Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-21
NATIONAL. INTELLIGENCER.
AFFAIRS OF CHILL.

cd aud happiest Of the Spanish Republics of the
New World will no doubt be agreeable to our read
ers-acreesbe to those who still cherish, in the
srsncrous and noble sense in which President Mon
soe conceived it for US, the idea of our siserly re
lation TO those weak young commonwealths, as their
guard and guide, never oppressor and especially
agreeable 10 a different Sort the Manifest Destiny
men for these, beyond question: must rejoice 10
see that in South America are rising up just and
welI-ordercd States, whose good policy and laws
Igiil supersede all fictitious occasion for that some
what woli.lke protection which they (Messrs.
Pork, CAss Il Coz have lately extended to our
nearest Spanish neghbors.
We have not long since been favored with gene
raj account, in Spanish, of the present state OF
Chli, drawn by very skilful native hand, and Of
ferRg within short enough compass the main par
ticulars Of It's condition and government. We have
awaited only quieter moment Of our own domes-
nc politics 10 make it public by translation, which
ne shall now at our first leisure execute. Mean
Inle, we have received file of the Government
gazette, under dale of June 3D. containing, among
other things, the annual message Of President
BuLNEs 10 The Chilian Congress, just then assem-.
oled al Santiago de Chill. 1t strikes US as wise
and good State paper the whole tone of which and
It's topics indicate clearly happy state of public
things, and spirit, in not only the rulers but the
people, which ensures its continuance. We cam
no. detect in it trace of that fatal demagogism
which is making the ruin, nor of those party furies
which form the disgrace, of our own recent docu-
lnents of the sort Which have been little else
than manfestoes addressed TO one-half of the coun-
Try against the other. No doctrines are touched
upon that breathe of either dssension and disor-
yanizaon within, or OF voluntary contest and injury
without; it is no lame and numbering apology for
the perve-ses of party or perndies of power,
either in domestic measures or in foreign policy.
There is nothing which leads one 10 conclude that
An Chill men are known to the Government by
some other distinction besides that of "good {" or
there as Chilians, and nothing else; or, at any
event, if people-legslators and editors, for in
srance-are there, through the perfection of free
principles arrived at rendered traitors by daring
disapprove the actions of the President, he has
not the nsolence to call them so, the faulty not
% know that the country which will tamey endure
from its Chief Magistrate such language, for such
an offence, needs only more OF such traitors" as
.ciN not and fecer OF such slaves wiH, bear his
singly obloquy. The language of the Chilian Pre-
sident, on the contrary, is such betokens state
of public freedom, and indeed becomes the ruler
always, even though he be despot; for the very
despot should have temper and sense enough to
treat his subjects with decency. BULNEs brings
s1ccinctly forward one after another, all the main
nbJects which should be those of nations care.
lie details what he has done he presents what he
thinks is 10 do; he discusses nothing, for he
thinks, apparently, that his Congress, chosen BY
ae people for that purpose, can discuss things for
themselves when they want them discussed, and, in
iact are rather there 10 be his advisers than he to
be theirs. So, too, he defends nothing, probably
because he has taken care TO avoid doing what
would have need to be defended. All this our read
crs viii see, if they choose, for are about to give
the document in faithful translation, not merely in
proof Of what we have said and for an example
but for the information Of our friends 10 a re.
public at once interesting and little known. pa.
per such as we subjoin-plain, practical, and bust.
bCSS-llhc-WlH VI ltstil " NO. Ndl 1Ondlu
giving him, who will consider il with some care, a
correct general idea of the existing spirit Of the
Government which issues il and of the people 10
whom il is addressed.
The Message is thus introduced by " FL Arau.
rano," (the .4rducdfidn-so called after that irwin
eibIe tribe Of Chilian Indians, whose contests with
the Spaniards for independence make the subject o.
ErcilIa, the soldier-poets epic) from which We
tzSe IT.:
.On the Is, Of the month Quincy the President
fbe epubc attended by the Corps Dplcmaquc, the chic
corporate b,dies and many Of the public unconanes, civ
snd military, took his way from the hall OF Government
lai Of TIC senate, where assembled quorum Of bot
branches os the legislature and where also Ia attend
anoe The Very Reverend Archbishop elect Of Santiago The,
81 order Of his EIceieney, the Minister Of the Interior,
The following discourse
'Fei6,O-eiissns Of the Senate md House Of Represen
1Ei,cs, / congratulate myself having op
roruniiy unite my voice with yours, in beseeching Go
rAt he will deign continue bless beloved country
80 rejoice also in being able you that
present exist. for arng that the march Of civilization
progress receive any check amongst Nothing ha
disturbed the internal good order Of Chill nothing threaten
interruption Of that external peace and good understand
ing, which cultivate with al The NATIONS Of the earth.
Turning, however, your abroad, the hrs, ever
which will your attention will doubt be that gres