The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-27

ea-Freeaom and Comsnsrcial Activity YER
suns the Principles OF Sasionality.
Translated from the Cronica, May 2l.l
The conviction which is sometimes manifested by
The press of Spain that the sympathies of the peo
pie OF the Spanish American States towards their
ancient metropolis are perfectly assured for the
future, by their common origin, by their faith and
by their traditions, is an illusion. The same mis-
taken persuasion reigns in France among those wao
imagine that the Latin race in America VIII always
regard with prediction the people Of tne same race
in Europe. They who believe so completely ex-
Clude the tendencies OF the age, the influence OF
order and economy, the energy and activity or the
zeal for pablo affairs, and the consequent wealth
and greatness relying on the self love Of the races
and in their national attachment to the institutions
and customs which have distinguished them even
for decades of centuries. Every excursion through
the ideal region OF the theories of the love of family
and OF the sympathy of blood, is of the same valae
in treating of nations in treating Of individuals
The ties of kindred relaxed in proportion as the
number OF grades Increases, and in both cases tne
distinguished descent of ancestry sinks 50 as not 70
be recognized in the detected and Careless posterlt
The Spanish American people certainly nave ~
their history glorious deeds TO be proud o. tties OF
wisdom, herosm, and greatness, not surpassed Dy
any race on earth. Their natural sympathy Will oe
with all the descendants of their progenitors, so
long as the former do not belly the exploits which
increased and gained eternal fame for the latter
But what are the exploits which, in the 18th cen.
tury can preserve alive that love OF family neces
sary for the peace and for the equilibrium Of Amer
ca and Europe? Not certainly the discovery OF a
new world nor the conquests Of New Spain and
Peru, the heroic expeditions OF the Ornoco and
the Floridas the triumph of the great
numbers OF dolatrous nations, nor the diffusion OF
the Christian faith in world Of barbaroas and can
niba people. Those achievements have now no
enemy TO triumph over, nor ied III which 10 operate.
Those Ia Europe who yet believe that they can De
reproduced, know no more OF America than what
they have learned in the old biographies OF Diego
Veiasquez; or they have studied the modern world
INV 10 n he lyf1 rlDffh ~
tury, Of whom an English Jacobite lady says, that
they were either fools knaves. The deeds which
can, to-day, assure the love and the sympathy OF the
Latin people OF America towards their European re-
latioas are of very different nature they are the
example OF liberal and stable governments ration
al and energetic self-love which does not permit
them to remain behind any other race in the pro-
gress OF toll OF production, Of internal and external
commerce, of the ways of communication by land
and sea; they are, in line, we'll being and great
ness Which make them appear not dwarIed or in
capable in comparison with the toll the commerce,
the activity and the might OF other nations and
Does France fulfil all these conditions? We would
ask our French correspondents of San Juan de Mica
ragua, do Spain and the other European people of
the Latin fulfil them Neither are they fulfilled
by all the nations of the other races but in the rea
tive perfection OF those who do satisfy them there is
the difference that we expect to meet aso-the pro-
bable security of sympathies We lay aside the ma
ture Of the government, because that is question
which does not apply: and we moreover believe that
that government Is good which is accepted by the
great majority OF the people in which it is planted
II the Russian serf were told of North American
liberty he might become dweller in caves Ga troy
lodyte) But what respect do the great enterprises
OF Atlantic commerce, and Of Atlantic communica-
tl0ns OF the Latin people OF Europe, inspire in the
Spanish American nations? If we except Spain,
whose commercial navigation has taken a remark
able flight for some years to to this pont-giying
BY the presence Of her vessels in some ports Of the
Continent favorable idea of the tendency of that
country to an immediate resurrection OF its ancient
maritime power-neither France, Italy, nor even
Spain herself have to the present, entered into COM
petition in that magnh ,ent contest in which Eng
land and the United States are disputing the palm of
crossing in every direction the ocean with their
steamships, placing in mutual, easy and close con-
tact all the most remote points Of universal COM
merce. The commercial correspondence the very
OFF ;ial and diplomatic communications of Spain,
France and Italy are conveyed to America by the
mails of those two nations, whose influence on the
Continent must increase not only in proportion to
their activity IN this sense bat also in proportion to
the relative inertness of the Latin nations
Who carries TO our San Juan de Nicaragua cores
pondent the letters Of his family and of his
cial relations, directed from Europe? The English
and North American steamship. What Latin agent
consul, or diplomatist in Central America, or more
still, in all the Spanish American countries, takes
the trouble of dispassionately informing the world,
or even perhaps his government, OF the spirit and
state OF things among those populations competing
with the active indeiaugabty OF the ShelIields tie
Wises the Squiers in serving the interests ST COM
What Latin government has madea movement when
President Taylor convoked them all t. take part in
the opening and guarantee OF the lsthmus OK Central
America? Neither our correspondent, nor ourself,
nor any one else has yet seen any certain tendency
Of those governments to accept that participation.
The United States and England are left alone in the
mail service and in the field of American policy,
and the consequence has been that which waste hare
been reasonably expected The influence OF these
two nations makes them audacious egotistical and
abusive; because the competition of third party is
wanting-and competition is the only human source
Of virtue and perfection.
Such is our mode of seeing the events of San Juan
de Nicaragua and Of Central America generally aud
therefore said in treating of this subject the other
day that we were astonished at the surprise maui
tested by our San Juan correspondent at seeing
6rely established in that point the influence of Eng
land and Of the United States. His desires aud
lAments should not be directed against those two
nations, nor their governments, nor their agents,
who only do for their interest what any indiv-
dual or government in their place would do. They
ought to be rather directed against the Latin govern
mens. to see if this time they would hearken and if
they would bestr themselves to establish those great
lines OF Atlantic steamers, reduced yet to projects
frustrated by the pretexts of squirting policy, or by
the contradictions Of an avarcious monopoly well
in France as elsewhere. When the day will have
arrived of the establishment of these noble enter
prises, not by governmentsLwe hope in God-but
by the commerce and by the public opinion of the
Latin people Of Europe, then we can support on
solid basis whatever just pretenson to the respect
and sympathy Of Central America and to influence
the constitution and progress Of internal affairs OF
San Juan de Nicaragua as to make them more
propitious for the general commerce Of America aud
Europe.
There are at present symptoms in France and
Spain which might make hope for better times
for the Latin race in the active world Of commerce
and Of true national greatness and as it is under
stood in this age Of peaceful progress and Of Of
industry and activity Spain and France appear dis
posed to establish Atlantic steam ship lines through
the enterprise Of their respective commerce. When
the first steamer of these lines arrives at San Juan
then we may have right to seek the exclusion of
such or such exclusive influence in that point. Till
then we must be content With the present state of
things which presents no formidable danger for COM
merce.
PTOUucts OF the Forest,
From the Albany Argus May rs
Aside from the immense quantities Of breadstuffs
which annually end theft way to market through
the artificial channels Of communication constructed
across the State-the ranid increase Of which has