MEXICO.
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A few weeks back, during the highest state
of the war fever, we ventured the pre- dcion
that the Mexcans would never come within
reach of Uncle Sans bayonets. In days gone
by, we took an actiue part 1--WE speak not boast


ngly reader) in attaining the independence o.
this and other of the then American colonies o
Old Spain, and the above prediction was found.
ed on our knowledge of the weak and pusillan.
imous character of those people. 1t is now GER
tain there will be no war-or, what is about
the same thing, we are sure of an "indeinite
postponement" having taken place on the part
of Mexico. Disappointed, doubtless, in her
exnectations of the active sympathy of one or
more of the powerful nations Of Europe, and
left, as she Of right ought to have been, to the
free, unprejudced exercise Of her own discre-
tion in relation to her own affairs, and to reli-
ance entirely on her own resources, she has,
after violent storm of bravado and fury, be-
thought, her of the excellence, truth, and safe
ty, of that most correct maxim, "discretion is
the better part of valor," and concluded, it
seems, to adopt it. That she may abide by,
and profit under it, is our most sincere and
friendly wish.


Had Mexico, even allowing her different
provinces, their people, and her General Gov
ernment to be in a state of the most perfect
harmony and unity, instead Of being, as she
again is, distracted by serious intestine COM
motions, had the temerity TO take the step she
so vauntingly threatened-had she actually de-
clared war against the United States, and
thrown her armies, or either of them, across
the Rio Grande into the territory of Texas, a
result must have Immediately ensued which


it is painful to contemplate-a spectacle have
been presented at which humanity would
shudder. Not that it was to be feared that
the former atrocities of her soldiery could cause
Americans to wifully forget that character for
magnanimity, which it has ever been their
glory to maintain; not that they would fail to
bear in mind that they were battling with a
foe "unworthy Of their STEEL" and beyond
comparison miserable and degraded; but, in
the heat and frenzied impetuosity of the con-
fict, who can say where the arm of destruction
would be stayed on the part of men who fought
over the graves Of such murdered martyrs as
Crockett, Fannin, and their many brave COM