Year: 1875

EDITOR HERALD: In your issue OF
to-day I observed an advertisement
drawing the attention of our citizens
to the liberal inducements offered by
the Republic of Mexico to bona .fde
settlers, or, in other words, to such as
are willing to become renegades to
their own form of government and
adapt themselves to conditions which
are not as advanced or elevating as
their own. But before any persons
commit themselves to such a course
they ought to make themselves not
only familiar with the nature of the
country but with the laws which gov
ern it and the characteristics of the
people who inhabit it,.


We have as a people shown every
forbearance with the sister Republic.
We desire to see her progress and
take her place amongst nations as a
Power representing mighty and in
vincble principle. So far as our policy
has been concerned, we have given her
the benefit of our countenance and
support, and by our aid snatched
her from the rapacious jaws
of voraci0us Imperialism. We
have given to her rulers every
opportunity to vindlcate the majesty
of the law, and when our citizens and
their homes have been violated by
bands of desperadoes, we have waited
to receive justice at their hands in
stead of acting as the stronger usually
do, by bloody retaliation. We have
also watched the almost superhuman
efforts of her most liberal patriots to
raise their country TO condition OF
social decency and rid it of the big
otry which centuries of subserviency
to priestcraft have inflicted on il, and
our sympathy has ever been on the
side of the weak; but there is q limit
to national as well as individual pa
thence, and our duty to public senti-
the difficulties which exist between
the two countries, arising from border
raids and lawless maltreatment of un
offending citizens who invested capi-
tai in that country, for out of eighty
mines which were owned and worked
by American citizens scarcely half q
dozen survive the seizures which rev.
olutionary bands have made And If
Mexico desires to be in harmony with
the great republic, the ignorant por-
tion Of her people must be taught to
respect the inviolable rights which
belong to all, irrespective of country
or creed.


In the absence of such knowledge
on the part of its citizens it would be
wise for all intending colonists of that
country to inquire where they are
bound and the ability of the Mexican
republic to guarantee the rights and
privileges of their manifesto. Land
one cent per acre would in many parts
of Mexico be valuel, 50, even in the
best hands, owing to the feeling of ill.,
security which pervades all classes of
society. For Mexico in its present
condition is ever on the eve of ca
tastrophe. Jealousy amongst its lead
ers influences the public mind, and,
independent as its poems may assume
to be, nothing but brute force can con-
troll minds which have no capacity for
reasoning power.


Homes in Lower California, in the
absence of communication and mar
kets for consumption, would gradually
deteriorate, and their owners sink to
the level of the circumstances and
conditions which surround them. TO
the outlaw or to the man who has no
social ties to bind him to progressive
form of civilization and the refine
ment of society it is good place, and
to such / say God speed! Go, for there
you will find the Insecurity and ex-
citement in accordance with your ma
lures. AS to the land and its capabil-
titles, will speak of it anon. But 70.
the present, au revoir.


BLUNDERBUSs.