Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-05-08

ruled by Spain and Portugal, except small
ca lying between the mouths of Ornoco and
the Amazon, which was shared by England,
France and Holland, and known as British,
French and Dutch Guiana. This small por-
ton is still European; with most of the islands
known as West Indies, but no Spanish or
Portuguese flag now waves over any portion
of the Continent. Portuguese America,
peaceably separated from the mother coun
try, now constitutes the Empire of Bra
zil, and is governed by branch of the Por-
tuguese royal house of Braganza; while the
vast region formerly constituting Spanish A
Florida, Texas, New-Mexico and Upper Cal
ifornia have been acquired by the United
States while the residue of Mexico, Central
America, Venezuela, New-Grenada, Quito,
Peru, Chill, Buenos Ayres and their append
ages, have become independent, and are striv-
ing, generally with indifferent success, to
maintain Republican institutions, though with
4 constant tendency, created by ignorance,
Incidence and superstition, to degenerate in
to military despotisms. Such Buenos Ayres
appears now to be, while Venezuela and Mex
leo have been frequently distracted by the
arts and arms of military chefains. Cen
tral America has been torn to pieces by the
general causes above recited and now lies
PROSTATE and powerless. Mexico exhibits
unequivocal symptoms of decrcpitude and APP
preaching dissolution. Upper Peru has be-
come separate Republic, now known as Boil
via. The Spanish Presidency of Quito is
now the Republic of Ecuador. Paragua and
Uragua have separated from Buenos Avres,
and each is now Independent, the latter
known as Z" the Oriental Republic" though
its people are more commonly known as
50 Monte Videans," from their capital. The
extreme southern portion of the Continent,
known to Europeans as "Patogona,'' with a
great portion of the interior of South Ameri-
ca, and the north part of North America, re-
main as they were in 1900. in the undisturbed
possession of the age tribes
who had thinly peopled them from time i'm
and whose barbarous occupations
OF war and the chase forbid the hope of their
selt-improvement. The improperly termed
West Indian Isles remain in good part as in
1900, save that Hayti, then in revolt against
France has achieved hef independence of both
France and Spain, while slavery has been a.
bollshed throughout the islands ruled by
Great Britain. The continental possessions
Of Great Britain have improved considerably
in population and wealth; Upper Canada of.
late quite rapidly. Northward of latitude so
dg. the severity of the climate Oh this side
and the rcmoteness from civilized and peo-
pied countries on the other, have prevented
any considerable settlement. Successive at
tempts to discover a Northwest passage a.
round this Continent from Europe to the
North Pacific have led to no practical result.
Great Britain, already bereft of her most
colonies by the American Revolu-
ton, has built up twonew Empires within the
present century-the first by successive con-
quests and annexations in Hindoostan, where
her possessions now cover territory as large
as Europe south of the Rhine and the Dan
ube, and poepled by hardly less than one hun
dred millions Of human beings. From the In
dus on the west to the Irawadi Oh the east,
from the ocean on the south to the Himalayas
on the north, almost the entire continent is
now under British rule In Australia, a still
vaster and more prosperous, though far less
populous, British Empire, is now rapidly form
ing, from what were in 1900 immense Wild
ernesses, scantily inhabited by the lowest
grade Of savage beings, and infected along
the coasts by few cargoes of expatriated
The growth of British Australia
is now proceeding with a rapidity scarcely
paralleled, and apparently with entire solidi- |.
ty and health.
The elimination, decline and overthrow of
Napoleon's colossal power belongs to the first
quarter of the present century. In 1900 First
Consul; in 1904 Z" Emperor of the French =
IN 1911 master of nearly all Continental Eu-
rope except Russia, with Italy, Germany,
Austria, Spain at his feet, and even Russia,
Turkey, and the United States virtually his
lilies and only ENGLAND Stuhhornlv rnSiStinp
his strides to universal dominion 1914 saw
ilm defeated and exiled; 1915 discrowned
prisoner for life, and 1921 witnessed his
death on lone barren Isle," almost equi- (
distant from the eastern and western hemis-
pheres On his complete discontinue, Eu-
rope reverted very nearly into the condition
which 1t exhibited prior to the outbreak of
The French Revolution, France being restored