The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-29

FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
PARA, (Souih America June 3, 1854.
Letter No. l.

PARA, (south America,) June 3, 1854.
[Lctter No IL
Since the publication Of Lieutenant Maury's pamphlet
and Lieutenant Herndons large and excellent work on the
Amazon the people of the United States have turned their
attention to the Amazon in remarkable degree Our du-
Ties TO our own undcveoped territory have hher prevent
ed people doing justice TO this lovely country far
deyolyed them introduce the enterprises the arts
the industry that have made the United States so great in
the eyes Of the whole world The West Indies too pro-
ducng hitherto in sufficient abundance of the uxu-
es and nccessaes produced in South America have sup
piled the markets Of Europe and the United States with all
that needed the supply Of the East Indies and the
ateyacquired possessions OF England in China and India
Thus attention has been diverted from the vast valley OF
the Amazon with Its nnumerable and unequal
led apudes for the whole Of the three generations that
the United States have signally hourished while we
have had opposite this very gate OF the almost bound
valley Of the largest proudest and most
prosperous commercial marines that ever hoaed on the
seas
Circumstances have changed the world; steam and
the whole range Of the mechanic arts have altered the
old relations and bearings Of nations and national inter
course have made the Injuries arts and improvements Of
cline indispensable tho comfort progress OF
other that the mutual relations Of the world and especially
OF the powers covering and controlling the western con
nen require that the Of the Amazon ard all the
great continents which swell It's magnitude and import
ance should be by developed for the Of
the present generation Hence the government Of the Un
ted States actuated By enlightened and liberal policy
Of trade her part and justice to Brazil has during
few years past constantly cndoayored by peaceablc and
friendly represen taons TO convince Brazil Of the import
and necessity Of either using the Amazon river and its
herself and Thus enlarging commerce. per-
mttng others who have the proper enterprise experience
and capital to do It.
To all Of these representations she has turned deaf
Indeed far from acquescing in the plans which pro-
posed to her in 1881 for opening the Amazon to general
commerce and permitting free and unobstruced transit
If not TO her shores at least TO those of Bolivia Peru
and Ecuador she attempted TO forcsta the efforts of
either foreigners 10 get into the river the Uspano-
American and Upper Amazonian republics TO get out by
what may safely denomnate a treaty, ruse with one
Of her subjects Senior reneo Bvangelista de Sauz
for the exclusive navigation Of the Amazon and all of its
tributaries thirty years This AT time when strong eff
forts made by the upper republics for egress and
when the United States, sympatbizng with the latter
espoused their The contract with DE Sauza the
Amazon Company as II is known here contemplated
some service in the mails for which ample bonus is
given and the colonization Of large extent Of the terri
tory the banks Of the Amazon with the establishment
Of thirty villages at points properly distant from
other That this part OF the scheme concerted and
racted the time and known to be inn
practicable is evident who have taken any interest
in the question, watched the movements Of Brazil
imagine that as foreigners certainly had no right to enter