The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1861-09-11
The Future of Northern Mexico.

! We clip the following suggestive extracts from q
letter to the Delta The day is probably lar distant
when the probabilities shadowed forth by TINS CORES
! pondent may become facts
"The political future history of Mexico however, who
shall undertake to write it? Who is able to divine the
effect the revolution in the United States may have upon
! the future desnies of the republic? not very I'M
probable result may be an attraction OF the virtually
seeded northern Mexican States the actually secedec
southern States and due time cohesion. Acentrtuga
force from either hand may mpe union OF the con
tguous States OF the two fractured republics Ihell
interests are nearly Identical and their resources car
only be developed by slave labor. Peouage exists III
full force only in the northern States of Mexico and
African slavery only in the Souther COntederacy No
exradition treaty enables the States en- either side oil
the present boundary the Rio Grande to reclaim either
fugitive slaves poems, and the consequence IS an I'M
developed condition both sides OF the Rio Grande
This great valley which might challenge the Nile III It's
pamest days where every rood OF ground might NAM
tain its man. is comparatively waste for the want OF
protection slaves and peons who continually get
ting on the wrong sides of the river and power on
earth to get them back cry necessarily goes up,
therefore from the American side for the extension OF
the boundary to the Sierra Madre. This touches the
pride of the Hidago race taught by two wars to hate
the Americans and their entertainments Texas lost,
New Mexico and Upper California gone, where IS tins
'manfes destiny" to find limit and when this aggres-
sive people to call halt The answer is, make virtue
Of the necessity of the case If the onesixth European
element in the northern States Of Mexico which, in fact
now controls the wealth of these States were awake
to its true interests the petty squabbes of this frontier
might be made to give place to raerna union OF the
better half of two great disrupted republics in
state of revolution and the central government would
naturally fix itself in New Orleans Lower California,
Sonora Sinaloa, chihuahua Durango Coahuila Nueva
Leon and Tamaulpas embracing extent Of territory
about as large the Southern Contederacy and all
adapted to cotton say nothing Of other great products
if united under government with the Southern Con
federated States, might become the greatest wealthiest
and happiest nation the face of the earth The min
eral wealth of the northern States of Mexico greater
and more varied than that of California and it ony needs
impetus in the march of discovery to reenact in then
the migration development of California. A railroad
would soon connect the gulf and Pacific, Matamoras
and Mazaan and the increased value of real estate
the route would be solacebo to all disaected Mexcans
Worn out with revolution upon revolution, forced
oaus aitcrt forced loans the central government of Mex
leo is the people of its northern States there
is stimulus to industry protection against robbery
on either hand; if the Comanches and Apaches do not
seize the returns Of home industry-the cattel and
horses and mules and goats of the rancheros-he
trl government does and who Hay the blame the
innocent and ignorant masses, who would be thrifty
Industrious quiet moral people, if they were bes with
good stable government
east my eyes aboutupon this race and their political
condition with wonder and astonishmen One half or
4OO5,00J, in round numbers are nothing but the de-
ScendantS OF civsed Indians preserved from extermina
ton by that wonderful power the catholic church, while
yankee puritan rule externiuated them. The present
chief OF the republic, Juarez pure Indian descendant
with heels planted that church. now grinding it to
the DUST the central government public robber and
the wild Indians on the periphery Highway robbers how
the descendants of the cysed Indians be less than
thieves" with such powerful examples on either hand?
And in justice be it told that another deteriorang Gle
ment in juxaposition is their accuser the lcenous
drinking, staggering lawess American, who thinks he
he
This class Of "white folks has made bad impression
out here But with all these lets and hiudrances there
hope for the elevation of this in the political
union suggested and its natural consequences amaga-
nation with Anglo-Sa2on blood
There is a comprehensivencss in this whole thought
pregnant with the grandest promise political economy
that the peculiar institution dreamed of or that
the American continent be the theatre Of and it
only requires that the able statesmen on both sides of
the line who shaping the destnes of the cotton
adapted States, may give it birth and usher it into life
the interests of the world demand it at their hands aud
it is all the expansion the peculiar institution needs
This done, the wealth Of the valley of the Ganges is
bugbear in competition with that OF the Rio Grande