The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-09-21
VOL. mo. s.


That they Minh IF as in CAM.-
The envoy of the United States, near
the government of Chill, desiring to
connect himself matrimonially with
lady of that ilk, prayed the sane
ton ofthe churh to their union, which
the Archbishop Of Santiago refused
to extend. The diplomatist then ap-
pealed to the government directly,
which declined to interfere with with
&c ecclesiastical affairs, but assured him
of its distinguished considerations, in
choice Castilian. This, however,
was unsatisfactory, so the Envoy
married the lady, and at last adviccs
was likely TO demand his recall from
a country where he could not enjoy,
undisturbed, his domestic relations.
Upon this La CrOnica, a leading
print at Valparaiso, has a powerful
article reprobating the Bishop for his
refusal to sanction the match, and
the government for its passive acqui-
esccnce to his decision, and con-
cludes with the following plain "out-
speaking -
cit did not suffice that in coun-
try already needing med, industry,
immigration as the means Of fife citing
its wealth and prosperity, there
should be encountered this insuper-
able hindrance, set against the inter-
mingling of the population coming
from abroad with that already exist
ing. Nor did it suffice that concu-
binagc, the disturbance of morality,
should make the contact of foreign.
ers curse to the natives, wheu it
might be so moralizing and salutary,
were it not for the prohibilion TO
marry which our laws impose these
things did not soiFice; but it was me-
ccssary that they should proceed fur
Their, and at this day pisturb our re-
lations with the most formidable oo-
,rer on tie glbe. 1t was necessary
TO create dislike, disgust, and even
contempt for Chill in the bosom Of
the nation which cncirc1eS as ,oith its
ships, which enriches US to-day BY
the advantageous admission of our
productions 70 its ports, and with
which we might be in contact, close,
daily, and beneficial, did we not,
gratuitously and uniustly, wound it
in point where it is of all most sem
sitive, ontraging the most deep-scat-
ed convictions of the entire people.
To us present state Of the case of
appears not unlike that of the Greek
empire of the east, in the time of the
Crusades, filled with rhetoric, soph-
,, istry, superstition, and a sovereign
contempt for those western barbara
, ans, those Latins who were arriving
d, d, on the way to Palestine, with their
armor, ships, and barbarian AFRO
: gance. To such an evtent did they
: incommode those barbarians, that
one day they set themselves to work
and rolled the pedantic Empire over,
which fancied it had right to set at
nought all the sentiments of the rest
of the human race. At this day Ca
lifornia stands in the place Of Pales-
u tine, the land Of the Crusades in that
{ epoch; in place Of the Franks we
= have the North Americans and in
i place of Constantinople, Valparaiso
,, and five hundred leagues of coast
. And if, while the authorities are vex.
ing North American envoy for ha-
wing committed the sin of marrying
with a Catholic, a single steamer
u despatched by some Hotspur, batter:
), down for US some day half a city, t.
| whom then shall we appeal to the
y world? TO Europe The ,oorh
Z keeps itself right clear IF engaging
=, IN pastimcS ,ciM The Jniied States
II Against violence and injustice, on thu
u part Of the Yankees, there is no ap
> peal on earth.