The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-14
NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY MAY a. 1ss7-rRIPLE SHEET

AMA IL, 1COes AlSA1 LEY
struction laws as another is to write in theil
favor. One stump speaker has just a. much
right to criticise the acts Of Congress and to
isud the used-up chivalry to the skies a.
another has to uphold the Congressional
policy and ridicule the Southern braves But
no State o6dcer Is entitled to use his position to
interfere with or embarrass the operation Of Q
United States Law, nor has any man, office
holder or private citizen right to incite riot
or disturb the public peace. General Scho6eld
did wrong and exceeded his duty when he pro-
hlbited that literary Bohemian Pollard from
delivering stupid lecture in Richmond but
ne did right in arresting white instigator Of .
riot in that city. The former act interfered
with the constitutional right Of free speech /;
the latter prevented breach Of the peace and
punished violation Of the law.
MR.. Seward's Diplsaacy In South America.
On the I'd June, 1866, Mr.. Seward wrote to
our Minister in Chile . letter upon the policy
Of the United States relative 70 the South
American republica In this he strongly i'm
pressed the idea "that the republican system,
which Is accepted BY the people in any one Of
snose States. shah hot be wantoniy assailed !;
and that 1t shall not be subverted Is an end of
. lawful war by European Powers.n This
was the enunciation of one Of those redeeming
ideas that has occasionally struggled upwards
through the misty foreign correspondence Of
our Premier before declining years and failing
vigor determined him to retire from the active
duties Of his profession.
Having induced the republican South Ameri-
can States to believe that we would aid them
morally in their efforts at defence against
foreign aggression, he has now left them to
work out the problem alone. With the faintest
imaginable trace of trust in our fair promises
they are upon the point Of effecting the long
pending nnion of the republics without refer
ence to our good Secretary, who may thus
lose much Of that foreign fame for ability to
which he has, Of late years, reduced his am
bition.
The news from Colombia Is TO the eneet that
Mosquera is upon the point of concluding a
Treaty ofalliance between that confederacy and
the other South American republics, to resist
the aggressive action of Spain, who appears
determined never to give up the idea that she
has not been shorn of nearly all Of her colo
NAL possessions in the New World. That
Chile has interested other of her sister repub-
lies besides Peru in her struggle, is somewhat
confirmed blythe case OF the fast steam priva-
teer Rayo, which, according to our special cor
respondeucs, has, in the port Of Santa Martha,
just been placed hors de combat by the Spanish
frigste Navss de- Tolosa. from fear that she was
intended fer an onslaught upon Spanish COM
merca.
We're the States bordering the Caribbean
Sea to take an active part in the struggle
against Spain, they might close up every port
in Cuba, and, in fact, BY proper mana cement,
throw such large body Of troops upon the
coast Of that island IS would kindle the revo-
luionary elements into such rude action that
the Spanish crown would find its brightest gem
lost and republicanizsd Spain might then
retire to her she'll and undertake the labors Of
new birth. after the fashion OF her Latin sister,
Italy. II Mr.. Seward will now make heroic
effort to be consistent, and urge this TO its
consummation, we may see the Pacific and
Caribbean republics banded and Cuba revola-
tionixed and knocking for admission to the
glories Of the great republic before two years
have passed.