Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-05-12

me people an general; Out ltle NAV seem
~ have been gained. No precise IDEAS
are rs vet entertained ofthe nature Of civil
ar religious freedom. The crowd are as
vet frantic with revolutionary excitement,
and consider political liberty as only priv
iene TO avense themselves upon their au-
Gent oppressors, or at most as an eNemp-
tion from the. restraints Of the old colonial
system.
But yiesing the present as the parent
Of the future, wepercoiye in the overthrow
OF the old system, and in the CONFUSION OF
the moral aud political events which pro-
duced that result, a preparatory process
cert nly calculated to lead to the most
beuaceut changes in their condition.
,Eiepnucioles of government may still
/ be aybtfary. they are carried into effect by
,helr own cU,harymen. The will Of me
community Is move felt m the policy Of &c
I government
The fiery trials Of TIE revolution have
compelled them 10 think. They have been
taught by bitter experience that saiutugy
lesson. that civil governme,' is a matter
ln which they have an interest And 'hls
important truth. CO operating VIA the &c
I tual evils under which they are laAorng,
has awakened them from there s.umSo. OF
( slolh and slavery; aud they give. by 'heso
very revolutions aud commoitons demon
stradye proofs of their augmented capacity
! fcr scli-go,ernment.
The abolition Of sluver, throughout the
new republics: the emancipation of the abb
original rncc; the establishment Of schools
IA various provinces, and ofpunung press
es and newspapers IN the sea ports and
lcaptals, the access obtained parut. as Il
may be considered. tor the holy scriptures
) 10 catholic communities; the uillencc Of
commerce, and of an unrestriued inter-
course with the Anglo Saxon race, whether
Of New OF Old England; and above al,
the stimulating example Of the United
States, always before their eycs;-iaeso
> are augures full ofpromlse as 10 the com-
ing age.-When we look back to lh1 time
when the lnqusilion extended rs SWAY Do
yer the Spanish colonies, aud exercised 3
} powers at Lima, as well as at Madrid, wte4
we see those who governed us coU
aiming with dubious prospects OF sue.
to re-es.a5hsh it IN the enlightened atuo--
phere Of chnstanized and civilized Europe;
we can scarcely believe that the period
has arrived, when at Bogo,a, a bible So
ciety is instituted IN the principal DomlnI-
can convent, with the open appreciation Of
It's spiritual head; or that at Lima the Do
muican college is appropriated to CEN
trail school IA which the New Testament
Is used az school book
These are striking proofs ofthe conquest
already achieved over the preiudices olihe
people. In more enlightened com.
munlty, the feelings which thele break
out in civil commotion aud rev1lu.
tons, would have been exhausted in the
field Of argument. But among people
uuaccustomed to reason, force can b. The
only arbitGr IN political dlssensons. Ills.
| therefore, not surprising that siuCo me eX-
pulsion of the royal forces from Spanish
! America, the new republics should have
been conyul5ed BY domestic broIls, and
that their governments should have proved
unstable, aud subject TO sudden revolutions.
These are but the subsId,g OF the Waves
lasnlng themselves 70 rest after storm,
which has disturbed the ocean To its pro.
{ foundost depth. The condition. unsettled
as It Is. Is still vastly improved from their
colonial slate, and their future prospects
are bright and encouraging Their colo
NAL bonds are severed never 10 BE- renew
ed The same event which has opened
their ports to the commerce of the world,
has also brought them within the inicilec-
lual, the moral, and the political nhucaco
Of the more enlightened nations of Chrs-
lendom-FheT governments are instituted
by the native population, and aitho' moe
or less subject TO the military control, they
are founded upon the principle ofpopu.a,
representation.
Ecclesiastical preiudices sad hostile .n-
terUsis, may still intespos some ob-tac.cs
20 the process Of ruth aud freedom; buf
whoever dreams tat their course cap o.
arrested, or Grat the awakened euergo o.
cations. who have by their own oti1us.
burst their bonds. can be repressed. may
INDULGE the fear that their ancient dcspo-
f. bsrn wall be renewed, and ina, twenty NIL
lions Of native Americans will be brought
again 10 bow beneath tie yoke Of the de-
graded monarchy Of Spain. They arcyet
untaught, butthoy are scholars iu the great
school Of freedom, where our ancestors
have been teachers; aud lips that have been
once accustomed 10 lisp that glorious leg.
son, can never be compelled % recur 10 the
degrading task imposed by bigoiry and
despOtsm.
Rum eOi0r--In one Of the New England