The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-09

fro,1T vi. day of his death until row, tha
unification idea has sltmbered and slept
in the nations which formed his republic
OF Colombia. It was in fact. supposed
to be dead, and a politician who dared
te advocate the reuniting of the three
countries at any time during the nast
seventy years would have been laughed
at as crazy man. 1t was only The pres.
tige Of Bolivar's name and deeds which
l;ept the public of Colombia together
while he lived, and the three nations
hardly could wait for the death Of the
great iberator to disunite The name. OF
Colombia was hateful to the politicians
of the time, and disappeared from the
maps and from the speech of men. 'Tl!e
country now known as Colombia originally
was known as New GRANADA. 1t resumed
the = Eame UPON the dissolution Of the
EG1,ion, and remained New Granada until
1858. when the name of Colombia was
adopted. This. was an evidence that the
ghost of the old republic has not been
laid !" though no man realized the sig
iIiticance of it at the time; least of all,
probably, those who advocated the rev@r-
sion to the old name.
William +. Scruggs, form SLY minister
to the Colombian and Venezuelan repub-
lies, who made a study of the social and
political conditions of those countries sn1
put the result in the form uf d book val
liable to students Of South American af-
fairs, says OF the unificatioil sentiment
TT required q long series of almost fatal
Experiences to induce New Granda. Ven
ezuela and Ecuador, and che petty prov
inces Or states Of each. ID sufficiently
overcome their prejudices to form 4 fed
eral union. The opposition tn the old
Colombian union was very gsnasal ameng
the leading politicians and dan,agogues
of the provinces in each of these c3in-
tries. Nor was this strange aDtipatiiy
confined to the demagoguss, alone. IT-
telligent and patriotic men who had 9th.
er avocations than Office seeking had a
strange and underlined Gse1d u some
thing which they called consolidated
government. without exlctiy knowing
what that meant and with them, rs with
us, this senseless fear OF .eeiltraiiza sioil.
long continued to be the evil genius of
their political institutions. It was ers;y
through the military prestige and person
al influence of Gen. PoiisI:. that the
union became a possibility.
Having thrown off tn Spanish yoke
and formed the province OF .sew t5rana-
da, Venezuela and Ecuador in,o the i.e-
public of Colombia, Bolivar went with
his Colombia troops TO Pen, wl,ish then
was trying to drive out The Spanish and,
defeating the royalists IN se-aral pitched
battles, put an end to Spanish power ii
that country. aud was made Dictator of
the new nation. He then went to Upper
Peru, a country which mad pean formerly
dependency Of the Span 81 province of
Buenos Ayres, but had .eyo;ted. Tne
people Of this section formed themselves
into q nation, which they named Boz
iIyia. after the liberator. and made Bo1:-
var perpetual president. Bolivar wsa
now at the height OF his power, and Il e
this period OF his career whoa must ap-
peal most strongly to the am5it !c.1 Of
Castro. It IS also the pors,on which
should be most thoroughly studied BY the
ssVenexuelan president. who sesSs to walk
fn the footsteps OF his illas.41oIs prede-
cessor.
Bolivar created: Castro restored, Il
what the newly risen gud Of so,ltfl
American aestinies wants cared ON lis
tomb. and aEl Rest aurad5r uo,,s3 no,
pc q bad title to carry down to poster.
fly.
There IS little doubt that Bolivar aimed
& ct brirEtng Peru ana Bolivia into his