The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-05

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biaa Qaestiea.
The dictatorship Of Mosquera has been as
suddenly overturned a. II was inaugurated.
His plans, born In Europe In 1852, have sud-
denly terminated 10 manner little expected
by Earl Clarendon and Louis Napoleon when
they gave them their inception, and made
Mosquera the tool to enforce them. General
Santos Acosta, second designado. has, In
absence Of the first designado in Europe,
struck sad blow at all the cherished hopes Of
France, Spain and England, In Colombia and
its province of Panama This overturning Of
Mosquera Is blind stroke Of the goddess For
tune in our favor; for, II she did not OCCASION
ally aid Us in our Spanish-American affairs our
Secretary of State would soon ruin us In that
direction.
The Mosquera plans date far back. In 1862
he was in Europe, and returned home to CO.
lombia filled with many Utopian ideas of what
the monarchioal Powers Of Europe proposed
to do TO assist Colombia in resisting the aggres-
sive tendencies Of the Colossus Of the North.
He, harping on his acknowledged relationship
with the Empress Eugene, was petted by
royalty; and Louis Napoleon. Clarendon and
Isabella II. found him ready tool. The lat
ter wrote to him July I, l852:-"Should you
determine to become an absolute monarchist,
Gas appears clearly to be your inclination),
you can rely upon being rewarded according
to the services you may be willing to render
us in America" The scheme was Matched at
that time by France and England to control
Panama, and make that all-important transit
of the worlds commerce the boundary line Of
United States extension, providing subsequent
events gave no possibility of oonfning us to
the line of the Rio Grande or splitting US into
contesting fragments. Following all these
finely traced theories came the Intervention of
the three Powers above mentioned in Mexico;
and the Colombian project became second
airy barrier, to be used in case of the failure of
the pet Mexican scheme. The whole animat-
ing force Of European policy with reference To
the United States and the Spanish-American
States was duly developed in Napoleon's letter
of instructions to General Forey. July 8, 1862.
Said he, ave have an interest in the republic
of the United States being powerful and pros
porous; but not that she should take possession
of the whole of the Gulf Of Mexico, thence
command the Antilles as we'll as South Amer
ioa and be the only dispenser of the products
of the New World"
We have seen the royal efforts against us fail
In Mexico by the tragic end Of their too ready
tool furnished by the retrograde House Of
Hapsburg On the same day the news was
published, by the HERALD alone, of the present
failure of the allied Powers to or ect barrier
against American influence at Panama and in
Colombia. But the last Colombian effort was
undertaken when the bayonets Of twenty-five
thousand American troops on the Rio Grande
reflected the western sunlight upon the French
throne. Mosquera was then In Europe and
In 1864 and 1865 consultation for new clog
upon American progress took place. Napo-
Ieonic and English influence perfe cted the plot.
Robinson, Fleming 4 Co., with other European
bankers, furnished the means for the usurpation
Of the Colombian government by Mosquera,
who, from the confscation Of Colombian Church
property, agreed to pay one hundred thousand
dollars per month to liquidate the debt Yes
sells were contracted for on the Continent, and
the R. R. Cuyler, which was bought in the
United States on Mosquers's private account
was delivered, well armed. at q port of New
Granada. The plans Of Mosquera were backed
by his European allies but In weak moment
he revealed them. Among other things he
said, in October, 1866, " 1t would not be impos-
sible to obtain the support of Europe for the
re-establishment and the consolidation of
Colombian unity" "Colombis would
become the barrier sought for by the world
against the United States-the strong inter-
mediate Power between them on the one hand
and Brazil on the other" The publication Of
these words by the New YORK HERALD drew
the attention of the Colombian Congress, who
charged Mosquers with plot to overthrow
the government They demanded what bis
war purchases in Europe and the United States
meant and finally forced q rupture which
resulted in his seizure Of dictatorial power, of
which he has now been deprived by being
made prisoner, thanks 10 the progressive senti-
ment Of the people Of Colombia. They have,
true TO the instincts of Spanish America, deter
mined to cut sloof from the European Powers
who appear to have leagued themselves against
the progress Of the Western World. They have
good reason to be jealous of European inter-
ference; for they have seen 1t result in more
curses than blessings and nine-tenths of all
the civil wars of those countries which we con-
denim have been caused by the foreign machi.
nations Of the civilized Powers which We hold
up to the Spanish American States as examples
Of national elevation which they should initiate.
Mexico has taught Europe Q memorable
lesson, for which the whole Of Spanish America
will bless her. Colombia should be urged by
the United States, and aided, II need be, to say
to Europe, Hands OIL We have q great future