American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-03-29

to the subject, nor to 60 back for its practica, ill.,
tration to the civil wars between the houses of W..
and Lancaster. Long since, the chiefs of tbo,.
conflicting houses alternately triumphed and rna1
and were alternately obeyed at home and recognize
abroad, accordingly as they successfully exercssS
the power without demonstrating the rieht-Mo
marches have become commonwealth or repubics
and powerful usurpers have been recognized hr
foreign nations, in preference to legitimate .OJ
poweress pretenders. Modern history is renl.,a
with instances in point. Have we not indeed WIN
in the bret period OF our own remembrance behsld
governments vary their forms, and change ,bs;,
rulers according TO the prevailing power or passion
lof the moment; and doing SO in virtue of the nrin'
lciple now in question, without materially and as,
ngy affecting their relations with other 90, ernm4n,
Have we not seen the emperors and kings of wee.
lterday, receive, the thrones of exiled SOVEREIGN
who claimed the right to reign there, the risLdlv
embassies OF other powers, with whom those exiIsd
lsovereigns have sought an asylum-and have va
not TO day, these emperors and kings Time
Recognized and courted yesterday, relt of tb.ir
lsCeptres, and from mere change OF circumstance
not Of right treated as usurpers by their successos
who in their turn have been acknowledged and co.
ressed by the same foreign powers?
| The peace OF the world and the independence If
every member of the great political family. reoni,e
that each should be the exclusive Judge of its owD
internal proceedings, and that the fact alone should
| be regarded by foreign nations. seven when civil
war breaks the bond OF society and OF government
or at least suspends their force and effect il civss
birth in the nation to two independent parties, VIM
regard each other as enemies /; and acknowedpr mn
common Judge" It'll OF necessity, therefore, that
these two parties should be considered by foreign
states, as two distinct and independent nations
| To consider or treat them otherwise would be IA
int in heir
1.-THE right to manage their own affairs in their own
way, and TO violate the essential attributes of their
Perspective sovereignty For nation to be entitled
in respect to foreign states 10 the oyment of these
attributes, and to figure dir ectly the great poll
cal society, 1t is sufficient that is really SOVEREIGN
and independent: that is, that it governs itself by
its own authority and laws" The people of Spa
nsh America, do VIGOROUSLY, SO govern themselves
and the right of the United States to recognize
the governments which they have Instituted, is in
contesble. A doubt of the expedlency oil such
recognition can be suggested only by the apprehen.
sion that it may nurlously affect our peaceful ard
friendly relations with the nations OF the other he
sphere.
! Can such an apprehension be well founded!
Have not all those nations practically sanctioned
within the last thirty years. the very principle on
which we now propose to act; or have they ever
complained OF another or of us, for acting on
that principle?
| No nation of Europe, excepting Spain herself
has hitherto opposed force TO the independence Of
Spanish America. Some Of those nations have not
only constantly maintained commercial and friendly
intercourse with them in every stage OF the reyo-
luton, but indirectly and efficiently, though not
Iayowedly, aided them in the prosecution OF their
Igreat object. To these, the acknowledgment by
the United States OF the attainment OF that object
must be satisfactory.
| To the other nations of Europe, who have re-
lgarded the events occurring in Spanish America not
only without interference but with apparent inder
ence such an acknowledge ought not to be Of
fensiye.
The nations which have thus respectively favored
or never opposed the Spanish American people,
during their active struggle for independence, can
not, it is believed, regard with dissatisfaction, the
formal recognition OF that independence by nation
which, while that struggle lasted, has religousy
observed towards both the conflicting parties, all
the duties OF neutrality. Your committee are there
fore OF opinion that have right, on this occa-
sion, confidently TO expect from what these nations
have done or iorborne to do, during the various
fortunes of the civil war which has terminated that
they will frankly approve the course of policy which
the United States may now think proper to adopt,
IN relation TO the successful party in that war 1t
surely cannot be reasonably apprehended that ma
tons which have thus been the tranquil spectators,
the apparent well wshers, if not the efficient sup
porters of this party and who have not made the
fanest attempt to arrest its progress or to prevent
its success, should be dspleased with third power
for merely rec ognzing the governments which
owing to that success, have thus been virtually per-
mitted, or implicitly approved in acquiring the un'
disputed and exclusive control of those countries in
which they are established. 1t is therefore the
consistency as we'll as on the Justice of th csc nations
| of Europe, that we may confidently rely that the
simple recognition the part of the United States,
of the necessary effect OF what has already been
done, will not be considered as Just cause of COM
plant against them, while the interested and imme'
hiafa anents who have haer dirartln md nctiprlY