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REPUB(IIO* COLToliliß/4. ... •.. .
We have beferetsi sesseraPampottititlitipeivs respect-
ing the state of Colombia, an abitract of which may
not be uninteresting to our Readers' It may not be en-
tirely sti;:erfluous to mentian, that this qitarter of Ames
e
rica is .the only one which has .ceived a new Ramp
since its declaration of independen4e, and the union of
its provinces under its present Cimstitution. We ,e-
-cognize in the titles and boundletes of the new States
of Mexico, Buenos Ayres, Chili) and Peru, the designa-
tions-and limits of the old colonial Viceroyalties of the
.same names. The colonial yoke has been thrown off
—the Spanish Viceroy has been exchanged for the e. e-
sidein or Political Chief of an independent State—the
Viceregal Council has been transformed into a Senate,
or an Assembly of Repteentatives—the Viceroyalty
has become a Republic—and the ancient Spanish audi-
' encias have started up free provinces; but the old geo-
graphic names and boundaries are the same, and we are
at no loss in determining their position. Colombia, on
the other hand, is a new name, and a geographer of
kwo or three years back would not recognize in it the
old Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada, and the Ca-
pitania-General of Caraccas. Perhaps, in this case,
some designation was necessary to mat k a union of tvio
States fertneily separated ; and as neither of them had
a title that could well he extended to the other, :t new
one was the more necessary and excusable. Colombia,
which the North American States neglected to appro.-
priate, was adroitly laid hold of by the new authorities
in the south, and applied, probably without pedantry,
to the region which Columbus pointed out to the enter-
prise of his countrymen in his fourth and last visit to the
world which he had discovered. This vast common-
wealth, extending front the Caribbean Sea to Pent, and
from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, embracing a
territory nearly as large as all Europe, is inhabited on)y
by about 3,000,000 of people, who have succeeded in con-
quering their independence, after a severer strugee than
any of the other States have been called upon to sus-
tain, and who now exhibit a higher example of social
order than scarcely any of the other Republics have yet
reached. By one of the papers which lies before us, we
find, that about the middle of June last, a new territo-
rial division of the State was decreed, an outline of
which we shall lay before our Readers, as it may serve
to remind them of the extent of Colombia, and the nu-
merous provinces of which iris cornpbsed. By this de.
cree, Colombia is divided into 12 departments, each of
which is divided into a number of provinces; and the
latter, again, into a number of cantons. The 12 de-
pm totems, with their capitals, are the following; 1;
Orinoco, the capital of which is Curoana ; 2, Venezuela,
the capital of which is Carraccas ; 3, Apure, the capi-
tal of which is 13arinas; 4, Zulia, the- capital of which
is Maiacaibo ; 5, Boyaca, . the capital of which is
Tanja i, 6, Cundinamarca, the capital of which is Ba-
ena ;:a Magdalena, the capital of which is Cartlia .;epa ;
8, Cattoh, the capital of which is Popayan ; 9, -Y brio,
the capital of which is Panama ; 10, Euador, the capis
tal of which is Quito; 11, Lasu ay, the capital of which is
Cuenca ; and 12, Gilayaqtiil, with its capital of the same
name. It would be tedious to enter intofurtherdetailson'
this merely geographical subject: we shall, therefore,
proceed to lay before our Readers some extracts of an
official report on the internal state of the Reptillic,
made to Congress, by one of the Ministers, in the end
of Apia last. This document embraces various topics
which we must omit ; such as the recapitulation of the .
laws, which in the opinion of the Minister ought to be
reformed—of laws which are wanting to complete the
Colombian system of Government —of laws to be
enacted respecting educatioa—of the regulations ne-
cessary in the manumission of slaves—ot regulations
necessary to encourage the making of roads, the recom-
mendation of a new census, and the passing of laws for
the civilization of the native Indians under the Colom-
bian Government.
The most interesting portion relates to the effects
produced in the Republic by the new Constitution.—
" The admirable effects of our present olitical organ-
ization," observes the report, ig especially of the inti-
mate union of Quito, Cundinamarca (Spanish New Gra-
nada), and Venezuela, under one popular Itspresenta-
tire Government, are manifest in the tranquillity which
reigns over this vast territory—in the order, regularity,
and submission to the laws which distinguish every Cos-
lembian citizen, from the first Magistrate of the State
down to the most insignificant individual. But' these
effects will be more manifest still, it we cast a rapid
glance on our history, and caU to mind the less fortu-
nate Jays which have served to form nations in the
school of affliction. As soon as Veiiezuel i had obtained
an independent Government in 1810, the chiefs of the
Revolution in every province endeavoured to enjoy the
greatest liberty by assuming all the rights of sovereignty.
—Thus they established a federal Republic, after the
Model of the United States: but the people of. Vene-
zuela, who were not brought up in liberal institutions,
divided themselves inter small opposing pa, t es. Ihe
fedbral administration was weak in .the -ewe Ise; amid
being attacked by a handful ohne% whom Flo iteverde
conducted froln Colo, was subdued, though at the
head of a million of inhabitants composing the Repub-
lic. Such were the fatal effects of a di a lion of the i-ro-
v ince i, to which, no doubt, the earth wake cl 1812 con-
tributed, being ascribed by discontented superstitis n
to the wrath vf• Heaven against our declaration of'
independence. It is now evident th it Mosteverde must
have been exterminated, had Venezuela possessed ;.t
that time h united Government. Quito experienced the
same late in the same year. The first junta of that
State, though at the head of 350,000 inhabitants, ails
put dossn by 400 men. New Granada likewise la-
ments, and will have to lament a long time, the effects
of disunion and the results of the federal system, which
has been the fruitful source of all its misfortunes. Hence
arose the atboitsielutt)ef s esr,vaeraretiigotiti ofanidts provinces
independent
nude
tnstrattehse;
hence the weakneis of its Government and its permanent
instabilityen c ethe
; dilapidationwarhencetheof h
otfoenepupbrolivc ve
province with
itlhati;not
ant
h
total annihilation; hence, in fine, the. imperfection, hi-
ll swuiflithc(iiueittc ya ,u amidtho ri
twyetaok ioiersgsaonfi
zethe
th
eG overn
provinces,mett, 0
r which,
cure
their divisions, lost the precious period of six years.
While the cannon of Morillu sounded in our ears, we

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