The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-27

them for century or trO, till their caru1vo-
rous instincts have been somewhat modified
by compulsory habit, and benevolent enough
to recognize in its superior power and wis
dom both a mission for humanity and n re-
sponsibility to God" 4 u
"Thc murderers of MAMMALIAN will not be
long in giving us just cause of offence Our
troops will march again to Mexico, as they
have done before, but they will not quit
Mexico. We shall establish there govern
ment of law to give the inotfensive peace, a
government of progress that shall give the
enlightened-if there be suah-hope. We
shall not establish mere military despotism
looking only to its own security and gain.
We shall at least try whether Me1icans are
capable of being trained to govern themselves.
Their sham attempt at nationality, of course,
must disappear Their Fictitious and fictitious
states will be no more than what they have
always hitherto been, convenient geographical
designations. But the system which prepared
the Anglo-Sexon people to become what we
are, we shall, doubtless, give them. Men who
are incapable of ruling states and nations may
perhaps succeed, with proper aid, in the
administration of less difficult affairs. 1t is in
the local commune and in the civic municipality
that Mexicsns must learn to govern. In a
century or two they may be fit for something
greater, but for q considerable time they will
require more than little help even in them.
Such help they can only hope to have from
ourselves, and they are quite sure to get
it before long whether they hope for it
or not"
But not even this is enough. Central America
and Yucatan must be brought in next. South
America even must be ours ultimately-inter-
yention first, occupation next, and at last incor-
poration.
The writer concludes $50 far as we can
now see with the lights before US, the advance
of Christian progress and enlightenment de-
pend throughout almost the whole eastern
hemisphere upon imperial Russia. 1t seems
no less evident that we are destined to fulfill
the same great mission in the western hemis-
phere. And if we but accept the mission,
banishing alike the impulse of ambitious greed
and the vain pride that apes humility; aban-
doning mere theories of constitutional forms,
that suit ourselves and ought to be preserved
among us, while they do not answer the neces-
sites of other races; and resolving calmly and
resolutely to advance the influences of enligh-
tened Christian civilization among the weaker
and less-favored peoples of this continent, we
shall deserve, on moral grounds, as well as on
account of our colossal power to be described
as THE GREAT POWER OF THE WESTERN
HEMISPHERE"
1t is sad to think that an American of the
better class can give utterance to such views,
even in the form of impassive prophecy, with
out a shudder. Who could have anticipated
all this ten years ago? Conquest and military
rule have become so familiarized to the Ameri-
can mind that what would have been abhor-
red FIVE years ago, is now placidly contempla-
ted as an inevitable necessity. Has the expert
ment of British rule in India and in Ireland,
and of Russian sway in Poland, such fascinating
charms that we needs must ycarn for repeti-
ton of such relations on our own Continent!
And what is to be the status of the Southern
States in this grand programme? Not one
word is said in this long article, of the South,
or of the colored element in the American
population. We suppose these two are con-
sidered marplots, AMI must be carefully kept
out of the picture. There is room for anxiety
in this ominous silence.