The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-12-16
MEXICO.

Ia tho United STATES thouBh many anu
arc but beginnings, intlma'
tons, Of the mighty consequences which
are 10 flow from that suspicious con-
summation, The experience OF the
country since that event, has been in
regular, tumultuOus and disturbed, as
tho rocking of the vessel after the
storm in the nubliding waves, but each
recurring year has brought us nearer 10
a state Of rest, and as the transient, 10
passing away, the normal and perma'
nent condition, exhibits itself, and be-
ginsto unfold In proportions grander
than was ever anticipated or hoped for
before the war OF these tho solidarity
and homogenity of our people, and the
changing currents OF emigration, are
tho most important, and alike worthy
Of the proioundest considerations The
course Of emigration, both from the
northern states and from Europe, for
many years, by the slavery agitation
and by slavery, was turned TO tho west
and the northwest, and in Its majestic
progress has peopled nearly one half OF
the United Statesin forty years. Slavery
in the south has turned the emigrant
away from its fertile lands and enticing
cline, TO the unattractiye and dreary
regions of northwestern SHOWS.
The causes which produced such of
forts have ceased, and what, unobN
structed, would have been the normal
course OF emigration, is now open, and
the star Of empire guides and allures
the emigrant 10 the great southwest,
An exuberant SOIL mild climate,
bright suns and balmy breeaes with
millions of acres Of cheap lands and n
hospitable people ever ready to welcome
him, invite, and the swelling tide, ris,
ing higher with each recurring year,
foretells that tho national stream OF
emigration will pour into the country
south of latitude SO, westward, until ii
shall reach the Rio Grande, We will
then have confronting each other on
the opposing banks of that river the AM
glo-Saxon, the highest embodiment OF
that aggressive civilization which is to
regenerate the world and redeem its
peoples from Incidence and barbarism,
and the Mexican demoralized and ems
ieebled by more than half century OF
existing or ever impending revoluN
tions. The former a people who in a
century have built up u nation OF
forty millions and spanned continent
and Of race which has girdled the
globe with English speaking people,
The latter q people who have made the
fairest land under the sun, the abode Of
lawless violence, and the home OF the
brigand and "a mixed race whose highest
type has for centuries been decayinl
until every spark Of its once pre.eminen
excellence is extinguished, and whose
lowest, has come in contact with civili
cation, only to contrast its vices withou
divesting themselves of their origina
savage deformities. Mexico, with he
one million of whites, four millions o
Indians, six thousand negroes, and tn
remainder of her eight millions of in
habitants, Of mixed races of Spaniards
Indians and negroes scattered over
country Of near two and half million
of square miles in extent, resisting tn
moral and material mot military pres
sure Of the onward wave ofimmigratio
of forty five millions of the Germani
race the descendants of those resist
less warriors, who over the prostrat
legions of imperial Rome, over,ran an
took possession of her empire and wht
from their vigorous and mani
(tho' rude) virtues, have in tn
attrition of the centuries elimi
mated civilization more august tina
Rome ever knew. These are the an
tagonists, and these the antagonism
now arraging themselves against eac
other on our southwestern border. Tn
United States does not seek conquest
its wars have been defensive wars, an,
now less than at any time in her histo
ny is the spirit and policy Of the United
States ambitious of oonquering foreign
territory, but there are forces in tn,
moral as resistless as those in the natur
al world which upheave the mountain
with volcanic fires, and rend the cart
with their convulsive power. Force
intnitesimal and innumerable far be
yonu the reach OF detailed enumerQ
ton, but in their aggregate only les
omnipotent than he who creates anc
guides and who alone can contro
them. These are they which spin TIL
threads Of fate, and record the deeds O
ydestin. We can see the signs of tn,
coming Storm we can not turn i
aside or check its career. So we ma,
discern upon the political sky the
portents of change and antici
pate the onward march OF events. The
bad faith of Mexico, or it may be the
want OF power to restrain the lawles.
depredations Of the border raids upon
our western frontier, are but the pre-
monitions of what is to come. They
are links in the chain of that Provi-
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