The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-04

ment or implication of either, at all en-
dowed our National Government with
any such function of guardianship over
all the imbeciles of the continent or the
globe? It is true, this is domestic
question, wholly between ourselves
the people and its Government. It is
not for Europe to make this point OF
objection. But, as one of the people,
and without present argument, u de-
mand the warrant. for this doctrine or
measure. .....,...iia4; sinpliN 50
A second natural inquiry. is: To
what good end can this intrusion and
usurpation come? 1t is said to be the
sacred cause of Repub blicanism, against
the accnrsed principle of monarcay.
Well, ] do not yield to any In my de-
votidn to the cause of Republ blicanisr-1
real Rephbl blicanism. But, just because
things, do scorn and despise its coun-
terfeft and sham pretences, And the
facts are, that Mexico has never bean,
and can never be, a. fePnbl unless
her people will accommodate us by be-
ing borniagain-and -of. entirely differ
ent parentage. She, with all her sister
I"Republics" of South America, has
been, from the beginning, uninter-
lruptedly, a most yiol lent bloody iincen-
diary, disgraceful anarchy. In forty
.oddiyears of aIndependence and Liber-
ty, !" she has undergone, it is calculated,
more than two, hundred public reyolu-
tons, all of them of force, and most Of
them bloody. She has continually In
jured all the nations with which she
held communication {: has ruthlessly
ruined and oppressed her own peo-
pie and government-n government
1t can be called which governs nothing
and nobodY-and has brought dis
grace, alike upon the sacred name OF
Republican Liberty and of human ma
Cav xuflI-Hr' IIyhnf EIpa
may, in this affair-a certain amount OF
intelligence and virtue is indispensable
to q 6Republican form of Govern
tment; and it is a simple SLAM
der upon that great cause to pre-
tend that the :Mexicans, or any such
people, are fit for our form of govern
ment. 1t is, besides, a vain thing for
us to attempt to hold them up in this,
their. free right OF mutual slaughter
and of general ruin. AS individual
philanthropistS, 1t were us wise for us
| to spend our money and shed our blood
for the abstract right of any empty
meal bag to stand alone. For the rest
II they were worth our going to war
for they would not need our help in
war. At their distance from Europe,
and amid their other circumstances Of
advantage, they could easily repel all
France and Austria, much more the
corporal's guard, which has subjugated
them. Only compare what they have
done in this, their war, with the deeds
of our own rebels and traitors in ours
real men, though they were following
in the example of Mexican, conspiracy
and civil wars. We may thereby dis
cover the inutility of taxing and draft
ing our people in their Ip1rS. 7- mn Z
Perhaps, however, it may be alleged,
that we need, or may need, their terri
tory. 1t must be a profound ignorance
Il
annexation, with, or without its popu-
lation of hybrid fanatics and barbara
ans upon it. Without them; Mexico is
n land infinitely overpraised as to its
natural resources and capabilities.
Very rich in minerals and precious
metals it surely,is.i But let is not be
forgotten, that n few acres of our own
foSts1a, aHHlaIn 10 ..sle,, ..-ssF ostfl
and COLDS worth, too-than all the
mines of Golconda. While most ot
theirs, for want of rains, can only be
cultivated from irrigating bitches. And
then, as rich or desirable as it may be,
we have more than enough, and better,
of the same sort, now in our possession.
- What we want is gold in commerce,
not in Mexican mines. 1t matters not
what nation orpeople digs or stamps it.
We are sure to- get and keep our big
shlre of 1t, unless, indeed, we forsake
our honest industry, and betake our
selves to general free-booting for gold,
or universal cfusading for liberty. Let
loose in commercial circulation, it must
become the property of the world,
chiefly through American channels.
In the mines, it is like the poets "gems''
in "the dark unfathomed caves OF
ocean',-a contingency-a possib bility-
a myth. 1t is a lffeless form of dull ore
--an imaginary wealth-darklyih hidden
in the womb of sterile nature, and
awaiting the quickening touch of the
Prometheus of a peaceful industry to
waken it into life. And We have no
popdlat ation. nor surplus energy 70 waste
| In thatadventure. 1t is a latent power,
paraiyzed by the terrors and ruins OF
revolutionism and anarchy. And we
are not the Nation, at this time, by our
precept or example, to queil their dis
turbances and to supplant them bylor-
der and industry. We must first "set
our own house in. order" before we un-
dertaKe the affairs of all our reighbors.
In short, one year OF peaceful indus
trylby the AIexicans (if they could only
go back into Aztecsl) would be of more
money value, and of more national
honor, too, TO us than. decades ofwar,
with q century of conquered possession
of these mines and all their naked
lands. And it must not be forgotten in
this connection that one month of a
ar,with France would cost this nation,
in the loss of its national credit and the
depreciation of its currency, more than
All Mexico is worth in fee simple. And
with its people cumbering the ground
Patriotism averts her eyes from the
horrid picture. Only imagine our Con-
gressmen, Senators, and Presidents OF
the grade of intellect and morals OF
Mexfcans, our new Southern breth-
rem % by the aid of their allies, our raw
freedmen, ruling us and our posterityI
For it is of the nature of our institu-
tions and habits that its worst classes
must rule us greatly beyond the pro-
portion, OF their numbers. The heart
sinks and almost settles in the sadness
of despair in the apprehension of such
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