The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-01-12

the sacred cause OF KepuDilcannsin
against the accursed principle o
Monarchy. Well, | do not yield t.
, any, IN my devotion to the cause o
Republicanism-real Republicanism
But. Just because honor the genu
inc principle above all things, do
scorn and despise its counterfeit ant
3nam pretenses. And the facts are
\ that Mexico has never been, and cal
never be a Rcpublic--unless her peo
pie will accommodate us by being born
again--and OF entirely different par.
entage. She, with all her sister IRE.
publics" of South America, has been,
from the beginning, uninterruptedly,
most ,iolent, bloody. incendiary,
disgpaceiul Anarchy. In forty odd
years of independence and Liberty,
she has undergone IL is calculated,
more than two hundred public rcvo-
lutions, all Of them of force, and most
of them bloody. She has continually
injured all the nations with which sh,
held communications has ruthlessly
ruined and oppressed her own peo-
pie and Governmcnt--if Government
it can be called which governs moth
ing and nobody--and has brought
disgrace, alike upon the sacred name
of Republican Liberty and Of human
nature. Say what we will---do what
We may in this aflair-a certain
amount of intelligence and virtue is
indispensable to a Republican form
of Government: and it is n simple
SANDER upon that great cause TO pre-.
tend that the Mcxicans, or any such
people, are tit for our form of gov.
ernmcnt. 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, it were as
wise for us TO Gpcnd our money and
shed our blood for the abstract right
o: any empty meal bag to stand alone.
For the rest, If they were worth our
going to war Tor, they would not need
our help in war. At their distance
from Europe, and amid their circum
stances advantage, they could cas-
lily Pepel all France and Austria, much
more the corpornls guard, which has
suhjugatcd them. Only compare
what they have done in THE, their
war, with the deeds of our own rebels
and traitors in ours real men,
though they were following in the eX
ample of Mexican conspiracy and
civil wars. We may thereby discov.
er the inutilitY of taxing and draft.
ing our people in their wars.
Perhaps, however, it may be alieg-
ell, that we need, or may need, their
territory. 1t must be Il profound ig-
norance of that country which would
desire its annexation, with, or with
out its population of hybrid fanatics
and barbarians upon it. Without
them, Mexico is land infinitely
oyerpraised as to its natural resour-
ces and capabilities. Very rich in
minerals and precious metals it. sure
ly IS. But let it not be forgotten,
that q few acres of our own fertile,
arabic lands, are of more worth
and Colds worth. too-tlan all the
mines of Golconda. While most of
theirs, for wan, vf raius, CON sv.iy 10
cultivated from irrigating ditchcs.-
And then, rs rich or desirable rs it
may be, we have more than enough,
and better, of the same sort now in
our possession.
In short, one year of peaceful in
dustry by the Mexicans (il they could
only go back into Aztecs!) would be
OF more money value. and of more
national honor, too, to us than de.
cades of war, with century of con
quered possession OF these mines and
all their naked lands. And it must
not be forgotten in this connection
that one month Of war with France
would cost this nation, in the loss OF
its national credit and the deprecia-
tion of its currency, more than all
Mexico is worth in fee simple. And
with its people cumbcring the ground
Patriotism averts her eyes from
the horrid picture. Only imagine
our Congrcssmcn, Senators, and Pre-
silents of the grade OF intellect and
morals Of MeXicans, our new "South
crn brethcrn,' by the aid of their
allies, our raw freedmen. ruling us
and our posteiity! For it is Of the
nature of our institutions and habits
that its worst classes must rule us
greatly beyond the proportion of their
numbers. The heart sinks end al
most settles in the sadness of despair
in the apprehension of such dismal
fate for our renovated nation.
1t may be very true--it is very
true-that neither France uor Aus,
tria has any business in MeXico.-
But the answer is very plain;-"no
more have we!' Because our gov
ernment was established for the good
OF our own people. 1t was neither
given to us 10 propagandize Liberty
amongst the McNlcans and Ilotton.
tots, nor Christianity to the Saraccns
of Jerusalem nor the Chinese at Pc
kin, And, If monarchs have no more
sense nor principle, than so to have
used and use their peoples money
and lives, let us Republicans, at least,
set for both--the peoples and the
monarch's--the higher example OF
administering our own affairs hon
cstly, humancly and wisely, and in
accordance, too, with blessing and
a restraint they have not--a Consti
tuition.