Star. — 1830-01-12 (London, England)

COLUMBIA  TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. PART TM-LETTER XV.  POLITICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF COLUMBIA TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1829. Maw Moe, SOW radpdan mediocriz, wet mil• Aire. &am, Oce. 5, lIMP. Si it—Human affairs are so connected, and interwoven, that to estimate truly the present state of the nation, we areoften underthe necessity of recurring to the principles by which it has been swayed, so that we may disoover the causes of the existing order of affairs, and give to them their just value. For this reason, before we attempt to examine into the actual state of Co/cambia, it wiU be expedient to contemplate the different phases of its existence.  Glancing over the most eminent points of her history, the epoch first presents itself when a speculative philosophy occupied the throne of Grenada and Venezuela, and dictated the laws of our society—an eposh, in which the sovereignty of the People, being our political dogma, " ignorance as well as intelligence, the spirit of liberty, as well as the most cruel desFotism—vices, as well as virtues, presided over the march of our infancy." The melancholy consequences followed which might be expected from a like inversion of all the social principles. We thep trace the most glorious career of' the Republic,, until ambition, misery, and extravagant -ideas, reduced the country to such a deplorable condition, that if it had not been for Bor.lVAit, who preserved Columbia at the very confines between death and life, that magical and sacred name would certainly have been effaced; and we, her sons, would have assisted at her funeral rites, covered with parricidal infamy and shame. Scarcely had the Li IL R ATO R heard the national voice that called upon hint to save the Republic ; scarcely had he charged himself with the supreme authority, when he framed regulations for the guidance of his conduct, Dictator without precedent, he expedited the organic Decree of the 27th of August, in which he set limits to his own power, creating a council of state, whose expressed opinion should have the greatest influence in 111 the measures of the chief of the administration. The most important rights of the Columbiana,' were guarani teed in this provisional state of the law, and a convocation of the national representation was promised for the 2d of Jan. 1830, a promise that we hare since seen fulfilled with the most religious exactitude. But the passions never reason ; a month had not passed when the promulgation of the organic decree afforded the LIBERATOR the most victorious answer to those, who accused him of aiming at absolute power, when a crime the moat atrocious, and at the same time the moat absurd, was attempted. Persons who clamoured about morality in all their discourses and writings, proposed a horrible murder ! Individuals, who professed virtue with their lips, by becoming accomplices, manifested how far it was from being in their breasts. Those who valued themselves on being the friends of liberty. and order, proved, by the like project, that they knew of no other means of cementing theni; but by blood and ruins. "'the death of the foundeP Cohuniii, brava planned, and the conspirators were individuals who owie him the greatest gratitude ! The brigade ot artillery.' which was in the capital, being seduced by the chiefs of the plot, the palace of the chief of the nation was converted into a theatre for slaughter ; the parricide dagger all but reached Bette A R ; happily " With his wings The angel of the eoantry covered him, • And his preciovs life was saved." The meritorious URDA ETA, crowned on this occasion his distinguished services to the Republic, placing himself at the head of the betake of Vargas, and of the first Isquadrim of mounted grenadiers, and sustained by other worthy companions, he routed the conspirators, preserved the city from the horrors which threatened,. and snatching the LIBERATOR from his assassins, saved Colombia from infallible destruction. A few days after this horrible scene, the disorganising o:ltraced at °calla began to unfold themselves. A „_0 BAN Do—raised the standard of rebellion in Atria, under the pretext of sustaining the Constitution at Cucuta ; and, successful in the first moment, he occupied Popayax, that he might await there the aid proamied.by the Governor of Peru in support of the innerIndian, and interrupt the direct communication between 'he army of the South and the capital. The loyalty of the inhabitants of Cauca—the vigorous measures taken .111 the instant by the