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Show 50 APPENDIX TO PART III. Eng-lish in their late descents at La Plate, with the disgrace of thcu arms, h:1s tumed their views from that nution . Thty therrfo,·c have turned t!tt'i7· eyes towards t!tt' Unitrd Statf'S1 as brethren or the same soil, in their vicinity, and who ha5 within her power ample resources of arms, ammunition, ancl even men to assist in securing- their indcpcndencc, und who in that event sccut·cs to herself the almost cxclo~ive trade of the riche~t countt·y in the wol'ld for centuries, ancl to he her canicrs as long as the two nations exist; fat· 1\Jcxico, like China, will never become a nation or mariners, but receive the ships of all the world into her ports, and ~ivc het· bullion in exchange for the productions of their dill'crcnl countries,-when, what would not be the aclvanta~es the Cnitccl States would reap ft·om the event! 0 II' numerous vessels would fill evet·y port, and from our vicinity enable us to carry off at least nine-tenths of her commerce: even on the coast of the Pacific no Eut·opean nation could vie with us :--also, there would be a brisk inland trade canied on with the S. P. 'ia Red river, and having a free entrance into all their ports, we \\'Oulcl become their bctors, " gents, gllarclians, and, in short, tuteht· genius, a'i she fl· ar~, but hates France and all Frc11ch men ancl measures. I t thcrcfi>rc rc· mains for the ,r,- ovc rnmc-nt of the United States to dcc.:i<k , whether, if Donaparte should seize on the crown of ~;pa i n, they would hold out a helping hand, to emancipate another ponion of the western hemisphere from the bonds nf European tynnny and oppression, ot· by a <.lifferenl policy, suffer 6,000,000 of people to become, in the hands of French intri~ue, enterprise and tactics, a scourge on our somh-westcm boundaries, which would oblige us to hep a large and respectable militat·y force, and continually lay us lia!Jic to a war on the weakest and most vulnerable part of out· frontiers. Twenty thousand auxilia1 ies from the United States, under good officers, joined to the indt•jundcllts of the country, arc at any time sufficient to create and effect the revolution. These troops can be raised and ofiicercd in the United States, but paid ancl supplied al the expense of .Mexico. It would be requi~ite that, not only the gener.1l commanding, but that every officet·, clown to the youngest ensign, should be impressed with the necessity of support· ing a strict discipline,. to prevent marauding, which should, in some instances, be punished with death, in order to evince to the citizens that you come as their friends and pt·otectors, not as their plunderers and tyranb :-also, the most sacred regard should be paid not to injure the institutions of their r1 ligion ; thereby she\\ ing them we had a proper respect to nil things in :my wny connected with thr APPENDIX TO P1\ HT IlL 5 l "Or!)htp of' the Deity, at th' same time we pemtitted evcrv mln to adO!'(' J,illl :.1!-;TCC,lbly to the dictates of his 0\\'ll judgment. , The d<.:laib requisite f(H· the equipment, organizat!on, &c. of the Cf)l·ps, ~o as to he ad,tpted to the locality of the country and the nattu·c of the ~(n•ice, could be easily formed, but would be impertincllt hcJ' ·. ~hould an at·mr of A mcri cans ever march into the country, ~111d be g-uided nnd g·ovct'tlcd by these maxims, they will only have to march from pro\ i11cc to province in triumph, and be IMiled by the united voices of ~;ratcfu l million· as their deliverers and saYioUI's, '~h;lst our n:ttional charactct· would be resounded to the most distant nations of the earth. z. M. PIKE, Capt. 1st U. S. rcgt. infantt·y. Ha,vllington , l '2t!J .1jm'l, 1808. |
