Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-02

reign of successive factions coptending fo
power, scarcely year without rebellion
or anarchy ruling In some one or NOR
of the States, and often pervading tn
whole country. Who ever will take TIL
trouble to examine into the condition o
this fine country from the time that Hum
bolt visited and described it will, if he i
impartial and conscientious, be compelled
to admit and come to the conclusion that i
never was so prosperous as when under tn,
| Spanish dominion; that it has declined il
prosperity since the labor Of the Indian
ceased to be compulsory, and that they
with the other races, undertook to govern
themselves by their own laws.
The Central American States-Guatamal
and the departments belonging to the Cap
fancy General of Guatemala proclaimed theil
independence in 1921; in 1923 they formed
a Confederacy, and united themselves to the
Republic of Mexico, but in a short time dis
solved this connection with the Mexican
republic, and, in 1923, again became sepa
rate government, and eventually a Confed
Grafton Of five States, Mosquito being con.
! sidered part oftwo of them. This confed
eracy was dissolved in 1916, and each State
became independent of the others, all Of
|
less conforming to the model of the United
States. The population of these States is
estimated at two millions, one third Indi.
ans, one fourth whites and creoles, and the
balance ladrones, a mixture of the other
| three. These States are rich in minerals
| gold and silver, have fertile soil abound
| ing in the staples and luxurious products OF
the tropics; a climate varying in tempera-
| ture according to the altitude, and by reason
Of the evenness Of the surface may be called
salubrious Yet, after the lapse of half a
century we can only repeat the results of the
| experience of Mexican independence, and
their attempts at selfgovernment, continued
agitation, the alternate reign of factions, and
successive civil wars the usual amount OF
anarchy, without the security and stability
! necessary to the encouragement of industry
or improvements ofany kind.
OF the nine or ten remaining States or
Confederacies in Central America, which
sprung from Spanish provinces l need say
but little, as it would be nothing more than
a repetition of the more material facts; the
same history of bright hopes and expecta-
tions, at first, such as those inspired by the
appearance of Bolivar, a second Washing
ton as he was thought; but these visions of
the glory of the rising Republics of the
South have long since faded away into little
more than a mere abortion.
But the relations existing for the last two
or three hundred years between Great Bri-
tain and Ireland will better illustrate and
typify the future Of the Southern States, if
as | suppose to be probable, the Radical ca
bal now ruling Congress- shall graciously
consent to restore them to the Union, to
such Union IS, that revolutionary faction
shall be pleased 10 form by amending the
constitution, or by unconstitutional laws; or
to establish a central power at Washing
ton, to annihilate the authority of the States,
and to leave only shadow of the free gov
eminent enjoyed under the Union as it was
prior to the war; and further, by exile
either compulsory, or by a mockery of pro-
lection through the Freedmen's Bureau.
to bring about voluntary emigration; and
by disfranchisement and other means, bring
the whites of the South under the control
of the black population so efectually as that
they shall have no cause to fear any interup-
ton to their rule of the government as
fashioned by themselves.
The conquest of Ireland after protracted
struggle on the part of the natives, was but
partially completed about the time of the
accession of James the II, to the English
Throne, in 1901; but the native chiefs,
FESTIVE and writhing under their subsection
to a foreign power after quiet submission of
about forty years, having revolted from the
authority of their English masters, we're soon
crushed by the superior numbers and pow
er of England when she in the true spirit
of conquest ruthlessly despoiled the van
pushed chiefs of their large domains by
confscation, the needy peasants were
thrust out to perish, or live as they could
while their forfeited lands were be-
slowed upon their Saxon conquerers. A
few years later the native Irish were in
volved in a civil war, excited and induced
by their devoted attachment to the House
of Stuart and the Roman Catholic religion,
in which they again found themselves van
pushed after a terrible slaughter, followed
by q second spoliation more ruthless and
extensive than the first. 1t was even de-
bated in the English councils sometime af-
forwards, whether it would not be the better
policy to exterminate the aboriginal race,
Just as a similar policy seemed to have been
practically acted upon by tie ruthless myr-
midOns who accompanied the armies of the
United States which overrun the South in
the late war. At that period it was esti-
mated that about twO-thirds of the soil of
Ireland had been wrested from the natives,
by the sword or by forfeitures. England
rather exemplified her true character by
enforcing the old colonial policy of con-
quered nations, the assertion of which recog-
nized no value in colonies, but in monopo-
ly of their trade, and regulating their in
dustry and pursuits to suit the interests of
their families or conquerors. Ireland was
alternately oppressed by trade regulations,
bloody retributions and confscations as Of
ten as that excitable and spirited people
attempted to throw off the yoke of their
Saxon oppressors, which they frequently
did, under a keen sense of i species of out
lawry more grievous than slavery, or Of that
kind that their sensitive natures could not
longer endure under so heartless a system of
tyranny; and the fires which blazed out,
in each successive revolt of this ex-
citable people, were quenched in blood,
in which Dragons teeth were as often
sown, and found their nutriment-
and, in the next generation sprung up
men prepared to renew the eternal conflict.
The English, though holding the native
Irish as "hewers of wood and drawers of
water" by right of conquerors, at length
found out cheaper mode Of governing
Ireland by investing them with some
of the rights and privileges they might
claim as fellow beings; and in 1888, they con-
ceded to them an independent Parliament;
and from that period CLEAN of prosperity
relieved the dark ground of her checkered
fortune Her trade under the measure of
universal freedom which had been granted,
increased rapidly; the products of her soil
with the enterprise of her people, were soon
exhibited in the establishment of manufac-
tories and other Improvements which de-
monstrated what Ireland could have been
under the rule of paternal and enlightened
Government Her progress, however, soon
reused the jealousy of the English. The
restrictions upon the equal rights and priv
ileges of Ireland demanded by the selfish
ness of the English were so great as to cause
much discomfort, and threaten serious dis
turbances in Ireland; but the English
ministry, instead of relaxing these laws,
as prudence and justice dictated, in
huenced by the strong feeling Of OppoSi-
ton in England to any further encourage
ment to Irish competitor, rather increased
them, until stimulated no doubt, 10 some
extent by the new ideas of liberty and the
rights of man, that had control of the pub
lie mind, the last fatal rebellion broke out
in 179S This rebellion like all the others,
was soon crushed by the irresistible power
Of Great Britain; but it had the further re-
suit of enabling the ministers of the King
IN bring ohouf n 1nion between Ireland and