Excerpt from Data of Mexican and United States History
The recent rapid settlement of the southwestern States and Territories of the United States, and the extension of facilities of communication into Mexico have entirely changed the relations between these two republics, and greatly enlarged the interest of each in the other. A nation hitherto isolated and unprogressive is by these means being brought into the community of progressive nations, and it is not to be supposed that the lethargy of the past three hundred years is to be continued. The relations between the United States and Mexico in the immediate future will necessarily be either those of friendly co-operation or of positive hostility. In either case it is desirable that each should possess a better understanding than at present of the actual character of the other. In the affairs of every nation there are certain general facts which help directly to reveal this character, and it is J, j some of these bearing on the Mexican nation which it is pro posed here to set forth in contrast with facts of the same class drawn from the history and present condition of the United States. They refer to the peculiar conditions under which a nation's social and political institutions are developed. They. embrace the climatic and geographical conditions of the nation, its descent, the source of its national life, the impulse which it has received from the mother country, the relation of the immigrant to the aboriginal population, the rate of increase of the whole, and the circumstances in which its political energy, at different times, has found expression.
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