The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-16
The FILIBUSfERS
RECRUITING TROOPS IN DIL
LAS, TEX.
What They Propose to Accomplish
In MexicO--A Very Wild ard
Visionary Scheme.

NEW ORK, november lD.-A DAl
las rex. special says: Two men have
been here Tor five days organizing an
agency in the intereet of the q ihuster
ing expedition into Mexico User.
day morning they started for ST.. Louis
leaving a man here Of tx enfive Dor.
der experience 10 continue their work
There arb now enrolled 10 Dali {
twenty or thirty trusted men re2dy
for raid the moment the eummonE
is received, and the number will be
swelled to at lest 100. Five mef
that number could be obtained, bul
the grest test caution is observed in sc.
Letting men, and none but the most
trusted are accepted. In this way
the promoters aud leaders expect to
prevent betrayal. Your correspondent
Saturday night had an interview with
the emissary regarding the belittle-
ment by the press OF the daring
fcheme on foot and the pant the
United States Government is liable to
play, and the apparent oversight on
this point by the .filibus era.
The emf sary said: "That's the least
OF our fear. The United States
will have very little 10 do with the
movement. The government has no
authority to do more than to check it
on lis own territory. 1t can do moth.
ing whatever with the flibusters after
they are once in Mexico, and we shall
take mighty good care not to let the
United States authorities know OF our
movements, or when and where we
will make them. When we get ready
to cross The border we will hLd plenty
OF natives with good leaders ready to
meet uP. We are not going into an
annt Ration to the United States
scheme. The object Is to establish q
new Republic, the Rio Grande Social
istic Confederation, to be composed of
the Northwest Mexican States of
Chihu-hua, Durango and Sonora, with
the capital, as at present intended, at
Chihu ,hua City, as 1t has railroad
commune alton with the outside
world snd Is the largest, richest and
most important town in that section.
We do not want the Northeastern
Stases-Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and
Coshuila - nor that great taud
desert and worthless peninsula,
Lower California. We propose
confUing our work to the most
detilable field, and not have an
unwleldy area OF territory to work
over. We could not have the least
prospect OF success should we attempt
to Tevolutionigs all of North Mexico at
once. When the time for action
comes, if the United States takes any
hand in the affair we count upon that
action being favorable to the new Re-
public instead Of against it, for the
reason that when the Mexican FEEDER Il
Government finds itself confronted
with the extensive revolution that is
certainly impending, and which it will
not be able 10 su opress, her heaviest
creditor, England, who is interested
financially nearly to thu extent of
in Mexican bonds, will
step in to protect that interest, and in
order to protect II will no doubt ss.
sumo to restore order by force of arms
and the establishment OF some kind OF
q foreign protectorate or provisional
government over Mexico. Then the
United States will be forced to
put in active practice the
long asserted and maintained
policy of resisting foreign (which
means European) interference with
the affairs of any Of the Republics on
the American continent. When the
time for outside interference comes
the Rio GTande Soc alisiic Confedera-
tion will have attained such powerful
and respectable proportions that the
United States will recognize it's hellig-
erent rights and the new Republic
will not be long in solving its own
destiny. The lower cla,s OF Mex icans,
known es peons, will be with us from
the outset, as we propose elevaiDg
their condition from One Of ignorance
and virtual servitude to o0e OF liberty,
property owning and advancement in
education. One Ct our strongest ideas
is to have a thorough system of public
schools and make education in the
Eoglish language compulsory. The
idea Of establishing q new Republic
beyond the Rio Grande is not a new
one. II ie only revival OF the fond.
est hopes and ambitious of Aaron
Burr, with the lines simply extended
further when he came to Texas 10 cre-
ate great Republic that should ex-
tend far beyond the present limits of
the Safe. He never die7med of stop
ping at the Rio GIande, and died
strong in the belief that annexa.
ton to the United States alone pre-
vented him from realizing 10 his life
time the establishment Of bis fondest
hopes, ambitious aud dreams. The
new movement is in strict harmony
with The views held by James Mon
roe, which gave TO the world the policy
known as the Monroe dccttiae, which
was pure and simple, to republica
in fact as well as theory, and to angli.
ciz', go far 81 langu ,ge is concerned,
all the people to the south OF US; and,
20 far as the interference idea referred
to by me is concerned, he planted
himself Rquarely on it in his first
message TO Congress in stating that
foreign intervention in the affairs of
American Republics should never be
The ennis Any is a graduate OF an
Elstsrn college aud has lived in Texas
nearly two years. He is a personal
friend Of Henry George, for whom he
has the strongest sdmiIaton and afitc
ton and whose doctrines he uneQuiv-
ocally indorses. He and his associates
will remain in 81. Louis week or 80
aud then 20 to New York aud other