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1.-THE UNITED STATES IN SOUTH
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IF from the New York World. Ilth ;. D- s.
IL The correspondence laid before con-
Igress yesterday by the secretary OF
Estate brings the true position OF tho
1United States in South Auerira'
Jlsharply and clearly before the coun.
Itry. The exhibition ls not fla;terimx
to our national pride. Much allow
ance must be made, of course. for the
unfortunate circumstances lit which
1 Mr.. Prescott was despatched on his
mysterious mission; and IL is not SUI
|prising that the Chilian authorities,
having been educated by Mr. Blaine's
| jdiscreditable conduct into believing.
that they need only offer a braz,u
front 10 the United States to carry
any point they might choose to make,
should have fancied themselves nj
liberty to use Mr.. 'Trescot Az sort of
diplomatic courier to fetch aud carry
outrageous aud impracticable prop,
sitiOns between themselves aud tho
cOnstitutiOnal government OF Peru.
But the spectacle which England now
presents III Egypt is not OF sort to
fascinate the imagination of the
| American people. We have not vet
Learned to enjoy being made ridicu-
lous as q nation. norris the PASSION for,
humble pie much developed IN this
country. 1t was opeu to the United
States at the outbreak of hostilities
in 1879 between Chilli and Peru to alb
stain from interference with the con-
hict in any form whatever. That
might. not have been largo ami
| statesmanlike policy, but il would at
least have been ali intelligible policy,
aud it might have been pursued with
out exposing the United States to the
reproach OF bad taiIh or to the suspi-
Mon of pusillanlmlty, both OF which
have been invited by the course OF
Mr.. Blame. As the South American
states On the Pacific. thanks to our
seuseless tariff, are much more closely
CONNECTED by ties with Europe than
win this couOtry.we might:have left
| the great European powsrs free to in.
terfere In tue iuerests Of peace, at the
price, however, Of Ofabaudoning all our
own pretensions to political weight
aud influence in South America.
Lifts we did not elect TO do. On the
! contrary before The : war actually
began certain representatives of the !,
United States in Chifi and Peru did
their best to get this government in.
volved in the matter, aud when EUg.
land aud France invited the American
government to unite with them in
putting u stop to hostilities which
were threatening the soivency ofiheir
South American debtors aud serious.
ly disturbing the commerce. of man
kind. We lOftily babe them stand
back and announced that the United
States would see justice done and
peace. re- established IN due time. Two
years have since elapsed. During
that time two great opportunities
have been offered to this country for
vindicatiDg the position we have ar.
trogated to ourselves. One of these
opportunities, was deliberately thrown
u -
| away at the conference held on board
OF the United States man-of-war Lack
lawaina off africa by Mr.. Osborne, then
'he otHted States munster in Chit,
who' lhsa manner which extorted an
iiiu's snaht though barren rebukg
even from that most long suffering OF
secretaries of state. Mr.. Evafts, alb.
soiutely refused for the UniLed States
| Tue p9sllloh OF an arbitrator which il
was Tue uuty OF the Uailod States
aimost 10 have Insisted on assuming.
Ihe Other OF these opportunities was
wretchedly trIhed with for motives
not Yet perhaps fully uncovered) by.
| MIR. Blame III August aud Sepleni.
Der, 1881. when, with the full assent
| OF the Chilians and by the act of a
legal majority Of the legal represent.
atIves OF Peru, q constitutional gov.
ernment had been formed in Peru by
President CalderOn, and the ChiliaI,
authorities were ready to treat with
the United States government rs to
the preiilninaries of AL honorable
peace with Peru on the basis OF an
adequate war Indemnity. This ia
abundamtly shown by the s;mple fac,
that after all these montns Mr. Tres-
cot now reappears in. the Uni,ed
States 10 tell US that he has been eu-
deavOring, at the request OF the Chill
ians. to find out whether Admiral
Montero, the representative oil Presi-
dent Calderon, could not be argued
into consentiug To accept on certain
terms recognition by Chill" In
other words, all the advantages of
position won for the United States In
August and September last by Gem.
eral Hurlburt were sacrificed. Chill
was reduced into perpetraliny q silly
and scandalous outrage ON .interna.
tional rights in the seizure ofPresi.
dent Calderun. and the resources of
the west coast have been wasted for
months only that an American specia All
envoy NAV be entrea,et nv ChiI; in
May. 1882, to try and nut ti,iuvs hack
AS nearly as possible where they were
in August, 1881 or course n ia
quite piain, aud Mr.. Trescot descrvas
credit. tor putting il plainly to the
department OF state. that ihis 10 an
absurd and discre.iitabla .,a,a -,
affairs and thai i, can,iot loo, Ch;,;
Peru and Bnlivis amnna ,,..,, oi,
many hundred millions IF d,.iIars ~" "1
public debts 10 EnxIish. French snd
German subjects. The comn,a,,,.i
interests of England France err,
Holland, Italy. in Chill ami T., .rm az,
very considerable. If Perm :. s,.,
tered and demoralize,i bv tho .aro...