Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-11
A NEW REPUBLIC.
THE RIO GRANDE SOCIALISTIC
CONFEDERATION.
buster Walker the Repnted
Originators.
special Correspondence RBcoRD-UMoS.l


foot not only in Texas, but extending much
farther North than is generally supposed
attracts little attention in the United States
and none whatever at Washington, the
matter is really assuming alarming proper
tons.
For some time enlistments have been
going on very quietly in Albuquerque
Dallas, FL Paso, and other towns near the
border, and several hundred men already
enrolled are anxiously awaiting the signal to
Join an army of invasion. Doubtless there
are thousands of malcontents and restless
adventures in the country who would en-
list if permitted to do so but the organ
izers conduct their recruiting with discre-
ton and secrecy, carefully selecting the per-
sons who are to be approached for enlist
ment-not only to prevent betrayal, but
also because the object is to secure an eff
Gent force of men rather than an expensive
and unwieldy army.
THE LEADER OF THE ENTERPRISE
is young man of good address, gradu-
ate OF Hazard College, well-knoWn in New
York as an intimate friend of Henry
George and an enthusiastic believer in the
principles of the so-called Labor party.
He asserts that when the proper time for
action arrives, his socialistic following will
not be hampered for want of men, money
or provisions, rs large circle of Northern
SympathiZers are ready to assist them with
unlimited means.
But even these hair Drained eiSiondrioeS
see the folly of trying to possess them
selves of more area than they can manage,
II 90 h off
than they can chew :" therefore they en-
phatically disclaim the idea of annexation
to the United States, and claim that their
scheme is not, as has been alleged, to
seize all northern Mexico. At present they
have 10 use for those not particularly de-
sirabe States Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and
Tamaulipas, nor the worthless peninsula of
Lower California.
The plan is to establish brand new Re-
public, to named the " Rio Grande Social
istic Confederation which shall become
second Canaan for working people. At first
it is designed to include only those three
northwestern States-Chihuahua Durango
and Sonora. However, with surprising
magnanimity
THIS MODERN MOSES
Agrees 10 admit the other States of north
ern Mexico by and by, providing they will
properly apply for admission into the new
Republic. 1t is quite time that the United
States Government looked into this secret
scheme. and interfered by enforcement of
her neutrality laws. Section $3.50 of the
Revised Statutes prescribes that =" any per-
son who in the United States begins or sets
on foot, or prepares the means for any
military expedition to be carried on against
any country with which our own is at
peace. shall be liable on conviction to
fine of $4,000, and imprisonment for three
years"
In regard TO the law which they are so
cautiously violating, these philanthropic
filibusters argue that the United States is
not really at peace with Mexico, because
the peremptory demands recently made by
Secretary Bayard in the Cutting case were
not such as any country would make upon
another with which it was in friendly rela-
tons and the fact that those demands re-
manned UNDECIDED by the Mexican Govern
ment is an insult to the dignity of the
United States which demands redress.
There is no DOUBT that the attitude of
the sister Republics last summer, and the
unrebuked enrolment of companies for
invasion which went on at that time in
many towns on the United States side of
the Rio Grande, gave stimulus to the fill
clustering spirit. 1t was the old story of
the sowing of
THB DRAGONS TEETH,
and must be held largely responsible for
whatever trouble may ensue.
These revolutionists-if one may call
them so-insist that the Government has
no authority to do more than check the
movement on its own territory, and that it
can do nothing whatever with them after
they have crossed the line into Mexico;
therefore they are taking extraordinary
pains 10. keep their plans so carefully
guarded that the authorities will not know
when or where the final dash is made, till
after the deed is done. There are num-
Der of forts near the Rio Grande-Fort
Bliss in the suburbs of Ell Paso, Fort
Seldom, Camp Price, etC.-all well garris-
oned with United States troops; yet there
are plenty of unprotected places all along
that great river, which for more than eigh-
teen hundred miles forms natural
boundary line between the two countries,
where small bands of insurgents might
easily skip over unobserved en- route to
some general rendezvous in Mexico. The
whole United States army could scarcely
Guard the entire distance between the Gulf
of Mexico and the Pacific so effectually
that these determined and willy adventures
could not get over somehow ; for it must
not be imagined that they are going to start
out with waving banners and to the sound
of martial music.
The idea OF establishing new republic
beyond the Rio Grande is not original with
these latter-day Socialists. 1t was
SAMUEL HoUsToN's LoFTIEsr AMBITION
When he came to Texas for the purpose of
creating republic, which was intended to
reach far beyond the present limits of that
big State. He had no idea of stopping at
the Brave River of the North, and to the
jay of his death he firmly believed that the
unfortunate annexation OF that portion OF
Mexico bv the United States had alone pre-
vented the realization of his dream. Aaron
Burr is also quoted as another bright and
shining advocate of filibustering principles,
in the advancement of his own fondest
hopes-with the difference only that his
lines did not extend so far south.
Everybody remembers that notorious
Voung adventurer, William Walker (born
in Nashville. Tenn J, who in 1858 organized
an expedition for the conquest of the Mex
ic1.n State, Sonora. He was unable TO
eyade the vigilance of local authorities I'LL
late in October of that year, when he sailed
with few followers and landed at La Paz,
on the southeastern coast of Lower Califor-
mia Though he received considerable re-
Inducements in the spring of 81, lack OF
funds and provisions compelled him to
disperse his party without having accom-
plished anything. Returning to the United
States, he surrendered himself to the au-
thorities, and was tried for violation of
neutrality, but, strangely enough, was ac-
quilted.
His hard experiences, however, had not
subdued the spirit of adventure within him,
and the very next year 1850 he sailed for
Nicaragua with only sixty-two men, deter
mined to take advantage of the internal
troubles in that State. OF course the pre-
tended object of his expedition-as well as
that of several later ones which, at the ter
mination of the war between the United
States and Mexico exered themselves to
set on foot in the former country various
military expeditions designed to operate in
Spanish America-was the emancipation of
those countries from tyranny, domestic or
foreign, and the introduction of democratic
principles after the model of the United