New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-28

It'll, .,.,..r,e, Odd experienced legislators;
blu, which in truth could have Ieen loun' ca
cept in the very struggles: tnrousI .;.,
passing, Or when should people ress. h
There can be bur one answer 20 this question eno tna
;sNthe ye-v dsv when they know their nights
NJ, W.. believe that who 10 acquainted WIN
A., h,,orv OF South America will venture the assertion
,bst lbs Inhabitants ignorant OF their rents ana
~, 90 appeal TO tie records Of history If any people
ever retrogrsded after having made such progrea In
less overwhelmed and crushed by superior PS
tcre.ted In the suppression Of liberal ,b,s
.Ther frequent connections make notnins = ~ ne
proposition tor these comrnouSon - rennhlics nor
twee,i .ne 80 asains. the many But these csmmo-
49, occur between erihusasuc love Vi oe,y on ~
one hand and political inexpeFiehce on .ne jill &c
one The ambition OF men too confidently trusted oy
sonsdinp people whom experience has NOT even YET
taught 10 be sufficiently wary and distrusuu but marx
whatever these abuses may have been no one mas
ever vet been able to perpetuate them nor ever can
..In ,baking of the yoke Of Spain, these people
achieved and noby achieved their Independence bu;
did that achievement give them the requlsse Kno"eoge
for managing their civil institutions certainly mol
n, This experience is only be acquired By repeated
strurales: and hence their internal CONNEXIONS have
been and for time may continue to BE- aosoia'eiy un.
avodabe 1t is the price the passage "ncn lney
are doomed from the very nature OF things 10 pay IN
their progress toward the consolidation OF their liberty
and has grown out of causes which nave taken place
aimee the Revolution and which haze not, and never
have had connection with any party IN The country uh
favorable 70 liberty and the establishment OF republican
institutions. r,,.., a
ave mus. give these republics time. The birth anu
maturity of nation the work OF day ana 10"
indeed must be his estimate Of the blessings oil oefy
who considers that these people with all their tos Ssc
r;fices and sutferpgs, paying price TOO dear
But what have they done already VINO WORKED
rho inea guarded the focks spd TILED the soil OF Span
ish American Tho Indian Whence issued nose im
menae streams Of wealth which flowed from the COLO
mics into the lap of the Mother Country during the toree
hundred wears of her tyranny and dominion, out from
the moor and subiugaed Ipdian7 Who can reject Win
t horror on The destruction Of eight millions OF tnese
Stretched beings who in Peru alone, pershed under toe
cruc and unjust exactions of the Nad "hat ehcesseS
tca-under the well intended, out mucn aouseu' fesua
ton Of the Riportimiento
Does the total abolition of these abuses-of Slavery the
nouisition and hundred others on the ruins OF the
Spanish sysem-areue unhtness for seifeoVernnens ~
these people Indeed appears 10 US tnas II we Iehcct
ON what these countries were under the Spanish COMM
ion the restrictions of commerce, OF science and inc
arts the political receptions and supersttons winch
were constantly pactced and then reflect on the spec
tace thew now present disturbed they are the only
matter of astonshent will be- that they have done 30
much in the short space of twenty years
If these views be dece pive-and vast deal more
might be advanced show that they are no-noW deep
IL interesting to the friends OF liberty in our OWL coun
try in Europe and throughout the worlo, 10 oenolu
these States containing less than twelve mionS OF
inhabitants moving on through good and through evi
report through heavy sacrifices oftrePeateo ana &C.
we're trials and conflicts but without Tor moment os
ing sight oor wavernp in their hrst 10 es
a6sh free institutional They must succeed; thouen
they commit errors they will correct them AGAIN ana al
some perhaps distant day. the hopes OF the phantnro
Mat and pa,rio, will be realized Liberty only be at
tanned by great sacrifices anc preserved only W e' ~
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