Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-06-01

tel by fortune. sheltered in his bosom ambitious seu
nents and discovered designs of converting himsei
into master.
s3ut the pers of war; and the desire OF crushing
the Spanish domination, in those moments tue
grand objects which absorbed public attention. and pre-
vented IFS being xed these events Generai Boil
clothed With absolute and rbtrary authority
and while he enployed in clearing the soil of Amer
ica of its ancient masters nobody took into consdera
tion the and the dangers OF tins power till the ca
pitulaton of Avacucho being signed, the gates of tho
temple of Janus, which had been open many years
were closed and when he heard say, this is ht
Gay of Peru in totch the Dictatorship endS.-Notina
no Idesire more nyucnHy than to pet Termination d
The greatest euis that can atlictte earth, WAR and The
DICTArORsHIP," then the enthusiasm by which he
had previously been extolled, was terminated. The
people again began TO believe generally in the disn
teresedness and patriotic moderation of the Dictator
but It was soon known that policy and not the hear
had dictated these promises which have been fulfilled
are the of mariner after he has escaped from
the tenpest the Dictatorship is Indefinite and this made
necessary the con tinuance of number of trocs dis
proportionate TO the population and of the
new states Through the means of the Dictatorship
he proposed himself president for ife with power to
point his successor: this accumulation and prcionraton
without limit of foreign magistraccs the submitting
OF the constitution of Bolivia 20 the Congress Of Peru
Che violent dissolution of that Congress- and his at
tempts against the independence of the new nations
which his greatest admirers could approve are
many ncontcstble proofs that lie had fixed intention
of appropriatins himself the power he had acquired
by arms, and of enslaving America after having served
her giOrious1y.
elf il was possible for here insert all the pie-
ces substanating each and all of these facts, which
we have been az merely To mention: if we could des-
cend TO details, and present the principles which were
adhered 10 in the interior administration of Peru and
Boliva the truth of this assertion would be placed be-
You'd doubt while at the same time would be the
intsforunes and disorders consequent on n military
government such in operation al Peru and
which efforts making 10 extend over all America
cal The afanfi of
10 one circumstance, which, though il at first sight
appears unconnected with the project of continental
supremacy aud general protectorship has, notwith-
standing much relation Herewith, and discovers the
principles which govern the policy of General Boil
var In the treaties which he as President of Colon
bta has entered into with the states, he has
sought to have adopted (and in has
ded in having adopted,) two articles, which as they
are the most anti social and unjust. procured for him
guarantees which he knew bs wanted and which
necessary for the furtherance ofhis designs In
the treaty made with Peru by the Senator MosQuera
both states guaranteed to another the existing pub
lie order, and the mutual surrender OF all those who
accouat of political faults may fly to one state for
refuge from the other. To the government OF Buc-
nos Ayres, proposition also made OF these two
articles: the government just enough 10 reject
them and proposed instead that both states should
guarantee TO one another tic integrity of their respec
Tee territories, which proposition its turn re-
iected.
''To stipulate the guarantee of the existing order
In Republics, in making treaties, is to sanction the
perhicious rsht Oh ioreish interference: IL IS 10 de
s;roy the independence of states it is precisely what
The Holy Alliance has done in Europe; and 1cthotl
Independence, and ,ob the right of intervention there
can be no republic, 10 constitution, liberty Be-
cause to put slate under the guarantee of another
nation is to deprive ii of the exclusive right which
every state has to make those changes and reforms
which its situation may render necessary or expe-
deot.
"'fle mutual surrender of refugees being admitted
there toonH not be in all -fuericu usyl;a (o, N,
unfortunate aodo should chance to incur tie indiar-
nation Of Cen Bolirar and of his allied and feudatory
Governments; and to persecute refugee without the
Territory ola state for political causes, to refuse lin
hospitality, is not ouy TO violate every principle j,
committing most arbitrary act; it is also to declare
yourself weak, and impacable; it is Remuneration
every national feelings il is perpetrating of on
vlainy recompense for another villainy, and /:
converting of friendly governments into agents of for
eign poliiics.n
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