Mr Dallass Letter On the Mexican Treaty Re Printed From the Public Ledger of
Mr Dallass Letter On the Mexican Treaty Re Printed From the Public Ledger of
George Mifflin Dallas
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We may possibly discover it to be wise and prudent sometimes to resist, as did President Jackson, respecting the French In- 21 demnity, in 1835, this Circean spell : and I must confess, that the peace with Mexico would be more satisfactory to a reflect ing judgment, were the prospects of domestic government and of foreign intrusion in that country less unpromising than they actually are. Shall we admit no reproaches and no regrets, if she sink, the victim of savage anarchy, or more savage milit...ary despotism ? Should the scion of some stump of royalty, as a ward of European policy and power, bent upon inoculating this continent with their degrading and pernicious system, be sent and accepted to her Chief Magistracy, might not a tardy and vain repentance follow, as Earth felt the wound and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost ! No calamity, no sacrifice, no expenditure, no war, pestilence and famine could entail upon us and our posterity a hundredth part of the evil and inevitable consequences which must flow from fastening a kingly throne, by means of holy alliances, in American soil.
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