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ding torrent from the United States, and we see that Na. poleon himself was favorable to the projects of Doctor Gwin in taking a colony of the invading race to Mexico, to the provinces most distant from the capital, where the Government could least make its sthrength be felt; that therefore he aided the project, with the means to continue its work, to subjugate the Latin race, and to exterminate the Indian.
«It Was not even proposed to send any Mexican, Spanish or French families; the colony of Gwin was to consist exclusively of people from the United States, Protestant in religion like himself.»[1]
There were really functionaries who did not feel ashamed, as Forey said, to propose the sale of Sonora as a compensation for the generous protection imparted by Napoleon III to the Empire. All the world then knew the attempts that were being made to secure aftewards a direct protectorate by France; and
- ↑ All the parragrapls here copied are taken literally from the last work of Francisco de Arrangoiz, entitled "Mexico from 1808 to 1867."—Madrid.—1872.
Respecting the cession of the State of Sonora to France, the work entitled: OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS COLLECTED IN THE OFFICE OF THE PRIVATE SECRETARY OF MAXIMILIAN. A history of the French Intervention in Mexico by E. Lefevre.—Brussels and London, 1869.—Volume II, chapter VI, may also be consulted.
Also A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE FRENCH INTERVENTION IN MEXICO by José María Iglesias.—Mexico, 1869, and what has been afterwards published respecting these machinations in the CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MEXICAN LEGATION IN WASHINGTON.—Mexico, 1871, volume V.
Lastly, while we are speaking of the cession of territory, it is not out of place to reccommend to our readers that valuable document published by the Gaceta del Lunes, in its issue of July 27th, 1885. As it appears in this document. General Santa Anna proposed to the United States the sale of any portion or portions of the territory of Mexico, commissioning for this affair a certain Gabor Naphegy, who, of course, would have a good brokerage therefor, and who was Santa Anna's authorized agent, minister or something else, for it cannot otherwise be easily understood what signification that obscure personality really had.
