The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-04-14


BY late arrivals from Penambuco and Bahia, we
learn that Brazil is in very disturbed state.
Nothing better than continual violence and dis
turbance could be expected from society organ
lied and constructed like the Brazilian The pop
ulation of Brazil is of the most heterogeneous and
anomalous character, being composed of seven mil
lions of people. of whom million and half are
whites, three millions negroes and the rest muat-
toes, Zamboes, Indians and mixed breeds of all
Sorts No principle in the world, were it as true as
the theorems of geometry and as powerful as the
force that holds the universe together, could bind
into harmonious and homogeneous society such
discordant materials. But with the repugnances
and centrifugal tendencies of widely different races,
they have in Brazil not even the shadow of a prin-
ciple for their government to stand upon. The
House of Braganza has no claim to the affections
of the BraZans-either of the white or of the
colored race. Some of the practices of the govern
ment too, are the best in the world calculated for
estranging the aid and sympathy of foreign powers
The Brazilian government is the only one on the
face of the earth that pretends to any thing like
civilization and yet has not prohibited the slave
trade. 1t is now solely under the favor and pro-
lection of the Brazilian flag that the unhappy in
habitants of Africa torn from their native shores
and transported to foreign land, to be subjected
to foreign masters In case of internal difficulty
then, the Brazilian Emperor has no right to look
abroad for help; he need not stretch his hands to-
wards either Christian Europe or Christian Amer
lea, for he has no claim on them for an answer to
his applications.
The white race is the part of the population
which sustains the present government; and long
course of Incidence has taken away from the Por-
tuguese the energy he may once have possessed. 1t
is, of course, this class which takes the side of con-
servativsm in the eternal war that is every where
waged-even in Brazil-between those who have
power, and those who have it not. Whilst the
mixed races, permitted as they are to associate
with the whites on terms of social equality, aim at
acquisition of more political influence than they
at present possess. Between these two, the ne
groes who are slaves and constitute nearly one
half the population of Brazil, hold the balance
and are, at any time capable of turning the scales
either way. The negroes are naturally the allies
of the mixed races; and the news we have lately
received seems to indicate that there has been a
coalition between these two races. The news is,
it is true, a little contradictory. The news from
Bahia, which came to Boston, is that the revolu-
tonists around the Bay of All Saints had been put
down while it is said that matters are quiet at
Pernambuco But the accounts which were re-
ceived at New York from Pernambuco, although
they arrived sooner in the United States, are one
week later than the accounts from Bahia and the
Pernambuco reports are, that there had been not
only an attempt at revolution on the part of the
mixed races, but also an insurrection of the ne
groes BY comparison of the accounts it is proba-
Bile that the revolutionists have been, or will be
joined by the insurgent slaves, and if So there is
no telling what will be the end of the matter.
In addition to the internal troubles of Brazil,
she is also menaced from without The Emperor
and Rosas have never been good friends and now
that Rosas is comparatively unemployed, having
by the exercise of his strong intellect and will, SUBJ
dued most of his enemies, it may be that he will
turn his attention towards the neighboring pro-
vnces of Brazil, which have 10 doubt long tempted
his ambition 1t requires a strong head and
strong arm to relieve Brazil from the dangers, both
external and internal, that threaten her at the
present time but it would be useless to look for
such qualities in the worn-out race of Braganza-
DE Joinyille might do better