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

'"'"' i"' '"Hi"rY r hr". ill their cnrnirn
f""a instincts have hr"n somewhat modified
NY compulsory hahii mud benevolent enough
!" r"c"rnhc in it's superior power md wi.
dom lnil II mission for humanity nni u r,-
spunsibility To Go,l."
Tho mur'lcrcrs OF MaNINiruAx will not lr
long in giving us n just cause of offence. uur
troops will march again TO Mexico. Ms they
have done before, hut they will not quit
Mexico. We shall establish there goyOrn-
inrnt "f law 10 give ihr inuIirnsivr pence, II
government of progress that shall give tho
enlightencd-if there he suah--hopr wo
shall not establish mere military dcspotism
looking only TO its own security nnL gain.
We shall at least try whether Mcxicnns arc
capable of being trnne'l tn govern themselves.
fhe'r sham attempt at nationality, Of course,
must disappear Their Fictitious nnl hctitons
states will he no more than whnt they have
always hitherto been, convenient geographical
designations. But thr system which prepared
tho Anglo-Saxon people tn become whnt wo
nrc, wa shnll. doubtless, give them. Men who
nrc incapable of ruling states and nations may
perhaps succeed. with proper aid. in the
n,lmnsi ration of less difficult ntfnirs. II is in
tho lurnl cunimunc md in Tho civic municipality
that Mcxicans must learn 10 govern. In n
century or two thcy may be fiji for something
greater, but for IL considerable time they will
require more than little help even in them.
Such help they can only hope TO have from
ourselves, nni they nrc quite sure 10 get
II before long whether they hope for it
or not"
But not even this is enough. Central America
nn'l iucntnn must he brought i'll next. Soutl,
| America even must br ours ultimnlely-intcr
ycntion first, occupation next, and nj last incor-
porntion.
The writer concludes: 4" So far rs we car
now see with tho lights before us, the advance
of Christian progress md enlightenment de
pond throughout almost the whole eastern
hemisphere upon imperial Russia. 1t seem.
| no less evident that we arc destined TO fulfil
the Same great mission in the western hcnis
phcre. And if we but nccrpt the mission
| bnnishing Mike the impulse of ambitious greed
and the vain pride that apes humility aban
doning nero theories Of constitutional forms
that snit ourselves and ought TO be preserved
among us, while they do not answer the ncces
sities Of other races; and resolving calmly an,
| resOiu!ey 10 advance the influences of enligh
tenet Christian civilization among the weaker
nnj. less-fnvorcl peoples of this continent, W.
shall deserve, on moral grounds, as well rs OF
account Of our colossal power, TO be described
/ rs THE GREAT POWER OF THE wEsTEns
| HEMISPHERE"
II is snd TO think that an American of tn,
better class can give utterance TO such views
even in the form of impassive prophecy, with
out shudder. Who could have anticipated
all this ten years ago. Conquest and military
| rule huve become so fnmiiarized 10 the Amer
can mind that what would have been nbhor
red fyo years ago, is now plscdly contempla
| ted MS IN inevitable necessity. Has the expert
| ment of British rule in India aud i'll Ireland
and OF Rnssian sway in Poland, snch fascinating
charms, that wo needs must yesrn for repcti
| ton of such relations on our own Continent
| And " hat is to be the status of the Southern
Stntes in this grand programme? Not ont
word i.i said in this long article, Of the South
| or of the colorcd element in the American
population. We suppose these two urc con
sidercd mnrplots, ana must be carefully KEEP
ont of the picture. There is room for anxiety
| in this oIuinous silence.