The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-18

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axiom with US that peace is the true policy of
All enlightened nations it is emnently with those
blessed with republican institutions And the enviable
condition Of the people Of the United States rees
the most prosperous and the happest EARTH il main
ly to be ascrbed Heaven and aside from their
native genius their energy and their indomitabe
10 their maintenance OF peaceful relations with
the other Powers Of the world
But the government the people of my country
prepared to take the hazard of interruption of this
train OF blessings, and to meet the shock
need be- In their determination to repe every hostile
on the Pr, Of the Of the
and the onward course of tho republican
| the Western hemisphere.
And am more than grati6ed with the assurance that
the distinguished and lustous Chief Magistrate Ecu
ador, ana the eminent statesmen who constitute the
ministry of his administration, imbued with the
enlarged views of democracy that animate their
political brethren of the United States and that they
| would be prompt in making common cause with us
against all aggressive acts the part of the monarhca
| propagandists Of Europe.
may also be permitted to AVIAN myself Of this as an
opporune moment TO express my personal qualification
that being assigned to the high post Of
from the empire republic of the North interesting
sister republic of the South destiny has cast my resi-
dence in the ancient and interesting city of Quito re-
nowned as having been the seat of power of the vast
empire of the 1ncas, the fiction and the fact of whose
world.
The romantic scenery that surrounds your capital
must be charming TO the most unpoetic fancy In the
exhausess fertility Of the soil the extent of its surface
under cultivation the almost illimtabe variety of its
productions including most of those of the temperate
well of the torid zones, in the delicious salubrity
of its climate, my antcpations hare been more than
| Lied.
Philosophers and speculative theorists of all coun
tries have dwelt with deep and curious interest upon
the descriptions by travellers of the great peak of
Chimborazo, the distinguishing physical feature of
Ecuador capped at the centre of the
t9srld zone peers up INTO ethereal space beyond all
phenomena with which Gods footsoo mysteriously
garnsbed this one is unique of its kind and is indeed
magnificent specimen Of Heavens omnipoent power.
1t afforded of the earliest themes that awakened the
of my youthful mind, and for three hundred
has excited the marvel well Of the learned of
the illiterate throughout the civilized world.
And may it not be that the contemplation of this
Heavenerccted monument has inspired your people with
that lofty patriotism which has prompted them to
those affairs liberty which blazing brightly around
its base, and whose efuigence illumines the
hottest hamlet of the republic. May it serve as
| beacon to guide your nation to onward and
upward career. And can assure you of my ardent
desire, as well as that of my government land of which
have doubtless been reassured through dispatches
from the venerable and distinguished Ecuadorian who
has ably, and acceptably to both nations repre-
scented your republic at Washington that your really
splendid country may continue its progress in those
certain to add largely to the enjoyments of your peo
pie and to the nation certain frui,ion OF
those blessings which await the development of her
bright future.
Acting under injunctions from my government 70
practise that republican simplicity, that plainness Of
STYLE singeness Of purpose and rankness in all things
of which the early statesmen and dipomatiss OF the
United States afforded ilustrious exampe-and it
having been my happy destiny to be born and educated
under the wise liberal institutions which those i'm
mortal sages bequeathed to their country and to mankind
and being consequently deeply imsued with that high
under whose enlghtenng and progressive influences
republic has risen SO rapidly to be one of the great
Powers of the earth-I trust may be excused it, in my
official communications with your government it may
at times be found that have discarded the Of that
Anticipated and turgd phrase which is the study the
hereditary dplomasts of the crumbng dynastes Of the
One of the cardinal secrets of their craft, is to
plain, republican comprehension, nothing less than
premeditated delusion. Ambiguous voices meant not
Ynin and fho uros
into their tolls.
to declare the TRUTH in frankness and sincerity
raltering in double sense upon matters of grave in
Of the promptngs the heart and for the calculation of
questions mooted by conflict of judgment and not with
the deliberate design Of ensnarng unsuspecng and nno
cent minds.
With sentiments of high consideration, have the
honor to be your Excelencys very obedisnt servant
PHII4O WHITE.
To his Excellency MARCOS EsPEI Minister of Foreign
Relations, Republic Of Ecuador.
MR. EsPINEL's ANSWER.
MINISTRY OF FoREas RELATIONS OF ECUADOR,
QUrTo, LIST January, 1854.
R-n presenting the letter of his Excelency the Min
ster of Foreign Relations Of the United States accredit
ng you the Charge d'Ahaircs this government
equally frank and
which, the we'll being of their people the honor of
both Americas, the enlightened, powerful and liberal
guidance, in drawing closer her relations with the
publcs of the world, and in rendering to them her
good offices in the work of their prosperity and aggran
dzement; and, at the time heroically declaring
her readiness to repe every foreign attempt subver
or disturb those fundamental principles OF democracy
this continent which can alone secure the greatest
amount of happiness to the people,
In thus espousng the great of liberty and of
philanthropy the iiustrious head of your government
has not to rely solely on the purity of his intentions his
ments scholar-nether upon the fact that in defer
to his eminent merits he elevated to the post
he now so worthy fills by the voice of twenty five mil
ia 40 ndanf o1n
the wise counsels Of the eminent statesmen at the
head of the several departments of your national affairs
unanimous of policy by good and liberal of the
whole enlightened world, since noble sentiments and
phantropic policy not the especial emanatons of
any particular meridian, should they be graduated
in their dspensaton by the numerical strength of peo
pie domiciliaed in nation q continent The po-
icy and the principles the American Union are iden
teal with the cause OF human liberty and universal phi
lanthropy Wherever devotees of that to be
met with, there those prnc Piles and that policy will
always find aid, and encouragement, and followers
This government which has the honor to welcome you,
sir in your official character Charge dAares and the
people who this day the jewellers in the land of the
Incas Gin which terms you have been pleased most ap
propratey to compliment them) have given noble
proofs of full coincidence in the holy principles you
have set forth by direction of your government and
shown readiness to make any sacrifice for the de-
on this soil of liberty and democracy.
The solemn declaration made by his E1ceency President
Monroe thirty years since and which has become settled
principle Nth the Cabinet at Washington has grocn be
an arom in all South America, and especially so in the
pHNNg EcuQd0T.
In this unity Of thought and of political views
between the two Americasths reciprocity Of interest
and accordance Of sentiments-w be found manifested
the coraty with which the government and people Of
Ecuador desire that the most amicable relations should
forever be sustained, and be drawn closely from
day to day with the and people of the United
States is their earnest wish that these relations may
be frank fraternal and ntmate and in the language
the honorable Charge that they may be characterized
by that simplicity and republican purity indicated in his
luminous exposition.
The policy of his Exceency the President of this
try and of the other members of the executive power
already known to you. 1t comprehends the view
of democracy that anmaes political brethren of the
North whose desire it is that the inhabitants of this
part Of the globe should be Free prosperous and happy
1t is the policy that has made such favorable impressions
the mind Of the honorable Charge from that repubc
and through perseverance in which, and by constant
effort to sustain and perpetuate the free institutions the
country enjoys well by faithful adherence TO
the principes and resolution equally discriminate