The New York herald., 1851-08-05
Our Caracas Correspondence.

CARACAS, July 4, 1851.
The Venesueeaa Fourth of JMly-Ks Celebration
The Agitation in the United States, &C., &c.
The anniversary Of the glorious 4th has rolled
round again-and may it conciliate those extreme
factions who are agitating a country destined by
Heaven to harmonic the jarring elements Of the
human race where, under the wide spread bran ,hes
of the never dying tree of liberty. abrother Briton,
Frank, or German, can repose with equal security
with a native American, whose arms are ever
extended to receive and welcome to their embrace,
as friends and brothers, the oppressed Of every
cline!
Preparations have been made by the authorities
to celebrate the forty.frst anniversary of the
national independence Of this distracted republic,
which is the 9Th Of July, although its celebration
commences on the 4th ths day), at II o'clock, with
the firing of cannon, and ends tomorrow at noon;
consequently, the illumination takes place tonight.
This method is observed in the celebration Of all
great feasts in Venezuela; probably the custom has
been borrowed from that ancient book, which says,
81 the evening and the morning was one day"
The institution Of slavery in Venezuela has never
aoita ted the country Bolivar decreed, in lS22,
that all children born Of slave mothers, from that
period should be born free, the children serving
che Of the mother until they should arrive at
twentyone years Of age; consequently there are no
slaves Mt present under twenty nine years of age
Thus the system of slavery, and consequent servi-
tude, will gradually cease.
Americans ut distance, behold their country as
whole-one glorious and undivided union OF
States personal interests, and national identity;
but. on turning over the files of the Herald, they
behold President Fillmore and his cabinet minis
ters emerging from the common centre, talking to
the sovereign people they pass along from city to
city pointing to the constitution, or articles OF
confederation, the polar star which alone should
direct them in their course, and instruct them IN
L.. al, ha1 nfn
Union, which bids fair to consolidate and irater-
nize the whole universe; and, already, tyrants are
trembling before its mighty influence, and des.
potism Is totterpg on its battlements as light and
truth penetrate its ancient walls.
We also behold the speeches and resolutions oil
the FIRE eaters Of South Carolni, proposing 10 Sc
cede from that glorious compact, because Car
rison, Smith, Thompson, Abby Kelly x Co, are
holding abolition meetings in the North, and de.
nouncng the Southern tlaveholders as thieves and
robbers. Such fanatics will find hearers, as Old
Miller did, when he fixed the day for the disso-
luton of this globe, but Afterwards ackndW,
lodged he had made a mistake OF two thousand
wears So let us defer the dissolution of the Ame-
rcan Union for two thousand years, until the grand
Now let us look at the United States
sus for 1910 and 1850. The white population
has increased about - per cent, the slave popula'
m NAV be naturally asked how this difference ar
rises and the an swer is obvious The increase Of
the white population that Of the slaves Is princi
pally eIe ;ted by immigration, showing the increase
Of the slave population by births, nearly equal to
that of the whites and the increase of the slave
population is more than double that OF the free
negro, this fact demonstrates beyond douos, aud
beyond refutation that negroes in state OF slavery
are better fed, better cared for, and more happy,
than they would be Il free.
We hear a great hue and cry, and the whole
country is convulsed about asinge slave the North
ern fanatics and abolitonists rejoicing at rescue,
and the Southe fanatics threatening to dissolve the
Union, whilst all true Americans are laughing at
the folly of both. When they behold that God has
sent the South more than seven hundred thousand
additional slaves in the short space of ten years.
and win send them at least a million more the
coming ten years, what have they to complain oil !
BY kind treatment the slaves will, under God, IN
crease TO overflow the Southern states IN few
years IL is then the southern planter will give iree-
dom TO and send the North those he has no use for
Itis then we shall action. These same lanai
les of the free States will hold meetings denouncing
the right of the slave breeders to send their negroes
to annoy the white people of the North, aod the
State legislatures will pass laws prohting their IN
PRODUCTION. We shall then see what We shall see.
In the meantime, we shall see thatmighty torrent
of Anglo Saxon freemen, step by step progressing
southwark, overrunning province after province in
Mexico, thence to Central America as Tar as the
a, Isthmus Of Panama-the natural division OF North
and South America. And will the stream cease
here Mott will continue. New Granada and
Vene zuela will eventually become states OF the
great American confederacy. Children VINO are
now born in this capital Of Caracas, will live to see
that glorious day gentlemen of intelligence are
now educating their children in this city in the
English language, in anticipation of that great
eyent IaRuayra is but eight days distance from
Washingto ton by steam, at nine and half miles Per
hour 1bc great body of the people of Venezuela
would now open their arms to embrace the Ameri-
We behold the immigration from Europe, flow.
;ng ,o the Northern States fast as ships can be
found to convey them, there in few years 70 learn
the principles Of self government, ana become iree
iti.ens: being thus enlightened, they emerge into
the common stream, which can never be CANNED uI
short Of Cape Horn. However, the writer has nseo s
The year 1850, when the southern boundary Oh tne
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