REMEDIES EMIGRATI 'N RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. 161 



titudes who are seeking a new home in America. Emigration is 

 the overflowing of a bitter cup. Men do not ordinarily leave the 

 land of their birth, the home of their infancy, their parents, friends 

 and companions, for the untried hazards of a land in which there is 

 no community of laws, habits, and language, unless poverty and bad 

 government force them into the wilderness. They depart to better 

 their lot. They must have the assurance, therefore, of their rights 

 in property and personal liberty guarantied by stable law T s promptly 

 administered by incorruptible judges. Such meritorious emigrants 

 will not populate Mexico unless she demonstrates her capacity for 

 order and security ; and, without these accessions, we have shown 

 that Mexico never will, as she does not now, possess a republican 

 People. She must cultivate the civil idea ; she must abandon her 

 military parade ; she must discard her habitual bombast and grand- 

 iloquence ; she must banish the despots w r ho have debauched and 

 plundered her ; she must reform her social life and learn to believe 

 that there are other pleasures worthy the notice of men besides 

 gambling, bull baiting and cock fighting ; and, above all, she must 

 establish religious liberty. It is an absurd idea that nationality 

 can be preserved by enforcing Catholicity by virtue of the consti- 

 tution. The Roman church must consent to share this earth, — 

 the patrimony of mankind, — with other believers and spiritual la- 

 borers. It cannot monopolize the soil, even if it can control the 

 faith. The day of monoply is gone, — that of individuality has 

 come, and there can be no good government that is not founded on 

 tolerant Christianity, which is the creed of Love, the enemy of 

 Force, the founder of true Democracy. 1 



When an orderly and firm government shall have been estab- 

 lished, Mexico will be refreshed continually by the energizing blood 

 of a hardy, industrious and enterprising white race from beyond the 

 sea. Germany will send her sons and daughters ; Ireland, France, 

 England, Italy and Spain will contribute theirs. The various 

 nations, mingling slowly by marriage with the white Mexicans, 

 will amalgamate and neutralize each other into homogeneous na- 

 tionality. Mexico may thus gradually congregate a People. 

 The language of the country will, in all likelihood, be preserved; 



1 It will scarcely be credited, but such is nevertheless the fact, that it was once 

 seriously contemplated in Mexico to deny the right of sepulture to all strangers 

 who were not Catholics, and that the point was only overruled by an ingenious lib- 

 eralise who contended that it was certainly healthier for the living Catholics that 

 the dead heretic should rot beneath the ground, than taint the atmosphere by decay- 

 ing above it ! The priests have constantly and violently opposed marriages between 

 Mexicans and foreigners, unless they were Catholics. 

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