The union Democrat., 1867-11-02
The Mongr.I Repub,ios OF America.

SUIT. 1T all events. 1t will excite the iuteres
/ OF Europeans we'll as Americans in tht
mongrel republics of this continent, and i
| that interest leads them to examine and com
prehend the abnormal populations that figure
/ as nations south of our own borders Maxmil
Ian's death Will prove more beneficial to mod
ern civilization than could the lives of q score
| OF archdukes or princes. There is no Mexi
can nation. never was any, nor Chilian. Co
| lomblan, Peruvian, nor Brazilian there j:
nothing but hordes of mongrels, with tn,
names, formulas, and habitudes of the cid
| Spanish conquerors, and n mighty mass O.
aboriginal material that is silent, as it has
been silent ever since it was created
| The native or Indians of this continent
and they are all tho same species, from Cane
Horn to the Columbia river-though greatly
superior to the negro, are incapable of i'm
| pressing themselves on the material world
about them, and therefore have no history,
The Spanish conquerors, probably the great.
est liars the world ever saw. save the present
mongrel party, pretended to find grand cities.
temples, monuments, &C., aud progressive
| lciviliztion, in Mexico, Peru, and other re.
gions of the continent, aud many learned and
scientific Europeans believed them, believed
even their absurd stories about that picture
writings of the Aztecs. Prescott, with his
fine, graphic capacity, has taken the his.
tories" of Bernal, Diaz, Cortez. and the
Spanish writers of the day, as his authority
for the conquest of Mexico, and deluded vast
numbers of people with his preposterous non
scence, of course. This civilization of the
Montezumas is exactly that of the Brandts.
Red Jackets and Black Hawks of the North
differing only in degree, and not much in
that. The people of southern and western
Europe, the Romans, Gauls, Britons. Ger.
mans, &c, hare developed more rapidly than
the SclavonianH. Scandnavians. Sarmatians.
&C., of the North, but their civilization, that
is their mental habits and specific oualit es,
are all the same, differing only in degree.
So, too, the Indian or aboriginal species
found on this continent. In the extreme
north, he had absolutely nothing, save bows
and arrows, to kill his food with, and in eyery
other respect was scarcely above the negro
of Africa, who lived on fruits and spontane.
Gus production.
Foolish scholars, like Everett and School
craft, imagine Indian antiquities, and the
former even talked of the political advance of
the six nations, who had established "con
federacy - but the Indian of the north con.
structed means to kill his food, and nothing
else. Powhattan's empire, in the more gen
ial cline of Virginia, advanced slightly be.
yond this, and the Cherokees of Georgia, per-
haps, were even more enlightened The
Aztecs and ToltecS of Mexico were cultivated.
in a certain rnde way, and even fabricated
some few things that look like manufactures.
but they differed only in degree, and, we
repeat, slightly in that, from their brothers
in the extreme north. The cities that Cor.
tez pretended to conquer, Tlascala, Choula.
Mexico, &c, were Indian villages. built of
adobe or unhurnt brick, and through the as.
srmb'nge of these villagers in the valley of
Mexico may have amounted 20 several thous
and people. il is not likely that Cholula or
any other city contained five thousand peo
pie. The writer of this article has been all
over gronnd conquered hy Cortez, and what
is vastly better has made the Indian of this
dav. and therefore of the DAYS of Cortez. n
special study. not in his fancied picture writ.
in". &r.. but in hi, actual. physical. and
physiological nature as the Almighty Great.
or has fashioned and endowed him. and
therefore knows that MI that Prescott. HELMS
& Co. have written Of aboriginal or Mexican
civilization, is arrant nonsense. The Span.
ish conqucrors, or rather the Spanish church.
civilized the Indian. and made him useful.
happy. and. to a certain extent, progressive
human being. The Spanish Governments
was very despotc, but this despotism was
brought to bear on the American descendants
of the Spanish conquerorS rather than on the
Aztec or aboriginal population. No nativc,
born American, though the descendant Of
Cortcz himself. could hold any office of trust
or cmolument under the Spanish vicerovs.
and therefore. with none of the essential
rights Of citizenship, he Was virtually for
eigner in his own native land. Nevertheless,
all Spanish America was peaceful and pros.
porous. The negro on the coast was kindly
cared for by his master, and the Indian mas.
ses of the terra templada, under general
system of peonagc, were duly protected bv
the government from the cupiditv and brutal.
ity of the great landed proprietors. and back
of all this stood the church, which, from the
first dav of the conquest to the final over.
throw Of the Spanish dominion. was alwavs
the champion of the native. even if need
were, against the vicprovs themselves. To-.
norant and bigoted journals and writer's
among us have much to saw about the wealth
and arrogance, and fancied corruptions of the
Mexican church, but every man that knows
Mexico. knows that it was the ciyilizer Of
the Indian in the DAYS of the viceroys. and
since then, Selng composed almost wholly of
white men. 1t has been and is now. the EN-,
bodlment and representative of all or nearly
all the civilization that yet remains in that
country. 1t was the native white population
possibly million of them. that was esneci.
ally oppressed by the Spanish dominion and
when Napoleon invaded Spain and the for
eign masters of Mexico were forced to srbt
for their own Independence. the white men
of Mexico revolted, and made a desnerate
effort 10 cast of the fereign rule. Uafortu.
nately. however, in order to gain the aid of
the subordinate races, mongrels. Indians
and negroes, they declared them all citizens
and though they succeeded in casting off the
Spanish dominion, there has been no peace
order. or social safety since. The conouerors
of Spanish America, unlike the English al =.
Eenturers of the north, brought nc wives with
them, and therefore sought sexual alliances
with the native women. This resulted in a
vast hybrid and mongrel element which in
Mexico amounted to perhaps two millions.
mainly. if not entirely. confined to the cities.
The numbers of the native element. at the
time of the revolution. 1t is difficult to esti.
mate, but it may be put down in round mum.
bers at six millions. and with two millions of