The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-04-02
SOUTH AMERICAN INDEPFNDENCF

! SOUTH AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
Our first page contains English article upon this
SUBJECT We here present readers with the views
! OF our own government. There is no difference in
principle, but we are possessed of much fuller norma.
ton OF the facts than the British writer can Ire suppos
| ed TO have had before him. We suboin an extract
from the very able report of the committee of Congress
upon this subject after fun examination of all the
documents accompany ING the Presidents Message upon
this subject. The committee unanimously report
" That the Provinces OF Buenos Ayres, after having
from the year 1910, proceeded IN their revolutionary
movements without any obstacle from the government
IN 1916. After various intestine connections and ex-
ternal collisions, those province enjoy domestic
tranquility, and good understanding with all their
nelghbors and actually exercise wit hout opposition
from Within the fear of annoyance from without all
the attributes of sovereignty
provinces of Venezuela and New-Grenada, after
having, separately, declared their Independence sus-
tanned for period of more than ten years desoat-
ing war against the armies Of Spain, and having sever
ally attained, by their triumph those armies the
oJect for which they contended, united themselves on
the 18th Of December 1919 in one nation under the
title Of" the Republic of Colombia"
The Republic of Colombia has now a well nryaniz.
ca government, Instituted by the free will of its cti-
zens, and exercises all the functions of sovereignty
fearless alike Of internal and foreign enemies. The
small remnant of the numerous armies commissioned
10 preserve the supremacy of the parent State is now
bockaded, in oTteSses where is innoxious and
where deprived, it is, of hope Of succor ii must
soon surrender al discretion when this event shall
have occurred, there will not remain yestge OF for
elgn power in all that immense republic, containing
between three and four millions of inhabitants
The province Of Chill since il declared its ndepen-
dence, in Ire year 1878 has been in the and
unmoested enjoyment Of the sovereignty which it then
assumed.
The province of Peru, situated like Chill, beyond
the Andes, and bordering the Pacific ocean was,
tor long time, deferred from making any effectual
e1ort Tor independence, by the presence OF mpos
ing military force, which Spain had kept up in that
country. 1t not therefore until the 18th Of June
OF the last year that its capital the city of Lima cap
Itulated 10 army, chiefly composed Of troops from
Buenos Ayres and Chill, under the command of Gen
era San Martin The greatest part Of the royal troops
which escaped, that occasion, retreated 10 the
mountains, but soon left them to return TO the coast
tneTe 70 JON the royal garrison in the fortress of Cal
lao The surrender Of that fortress soon after to the
Americans may be regarded as the termination of the
war ~ that quarter.
When the people Of Peru found themselves by this
event. free express their will thev most uue0uivo.
caly in favor of independence and with an
unanlmity and enthusiasm which have no where been
excelled
The revolution in Mexico has been somewhat diff
ierent in its character and progress from the revou-
tons IN the other Spanish American Provinces and
lis result respect the organization Of its internal
government has, also. not been precisely the same
independence, however, has been emphateallv de-
clared and as practically established since the 9th Of
August last by the Mexican EN- pre as ever il has
been by the republics Of the south and her geograph
lca situation her population and her resources en-
lnently qualify her TO maintain the independence
which she has thus declared, and now actually en-
Joys"
The vestgation of the Committee resulted in an
unanimous opinion that : 10 is jvs1 and 61pedicnt
10 acknowledge the independence of the several
South American natons-and that the of one ban
dred thousand dollars be raised the diplomatic
expenses which it will be necessary to incur on this
occasion.
The accounts from Washington do not indicate any
apprehension that pacifck relations with Spain or
any other nation will be affected by the contemplated
recognition.