The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-03
NOVEL BUT STRIKING APPEAL.

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article rom 'nc hrtS0Hd M''e'' an
influential daily of that state, pub
lished at Prescott. The article sets
forth certain relations of New Mexi-
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co, Arizona luu oon,,su ous o.a'es
and territories 10 the Northern
States of Mexico, and the outlet to
Tho ocoan which l;os in tho boupda-
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ries Vi 'iiose .o'"'os' Aho nheAa
ton OF certain OF those Mexican
States is claimed as necessity to
Arizona and tha r;ght NJ sucb annoy
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a'ion Justtiea on 'he ground Oh 'ia'
necessity, and as means Of defense.
Both points are well taken, and we
coumond Tho snb;oct IN tho careful
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a,'ehtioh oi our rchucrs anu oSpe.
ciaily TO the press, who we hope VIII
produce the article in Justice TO Ari-
iona ,vb;.b win, Toxas and Now
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nhcAioo 10 cquany anu a.iho i"'oio''
cd in the Mexican question.
At last, and much against our will,
we are forced to the public assertion
that the Northwestern States of Mex
| leo must become part of the Uni
ted States. We can no longer remain
blind to the nears essential to our
protection, nor to the obstacles in the
way of our material progress.
Along the whole Mexican frontier
| from San DieAo to the Rio Grande,
and especially in the Southern part
of this Territory, dcpredations by
Mexican bandittf are of daily occur
renee. Four stages stopped and rob-
bed, the horses taken, the mails and
treasure distracted, the passengers
insulted, frightened, despoiled and
left a-foot upon parching desert,
| and majority of those by Mexicans
domiciled upon Mexican soil, is the
record for the past month. This
state of affairs discolrages all bust
ness enterprises and retards that de-
velopment of our Territory TO which
| its neutral wealth entities 1t. We
can expect neither the financial aid
| that this Territory so much needs,
nor the flow of that stream of useful
population which would make us
great and wealthy, so long as this
state of things continues. But where
is our Remedy? II is not in the eff
| ficicncy of our courts or officers, else
the relief would be speedy. II is not
in our Army as frontier guard, for
Congress, in its great wisdom, has
removed the citizen and civil affairs
beyond Its protection or aid, and
made ii the body-guard of "the no.
BILE red men," Our remedy is the
annexation of so much of the Next
can territory as will place between
us and them one of the mountain
ranges running South to the Gulf,
as the boundary line. This is neces-
sary, and must and will come. We
need it for our protection and ii is
our natural outlet to the Sea, which
is the high. way of nations and which
we are by the laws of Nature entitl-
ed TO reach. With Sonora and parts
of chihuahua and Sinaloa under ouI
flag, and mountain barrier between
us and them, peace and quiet, at this
end, at least, must OF necessity fol.
low. But the lines us now laid out,
with no natural barrier to aid, and
but level plains from one country TO
the other, IL is but encouragement to
the lawless and ungoverncd hordes
of Mexico to prey upon our com.
merce and law-abiding citizens. They
cross the line, commit their depreda-
tons and before possibility of cap.
ture, return TO their own soiland the
shelter of their flag. We have for.
borne, but further forbearance would
be stupidity. We have submitted to
the Inconvenience of our natural sit
nation, guided by every sense of nat.
ional honor, but we should do so nc
longer. Mexico, by her conduct and