Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-07-10
SOUTH AMERICA.
lRRoNl TIE AURORA |


| [FRoM THE AURORA
In Tie newspapers published at Buenos
| Ayres, We find many very able and manly
public discussions; with oil our preten-
sions TO superiority ofiniellect, and know
ledge of the principles of political and CT
| WI liberty, we have not seen in any Of our
| papers, nor in the documentary produc-
lions Of our public men, any thing supe-
| rior 10 some articles which We find in The
newspapers Of the young republics Of the
| south. We subjoin d short translated ex-
tract from one OF them; which is only the
| opening part OF larger discussion. Ii
may be proper to premise, ihai, at pc
ROD moi very remote, which many read
ers OF the Aurora may remember, We sug-
| gested that there was d design formed in
! South America, such as was formed at
an early period of the North American
| revolution, 10 give the revolution a direc-
| ton, fatal TO civil liberty that il was pro-
| posed 10 create a hole far a pobiitu intend
ed 50 be created; and we noticed that agents
had been sent TO different courts of Eu-
| rope TO obtain aid and countenance tor
the establishment of the legitimacy of tie
hole an that country.
| Ii was afterwards found, by the advo-
Gates OF the nobility hole, that the people
who were i'll revolt against one tyrq,t were
not disposed TO accept one hundred or fire
hundred tyrants; and, although many pa
triots Of the south were, by an act of ty-
ranny, seized, put on board English ships
and cast ashore onthe coast of the United
States for their aVowed determination 10
resist eve.y encroachmeni upon general
| liberty ; II was not until those men had
been sent off that il was discovered, that
to att ~mpt establishing any privileged or
der would be to assure their decapiiation
Since that period the advocates Of the hole
have been tieading back their sttps-snd
remote aliusion may be found 10 the
missionaries sent 10 Europe in the follow
ing article: The writer appears to have
some other sentiments in view, which are
not so paipable but may be guessed at.
(From the Gazette OF Buepos Ayrss, siaIea a.
| On The 2Sth February last, arrived at
this capital diplomatic commission from
the United States of North America, con-
posed of Messrs. c. A. Kodney, late al
torney general of the United States John
| Graham, late OF The department OF stale {;
1heOdorIc Bland, one OF The Judges OF
Baltimore and MIR. Breckenridge, in
| quality of secretary OF the commission
| This gentleman made his first visit TO our
secretary of foreign relations, on the 2d
instant, announcing that on the 4lh the
commissioners would present themselves,
which took place accordingly on the fifth,
when they were presented by The secreta
ry of state 10 the supreme director, aud
we're received with the most particular
attention and consideration there were
! present at this act of the government, all
The generals and military chiefs of the ma
ton, who are at or near the capital. The
| citizens OF every class have taken an in
1 IN e., lac
commissioners generally, and individual
iy feeling that sympathy which is so ma
lural to the inhabitants of the same hem.
| ispheTe, one of whom has for forty years
enjoyed independence, and the other now
struggling for Vt and, impressed with
| That unavoidable conviction that their
! dearestinicrests as nations are one and the
saiue. III Is for this reason, that, although
| we are ready to receive at all times with
| pleasure tile demonstrations of good will
| which may be proffered by European 90
vernments, their diplomatic agents can
never expect 10 inspire confidence so com.
| piete and animating as mast ever be pro-
duced by the ambassadors of the free and
| independent states of the same continent
| protesting the same principles of indie
pendeuce and freedom. We are far from
believing that even III the European courts
The gross and unnatural maximS of mono
poly and ayarice which would consign
present and future generations in this new
world 10 slavery and degradation, can We
ry long prevail. One thing, however, is
certain, That admitting such thing pro-
babe as the duration of such a spirit OF
| injustice and inlquity, the period has ar
rived when Europe can no longer calcu-
late on pursuing It with success in South
| America.
But, be the disposition Of European
courts what they may, or lei the extrava-
gauce aud presumption of the courier
spirits of European writer's deceive whom
they may, this truth will still be found in.
variable aud constant, that the states Of s.
america " least, will never he found con.
cerned in gny tyaHsacIt0ns which are moi
| calculated 10 assure the eternal separation
of this whole continent from European
influence, aud to maintain its perpetual H.
berry and happiness, free from their in.
| reference aud influence. n plan, com.
blnlng different results, would he incon-
sistent with our security, and with thai
| policy which distinguished the great ant
illustfious Washington.
Without pretending 10 be particularly
| inqLisitiye about the real object OF The di
piomaiIc commission Iyst arrived from the