Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-05-05

ory obur attempt 20 negotiate
; with Mexico. We see our
en,rding for equa privileges,
Stat, of Spanish origin, upon
E are member of the great
and lat we have rendered inn
the disc OF Spanish American
IT th,claim is psrtindciousty |
dex:n Government insists up
over granting exclusive advan-
Spani American States, ex-
pose "erincing her synpa-
mr. md to our detriDient Of
emit O. war (Which she ungra-
} beteen them and the United
n to I, history of our tranactions
c Of Slombia, we shall hnd IN
20 apehend that we have been
IN toI feelings of that portion
ne,id People towards us. In
our Numerical intercourse with
that e were able TO obtain from
,ssio,f equal privileges with the
rtion In a treaty, however,
wlthreat Britain, she puts that
ting her o,Un citizens. II is
continental operation OF our
nowe invested with the same
ha, been accorded to Great
diff;nce in the original charac-
lion inces a paItIality, to which
cam be, and has not been, in
is ito, slble TO look into the re-
,mai communications with the
, africa, and not perceive that
too adiiy imbibed the poison
elatl TO the singleness and dis
the ews by which we have been
ondr towards them. The doc
sse5n show, that a French e.
ia, hS23, iaboured to make the
&" United States were iniiu-
tcdIotires, in recognizing the
IFS tSpanish America" This
evhiurious and unfounded, had
inence is discernible in all our
,oui
ourIst efforts, therefore, to con-
wilhd affection of these new
BUT lie ground 10 hope for sue
riml now proposed. Sir, fol-
bele there ever can be any cor
bet.en US and them. The diffe'
of bod, of physical and mora
amigo, of manners and customs
lev eclude al congeniality o
oosinsuperable impediments &c
,icunion. From the external
90, which we are placed, there
eeds, and, indeed, there have
-aI the case of Cuba serious
,reSr of ambition. II may b.
as ch justice as the remark ha
Ennd and France, that Mexico
;tat from their relative situation
/, Il occupy on the Gull OF Mex
I dnieS.
this, whether these elements o
n bnitigated or harmonized b
olial connection? l think not
v pves that confederacies hsv
mix Of internal dissentions an
II was it, Sir, with the Amphic
efficient Greece? The jealousie
n ! members of the League, par
, ! Sparta, its leading member:
ejoo, grew out of the relation
ri ed by the League itseIf,) in
IPetual controversies, and final
,desian war, which terminate
nlModern Europe affords us a
e lesson. The history of ii
J centuries, is nothing but a his
4 and cruel wars among III
tes which composed It'll
5orunS Trmruy Ior the EVIL
/, would serve TO sggrava,e then
the parent of new dissention.
would have no existence. /
!, already, the germs of thes
inly distinguishable. We clai,
the .American po,oers. In ii
new planetary system, sketche
20, we were, indeed. to be, nc
snitude merely, but the centre
the other orbs were 10 reyolvI
ur claim TO this pre-eminenc
'wledged. When the project {
an Congress was first comuni
it was intimated thu
were to be invited to presid,
ng of this now. We are oni
among others. In the mea
kes the lead, and our jealou
turn, as the letter from Nj
Forbes, very plainly indicate.
ee the germ of those jealousie
liable distract and embroil "a
Iontedeydcy, as they have eve
lcy which has gone before it. :
and Colombia would be tn
parta of this Modern Amphic
d their rivalry would lead 10
far more desolating and tremen
'hich Grecian annals afford us III
at can see in this .ameyica
1t omens OF evil. Believing III:
mama was designed to pave tn
ction, and that our Governmen,
nch Of it, l mean-in sendin
Congress, intended, and stand
perate, especially, in ttco of Il
eem highly dangerous TO III
IS of the nation, | shall vote fc
hich will exclude that dcsig
from the scope of the mission
d to shew that the E1ccufir
eminent is conelusiuely commit
al acts and declarations 10 III
States, in relation to those ty
bound by a Gordian knot, whic
, and tchich zoe must cut an
lie colleague { Mr.. Powell.) ha
present administration is alread
nd concur in any measures at III
ma, committing the peace of tn
owe us their thanks for extrica
interposition, from the unplea
hich they are placed.
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