The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Mexico and the North.

The alleged consent of the Mexican Government to the United States Government to grant free passage through Mexico to such Northern troops as may be ordered to operate against the Southern States, is a thing of no practical importance. It is one of the many Chinese devices of Yankeedom to strike terror to their enemies and divert attention from Washington. The experience of the last war with Mexico shows that the transportation of troops and material to that distant coast is a most costly and onerous operation. It will not pay in a war like the present, when there are so many more convenient methods of assailing the South, and when the people to be attacked are not Mexicans. The only effect of such a hostile act on the part of Mexico would be to compel the Southern Confederacy to annex a portion of that Republic to our magnificent empire. In the meantime, Texas, whose brave troops capture United States regulars wherever they find them, with even more ease than they conquered Mexicans, can give a good account of herself without requiring any abatement of Confederate vigilance and energy in the direction of Manassas.