The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-28


1t is to be regretted that Boston, with all her
law, all her learning, all her orators all her
statesmen, all her common schools, all her
churches, and all her newspapers has not lit
tie more patriotism and love of 1untry Bos-
ton is always ready and willing to tax, South
ern money, but never ready to acknowledge
Southern rights.
The Spanish American Rspublics-Their Re-
evolutionary NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Effects
ofthe Equality and AmaIgamation Of Races
A glance at the condition of the Spanish re-
publicS of this continent, from the date OF their
separation from the crown of Spain to the
present day, is suggestive not only Of dark,
bloody and melancholy history, unrelieved by
any solid advantages, but without any appa-
rent prospect or hope Of redemption for the flu
ture Assuredly there is no hope for them ex-
cept from the most radical and sweeping changes
in their political, religious and social institu-
tions Most Of these Spanish republics have
been experimenting upon the doctrines of po-
pular government for period exceeding thr
ty years, and they have been steadily retro
grading from bad to worse, until, at this day.
of Brazil, they are with scarcely an excep-
tion) either at war with each other, or in a
state of internal revolution and anarchy. Take
for example, the following schedule of orr bel
ligerent Spanish sisterhood, from our next door
neighbor down into the very heart Of South
America.
The republic of Mexico has found no relief in
4. 80 A.
to have no aspirations for the empire which he
proposes to establish over them; and, without
waiting for the subsidies of the Gadsden treaty,
he is compelled to take the field against the re-
evolutionary movement of Alvarez, the avowed
object of which is to drive the wooden-legged
dictator from the country. But should Santa
Anna be superseded by Alvarez, it is altogether
probable that before the expiration of the year,
Alvarez, in his turn, will be thrown out by a
counter revolution. Thus left to her own re-
sources, there is nothing promised to Mexico
but the revolutionary tread-mill from one gene
ration to another, as the years roll on.
The next republic south is Guatemala; and
she is amusing herself at present, under the
direction Of Gen. Carrera, with war against
Honduras. An ultimate design of Santa Anna,
if successful in his Mexican empire, is said to
be the incorporation of the Central American
States into his dominions, and the war of Car
rera against Honduras is supposed to be part
of the game. Perhaps the appeal of Honduras
for annexation to the United States, when for
mally laid before orr government, may throw
some light upon this business Nicaragua, not
withstanding all the labors OF our ministers
Mr.. Hise, Mr.. Squier and Major Borland-is re-
visited by her old malady, and is again
enjoying all the excitements and bru-
talities of civil war. Our late news
from San Juan gives q beautiful picture, also,
of the supreme colored authorities of the Mos
quito kingdom. In the republic Of New Gra-
NADIA, President Jose Maria Obando is con-
fronted in every direction by the armed forces
of Gen. Jose Maria Melo, who claims to lead
the liberty party. The Anglo-Saxons, how
ever, along the isthmus route OF Panama, a
it appears, have mixed up considerable sea-
soning of the doctrines of socialism and the an
ti-Catholic platform of the know-nothing
party with the general staple of New Grana-
dian politics, which have given more than
ordinary zest to the present revolutionary
movements in that country.
The next republic adjoining that Of New
Granada is Venezuela. Here Jose G. Mo-
nagas, President, and his hopeful brother, have
for some time been alternating in the occupa-
ton of the Presidency-frst one and then the
other-but invariably at the point Of the bayo-
net, the usual substitute for popular elections
n all the Spanish States of the Continent. AT
present General Paez is in the field against
Monagas, and as it is perfectly immaterial
which is victor, it is useless to attempt an ex-
PLANTATION of the causes of the war or
its probable results. Next to Venezuela
we find President Jose Maria Urbina, of
Ecuador, compelled to take up arms against
the presumptuous General Flores, an old
campaigner and very troublesome Gus
toner to the constituted authorities of that
republic, when he is excluded from the num-
her. Brazil is quiet, and seems to be compare
lively happy under the rigid discipline of a
despotism South of Brazil, everything again
is state Of revolution, disorder, anarchy, or
uncertainty, till we reach the Lands End of
fa'agonla. Inc gigantlc anthropophagi OF
that highly interesting country are in the
blessed condition of primitive barbarism They
plumber and butcher occasionally such ship
wrecked mariners as may fall into their clutch
es; but from none of the few that have escaped
have we ever heard of any revolutionary dis
turbances in Patagonia. The pernicious insti-
buttons which the Spaniards have planted in
other places, do not exist there, aud hence the
internal condition of Patagonia is tina. of COM
parative tranquility.
Now, what are the causes of this incapacity
of the Spanish republics to govern themselves?
Why these continual wars among thems-
these successive revolutions, this calami-
tous, degrading, and irretrievable condi-
ton of internal anarchy into which they
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