Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-04-26
, those from which unfortunate Mexico


has suffered For forty years those troubles
have been raging, and still the end Is hot
vet. Internal strife and comLlotlon have
been varied occasionally by an invasion
from abroad, until now, near the close OF
this enlightened century, that unhappy
land is almost entirely dismembered by the
force of its political discussions. The his
tory of it's people is sad one, and the ma
tional records are such as to excite the com
nliseration of whole world.
The end to the rule OF misrule of Maxi
milan in Mexico is near at hand, and that
leaf in the page of history is about to be
turned There is but little doubt, Judg-
ing from the tenor Of late dispatches,
that the Emperor is either prisoner
now, or that his capture is an assured
one. The fates have favored the Republl-
can party there, and the ruler Of the En-
pire is a monarch now only IN name. But
with the expulsion of Macmillan will the
national troubles cease Hardly. 1t Will
be but exchan ging one evil for another,
and when the present Emperor is driven
into the sea. the history OF the past OF that
unfortunate country will most likely be
again repeated. But for how long Here
human discernment is at fault, and many
long and weary years of domestic turmoil
may yet be In store for its people. The
end can be looked for from only two caus-
es. One of these is subsection to foreign
rule, and the other is annexation to the
United States. The latter is by far the
most probable, and at the same time the
most reasonable deduction, to say nothing
of the supposed popular tendency in that
direction. This contamination the rapid
march of events justities us in believing Will
yet happen, although the question, as a
matter of time, may take many years to
reach conclusion. The Monroe doctrine
must ultimately force its way into
the minds of the ruling people of
this Western world. The interests of this
country point in many ways to an extern
sion of it's territory and the character Of
the rational institutions is such as to claim
for itself the consideration Of neighboring
nationalities. The advantages which Mex
leo would derive from an Union with us
are too apparent to need argument, and
the benefit which would accrue to the in
terests of our own commonwealth by the
adoption Of that sister country should be
sufficient to force the subject upon the at
tention of all. With land overlooking, as
it were, with milk and honey, the garden
spot of the whole continent, and with its
millions of precious treasures yet untold
and unearthed, its people yet need that
unanimity Of sentiment and concert Of &C
ton so necessary to their own self-govern-
ment. That garden spot is still wild
waste and in all likelihood must SO remain
until brought under the influences of free
and enlightened form of Republican gov
eminent.
The idea OF employing arms to accom-
plish this end would meet with but little
favor from the American people or their
leaders, repugnant as it is to all forms of
republican freedom and to the principles
upon which our own government was first
established. In the South it can meet with
none The purely Democratic, yet often
sighted MAXIM that ga just government
derives its powers only from the consent of
the governed, is with them too sacred prin-
ciple to be sighted and no scheme for the
annexation of Mexico could meet with
| favor from them that was not the legiti-
mate offspring of that principle The
ruling voice of the people of Mexico should
decide this point, and not the arms of a
proud republican government.