The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-06

from the Republics Of Central and South
America. It is not that so many people are
killed in the chronic revolutions which ag!.
tate those States that people are discouraged.
There seems to be no prospect of that per-
maneut peace by which alone the naturally
productive countries of the Spanish Main
can flourish.
ANY persons who imagine that the States
of Central and South America have entered
| upon more peaceful era are likely to be un-
deceived By the reports which we publish to-
dav. The instruction in Venezuela is as
serious as it ever was; the one III Peru at.
| tanned such proportions that the Govern
ment vas obliged to exert itself TO an eX.
traordinary degree before anything like q
decided advantage could be obtained. The
new instruction in Costa Rica is eqpaled in
its disregard of established rights by the in
vasion which the Government troops made
into the territory Of Nicaragua. 1t will be
only in very distant future that ne can
hope for any Improvement in this unsettled
state of affairs. .
The above paragraphs from contemporary
newspapers afford themes for reflection.
When Spain got possession of the South
American States and established her power
over them, the means Of transportation were
inefficient, and she could not make herself
strong by colonizng many Of her people in
South America. She maintained her govern.
mcnts with military power alone, and when
her troubles increased, and her military and
naval forces were shorn of taeir strength, the
natives and the considerable hybrid popula-
tions easily threw off her yoke. -
Thus were left to govern themselves a
population poorly suited to such condition.
The want of order and stability naturally
followed, and the constant succession of lit
tie partisan wars and revolutions has not
been surprising. The inferior. races have
the power of numbers, and the politicians
and little generals are ever making them the
instruments of their plans for getting pos
session Of the Government and plunderng
the public revenues.
There can be no peace and Well.ordered
industry in lands Inhabited by such motley
populations, or where such populations are
the governing power. The Indians, negroes,
and by brids hold the power, and are not tit TO
exercise it. They are neither industrious ncr
orderly, nor are they capable Of administra-
ton to the end of maintaining dignified or
even decent and comfortable social order.
With these examples before us, the Radi-
cal Government of this country has in
fused into the voting and governing
population large population of an essen
tialy barbarous race. Could the Govern
ment have imagined it possible that the pub.
lie order and the general thrift and content
ment would be promoted by such an addi.
ton 10 the governing element? Could ii
have been supposed by the Government that
the force, and peace, and dignity of the coun-
try would be improved by it BY no means.
The act was prompted by sordid motives,
with reckless disregard for the nation, and
in the very face OF examples SO abundant.
What are the consequences {? The Repub.
Iican parry bave revolutionized once happy
land and spread distress over the Union.
The blow which converted ten Of the richest,
and hsppiest, and most refined States in this
Union into the abodes of trouble, discord,
and decay has reacted upon the whole coun.
try, and there is at this time general pros.
tration Of business and widespread dis.
content and want that have never before
been equaled in this country.
Even now States arc being robbed by
scoundrelly Governments, and the Federal
arms are employed in saddiDs upon an intel
ligent and refined people knaves and thieves
who have brought ruin upon them.
Is this what government was instituted by
our forefathcrs for? Behold, people of the
Union, the sad condition to " hicb you have
been reduced by the worst party that ever
lived.
Behold the cause: the attempt to force
equality and even fraternity between two
races as distinct as the colors which mark
them-as in South America the comminglng
of races has done the worst for society. II the
nation does not throw off the great evil
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