South By West Or Winter In The Rocky Mountains And Spring In Mexico

Author : Rose Georgina Kingsley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282319076
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book South by West written by Rose Georgina Kingsley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from South by West: Or Winter in the Rocky Mountains and Spring in Mexico On the Atlantic, it ought to become the entrepot of a vast traffic, not only between California and New York, but even - so some think - between China and Europe. Heaven grant that that and all wholesome developments may be effected fiom within, by the Mexicans themselves, under the guidance of some wise and virtuous President; and anarchy and brigandage be peacefully exterminated, by the exter mination of their true causes - ignorance and want. If not, the work will have to be done - perhaps in rougher fashion, and perhaps sorely agalnst their will - by the American people. However much the wisest of them may shrink from the thought of annexation, they are growing less and less inclined to tolerate, along the whole frontier of Texas and New Mexico, a state of society which is as injurious to the Mexicans themselves as to the American settlers, and which has, in the last few years, given a pretext for armed invasion and usurpation by the Ultramontane party in Europe. That experiment, it is true, is not likely soon to be repeated. But it will be the duty of the patriotic President of the United States to prevent even the chance of its repetition and to carry out at all risks - as far as Mexico is concerned - the Monroe doctrine. However, we must hope better things for that fair but hapless land. We must hope that her govern ment will so conduct itself toward foreign statesmen as to re-enter honourably the comity of Nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.