The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-15 00:00:00

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yoke on the section' of Ametlea. sad reduce than to their old hu-
miliating state of colonies, is este froe fipm the eppressive power of
France, and able to cast on our shores an inundation of insoleut
sol-
t}ie of tourgre thieves„ atul hardened assassins.
'► !ler cruelties and perfidy in Anterica Were. fully expetlenced in
the instance of the Constitution of the Cartes, by which they fiats •
tested themselves with having re-established the hornet' race in the
enjoyment of their natural rights. That Cotistitntion adjured and
proclaimed with so much solemnity wherever the Spanish arms held
sway, was not sufficient to cause the lives and property of the Ante
ric•an•, the chastity of virgins, or the sacred dignity of the clergy and
satt.lnory to he reseeded. s Now that this same Constitution has
disappeared, and that by the decree of Ferdinand issued at Valencia
on the 4th of May. those same Cortes are declared to be no other
than a club of factious 411.1 criminal persons, and the Constitution
the result of their s iel.e,lisess, as well as of oil those who now
pretend to upheld its ele ci vnisee ; what have the Americans to ex-
pert, who on its treemiti declared ago Ist their fellow countrymen?
What are now the hopes of the Spaniards themselves, when, in the
Constitution which hilt yesterday formed all their happiness, they
now find nothing but opprobrium, and the anathemas of the
sovereign power? Yon, Spaniards, at the expellee of sacrifices
which at one stroke are rendered abortive, re-established those rights
which yon disfigured for America, but which by means of your Con-
atitntional Code you expected to secure for Spain ; and these same
tights, as formerly, are now converted into crimes of high treason,
nod the people returns to its ancient abjection, anti the Throne again
surrounded by sattefites, will become a source of oppressive de-
g►adation.
►e The ruin of Ithonaparte being completed by the re-establish-
wet of the Bourbon line. and time Family Compacts between
France and Spain, as'.l inequality being again restored with all
the intermediate agent* of absolute power, nothing will h left un-
Vied, nor rto exertion spared; and it will be of little avail that the
House of Austria has experienced any disgust in the very moment
that lie contributed with his threes to the dethronement of Iris son•
in law, or that the ancient rivalship. subsisting between the two
Houses be again renewed ; of little consequence %%ill it be if fresh
differences arise between Spaniards and Americans, that the Prince,
of Bucinapartel creation have to repast their erroneous calculation, ;
or that England}, intent only on her own iaterests, and penetrated
with the justice that oblieeti her to snake so mangy• sacrifices toe
(Spain, should fail to be sensible of those still stronger inducements
which call upon her to look towards .‘inerica. All these eonsidera-
tions ought to have no iirflmience on the inhabitants of New Cratu►da,
who ought to be persuaded that the lot of America is already cam

in Europe.
" America has already proclaimed her liberty and adjured her
lodependenc.e, at the time that the. Spateisle Dation., in the name of
lerdinand, mad with his presumed will, was every o hese spilling 'le
blood of her ilfintrious sons, end carried discord and desolation
thrioighout every part of the Columbian soil, where the rights of man
u►umenced to be known. Hitltrrta the crimes of the nation have been
c•,..!erciseet nn►ler the ►lame ot• Ferdinand ; henceforward the latter 1
act thriough the medium of his own agents. and there are no
. horrors se hint the libel al party will not leave to dread from the pride
-and veil:tearer of theservile one. True it is dist ihe first invitations
of Fel (Inland, his emissaries, his decrees, and orders, will not fail to
N peak in the usual tone of time paternal beneficence of kings. At
first they will Not come with that sangninary aspect which will be
reserved till hereafter, and which will in due time display the
domitieering character of the Spanish nation Before hying our
strength with these armed ltil.thwayinett, we shall have to struggle •
• with pardons, promises, ds, crosses, titles, and distinctions, on
vri►ich Europe relics toinfinettee the habits, prebulices, and foolish
credulity of the Ante►jeans. llowever strouely religion may condemn
tiokpolitical artifices in the ministers. of the sanctuary, the Court of
P.ladrid will prodigally distribute mitres, eationships, and other
ecelesiastical benefices, and will not bill to resort to inmetratienes as
long as they will serve her oust purpose ; vices which excite horror
its our clergy, too enlightened hot to resist such a profanation of the
sanctuary—vices which would he again 'putting the fate of the
-American chtuthes at the mercy of the Spanish Government—would
leave them perpetually chained to the car of despotism. Deception
still precede the sword, and both will be employed to carry on a
wide and destructive war against us, iu which the weak mind:
- deceived, by .Spanish tyrant" would uselessly have to deplore the
selling of Moir country tette vile price, when fatal experience came
to undeceive them. .„
" People of New Granada !—Weigh well your fate and that of
• sour posterity he the balance of futurity, in order to form a resolution
worthy of these objects. On this depends the issue of the stinggle