PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAP.ARTE LAMAR 83 paradise, with an assiduity worthy of a better cause. In the mean time that power which all these changes aimed at securing remains as tot- tering and uncertain as ever These intrigues originating from the disordered brain of an unprin- cipled empiric, who thinks by his pretended reclamations, his reunion to civilized society, his abstinence, his temperance speeches, his side winks at abolitionists, the reading of his bible to ~ seen and heard of men, - his assuming the cloak of religion, and being all things to all men, - endeavoring to hide under a shew of honesty and piety the ' impurities of a shamefully debauched life; - that he will succeed in deluding under a guarantee from Great Brittain, that they would fear no evil, that old Sam, would always do right, and be more than an over balance for the loss of their liberties If his vanity has prompted him to make so large a draft on the credulity of the people, which from his actions cannot be doubted, he will at least meet with a protest from one. give me Santana or any other Mexican before him. I have known him too long and too well; he bas no good in his magazine. · Lucifer, prompted by the same vile passions, aspotatised from Heaven, and he, from Tennessee: - the province of both, by their intrigues and low cunning is to thwart the views of honest men This empiric flatters himself, that he has kept his real objects so clO!!ely veiled, and played his cards so adroitly, that he cannot even be suspected; besides, who dare suspect the hero of Sanjacinto,-who dare even question him,- who dare have the temerity to rouse the lion from his lair? He'll see. An old setler, equally indefatigable, Who has at' least been twice to mill, and once to meeting, a good woodsman, not easily lost in a fog, generally good on a warm or cold trail - not apt to bark, and never up the wrong tree, and whose bark is sure game, has been with him taking notes and now he'll print them Santana cares nothing abut Texas in point of value, would prefer that it was totally detached and out of his way, he dreads and has a right to dread its population He would much pref0r being at peace and amity under proper treaties and would like us to be implicated with Great Brittain as guarantee which we should carefully avoid As before observed he rl11re not R<'knowlerlge our indenPndence, 11nrl onr hero is well aware of it As a matter of policy he wuld like to acquire Texas, if only to please the pomposity of the Mexican Nation, to do which he would sacrifice much - that acquisition once made no matter how eff.ected, would establish his power permanently; - he woulrl by those benighted people be deified canonized and worshiped as a Saint. If Mexican and abolition gold, which may even reach the halls of le!!is- lation itself, and it must be admitted that it is a tempting drug, - if that kind of dust can blind our eyes in exchange for liberty, it will be carried by the coup-de main of negotiation as sure as the Lord made Moses If there should happen to be too much honesty, (which if things exist as they are will not be the case) then the grand trial strain is to be made by invasion by land and sea Our hero, far the most anxious of the two, is making every prenaration by throwing us open at all points And while we are amui::erl by the armistice and the svrian song of peace, ere we are aware we will be surrounrle<l by enemies. Then will be understoorl his indian policy, and our hero's great solici-
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