The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-07-15
Tmn's Speech On Neneo,


81 ihe empire Is ilsc Eaa, Srsin sss
sqaslly acisr + ihs West liui vA8r
Easle a l,lsds her lfasne -fui rs sfili.
sfaiu "a hsr soNhald On tie natn
Il 4 y iisr WrsWrh conslpvut ana plan.
isa her Gag a9on an isisad @hrre IL
aiIl Seats agsosc lile ha8.caste and the
Caailisn. What Java Is to lh- Du'ch,
Cuha "a 70 spain. These isisads both
pAv. Mexico il no longer Spanish
TIE hlooa thrills - We Fepaid the
rise ard fsll u ihe Mexican empire.
Hos vivid The bird hisoriaa Pfes-
cui' painis ihe picture. The first ot-
quest Of Mexico under Corisz was
20 more brilliant than The second con-
quest cf Mexico under Scott The
illrd conquest Of Mexico. under Ma.
d Icon, Is another thing. The six
icsn,h and seventeenth centuries be-
long 10 Eafepe 70 act oui the tragedy
81 kings-~ihe drama a. Conquest, OF
Rayu.e, and Of Bloodsbea Then the
sword Was mighiier than Tive ship.--
The eighteenth and nineteenth ceaiu-
ries we're reserved for America to act
oul the drama Of Sell.reliance---snd 10
introduce tie age ot Republics-Com-
meree and Liberty.
Never before. perhaps, io the histo.
~ 81 tie world were such ideas placed
before 50 many minds, Crowd the
worlds changes into a paragraph -
Tie cities that stud tie great rivers in
III lands are agi.aied as they have
never been before. L.,ak at Asia
Note tie millions who fight hand to
hand on the banks Of the Yang-tze XII
ang. Tsi-piag-nong for fifteen years
has demonstrated that England is not
the only IIrigand q, large. TIE Vol
ga's banks are how covered wi b FIR c
MN where Srris once weie lie Tea
iures Of the couuiry. Armed men
are on tie Mncio-- distrust is on the
Dsnule-lear feigns supreme upon
+ tie Ifs'-~uueertainty lungs over the
I - great ehnnges will shortly take
iare uu ihr banks of the Thames
+ mistress Ad starvation give special in
lercs T. the hanks ol tile Mersey--
/ Nltiir tie great rivers Of America have
been flowing with the blood Of her
children. The Ohio and the Missis-
sippi will pow be, ome the srene
romance and Of history Tie Ten.
nrssee, lhe L loumc, he Shenandoah.
/ and tbs Jamos Rivers are already full
of historical memories. The old
worlds nocelists had made bankrupt
is resources. Tie new world viii
now he The theme Of the poet, tie
damaisi and the hisIoran.
/ Tuning away from Asiaiic aud Eu-
ropean lie, come back again 10 Mexi-
20; the land Of Ferdinand and Isabel
1 la Of Hen,audo Coriez and Winfield
Srotl--ihe Conquestadores OF the
/ Mexican Armies. Revolution was all
| the fashion Wien this century COM
mcnccd. America lad forced Eng
/ hnud ints respfct, aud tie American
/ Revolution .oreshaioNed and siimula-
ted lIr Rr,o'u.ion Of France, which
gave the word a Bonaparte.--
| France found in hin. an Emperor, but
England caught a tartar 10 Napoleon,
I MEXICO AFTER THE REPUBLIC.
Ten years Of hrigandage prepared
Mexico for change Of Government
/ The Revolution Of 1910 the Slanis,'
/ fought the halfcaste. Ii was not
| qutiled before 1920, and the empire
of lturtide terminated in the Rcpub-
lie. The Federal Government was
organized Oci. 4fh, 1924. and Angus
| lin /. was no more. Spain was bow
cd oul of Mexico with tie fall Of San
Juan De ulloa in 1925. Mexico cop
led America-ihc one Constitution
y as modelled on the other The same
right Of States, OF Representation. Of
/ Executive. There was no slave prop.
erly---no jealousy OF South against
/ North--aBd 10 room for Secession.
Read Ludlow in Sampson Lows Ex.
change, Mexico, however, did for
the Catholic Religion what England
does for the Protestant Here Mexi-
co did not copy Ameriea--our Consii-
tuition cave Free Trade 20 Religion,
While lhe Mexicans introduced protec-
iion by giving ine Religion 10 the
CMllohes.
Mexicol Spain's child in History
Iialy's child in Religion--but Ameri-
ca's child in poliiics-was bad pupil.
Tie American Fourth Of July was a
difFercu, hing from the Mexican Ef.
feenh Of September. While Az erica
/ las had her sixieea Presidents in her
seseniylwo years, Mexico has had
but two, Herrera and Victoria, who
acted oul lheir four years. America
postponed her Revolution 10 huish il
up in a yrar, While Mexico diluted
her Revolution b. having i all the
time.
Santa Anna tried 10 push Moses
nul of the bulluishcs--in Te1as. hni
Moses woaldnt go. His eon. stcph-
IN Auslia. WIS caught. imprisoned
was released. leeane chies o. the
Texans. won tie battles Of 6Onsalesr
6oiiard. and nexar. Santa Anna
was enraged. took tie dela 20 psrson,
rtcap,arrd Bexar ptignatd' q the Ear
ni-an IN true Mexican ~ e, ard "a:
hims 4 defrsied ami captured lAprll