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has been forced upon this country il will make the
most Of il 10 dlsabuse the world OF the uniounded
and unmeTited charges against republican govern
ment, of ineapacty for wars and lust OF dominion
The United States desire permanent peace, iree
trade, and intimate intercourse with all mankind.
On this the second occasion in their annals as a
sovereign nation when has been fastened on
them, after many years Of earnest striving TO pre-
vent 1.-THE first, with the most formidable OF mod
ern empires; the second, with a semi-barbarous and
distracted anarchy-the American government can
never hesitate 10 put end TO hosllties and restore
peace as their adversary will allow H.
Texas, and indemnity for wrongs confessed by sew
era treaties coasts and borders in tranquil posses
sion, without transatlantic interference are all we
insist upon. IL will be Mexican infatuauon, should
the contest become one Of races, ofbordes OF con-
quest and of territorial extension. II Will oe Euro
pean wrong should any transatlantic meddlng az
gravate American continental quarrel, WIN whleh
distant nations have nothing to do, and which, un'


less they interfere, cannot last long uor mateIaily
change The condition of the United States or Mexi
co, except TO improve boh by binding them togeth-
eT in alliance open TO all.


The destiny OF this country is to develop the use
ful arts in peace not TO live by war. But the great
warning powers Of another hemisphere may, If they
will render the United States a conquering nation.
The energy and enterprise hitherto bestowed in re-
claiming the wilderness and navigating the ocean,
may be perverted to the Of deadly weapons, In
stead of she implements of agriculture, commerce,
and manufactures. Long since, the United States
sent their mariners the Atlantic into the Med
iterranean 10 rid the world Of the nsutfersble prs
cies ofbarbarisns. They have now been forced In
10 conflict with the sem-barbarous people nearer
home, whom they have no desire TO subiugate or
colonze whom they will only chastise and restrain,
as all Chrstendom should wish, unless Mexico,
stimulated from Europe, aggrayates the struggle and
pToYokes her ruin.