Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-28
ALEXANDRIA,, ID. &.
MONDAY MORNING. JUNE %. 1850.

''a'e o. art;c,e. from that excellent paper, the
WINCHESTER Republican:
-, ,,te visit TO some of the adjoining western
- has enabled us to form some opinion of
''Ah.s,o of puolic sentiment therein. We found
ule o,'llv recovering from the passiveness which
".~paIed the excitement of the presidential cleo
The nulse was rising, and a strong and
.I,by reaction of the political system was TAX
Lace We found our subscribers IN rapturss
- Mrs. Barney's letter and Mr.. Holmes
VIC" n.b 4 crazier on the South Branch told US
uoc,nt next fall to send Mrs. b. the best spay-
= bs;fer in Hampshire county; another SAID ne
Ill subscribe ten dollars towards printing
w. Nomes's speech in'pamphlet form,and send
49,, IN over the country. From all quarters
49, were called on to give our paper more decl-
II rnlitical character; they told US we had been
.ao ,9oderate-that they saw from other quarters
~, Jackson was running the county, and that
u.s. >bonld come out aud let the people know it
fire our liberties were gone forever. Our
lends NAV be assured that this advice shall not
n,s. mbeeded: so far as our feeble ability (phy-
Zeal aud mentaD will permit, our press shall do
is duty"
From paragraph in the Richmond Whg, VIC
earn. that the subscriptions tor the benefit OF
H,mpdeu Sidney College have been liberal. and
=. trust the funds now obtained may be Of great
and permanent advantage.
The "Sentinel Of the Valley" having been
,archased by Mr.. DARLINGrON, Mr.. HEATING
The former editor takes leave of his patrons IN
yery neat and feeling valedictory address. We
zone both the old aud new Editors NAV receive
he smiles of Providence iii all situations.
<SSss
An Intelligent American who has lately travel
led in Colombia, who has had a good opportunity
q witnessing the real state of the country and
,he opinions and feelings of its citizens. and who
has no temptation 10 misrepresent them, has fur
ui,ned the editors of the New-lork Nv ening Post
with the following view Of the present condition
Of that Republic.
"The attention of al is fixed ON this interest
n- norton of South America. Whilst rev0lu-
Ton. cOIn,er-"eyoluti0n. massacre, pubic plum
der. the pi!lage of individuals, and every other
excess. have existed in all the other American
states, Colombia has continued to move on with a
6,ed, steady and noble course, protecting alike
the stranger and citizen within her territories,
aud establishing the sacred principles that life,
liberty, the various pursuits OF happiness, and in
diyiIual property should be 81. ured to all. and
invaded Oy none. Whist iii Mexico, Guatema- !
IA. Perl and Bdenos AvreS, the excesses OF those |
MIN mr. .r.A tn. n..A aAf r,AA-i-.L~-
ans h,Ysh ror their crimes, ia Colombia every !
thinc has been conductedwith that happy oruer'
amer and regularity which have entitled ner 10
De recognized by our nation as sister repuoiic.
Our citizens freely visited her shores and traNeli
ed 10 her interior cities; their property mas oeeh
secured, and their persons unmo'ested.
In fact every protection has been extended TO
,be stranger in Colombia that we offer to- those
who arrive on our own shores. All these bles-
sng; has been perpetrated thus for by the pre-
,ence. influence and power OF Bolivar, the i-ioe-
rator of South America from the rule OF SPAIN
In Guatemala, Mexico, Chill and Buenos Ayres'
there is no Bolivar, neither Is there any security
for property or life. 1t Is dlHiSui' 10 convince
gn,'s self that those among US who attribute the
E..,rr;ors vh;ch AT present agita,e Colombia to
Rliy,r deserve the credit Of honest intentions.
Where he is, there is the last hold OF rational b-
erty in the southern hemisphere. ThoseF@ho
have DESTROYED every vestige of freedom In7the
otie, S0arish American republics have turned
then a, Jention 10 Colombia They know that
their malevolent design, cannot succeed while
The Hero of the south Is in being Nv hat they
could not do in open, honorable warfare, the
midnight assassin has more than once been hlieu
10 perform. Bolivar however yet lives, andflit
W., hoped until late events that he lived to pre-
serve his country from the horrors OF 'clSil VAR
to breast and withstand the waves Of that. anar-
CIV which. having dssolated Guatemala, Mexico
and Buenos Avres had rolled towards the boun-
da.jes Of Colombia.
=. Peru only possesses her present blessings al
me expense Of Colombia, and the exertI6ns OF
Biyar.- If Bolivar had not marched INTO Peru,
thai nation wouldnow beruledb by the creaturess
d a. he inqnisition. His first army secured Y -
m hsrindependence; his second on the plains
hacuco crushed the spirit of misrule and law,
les, ambition which came thirsting for bloskt;
Inn the other States of Spanish America Boli-
var Cor the liberty OF his country has sacrificed
amiv, property, and his constitution. Born to
an ample fortune and the enjoyment of every
luxury, he abandoned all for the slkeof coun-
tvs freedom, aud preferred the war horse and
the barren plain, with Ii ,erty for his companion,
@,he pleasures and distinctions he might have
enjoyed ma coaptry governed by arbitrary pow,
&C. When Is nsiieathed his sword ne vowed
never to return Il to its sheath till South Amer
lea was free fronpthe dominion of Spain. Sue
cess and victory have invariably attended him;