Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-01-28

no prospect OF any mutual good understanding |
between us, SO long as the Independence of the
South American States remains unacknowledg-
Ell IN Europe. This is no doubt, the secret
cause oil all the bitter feelings which Spain seems
to cherish towards us; but if her good will is
only to be gained by our abandonment OF the
ground we have taken i'm relation to her former
provinces, we should prefer to want it forever.
The principles of our revolution are too dear to
us, and the rights of man, as Sc, forth in our de-
ciaration of independence, ton plain and incon-
troyertble to allow us To hesitate a moment be-
tween an act of Justice TO those who have but
follow edoureXaInplc,a aud an act of mere courtesy
to sovereign even moredespotic than him whose
chains we burst in pieces, and whose TYRANNY
we laughed to scorn.-'This must ever be the
result, when the struggle is between man con-
scious of his bir,h-right, and the opprcssor who
seeks 10 hold him in bondage.
The two first letters contain instructions to
Mr.. Forsyth from the Secretary oi State on the
subject of Welding possession of the Floridas
and the archives of its former government, and
are no otherwise interesting than as they show
the insncerc and procrastinating temper of
Spain.
No. 3 is letter from the same to the same,
lnstrucung him to communicate to the Spanish
government certain transactions disclosed in
Macedonian, and the Vice-Roy of Peru, sin
which several persons belonging to the Mace
DOMAIN lost their lives, and others were wound
ed"
No. 4 relates 10 our commercial intercourse
with SPAN and her possessions, most of the con
tested points ci which have since been settled.
No. is letter from Mr.. Brent To MIR. For
sym enclosing copy of letter from Mr..
Adams 10 Gen. Wives, in relation TO the surren-
der OF the Floridas, and certain ''public printsn
giving statementof The ARREST aud imprison-
ment Of the Ex-Governor, Callava, BY order of
Governor Jackson"
NO. 4 is short letter from Mr.. Adams 10 Mr..
FORSYTH, enclosing the communications made BY
thc President TO Congress during the session of
l3%i-2, IN relation To our affairs with Spain, as
also letter from the President to lis Catholic
hlale'ty on the recall of Gen. Wives.
NO. An extract of a letter from Mr. For
Syti to the Secretary OF state, informing him
that the Presidents Message to Congress, of the
1th March, 1892, had been forwarded TO the
spanish government by special messenger
from men Minister at London, and that i! seem
TO have ''created great sensbility.n
NO. IS another extract of letter from Mr.
Forsyth, in which he speaks more at length of
the effect OF the Presidents message uDon tho
Spanish government. He represents their Mi
MISTER as having spoken ''with great deal of
warmth ON the subject; that he regarded the re
cognitiGn OF the indcpendenccofth the South Anne
rIcan provinces rs an uniricndly act on the parl
oi ihc United States, which Spain, from her
JFfcAdty conduct towards us, had no right to ex
Pec', ana that she concluded by expressing an
opinion, that the Spanish Americans were me
Ftut TO seq government, and that their indepen-
dencc, instead OF being accelerated. would be
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the language of all the legitimatcs; nor is their
degrading opinion Of the capacity Of the pcorl,
confined to ''Spanish Amcricans;'' it is a part
oil the creed of the Holy Alliance, that none but
rulers by Dame right are capable OF managing.
inc aiairs OF government. The reply of Dir.
o!Syth 10 TINS unfortunate obServatioGn of the
spanish Munster that the "Spanish Americans
were unequal to self government is one ofthose
happy reiorts which could no: fail to be deeply
feit-he thought Mat Tie observation proved IF
true, that they are not III IL Aye lolde, tie .SDn
1siSb constitutions
n Council of State, it seems, was held on the
act OF recognition By the u. States, and a pro
test was recommended, On the gcound that the
recognition was violation Of the treaty of st-
pulations,"
Nos and 10, are short notes, the first from
Mr.. Adams to Mr.. Forsyth, enclosing the trans
laton of letter from Mr. Anguaea the second
from Mr.. Forsyth to Mr.. Adams, enclosing a
of the manifesto which the Ministers
anu charges dAhalres of Spain, by order of his
atholIc Majesty passed to the Courts of Europe
ms manifesto is artfully designed to excite
me tears OF the European Sovereipns and In
ihduce them to make common cause with Spain
IN the Fe-sublugation Of her colonies. II begins
win setting forth, what every page of the histo-
~ OF Spanish AIaerIca, from the first landing of
Cortes to the moment that BuenOs Ayres BEGAN
10 ieei herself capable of self-govcrninent. CON
trailcts--that ii was neither tue abuse of po,yer
nor the weight OF oPpression which originated
the deslre, on the part of the PROVINCES to sepa-
rate from the mother country, out the 'sextraor-
'lHary circumstances in which Spain saw herself
coiIlproihINed to tree her throne and her dirni-
y rom tie imminent r,sh of foreign usurpa-
ton" II would be difficult 10 conceive how
the people OF colony, who had suffered no
abuse OF power, no oppression, by the govern
meat OF country 10 which they owed the
means OF emigration, and the protection that
could alone render that emigration etFectual and
happy, could take advantage of any untowarl
event IN the political concerns of that conntrv
10 break oil their connection, at the only mo-
'heht when 1t might be in their power TO make
some returns OF gratitude, BY avowinp and
maintaining that they we're ''rnernbcrs of one
and the same family" But the truth is, there
never was less ground of consolation" than that
winch his Catholic Majesty assumes in refrain
ing from entering into an examination of the
causes which led to the disuuiou of his pro-
vinces.
The next object of the manifesto is todeceive
England, and prevent, if possible, her immedi
ate recognition Of the Independence of the pro-
Vinees, by the Pretence of naming "Comnnis-
S,oners to proceed TO the dissentent provinces of
aitramaT," for the avowed purpose of opening
"a frank aud sincere correspondence, which nan
nave Tor ITS object and end the good Of those
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