
prevent. They desire military occupation for the
purpose 0fsuppressing movements of this sort, and
TO afford shield to the feebler movements Of Slave
Colonization. This was Walkers whole design in
NEIGHBOUR, anu Ddthtu Dl the hhftuoluluB
terests. The ilnstrious SOule with that brilliant
success that attended all his diplomatic and fill.
clustering enterprises, went down and bought him
self hacienda 10 show how beautifully the scheme
might be made to work. But Walkers funds gave
out and Soule's hacienda Ielapsed.
If these Slavery-spreading m0nOmariacs had not
some such idea at the bottom Of these protectOrate
movements, what upon earth should make them SO
earnest and so passionate in pushing theml Do
ahnpf fha rcial infqras
of the country under which plausible guise they
are advocating theml Well we guess they do.
They are dear, disinterested set of Free-Sae and
fiee-city loving patriots, we all know. No doubt
they are extremely solcltous for the interests Of
Northern manufactures and Northern commerce.
and for the advancement of the interests of tho
crowd of miners and gold seekers who thrOng those
sthmus routes, aud the Vanderbilts and Pacific
Mail Companies who transport them. 1t is most
probable they trying to aid the trade of Boston
and New-York and Philadelphia and San Fran
cisco. Ii is so natural and 80 characteristic OF the
gentlemen who have charge of the sable interests
OF the Republic. Why what did the amiable and
patriotic and lree-institpton loving, and Southern,
bOmespun- wearing Mason Of Virginia say yesterday
in the Senate There was bill up to settle the
difficulties between the miners and Indians at Pixies
Peak. Did Mason advocate the interests of those
free white settlers. Not he There was not q slave
sayl O. said be, won't dirty my hands with the
crowd. "Let them work out their own salvation"
These were his very words. Let them work out
their own salyationD That is the keynote OF the
Slave Power of the men who are urging these pro-
tectOrate treaties upon us in regard To every Free
State interest. Let it work out its own salvation.
This key affords full insight into the objects Of
the Incorporating champions in urging the Mica
raguan, the Mexican, and all other treaties of the
same sort.
Bat if these beauties are not allowed to have
their own way in this matter, they will bring on
war with Mexico. The threat is O braggart's
threat II is like the threat to dissolve the
Union if they cannot have their own way in our
internal administration. Let them bring on that
war if they dare What grist did the last war bring
to the saveholders' mill We have got one State
as its fruits, and that is Free State. What the
Free State people have made of Upper California,
they can make of Lower California and of Sonora,
and other Mexican provinces. SO come on, gentle
men shareholders and saye-spreaders, give us your
threatened war with Mexico if you dare. The FREQ
States are ready for il if you are. Ii you are anx-
ious to try the Kansas game, ofspreadng Slavery by
force of arms, over again. you cannot have better
time than now. So just pluck up courage and
begin But, if you do not want to begin now, wait.
The men who are bent on preventing the turtle
spread of Slavery in this country are equal to either
policy. But they wish to do or not do. They
do not want any Of your mongrel protectorates, or
military cOlonzations Of slave labor by stealth.
They want none Of your bastard treaties for such
objects. They do not want to erect gates to tn
Southern open country, aud give you the Keys
them. That is all
1t is just as well to right 10 the point of this
matter first as last. This Republic is going to alb
serb the unpeOpled territories OF Mexico and per-
haps parts of Central America, at no distant day.
The question is which of our two systems of cyili-
cation shall POSSESSES them! Shall they be occupied
by free men or slave men Shall they be elevated,
enlightened, illuminated, with the rich blessing Of
Freedom, or shall they be sunk and sOdden in the
gloom of African Slavery This question must find
its solution on the soil En- grant Aid Societies and
Kansas tactics will secure to them the precious in
hertance nobly won by the bood-stained Territory
west of Missouri. No other method will avail.
The Free States should fully comprehend the fact.
Let us have treaties about them but of outright
purchase and annexation. And we have imme-
date occasion of these except by way of accommo-
dating our negro-loying, Incorporating brothers
down South. J. s. p.