The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-05
Expans sion of the United States-MexIcan
TrOubles-The st. Lawrence River.
From the Herald

Expansion of the United States-MexIcan
TrOubles-rhe st. Lawrence River.
From The Herald.
Continental expansion of the area of free
dom, once secuted as the dream of visonaries,
has become practicable possibility. Parties
once opposed inch by inch every movement
for the extension of our territory, but who
would venture such opposition now, in the
changed conditions of social existenceH All
the argument in favor of cramping national
growth-supporting the pent-up Utica system
of development-was drawn from the history
of other ages. Asiatic empires and ancient
Rome supplied the staple of comparison.
Governments with greatly extended territories
were "giants without bones;' their deficient
vitality, the result of their size involved their
easy dismemberment in times of trouble.
Doubtless all this was once true, and it's truth
depended upon the fact of imperfect communal
cation between the parts of an empire.
An Emperor of Rome might have been dead
! and his successor named for year before this
news had penetrated into the remoter States
! subject to Roman rule; but when the vote for
| President is cast over the whole area of the
| United States, the result is known at New York
within day. This would be the same if the
area of the republic were twenty times greater
than it is. The telegraph, that wonderful
!
! in close and constant relation, compacts the
vast mass into unity of sensation and thought,
and makes a great empire subject to the same
laws of life that hitherto governed small ones.
Railroads and steamboats, are its adiuncts and
together these characteristic powers of the age
have destroyed all argument against extended
empire.
Is it not then, for the obvious advantage of
the human race and the worlds progress that
the best example of government on a oonti-
nent should be extended to all the peoples it
contains Here is Mexico, still in the butch
cry and throat cutting of quarrels that hardly
pretend to purpose. Spaniard and Indian
commingled, the worst compound of history
Is daily proving itself in Mexico and some
other places an impracticable mixture for
development in civilized life and exhibiting
its tendencies to barbarism. Would it not be
IN IN all respects an advantage for the United
states TO occupy at once this beautiful
country That tends to become an uninha-
, blted waste by the mutual murderings of
/ its parties and people SbonId we not ex-
tend In that direction the benefits of the
J order, civilization, and energy that have made
us Jhe mosJ prosperous people on the earth,
/ and thus open new and splendid channels for
theVast European emigration that still pours in
! upon u.s. and forces the extension of orr from
tiers whetherwew will ornol What ADVANTAGE was
, it to the world or humanity that we frowued
away a European attempt to establish order
if we are not ready to supply an adequate sub
! stitute On our northern border we are con.
fronted by an attempt to build up one more
t government on a system that even in Europe
only lives by the inability of the people to take
e mutual action against it. 1t win fall by its
o own weight soon enough, and its people will
d fall into our arms but in the meantime we
must not permit it to become nuisance by
il the agitation of such small point of hostility
s as lies in the question of the navigation of the
:, St. Lawrence river The way TO prevent this