The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-04-23
Our South American Correspondence.
CARACAS March % 1870

CARACAS, March q, 1850.
Interesting from Venesuela.
My promise to write to you'll has not been forgot
ten, though have hardly at present any thing that
will interest you, yet am satisfied that even
knowledge of my Whereabouts will not be without
its Importance TO you; but dislike long prefaces,
SO ] will jump at once in media res" which,
freely rendered. means the capital of the country.
and its items of news. The clouds which have
been gathering for such length of time over this
lonely valley of Caracas, seem at last about to
break, and be dispelled by the genial sunshine of
mlder measures than British blockades and unwel-
come bombardments.
The Government have acceded to all the de.
mands of the British Admiral Dundonald, made
through his minister, Mr.. Wilson, with the excep-
ton OF that of the ndemnities accruing TO British
subjects from the Ley de Espeyu. MIR. Wilson is
firm in his demands, and though immediate forcible
measures have been abandoned, yet an ultimate
compliance with the demands against her. is all
that can insure quiet, and a consequent settled
and undisturbsd prosperity to Venezuela. This
stay law is, OF course, an outrage all internal
commercial transactions, and as such must be con-
sidered everywhere The trammelled state of this
distracted republic, during her late revolutionary
bros, made her resort to- inyh her life and death
struggle, almost any measure 10 save herself, and
while grasping at every thing in her seeming fall
TO render that fall light, the country came we'll
night being overwhelmed in irreclaimabe ruin.
The skies, however, now seem bright and ausp-
cious above her, and il is cheering to an American,
to see that repubIicanism in this newer world can
still buffet the of opposition rise above her
enemies, and, as she marches onward in modern
progressiveness, still cries 4" Excelsior" Much has
been done by England, in her mad endeavor at self
aggrandizement, to sap the foundations of South
American republicanism she has, for years, been
weaving net around Venezuela, and her late at
tempts show too clearly her anxiety for pretex of
aggression. May she yet be taught, what
would have thought she had learned long since in
a more northern latitude, that
Freedoms battle when begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire TO son.
Though bafiied Oft is ever won"
Venezuela has nothing to fear from internal dis
sensions of her own breeding. But the leaven OF
foreign interference in her domestic policy must
work its effect sooner or later. Mexico owes her
countless pronunciamenos'' and miserable civil
wars TO no other source. Let Americans OF the
North look to IT, Let them, at least, cheer on their
sister republic in her noble efforts of generous eman-
cipaton from the thraldom Of petty tyranny; and,
above all, let them not at her in her attempts
at sef-govenment, if she falters on the way.
Stamp-acts and tea-chests cannot every where be
beatsn down at once; but the spirit that did with
you, has gone abroad, and must and will conquer
here. May she succeed; and 10 her republicanism,
and TO her principles of constitutional liberty, we
say, "Esto pe'Tetra." tEsrus.