The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-01
ANNEXATION OF MEXICAN TERRI
TORY.

among some OF It's supporters some
of the ablest and most influential
men of the country. The matter is
managed with great circumspection,
and, we think, gives promise of sue
cess"
Better this than San Domingo .
The negro island has little to recon-
mend it. 1t is not in the line of
American ambition--it satisfies no
national longing-Mexico does.
The time for Mexican annexation
has not yet come. Events must
ripen frst-then the fruit will be
plucked, and the American people
will say amen. Fillibustering expe-
ditions, like this alluded to by the
Savannah Republican, may hasten
this contamination. They may pos
sibly bring about complications that
the statesman who appreciates the
national instinct may weave eventu-
ally into a webof destiny fatal to the
integrity of Mexican territory. The
unlawful expeditions of freebooters
have cast a shadow over fillibuster-
ing. They are not in favor. They
inspirel little confidence. The genius
of bad luck seems to accompany
them. We have no faith in the ex-
petition referred to, and of which
we see numerous outgivings in East
ern exchanges. But these flashes
are from a steady fame that the
slightest breeze could fan into an
uncOnquerable enthusiasm, which
nothing this side of the tropical
plains of Mexico wouli appease.
There is an unsatisfied. restless ele-
ment in every portion ofthis country,
now apparently dormant and silent,
that needs only an opportunity to
vent itself ON a new field of action, a
chance to succeed. Let them see
it in Mexico, and a half million
faces would be turned southwark.
But the final absorption OF that
countrvis not likely to come through
a formal war. or through unauthOr-
lied expeditions. 1t will come when
the sentiment of this country is fully
ripe for it. as the annexation of Texas
came. Come probably by degrees,
first the Northern States of Mexico.
under One pretense or another,
thence gradually expanding with the
course of events. Administrations
will feel and follow the bent of the
national sentiment. The aggrandiz-
ing spirit of the race is as fresh and
fearless as it has ever been since the
Gothic and Scandinavian expeditions
carried terror into Southern Europe.
IS pent up now within the limits
of a rapidly-settling country, nearly
subiugated and familiar from ocean
to ocean. The current is now toward
the South. It has nowhere else to
go. Slowly, silently, like the trick
ling streams on the mountain tops,
the mother of distant rivers, the cur
rent Of floating humanity drifts
southwark from all the interior
and Territories. From Nevada,
Utah and Colorado the tide OF emf
grafton sets in the same direction.
camp to camp, and Territory
to Territory the change of popula-
ton is unceasing. To-day these
scattered ~emigrations follow the
metallic traces southwark, unmind-
jul of the logic of circumstances
which is bearing them, and will con-
.inue to bear them forward with the
midday sun in theirfaces. This year
hey hover along the borders of New
Mexico, and pitch their tents beside
he cactus of Arizona. How long
before they confront Sonora and
Five, ten, twenty years
Dossibly-but sooner or later that
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