Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-09

and, rumorl says, almost equally ethusi-
astic and interested as our own General
w. s. Rosecrans. The last named gen
tleman, if not the putatiye fatherof the
above plan, is at least a very Jealous
and devoted foster-father. A man OF
singular and controlling ideality, bound
less bonhommie and sanguine enthu-
siasme General .Rosecrans carries CON
yiction in his countenance, and holds
his opinions with firm and good-humored
tenacity. General Beauregard, 1t is
said, is in it, and so is General Lew.
Wallace, Of Indiana, who has been much
in Mexico. General Banks, too, is in 1t,
having already taken an active share IN
the Lower California scheme of settle
. ment, and being pledged, by tempera-
\ ment and substitution, TO every scheme
Of manifest destiny which the future
holds in store. loo
When things are a little ripper, it is
I expected that fully matured plan for
aiding the movement will be, developed,
and things win be pushed, both in Mex
leo and in the United States, with a
view to its speediest possible realiza-
ton. AS nothing whatever can be done
successfully without government aid, an
early attempt will be made to commit
Congress to a Favorable view OF the
scheme, at least in the lower House. AT
the same time the influence OF the. Ex-
tecutive and the State Department, so
powerful in all matters of international
concern, will be eau .ionsly and artfully
invoked to aid the project. Nothing
will he done in the filibRsterlng line, be-
cause. the "Reminiscences of attempted
extensions of the area of freedom by
III, Vt means are. not of a cheerful char
act, ar to the average American mind,
The shades of Lopez and William Walker
need not be invoked to strike to the souls
of these modern annexationists, since
it is the intention to do everything IN
the most respectable manner. There
will be no red caps or pixies, and no
promises to the drunken volunteers OF
revelihg in the halls of the Montezumas.
On the contrary, the enterprise is to be
surrounded, from the start, with the
staid air of commercial respectablllty.
The central idea Of the project, mind
you, is the Development, through Ameri-
can capital, of the internal resources OF
our sister republic, now lying waste and
dormant. She is to be provided, by our
not wholly disinterested aid, with aleom7
plete new departure" Aside from the
general question of American develop
ment on this continent, and the steady
extension of the flag We shall have high
pecuniary motives to invest in this new
annexation security, soon to be placed
lupon the market. Not only will the
company own all the immensely proba-
BILE lines ofsinterior communication in
great and rapidly growing country, but
It has, or may Have, a controlling inter
est in all, things Mexican, What with
the heavy Indebtedness to the United
States Of citizens Iof that republic, and
unsettled claims which the Mixed Com
mission now sitting at Washington are
TO award, and the certainty of getting n
firm grasp upon the Golfers of the re-
public, through government AID to rail,
ways, may it not soon be thatwe shall
hold q mortgage upon the halls OF the
Montezumas, and that the only thing
necessary to effeeta peaceful anneKa,
| ton win be simple notice Of foreclosureY Z