New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT MEXICO.

Correspondence Of The N Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, March /, 1860.
1t is great qualification to be able to say that
the Mexican treaty is knocked stiff. But does not
follow that this is an end of the business. The way is
open for the acquisition of Mexico in the same man
nerinwhich Texas was Obtaned-byi Joint resolution.
But this plan will net work till Congress is differ
emily constituted from what it is new. Mr.
Buchanan may take the responsibility of involving
the country in hostlites with Mexico, through his
orders to our naval and military commanders on
the frontiers and in the Gulf but we hardly think
he will. The Southern slave interest is not ready
for any large accession of Mexican territory at this
moment. The price of negroes is too high, and
they are too scarce. The basis of black pOpula-
ton of only 600 900 does not afford the means of
rapid or.extensive colonization of slaves. AS q
means of cramping the operations of the Slavery
Extension party, feel quite sure that the acqui-
siton of the unpeopled territories of Mexico, by
OMEN and fair purchase, would DO a wise measure
They might, by being thrown open to ornlgrant
settlement on the principle of the Homestead bill,
be made Free States more readily now than by
waiting for the increased development of the
slave population. The repeal of the Missouri
Compromise having removed every implication of
claim Oh the part the Slave StatestO S0uthernterr
tory it is for the opponents of Slavery 10 make the
most of it. Emgrant Aid Societies ought to Do CON-
petent acting in concurrence with the natural flood
of foreign population upon our Shores to secure all
Northern Mexico to Freedom. The measure must
10 lafar and nrnhahlU th,z
sooner it can be act on foot, the proper arrange
ments being first made, the better. Kansas show
plainly enough what can be done when people ar
in earnest The first drain into these NOrthera
Mexican provinces would be from the free settlers
of Texas. The apprehension of an ultimate
result of this sort sets Texas agansthe new treaty.
Mr.. Wigfall, the new Senator from that State, you
will observe, has thus opened bis batteries agains
it, Not that the treaty gives territory at once an
directly, but simply because it squints that way.
new treaty. of straightforward shpulations, gvi nG
US unincumbered commercial advantages, and CD ,al
grants of land, could be made, we might well old
a cOmplacent attitude in view of its ratifcat iOn
provided we first had Homestead BILL The
Slavery Extension party should be met by going
ahead rather than by holding back Let US ha ye th
vacant territory south of U.s. and I'LL it with coli mist
and thus oyersaug Slavery therein. Mexicois falr
to pieces, and We shall soon have an OppO rtuni 4
to obtain the fragments we need on our OWL teri q
If the hostility to the spread of Slavery in the Nc ri
were theoretically thrown into this channel, nsi ea
of being FILTERED away on comparatively niu
portant questions, we could probably ead Ii
Slavery question sooner than is now eOntenJ Jlate
by the eager and blatant admirers and defenf iers
the Institution. When ito limits within OF r Coz
federacy shall once be liked, there VIII Dc nothn
more to be done but to- Let 1t suhocate' and tn
dismal blackness slough off. This is wher we ar
coming TO at last and the smaller the that ha
to BIZ surrendered TO the blacks under thus operation
the better. The Original crime of br lnging til
Ethiopian here and holding him in bond age, work
this inevitable retributiOn of compelling surrende
OF aport2n OF the continent to his subs istence. Tb
longer he is held and the more he is spread in
state of slavery, the larger the area e will compt
to bis Ultimate use. Every consider alton of wis
craftsmanship, az well as of hum anity, therefor
demands active effort in tho direeti' N indicated.
is of no use to SWIVEL or grumbl over the opera
tons Of the shareholders. They will do their hes
to carry out their plans. The My wise course fol
their opponents is to carry at theirs by eficien
and steady action. 1t is not enough for them tt
&C. on the defensive. They II ust forge ahead under
q heavy pressure of steam. Freedom and modern
civilization, if directed in the right channels VIII
do the business for the VIII ,e souless parrot crowd
of scourgng oppressors # the poor and lowly' ana
force upon them the bier sings of labOring for their
own subsistence, nstea of exacting the means OF
lazy profusion from the blood and sinews OF the
oily and innocent A lrican. If we could run tier
of Free States sra ght across the continent on the
southern line of T exas, we should let in an anaz-
ing food of liz hit on the Slavery question by the
process Sucf Gordon could not be jumped by
Slavery, and Lower Mexico might then tester and
putrefy at leisure with comparatively small dan
ger of spr eading her contaminatiOns upon U.s. AS
things new stand, and they would be made even
worse FINDER this hybrid treaty we have no security
sgainF.t peon Slavery being established and grad.