Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-02-15

lie tHou6ht mat Inc Observation proved,
" it rue, thai they sre nor fit 10 tiVe an
der tie SPANISH constitution"
A Council OF State, il seems, was
held on The act of recognition by the
Unlted States, aud Protest was recon-
mended, on the ground that the recognI-
zion was violation Of treaty supuia-
aions!'
Nos. 9 and 10, are shor, notes, the first
hom Mr.. Adams to MIR. Forsyth, en-
closing the trans lation of letter from
Mr.. Anduaga; the second from Mr..
Forsyth to Mr.. Adams, enclosing a
translation of the manifesto which the
Ministets and Charges d'AFairs of
Spain, BY order of his Catholic Majesty,
passed TO ,he Courts of Europe.
TINS manifesto is artfully designed to
excite the fears of the European Sove-
reigns, and TO induce them to make
common cause with Spain in the resub-
jugation OF ner colonies. 1t begins with
st ting forth, what every page Of the
history of Spanish America, from the
first landing of Cortes to the moment
thai Buenos Ayres began to feel herself
thai it was neither the abuse OF power,
nor the weight OF oppression, which ORR
ginated the desire, on the part OF the
provinces, to separate from the mother
country, but the " extraordinary circum-
stances in which Spain saw herself COM
promised, to free her throne and her
dignity from the imminent risk of a
foreign usurpation." 1t would be diff
cult to conceive how the people of a
colony, who had suffered no abuse of
power, no oppression, by the govern
ment OF country TO which they owed
the means Of emigration, and the pro-
lection that could alone render their
emigration effectual and happy, could
take advantage oil any untoward event in
the political concerns Of that country, to
break of their connection, at the only
moment when it might be in their pow
er to make some returns OF gratitude, by
avowing and main aiming that they were
members of one and the same family"
But the truth is. there never was less
ground oil" consolation" than that which
his Catholic Majesty assumes to refrain
from entering into an examination of the
causes which led to the disunion of his
provinces.
The next object of the manifesto is to
deceive England and prevent, if posi-
bic, her immediate recognition OF the
independence of the provinces, by the
Pretence Of naming Commissioners 10
proceed to the dlssident provinces of
Altramas," for the avowed purpose of
opening " a frank and sincere CORES
pondence, which may have for object and
end the good of those countries, aud that
Of the nation in general" We have
seen the result of this -" frank and sim
cere correspondence, which was MOI,
even pretended to be opened but with
one Of the provinces, and we may Judge
from that of the sort Of .frankness and
sincerity which belong to the virtues oil
his Catholic Majesty.
But the grand design Of this mapifes-
to, passed to the Courts of Europe
which his Majesty himself calls the
"great and capital Objects to COM
bat the idea which may, ferhats, be en-
tertained by" superficial spirits" that
the mere fact of the separation of pro-
vince from the state of which it formed
part, legisimatcs its existence :" His
Majesty thinks, that the propagation of
such principle would be- "not less ia
tai TO legitimate governments than to
the integrity Of natlons," and that it is
not those nations only who possess pro-
vinces and .ultramarine colonies that are
interested in the question, but that he
considers it Gas intimately connected
with those conservatory principles that
offer securities to all governments, and
guarantees to society,""
Whether any province that may have
declared its independence ought, ihso
/acto, TO be regarded as a solid and
established government and consntut-
ed nation, is question which his Ma
jesty might as we'll have left out of dis
cussion in his manifesto. Most of the
Spanish American States were at that
moment, in reality, much more inde.
PENDENT than Spain herself, and whether
the governments were solidly establish
cd ST. not, they had given proofs that they
were able to maintain them, not only
without the favour or protection Of the
mother country, but even against all her
efforts to harrass and distress them.
But the fact is, that by this manifesto his
Catholic Majesty ought to obtain the
sanction of the European Sovereigns to