Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-11

has been strengthened by loyal sup I.
port OF the legal compact Of the states,
jointly and severally ratified, aud /
that which before was choice, OF the
duty Of affection, is now likewise the
duty of legal obligation.
In Mexico the national harmony
and union OF sympathy aud spirit
among tn, people, is the foundation
stone Of her independence; the rock
on which IL Is built, and is something
so sacred to her people that we ought
10 watch every word we speak and
every thought we think, that we In
lure them not, even by mistake.
When n multitude, extended, or
rather scattered over q country in the
manner the Mexicans are mutually
thrive and profit and find happiness
for years in one form Of government
wherein the whole shall move, to ac-
complish common purpose, all parts
must act together and alike, or not act
az all and stoppage in any is "A stop
page of the whole.
The circumstances OF the several
states OF Mexico are frequently vary
ing, occasioned by misapplied x ,vern-
ment, bad commerce or drought, and 1t
often falls upon some to help others,
rather beyond what their eX-
act proportion at another time
might be. Could the assistance be as
natural and agreeable under a foreign
| political government? The idea ofou
! Union cannot be extended harmoni-
ously over any portion OF the Mexican
states, for In matters of bounden duty
and reciprocal affection, II is a degen-
eracy from the honesty and ardOr OF
/ IN aN 70, nd al nv
! greedy in the government of our ma.
| tional conduct; especially where our
duty, our affections and our in
terest all coincide, as they
| do In our observance Of
the perpetuity of Mexican harmony of
! government The United States has
an extensive quantity OF vacant lands,
| rich in minerals and timber, which,
even after these two great natural
fields for wealth have been exhausted, ,
still remain a mine for the agricultur-
list. Let this selfappointgd good fath-
er OF a mericau industry direct his at
tention to them.
j do not address this communication
so much to the American people
as to the Republican agitators
Of the Mexican purchase scheme,
whoever they may be; for II 1t is their
intention to promote any such nego-
tiation, il is proper they should know
beforehand that the MeNiCans rich
extensive territory ia only equaled by
their natural love and pride, and that
they cannot be seduced from their
alliance; that their line of political
principle ~ formed, and not de
pendent, like that which has charac-
ieTized the term republican, upon
IHalaa 4
cratic administration there ia b rely a
possibility of any such overture being
made TO the Mexican people.
Its contamination would certainly be
for personal benefit alone; and that
benefit would be financial gain for a
few individuals and not national Had
this question been so earnestly pul
e forward during the Grant administrs
ton there is no knowing what wOulC
have been the result, unless one cal
hold good the idea that to find VIVA
that government would do h. only
needs find out what IL ought not to do
and this Last would have been thei
conduct Forever changing and for
ever wrong; too distant from truth
J to improve in circumstances, and to-
unwise to foresee them; schemiui
q without principle, and executing with
out probability, their whole line q
e management has ever been bluude
and baseness. Every campaign La
e been to their loss, aud every year L
I their disgrace, till, unable g. go 81
and and ashamed 10 90 back, thei
! politics have come 20 halt, and al
their fine prospects to halter
r or humanity forget the wound
, and abpse OF an injured trust, "
might, under the influence OF mo
: mentary oblivion, stand and laugh
+ But they are engraven where n
= Amusement can conceal them, and {
kind for which there is no recon-
I pense 1t will be futile then to tRmpe
4 further with injured feelings by insit
+ ious Continuance, or to attempt 10 suif'
q cate humanity by seducing Democra
= cy to dishonor. f. s. u.