Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-05-31

were boys.
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| When that day comes, the mouths oil the
Mississippi and the Amazon. N Orleans and Pa.
ra, without the and of the lamp or the wand oil
any sorcerer, will be within two weeks OF each
other.
Amazonia will supply this country with all
the intertropics productions Of the world for
| is a country, whether We consider the wealth
Of its minerals or vegetable kingdom, OF unsur-
p passed riches and resources.
While we are receiving these things from
this magic India" the United States would
support the workshops and afford the granary
for that country.
The boat yards of the Amazon would be on
the Ohio and Upper Mississippi; the Touring
mills of the Amazon would DO on the James
river; her packing houses in our grazing
States; and her looms among our manufactu-
ring people.
The future of these United States, so far as
commerce with Europe may effect it, is charm
ing--so far as our relations with the markets
Of the Pacific may bear upon II. is vast; but, IN
so far as il 10 touched by the Amazon, 1t IS
dazzling.
Just here gentleman direct from Lima
stepped in upon me with messages and des.
patches from that lar country. The Amaze
Man fever is raging there. Peru is about to
establish free ports upon her tributaries to the
Amazon, that she may let in the Mississippi
steamboats upon the waters there.
Tell the North Americans" says lirado,
the great Peruvian statesman, 1--WE want To
see them upon the Amazon, settling down up.
on Our eastern slopes of the Andes, and bring
ling Nth them the steamboat and the spirit OF
enterprise which characterzes them. We are
about To let dorm tie bars at this end; tell
them they must open The gate at the other,and
come up TO US with the Mississippi steamboat"
Gallant little Ecuador, ardent as the rays
of her own vertical sun, speaking through one
Of her high functionares, says:
Ecuador will have sure way OF putting
herself In connexion with the United States
From the time OF the conquest until now she
has possessed the right of free navigation up
OH the Amazon.
Gonzalez Pizarro and Capt. Orellana sail
ed down that river to the Atlantic in vessels
built and armed on the Napo. Her mssona-
rles from time to time have followed the same
route. From time 10 time she has continued
TO use 1t to this dav; so that the Empire OF
Brazil, though she owns the mouth Of the Am
aZon cannot hinder Ecuador in the continued
exercise OF right which nature and usage
have given her, aud which is in conformity
with the laws of nations and the practice Of al!
enlightened Governments"
Ecuador 10 alive TO the importance of the
subject, and reciprocates the kindly feelings in
this country towards her. "She recognises
her Minister goes on to say, "the.desres OF the
United States to fraternize with their sister re.
publics of the South through the means Of COM
merce, industry, and civilization
Therefore the invitation from her is. Come.
letch us the river steamboat; it will attract pop
ulalion and commerce. and draw more closely
the ties which bind Ecuador and the United
States in the bonds of peace. Come; you shall
have a fair chance ut the rich treasures and
vast products which abound in the country
drained by the Napo and other Ecuadorian
tributaries of the Maranon," as the upper Am.
anon is called.
New Granada the State of enlarged views
and enlightened policy. the State which is al.
ready in close political alliance with US, has
caught up the strain and echoed it back from
her mountain peaks in tons too clear and dis
tinct not to be understood.
A high functionary also Of that Govern.
ment, to whose notice a fiiend Of mine had
brought the enlightened decree of Bolivia.
which establishes tree ports upon the Amazon
writes in reply
New Granada is satisfied that steam nav
igation there will draw after it the immigrant
trade. snd industry of all nations, and has al
ready. by the law ofApril 7, 1852, opened all
her rivers to free navigation"
That Government has taken the lead of all
the world in giving practical effect to the doc
trno of free trade; "lor," continues this letter.
She has made some of her seaports free to
the trade OF the world, among which are lncu
, ded those of the Isthmus of Panama
Have no fears" he says, "of New Granada.
She is not going TO follow, with regard TO her
tributaries ofthe Amazon, the example of Bra
zil with regard to its mouth.
New Granada will not fail and ofthis be
you assured 10 assert her rightsto the navigation
ofthe Amazon. In the present case the wrong
done by keeping the Amazon shut, touches
not only New Granada, but Bolivia, Peru,
l Ecuador and Venezuela. all of which are