The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-29
CHILL AND PERU.

resident of Belvidcre, in this state, imagined
good thing tor him IN appointing him t. S
minister TO Peru, but when he tried TO reach
the capital Of that nation he probably changed
his mind, for he found that, through war with
the wicked Chilians, the "Republic of Peru"
had been substantially wiped out, and Mr.
lIurlbut, as minister, &c, was without occupa-
ton. Yet it won't do to say that from motives
of selfshness, but doubtless from the higher
motives of humanity and abstract right 1t
must have been, that Mr. Hurlbut, not as min.
lister, but as an enlightened American gentle.
man, felt himself called upon earnestly to pro.
test against the course Chill was pursuing,
and in forcibe letter to Admiral Lynch, Chill,
ian Commander at Callao, he called "hands
Off" in the name of the United States and of
humanity He reminded the Chilians that IN
the contest by gallant victories they had gam,
ed all the gorles possible; and that now, IN
the hours of victory, they could afford to be
magnanimous.
Senior Lynch didn't seem to be greatly I'M
pressed by the lmpassloned protest, but pro.
ceeded quietly to suppress the Calderon gov,
eminent of Peru, IN behalf of which Mr.. Hurl-
but was pleading, and then animated to the
latter that the government of Chilli was now
ready to discuss with the government of Amer
lca 1.-THE propriety of putting an end to the
Peruvian government whose sole purpose of
onar,nI u, bn hn lott ,cs
ious money, and whose sole hope of support
seemed to rest on the interference in their be.
half of the ministers of that country IN which
the counterfciung was done" AS Senior Lynch
mad himself just put an end to the only sem
blance of a Peruvian government which Mr..
IIurlbut had been able to discover, the pre-
sumption IS that it was the propriety of put
ting an end to the Peruvian autonomy which
the government of Chill was ready to discuss
with the government of America. The words
have the tone of a challenge from the govern.
ment of Chill-or, at least, from Senior Lynch,
its military representative In Peru-to the gov
eminent of America for settlement Of their
divided views respecting Peru in the interna
tional tribunal of last resort.
The response of Mr.. Hurlbuthas portentous
significance. Laying aside the costume of the
gentleman from Illinois, and putting on that
Of the American minister to Peru, he addressed
to Senior Lynch, Commander.ln.C Chief of the
Gillian army of occupation IN Peru, motif.
cation, formal and official" that the Ameri.
can government "yiews with marked disfavor
the Chllian ideas of territorial conquest on the
western coast" This, then is the situation.
Peru, PROSTATE, helpless, without govern.
ment its constitution overturned by lawless
desperate, lies at the feet of foreign invader,
who will not permit the establishment of
civil government but upon the condition Of a
dismemberment of the state. Upon what
ground of national interest or of international
right America may interfere to prevent the
threatened Acknowledgement Of this Poland OF
South America is not here in question. The
notification has been given that the American
cabinet views the CHILEAN scheme to dismem.
Der Peru with marked disfavor viii the Chill
ian government give to the notification re-
spectiul consideration? If the CHILEAN govern.
mcnt shall not but shall persist IN a program
which seems to plainly contemplate destruc
ton ofPcruvian autonomy, Will the American
cabinet recedc from the views it has made
known
Perhaps the appearance Of number OF
American wsrships in the port of Callao, men,
ton of which has appeared in INSTRUMENTATION
from the South Pacific, may suggest to the
Gillian authorities the possible, lfnot the prob
able, answer to such question.