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POLITICAL ORDER LABOR. 



for the white natives who now speak Spanish will of course form, 

 for many years, the bulk of the population, and when they die, 

 their offspring and the offspring of the emigrants will know but one 

 tongue. There will thus be no violent extirpation of races ; but a 

 slow and genial modification. Modern inventions, arts, tastes, 

 science, emulation, new forms of thought, new modes of develop- 

 ment, will be introduced and implanted by these emigrants. The 

 million of white men, and the two millions of mestizos, will become 

 more prosperous under the increased trade and industry of the 

 nation. A good government will be ensured, for the lferdy emi- 

 grants fly from the political oppression and poverty of the old world 

 to enjoy peaceful liberty in this. 



There is nothing in this scheme of progress to which a good 

 man or a republican can object, and if Mexico is sincere in her 

 professions of democracy, and not merely anxious to preserve intact 

 the fragments of a ruined Spanish colony, without a people and 

 without nationality ', she • will imitate the example of the United 

 States and welcome to her vallies and mountains all who are will- 

 ing to approach her in the name of order, labor, and liberty. But 

 if she stubbornly adheres to her stupid self-seclusion, and bars the 

 portals of her splendid empire with the revolutionary impediments 

 that are annually scattered over the republic, she will break the 

 beautiful promise given to humanity in the success of her revolution ; 



"Something there was in her life incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, 

 As if a morning in June with all its music and sunshine, 

 Suddenly paused in the sky, and fading slowly descended 

 Into the east again, from whence it late had arisen ! " 



Longfellow's Evangeline. 



