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ll the hands of the four continents of the globe a century ago. The savages themselves, insensible as brutes to the kindly influences exerted in their behalf, have ceased to mar and disfigure the virgin hemisphere, and have taken up their march to hunting grounds beyond the reach of civilization. Mexico, where the native inhabitants cling with most tenacity to the soil, and mingle the muddy waters of their inferior blood with the ruddy currents of European civilization, alone remains of North America impenitent and unreformed. The United States, from a morbid conscience and false sense of delicacy, has long avoided the duty of "civilizing," which any European Power would long that ago have performed to a depraved and impotent neighbor. Thus neglected by its natural guardians, and apparently forsaken by all earthly sympathy, the good and great Napoleon has undertaken the benevolent enterprise of "civilizing" Mexico. Thirty-five or forty thousand French missionaries, under the auspi