Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1877 — Mexico and the United States. [ARTICLE]

Mexico and the United States.

All the recent information from Mexico tends to the conclusion that the people in the interior of the country are as inimical to the United States as are those on the Rio Grande. Their newspapers print only hostile and exciting articles about the relations of their country with the United States, and their orators on public occasions indulge in unmeasured bombastic talk about the dignity and rights of their country, which they claim are insulted and invaded by the efforts of our Government to induce Mexico to enforce her own laws against the thieves who infest the border. Recently they had a celebration of the anniversary of Molino del Rey, at which the President and all the high officials of the land were present, but at which the facts that a handful of Americans stormed their stronghold and took their capital were studiously ignored. The Mexican problem is one of the most difficul t with which our Government has to deal. The very weakness of the country, and pity for her people under their never-ending political revolutions, have caused our forbearance under the disregard of all that international comity requires to be carried to the extreme, yet the only result is that her rulers and journalists seem to seek for excuses to quarrel. Unless some new internal disturbance claims their serious attentio n wo may be dragged into another war with Mexico in spite of every effort and the most sinesre wish to avoid it. — Cleveland Leader.