The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-10-13
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" Nitt's ts-tstlt e tCtNTEEi tA4f - tAt-
can and American populations on eth
er side Of the Rio Grande has is forn,
dations laid deeper than the frst war
with and conquest Of that country. 1.
is the powerful and natural antarcnisul
between the Anglo Saxon, and the
latin races The repnlsion e2 sting be,
tween people differing in every sem
tinent feeling, purpose, usage and am,
bition in lie; between the nin-y. gritty,
hard ,fseed, hard-muscied. entsrprising.
disciplined northern force and the
enesvated purposelsss, ehaFacteTless
and immoral Spaniard Our close
neighhorh ooa forever preciudes peace
and qIIiet until the genius Of our norths
eyn system overshadows the Mexican
government and people until the
energy which has sRbiGed the rocky IN.
hospii4bie north, aud made il to hog
With milk and honey, and also made it
the home OF the advanced, civilization of
The world. has breathed new life into
the N exican people and has given new
impulse 10 the energy which at one
time made their ancestors well-neigh
masters of the world.
We have thus sketched one cause
which is sufficient in itself to pro-
duce war, were other exeitauts wanting.
There are others of less comprehensive
range but equally potent to produce a
clash Of arms Texans have never for
got nor forgiven 6oliad, the kiarno,
Mier and an hundred other crueities
perpetrated by the Mexican soldiery.
with the sanction Of their government;
the Mexieans have not forgotten the
conquest by the American troops which
was contaminated by Ssott.s entry into
the city Of the Montezumas. The ter-
r,ble humiliation rankies aud testers in
their blood, and no proper occasion has
been suffered to pass, when they, as :.
government or as individuals have not
wrnaked a bloody ven ngeance. Too cow
ardly to come forward and assume re,
sp0nsibiiity they have set on their rob.
ber chiefs, Csnales, Cortina aud others,
they shirk behind these 1awiesa men
to escape the indignation of our governs
ment. When forced finally to arrest
cortina, after short nominal deten-
ton he was again turned loose on
some miserable pretext or other, to
renew his deadly warfare upon our de-
fenseless borderers. When Cortina
was unable TO meet the views of the
government of Mexico in his blood,
letting and robbery, the Indian bands
ON both sides OF the Rio Grande were
inspired 10 wage ceaseless and relent>
less war upon our thinly sett!ed bor
ders, entailing long series Of losses
and distresses, stretching over period
of twenty-five years. and at cost of
many millions in money TO both the
state aud national governments We
cannot forget these things. We dare
not longer disregard them. when
the Mexican army. without fear or
shame places itself in position to guard
and protect the raiders in the difficult
and dangerous crossings of the river
with their stolen stock.
Our jails have been violated our
officials murdered or carried off into
captivity our government and people
laughed to scorn, and all this by gov
ernment so weak and SO corrupt as 10
excite the disgust of the civilized
world. If we fail nov to exact an ade-
quate repesation, to force competent
settlement. We will richly earn and se-
cure the contempt of the world. Judge
Howards capture and detention is the
latest and coolest act in the clran,a, and
whether the state concludes to protect
him or inot, or whether the general
government does so or not, Texans
viii rise in their indignstio and
wreak bloody vengeance.