Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-06-06


Ser difficulties unexampled, amid private
ons Almost insupportab,e, after a strug-
gle with sutferings beyond endurance,
when wearted, hungered aud exhausted,
they arrived az the elevated summit So
long the object of their perilous toll, they
stood at once inotioilcss, IN mute adrlrl-
ton at the immense ocean that preSeI,cd
itself TO their longing view, aud 10 the
boundiess territory tliat gave birth 10 all
their fond calculations. The people of
this country, after their long and dreary
p;lgrimage-aft the dangers 20 which
they have been exposed, and the diiEeul-
ties they have surmOunted, have had
somewhat of the same prospect open TO
their view, and ought 10 be enabled, If ID
nv regard 10 the dictates of sound poll
cy exists-if any reverence for the max
inns of our ancestors had lis Influence in
our councils, to make nearer approach
10 this inviting Intercourse.
There Was too, that vast eXpanse Of ter
ritory, comprehending every soil and O.
very climate, intcrsected BY inland seas
rather than by rivers, aud studded with
harbors, ample room for the exertion of
British enterprise. a country populous
enough to raise every species of produce
that we wanted, and yet not populous e
nough TO threaten It's continuance with
any rivalry. Il had that, also, which was
the patron saint of the class of practical
politicians 10 whom he alluded-sreat
mines of gold and silver. Notwithstand-
ing all that had been drawn from it, vet
greatly productive, and, under European
skill and ingenuity, capable of being
made still further productive, such was
the prospect South America present
ed. y prospect calculated 10 compensate
every enterprise. Though Europe was
Theoretically scal-d against you-eyen
though Bonaparte and his continental
system was, as II indeed is, revived tho
even Europe itself, in a COMMERCIAL view.
was blotted out Of the map Of the world,
let no man suppose that this was the
mere indulgence ofiancy-he rested his
statements on the peruSal of documents
of the most unqueStionable character
The explorations of that country amount
ed to $4,000, 0O0i. annually. Some porti-
on OF that amount found its way 10 this
country, but il was, he with regret must
say, decreasing daily, under the impoli-
TIC course that, ia regard 10 tia, CONT
nent, We pursued. He would state. for
the guidance of the honorable gentlemen
opposite, some facts, because he well
knew thar they would listen to nothing
bat iii the shape of detail, Ga laugh, and
hear, hear) In The year 1902, there was
imported into Cadiz no less an amount
than eighteen millions and a half, lively G
millions IN bullion, bullion he would re-
peat, for the con sideration OF the prac,i-
cal politicians opposite, and six millions
III goods. The yearly coinage was twelve
millions, OF which Mexico gave sevcn.-
The population was computed at seven
teen millions, of which New Spain was
reckoned between seven aud eight. OF
that population, in the majority of dis
tricts, not one III three weartorei6n goods
In New Spain not one in seven. What
all opening did this state ofevents afford
10 facilitate the Introduction OF British
manufactures You had here but 10 Ell
courage the pubiic taste for their use. as
there existed no want of the power cfrc-
paying the purchase. Ifanv proofs were
wanting, the occurrences at Buenos Az
res furnished It, inasmuch as the two slurs
OF British articles into that section of the
continent, though they proved fatal 10
the projectors, yet had been advantage
GUS IN ditfuslng a taste for the use and
consumption of British manufactures -
Were we 10 succeed in opening some oS
the other ports, the inevitable couyc-
queuCe wonld be, that this country would
take OIL, not any stated amount of their
exports, but an amount that almost de-
tered the imagination from calculating.
With such country inviting our APP
proach-wlih no prejudice amongst It's
population hostile To our views-pOssess-
ed oi money sufficient to answer bound
less traffic how has II happened, that in
times of such great pressure, this theatre
has been overlooked ? (hear, hear D 1T
was the execrabIe doctrine of Legitimacy,
Clear, hear !)-that love of Ferdinand the
Seventh, that has precludcd ERyand
from that natural connection with South
America. We have abandoned all those
10 the political caprice Of supporting Old
Spain III her endeavors of sublugating the
incipieut energies other now, thank God
almost severed colonies, (bear, hear ~
Instead of having our flag flying in every
part OF that extensive continent, we have
been supplanted by a nearer power. 0be
u. States)-a power as activeas ourselves.
and wholly free from The membranes of
these announcement doctrines and attach
ments which have so lamentably fettered
the enterprise of Great Britain, (hear y
In 1909 we concluded wllatwas called the
Apodaca treaty, in which we bound our
selves 10 uphold the integrity of the Spa
nish empire.
1t contained, however, another article.
which has never since been noticed, viz |:
that the two countries would lose no time
in concluding commercial treaties. In
1914, after the conduct of Ferdinand had
called forth, not the appreciation most
certainly of every enlightened mind in ev-
cry country in Europe, it pleased our go
vernment TO conclude a convention with
Spain, in which was inserted an article,
not what might be called an offensive
guarantee, but by which every thing in
the state of prevention, would be thrown
IN the way OF all assistance 10 the patriot