Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-04-04

Is it not strange how Spain has "come out
during the last few years? After decayng for ages, I'M
til it was regarded dead empire it has sprung for
ward in the race of power and improvement with
rapdy scarcely surpassed by the most growing nations
Of the world. While France stands still in point of
population, Spain exhibits most striking increase in
ten years. bearing proportion to the whole
number only exceeded by the United States,
ceptiona colonies of Great Britain Its trade commerce.
manufactures and agricultural productions have also
Increased rapidly than its reputation. With
increasing prosperity to the nation has come increasing
revenues to the government and Spanish credit once
nominal, is now rapidly rising, while the military spirit
and power of the monarchy has been vindcaed in the
recent war so triumphanty waged with Morocco.
1t is little strange, that while Spain herself has en-
tered upon career of comparative prosperity and while
her remaining colonies of Cuba and Porto Rico, in the
West Indies, and the Philippine Islands in the Malay
Archipelago are among the most prosperous countries
on the GLOBE every colony that has separated from her
on the Continent of North or South America, may be
said to date its decadence from the day of its indie
pendence. Chill may be- perhaps, cited as an excep-
ton to this law of decay If it be an exception which
we much doubt it is the solitary exception Which may
be said to prove the rule.
The true secret of the difference in prosperity between
the state of the tropical semtropcal countries OF
North and South America, under Spanish rule or IN
state of nominal Independence may easily be traced 10
the existence of system of compulsory LABOR IN the HsC
case directed by purebooded and energetic dominant
race and the want of this controlling Will ana
compulsory exertion in the second case. The
only truly great works in all Spanish America date
back to the monarchy They bear the impress OF the
directing mind of the ruling white man. AS these give
way they are never replaced, aud never Will be. VI
course we do not refer to the fagmentary remains OF
the public works. constructed under the rule OF the
Incas
Brazil was settled by the Portuguese. 1t was divided
from Portugal but not by revolution at least not as the
result Of any popular outbreak, and without the
abolition of slavery any very marked change III
government, different member OF the Royal family of
Portugal being declared Emperor and the separation
acknowledged by the King.
Brazil is stable being founded upon the compulsory
labor of the inferior and the rule of the white man.
1t not simply the negroes who are subjected to compu-
sorry SERVICE but also the aborgnes, as any one may
easily see by reading the account given by Lieut. Her
don of his descent of the Amazon. 1t is true the lire
between coors is not strictly drawn in Brazil as in
the United States bat substantially the rulers white
men and the inferior are subject
To show that it is not the change from the CO.
cna to the quasi independent state to which the decay
of the SpanishAmerican countries may be traced We
need only refer to the English possessions in the West
Indies once so hourshing now valueless Yet they
are still colonies, formerly, but they are not
slaveholdng colonies, solely directed by white meD.
There as in Spanish America the emancipation of the
inferior races has degraded the white almost to the
level of his natural interiors; without in any case raising
them to the true level of the white man. Meanwhile
public prosperity in both cases has been destroyed
The poorest white man III the mongrel Republics
of South or Central America, of Jamaica or any
other of the English West Indies has suffered equally
with the wealthest planters or mine owners. Capital
has fed employment is gone-those who could get of
were happy those who could not had to submit to live
amid the general ruin and anarchy.
These historical facts ought to afford some lessons tc
the people of the South They ought to prove to then
concusvey that their safety in every sense of the wore
depends upon maintaining the subordnaton of the in
ferior races and with that subordination the power
to compel them to do reasonable and fair labor. The
examples of the squad condition-the low level to which
the poorer class of white men have been reduced il
South America and the West Indies, ought to be all
sufficient answer to those who fippany assert tina
the man who does not negroes has no interest il
keeping them subordinate, and compelling them to worl
for living, under the intelligent guidance of tn
" white man. In Mexico, Of theiE Generals Canales
= we think was negro-ther " Constitutional Presi
70 dent Juarez is an Indian In Jamaica negro may 81
on jury to try any man for his life. Is only the ric
man interested in preventing state of things like this
~ state of things the direct result of emancipation
emancipation is what all the apostles of the irrepressbl
- conflict aim at?
- Perhaps we have wandered from Spain, but not fal
We have shown that southern colonies under Spar
sh rule, are prosperous while they keep s1bordinat
in the place nature intended for them while indie
pendent republics, not obeyng this law, sink down to
state of semi-barbarism. We have shown how Spair
backed up by her prosperous colonies is reganng he
place among the nations, while the wsest in Ems
land feel sensiby the folly of her abotonism in tn
c. West Indies, and have also how, in Cuba IL
es white man is prosperous-n Mexico if poor, he is
level with Indians, negroes, etc. Do these thing
teach no lessons to the North and to the Southesp
caly do they not speak loudly to every white ma
among US, be he rich poor, STAKEHOLDER nonsav
holder?
y In referring to Spain and her revoted colonie
d. we speak of the lessons to be derived by the Soul
ID from the results of the emanci patton and equait
of the inferior in the Spanish American republic
III as we'll in the West Indian colonies of Great Britai
~ But these lessons might be useful to Il
liz North than to the South and certainly their study
Oh demanded there in order to dspe the dense cou
re- of ignorant and faaaca prejudice that obscure tt
Die vision of the people of that section, combining its RAM
"a to narrow circle and certain restricted surroundings
Never since the world began, did any section of cou
try enjoy such commercial advantages as the Northe