New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-22

affect the majority as to control the policy
OF the government. The government viii
undoubtedly sustain the rights of its citi
gems resident in Texas, but it will not
commit itself TO the views Of any local
ity. An effort was made to arouse the
people Of the United States by rationale
ing the woes Of Louisiana. It was found
however. that the oppression was not suff
GENTLY extended. and the electoral vote
Of Louisiana too small to Ego in on. =
The 2lco Republics will find that the nation.
allzation Of any local question, unless the
right to Sunday amusements or every day
lager beer. is extremely difficult aud not to
be apprehended in our national policy
toward Mexico.
The public sentiment is that we neither
need the glories OF war nor the acquisition
of spoils. To cultivate friendly relations
with our neighbors. and thus SO to secure
the gradual TRANSMISSION of our ideas and in.
tesests as that both may be properly ap.
preciated, appears to the American ma.
jority the wisest coterminous policy. The
government Of the United States has
never acquired adjoining property that it
has not paid for. Even within its own
Jurisdiction valuable lands have been held
by nomadic tribes, yet these people have
not been removed by force or absorbed
by injustice. France, Spain and Mexico
have each coded territory to the United
States. The population has been re.
ceived with guarantee Of civil. religious
and legal rights, and has merged into and
smalgamated with our own people.
Therefore these acquisitions have been
harmonious.
The British possessions lie adjoining
the United States along frontier of per
haps three thousand miles. There have
been issues Of the most exciting charac.
ter between the two countries. In the
colonial times our ancestors served under
Wolfe to wrest these possessions from the
crown Of France. In Our war Of the reyo.
luton and Of 1Sl2-l4 efforts were made
to detach these possessions from their
allegiance. and invade, conquer and admit
them into our Union. They have still
stood fast in their adherence to England.
and We have long since ceased to modest
them in their loyalty. The relations
between the people OF the two countries
are of the most kindly character;
they buy and sell, marry and are given
in marriage: on each side of the line
they travel over our railroads we
freight in their ships. We have heard it
stated that many thousand Canadians en-
listed in the army of the United States
during the last civil war. We have had
reciprocity treaty with England in re-
spect to the commerce Of Canada. which |
was terminated by the act Of our govern
ment, and efforts have been made to re.
new il again. Canada is permitted to |
import in bond her goods through our
ports, so that if Mexico should choose to
send coffee, dried hides or any of her
splendid textile fbres through New Or
leans to Canada, it could be delivered
without difficulty, and with great saving
OF expense over the coastwise route.
Let the I,no Republics regard the har.
mony which exists between the people OF
these two adjacent countries and it will
see the true American temper. Our popu.
lation borders on forty millions. That of
Canada is perhaps four or five millions.
There could be no doubt that an invasion
would result in conquest, but the Ameri-
IAN people have no such lust of land as
will impel them to despoil neighbor only
because they have the physical ability to
10 50.
We beg the T,eo Republics TO remember
he uniform moderation of the American
PEOPLE towards their neighbors. to regard
he kindly relations which have ever
marked the intercourse between our gov
rnment and those Of coterminous States,
nd to assure the Mexican people that
n nothing are the American people dis
'osed to depart from this magnanim ,us
nd wise policy in its conduct with re.
ard to Mexico.