The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-23
MORE ANNEXATION.

The papers tell US that scheme
is on foot, and that a company has
been organized with several hundred
thousand dollars capital, a large por-
ton of which has been already paid
in, for the purpose of annexing So
nora, Lower California, and large
slice Of Eastern and Northern Mex
leo to the United States. Advantage
is to be taken of the troubles in that
unhappy country. The dissatisfied
Mexicans are to be paid to become
more and more dissatisfied with
the ruling powers Of their own coun-
try; revolutions and rebellions are
to be stirred up and a general civil
war inaugurated, then the same pro-
cess by which Texas was wrested
from Mexico and finally brought
into the Union as an independent
State is to be gone over in regard to
the new Territory.
Well, candidly, we should like to
see a large portion of Mexico, all of
it in fact, annexed to the United
States. That is very fine country
and glorious climate. The land is
rich and productive. There are in
exhaustible mines of gold, silver,
iron and copper, and every other
kind of metal. Nature has done a
great deal for Mexico, but the Mex
leans are a lazy worthless set of fell
lows, and will not develop the fine
region they occupy. If the United
States owned that country it would
soon be settled up by thrifty, in
dustrious population, who would not
only enrich themselves, but in doing
so, would add greatly to the wealth
and power Of the Nation.
OF course we would not be willing
to join in any dishonorable or under
handed transactions against the pre-
sent Government of Mexico, but we
would tell the people of the disaf-
fected States frankly, if they chose
to throw off the yoke of the Mexican
Government and could maintain
their independence for short time,
they should be accepted into the
Union as States. If private indi-
viduals from the United States
choose to 60 to Lower California or
Sonora and help those people achieve
independence. they have a right to
do so.
Some people might think the
United States is big enough now,
and that we have all the territory
we need. But we are not of that
way thinking. We want Mexico,
and have wanted it ever since we
acquired New Mexico and California.
We were in favor of purchasing
Alaska from Russia. 1t may be
solid block Of ice, but it was and is
worth ten times as much as it cost.
The fur-bearing animals which live
and inhabit that bleak and desolate
region are alone worth the money
paid for it. We want Canada, too.
And British America, all the way up
to the Arctic Ocean; in fact up to
the North Pole. It is the destiny Of
the United States, sooner or later,
to own this whole continent. We
do not need it just now, but we are
growing with astonishing rapidity,
and will need it in few years. One
hundred Independent States in the
American Republic, bounded all
around by the ocean. This was the
bright vision of our youth. We
shall not live to see it consummated,
but nevertheless, it will come, and
come too, mark-sooner than sleepy
old fogies think.
The career Of the Union from 1875
to the present, has been C miracle.
Nothing has impeded its progress.
Four years of the most tremendous
civil war ever fought. found the
population Of the country greater at
its end, than it was when the first
gun was fired. The stream of peo-
pie pouring in from the civilized
countries Of the old world is becom-
ing greater and greater every year.
These people need land to cultivate,
and they must and will have it.
So far as Nations are concerned,
God rules, and "what is to be, aCiIt
be-" The idle, thriftless inhabitants
must stand aside or be pushed out
Of the way of the stalwart workers.
The world is moving and moving
fast. Civilization and Christianity
are advancing with the steps of twin
giants. North America seems to
be the chosen field for the develop
ment Of the human family, and the
United States, with its free Govern
ment and universal suffrage, is the