The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-11
GIVE Us A WAR.

8 very excellent reasons would war with Mex
ID leo be most desirable event.
, One of these is the somewhat complex one
that our republication should have no adj
joining foreign power; and the subsidiary rea-
son that under present circumstances, we are
, exposed to infinite vexation in a small way by
having next to us semi-civiliZed element.
from out which there eternally issues crimi.
ral and disturbing causes. The last named
has more especial reference to propinquity
which has permitted all the thievery that is
occurring constantly, and which is the subject
of ceaseless official complaint, and endless
private grievance.
Were there, however, no raidipg of cattle
thieves across the border; were the Indian
element in that portion of Mexico adjacent to
the United States pacific; were our relations
with Mexico as friendly as they are with
Canada, there would still remain excellent
political reasons why this power on our
Southern boundary should be obliterated.
The race occupying that country is bastard
one. It is not Spanish, Aztec, or Indian 1t
is q MIXTURE and one in which the result of
amalgamation has been to degrade. That
race is degraded forms no argument, per Sc,
for its extinction or subjugation; but it forms
the basis of proposition to the effect that
the inferior race, in possession of a valuable
material means, should be forced to give way
| to the superior race.
| This is the doctrine we apply to our own
American Indians. England applies it to
| India, France to Northern Africa Russia to
Caucasia, and Holland to various South Pa.
cifc countries. 1t was the application of this
precise doctrine which wrested ancient Next
co from the aboriginal race, and placed
it in the possession of its present owners.
Now that they have fallen far behind civilza-
ton, they should be made to obey the newt
able, and give way to harder and more en-
terprising people.
There is yet the main reason that our re-
publicanism should have no other than ocean
boundaries. This is feature of :" manifest
destiny, and applies as well to British Ameri-
ca as to Mexico. The time must come when
from the isthmus to the Arctic Ocean, and
from the Pacific to the Atlantic the stars and
stripes must alone wave from every fortress,
and be the sole ensign of national anniver- |
saries. |
Just now, however, we need q war as q |
measure of self-protection. There are worse |
evils than blood letting, one of which is |
country hopelessly divided in sympathy and |
sentiment as is this one, at the present time. |
Infinitely better for humanity, for the future
of this country, for the perpetuity of repub-
icanism would it be to sacrifice few thou
sand lives and spend few millions in money,
than to permit the present dissensions to
exist and intrust their care to the action of |
politicians. The very existence of one of the
political parties depends upon the continu-
ance of this dissension and SO long as this is
the fact, a united effort for the pacifcation of
the South will never be undertaken. With
out this united effort, pacifcation will Only
come in spite of the most formidable OBJ
stacles, and after the lapse of length of time
which would include sufferings, losses and
deprivations infinitely more disastrous in
initely greater in magnitude than would be
all the evil consequences flowing from foreign
war.
Nothing would so speedily consolidate this
nation as war with Mexico. The men who
now stand face to face, as left by the late do
nestle conflict, would swing about and rear
range themselves shoulder to shoulder. The
effects of blood are beyond de-
,cription. Men whose blood mingles in de-
tense of the same principle are ever after har.
nonious. The canaaratierie of war obliterates
minor difference, and produces the most COM
olete homogeneity. A twelve months cam
,aign into Mexico would cement the North
md Sonth so firmly that all the Vaccinations
# the Davises on the one hand, and the Rad
cal fanatics on the other, would never disturb d,
he Union.
For political reasons, then, would war be
national blessing? Destiny sees this so !
d for taking this desirable step. Mexican
nsolence needs chastisement Mexican ,
utrages demand indemnity /; the integrity of !
ur Southern border imperatively asks for /
reservation. And, as part of this obvious
PREPARATION on the part of destiny, this
orcing upon us, as it were, the necessity for !
war and readiness to prosecute it, we have
1st the population necessary to the enter
rise. There is stagnation from over
~Dl, o{s -, ;v,I {r;a khn
cts are glutted. A superintendent element
here on a strike, there organizing itself as
and is loud in its crazy denun-
iations of capital.
The South is full of an element that is
,rced to be idle, that embraces the finest
ghting material in the world, that would Il
lrong the approaches to the Mexican border o
I case of war with all the joy of lover seek
,g the residence of his fancee A war would j
aus open new sources of consumption
ould create new and revive old industries; 7
ould give vocation to an unemployed and s
1perabundast population would bring into - !
,tive circulation the millions of money now '
ing idle in places of deposit and rotting E
ke unemployed ships at anchor. s.
Nor are these all the considerations-su- q q
remedy great as they are-that favor a war. F
70 have the skeleton of al army of million. A
necessary, of men, every one of whom is 6
ronzed by the smoke OF battle. len, twen- e
;, fifty thousand men could be raised almost y
the clan of Roderick Dhu rose from the =
Gather, at the sound of his whistle, every ]
an of whom is the veteran of hundred
,hts, and who would move at the pas de
arge, with the familiarity that men traverse
10 halls of their own homesteads. Such an
my would give us no butcheries, no blum
,ring massacres, no mobilize movements OF
oh as characterized the beginning of our 7,
te civil revolution.
1t would be clean finished machine, every R
rt and piece in place and in order, and
1ich would move from the Rio Grande to ia
9 Mexican capital, or from coast 10 coast c
thout break or arrangement. It would G
complish its work with celebrity and ire OF
tible power. Whatever it would do would
done at once, and done beyond the ne
ssity of repetition. Such an army, in a =
ar, would consolidate the American ma III
N, re juvenate the American blood, rectfy
r Southern frontiers, and conclude the un-
we'd norton of the problem of manifest -