Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1818-10-13
SOUTH AMERICA.

SOUTH AMERICA.
While we dwell with high satisfaction
on the prospect Of a great and independent
Republic arising in South America, gov
erned in all probability after the model We
have given, it is incumbent on us to note
its progress-to observe its bearings with
respect not only to its own citizens, but in
the family of nations, with whom it is
doubtless destined to hold conspicuous
rank.-It is incumbent on us as people
to show no cold apathy mo heartless indif
ference in the cause 10 its incipient stages.
Stall ne who have felt the grippe Of ty-
rannic power, who have groaned beneath
the scourge of distant and relentless task
master-who implored ships and men of
one foreign power, and money Of another;
shall ne with chilly reserve await the
turn of the scale, before we lend hand to
that only other spot of earth 'Ohere hber-l
ty dfvelLs."
There can scarcely remain doubt that
South America will be composed of Una
ted Provinces, where the elective priRci-
pie will be recognized, as iu our country.
1t is 10 the opef alton OF this principle
that we owe all We possess-our progress
in arts, science aud educatien-our mental
energy, our prosperous enterprise, and the
enlightened aud tolerant spirit, which rem
ders this the agreeable abode Of the foreign
er and stranger--the &c asylum of the
oppressed" Spain, bigoted and bloody,
has cautiously excluded the light of SCI
ence from her colonies, and has bent the
strongest impulse of the human mind TO
sabserpe her ensiaying purposes bat the
letters are broken--man feels his energies,
and success has embroidered him to assert
his rigbts.-The spark of liberty once en-
kindled in the breast, is not TO be smother
ed; it glows, warns, and invigorates, and
must, Gas it invariably has, result in the
melioration of the great body of the people
the only legitimate source ofpower.
What must be the situation of South
America when its magnificent rivers
its extensive and fertile plains-its vast
herds, and its rich mines, shall all become
subservient to free and enlightened pop
uation.-Sce avhat forty gears Of indepsn-
dent prosperity has effected FOR Us! -
Who can contemplate the downfall OF ty
ranny and bigotry in South America, and
the suspicious reign of federation aud sci
ence, without aphianthrophic rapture at
the prospect, aud a patriotic hope that our
beloved country may be instrumental in
forwarding this grand work, which is
clearly proved TO meet cordial feeling in
the breasts OF our citizens.
But while one, with legal sophistry
cautions us not TO eRtGngte ourselves in the
gaarrels of others, another is struck with
the grandeur of the Holy Alliance of mon
archs, and is fearful of drawing down the
indignation Of the family of legitimates-
third fears rival in trade or agricultural
Iproductions--anda fourth cannot see that
the independents have any right to demand
our assistance, or any equivalent which
they can render! Frigid policy! Happy
is it for us and for the world, that some
European governments were not so fastid
ious during the struggles of our revolution.
But the Independents are succeSsfuL-and
we are astonished with the novel spectacle
of a great European nation laying aside its
political to favour its mercantile policy
1t is not to be doubted that the very extern
sive aids afforded TO the Independents by
the British, are with the knowledge and
connivance Of the government. Is this
without an eq,aUaleat? or is that govern
ment, which is regarded in some measure
L J.
future advantages which were clearly
within our reach-proffered by the hand
OF brother solicited by sufferer who
wore our badge-who claimed our affinity
who copied our misunderstanding bor-
rowed our early enthusiasm to inspire his
countrymen, and saw cleaning through
our history the glorious path to direct his
own.-Col4mbian.