More stars for the Spangled Banner.
The news we publish this afternoon about Mexico, and
our war with that country, has one feature of peculiar interest. Perhaps the
idea is hardly definite enough to elaborate an article upon – but still it is
warranted that there will soon be a dismemberment of our unhappy southern
republic. Yucatan has long been dissatisfied with the treatment she has
received from the “central power,” and, (as stated,) now throws off her
allegiance, and sets up for herself; giving out that she won’t need a long
coaxing to join the United States.
As to a “Republic of the Rio Grande,: such a
formation would be but the stepping stone to furnish a cluster of new stars for
the Spangled Banner. No small and weak power could, (or would wish to,) exist
separately in such immediate neighbourhood to the United States. We therefore
think it every way likely that, unless the present war be summarily drawn to a
close, Mexico will be a severed and cut up nation. She deserves this, - or
rather her Government deserves it, because Mexican rule has been more a libel
on liberty than liberty itself. – Most of her provinces, instead of rushing to
her rescue, as to aid a beloved parent, will rather exult at her downfall, as
at the rout of a tyrannical oppressor!
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