Indiana Republican, Volume 1, Number 30, Madison, Jefferson County, 19 July 1817 — Page 1

"WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY."

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;ashington City, june 10 THE PROVINCIAL CONTEST. I continue our translations M. de Pradt, I general impulse which the independence has given to ica, has created a sensibility U. States, in such a manis to require precautionary

ires on the part or opain. V thing there conspires to ?ote this independence ; poli

suggestions, munitions of Voluntary enlistments : the j of the U. States direct ,r course towards Mexico, and !'Tf vessels hasten to all the i thrown open by the indeint party. How long will State of things last, without ucing an open rupture ? And at case, how will Spain profor the additional expenditwhich such a rupture would ion ? This intervention of 'J. States would put an end contest so inhuman & which Jurious to all the world, and .cularly so to Spain. Every jfish soldier slain is a consumer 11 away from that country ; V town burnt is a subtraction the opulence of Cadiz, bejeit is a dimunition of the deid for commodities whichthat n would make upon that city. Ijust as if the king of France to ruin Lyons, to burn iviers and Sedan. In the eyes the Spanish government, it iild seem as if the sole object e the sovereignty and excluf ownership of the colonies ; ercas, on the contrary, there

JhmcnA nrr;nm in which- Soanish America, which is of in-

commercial relations are more finitely grearter extent than the productive than the jurisdiction U. States, contains also a numeof the soil, as has been proved in rical superiority of inhabitants, the case "of England, when shelost When it is known that a few America, of which she subsequent have sufficed to form in Mexico, ly enjoyed the profits without ha- towns containing 24 thousand vine to pay the expence of pro- souls, such as Guanaxuatoa, wc tection. may readily conceive to what a

If Spain is unable to conquer height of population tnat pari 01 America, if she hasno interest in the world is destined. Spam is achieving'that event, as we shall not susceptible of such an increase: prove, neither can she derive any he can never arrive at twenty, benefit by preserving it after such 30, forty, fifty millions of souls ; conquest. ' in a word, to a population u In following the principles which it is impossible to fix drawn from the comparison of bounds. The colonies commencepopulation of the mother ced with an inferiority to the mocountry and the colonies, &from ther country ; they went to an ethe nature and effects of an ex- quality; and will soon have exclusive commerce, one. is led to ceeded her. And, in this condibelieve that the re-conquest of A- tion, how will Spam contend with merica by Spain would be merely these colonies ? If her infenontransitory, and that, at a period ty is now so marked, what wiU more or less remote, she would it be when that of the colonies has find herself in a situation, with grown still more dense ? If Inrespect to that country, similar to dia reckoned halt as many En. that in which she is placed at this, glishmen as Ameuca does Spam, day; that to a second conquest she ards, she would be free. The would have to add a third to a Spaniards of America are not the third a fourth, until the parent Indians, governed by a handful of country have to yield. This will Englishmen : they are no more be the inevitable result of such the subjects of the Casciques or reiterated collisions, of the Incas, than they arc noviThe America of our times will ces in the arts of Europe- The be the America of 100, of 200, Spaniards of America are like all of 300 years to come, as the A- the other Spaniards of Europe, & merica of the times in the first enjoy, more than the latter, the conquest is the America of this means of defending their liberperiod. It is the progress of pop- ties, both internal arid external, ulation that produces the effect. What does it signify to three The Spaniards, in a small number, fourths of the soldiers of Morillo, established themselves in America whether America is free or not ? and, in about three centuries, If a moment they consulted their they amounted to several milli- own hearts, they would lay down ons of inhabitants ; they add to their arms to those they were sent their natural pupulation new em- to fight. Their chiefs, and those igrants, who, in turn, multiply who employ them, doubtless have throughout all the branches of the an interest contrary to this hbercolonial population ; they mix ty : but what can they do ? On with the natives and after a very the other hand, there is not an short time they surpass the popu- American who does not feel the lation of the mother country,rmt- importance, and take a warm inwithstanding ail the obstructions terest in his own cause. We have which are interposed by the dis- seen the same thing m the revoeases of the climate, and the want lutionary war with the U. States, of suitable remedies : their num- The English were not slow to ber at length approaches to nearly discover that they had to do with twenty millions of souls. What men like themselves, who, by mwill it be, therefore, in future, habiting the new world, were not setting out from the point of pop- less informed than they were of ulation which exists at present, the old ; and, in proportion a familiarized with the qualities of the conflict was prolonged, the the soil which they inhabit, and people of the U. States were conenioying the advantages which firmed in their resolutions; whilst promote the growth of popula- in England public opinion was estion ? In the same period of tranged from the quarrel, & the time, Spanish America ought to arms of the troops hired to supincrease in numbers more rapidly port it languished m a war or than the U. Sates, because she has which they could distinctly per. seas more extensive and less dan- ceive neither the intention nor the serous : to larger rivers & ports, object. The degree of interest more numerous, she unites lands which each party feels willdeterof greater fertility and abundant mine the degree of exertion which means of subsistence, which' are each will employ in order to enthe great regulators of population. 6Vre -success.

Spain, then, will be evidently too feeble to preserve America after a second conquest : she will be so much the less able to do it, inas much as she will find in the colonies dispositions always tending towardr the same independence which she would stifle. The leading incitements will be:1 1. The recollection of the past: 2. The system of exclusive commerce : 3. The example and proximity of Brazil and of the United States. When the ideas of liberty and independence have never been presented to the mirds of a people, when they have followed the " course of the things traced by the habitude of obedience, to regulations established with the succession of times, an easy submission, which is always the result of habit, characterises their ordinary state, and may be continued with out much effort ; but when a great commotion has given to their minds a different direction, and has turned them from that which they have been used to follow, when the change involes the most lively and the most powerful interests, how will you prevent these same minds from recollecting past grievances, from regretting their ruined condition, or induce them to desire the re establishment of the old order of thing ? They will make comparisons. Thus, England had possessed North America, without having experienced any resistance on the part of the vast colony ; she had also received from it great proofs of fidelity, and effective services, in her wars against France in 1740 and 1756, and in a very few years afterwards she found the colonies in a temper breathing nothing but liberty, & demanding it arms in hand. Supposing that England had prevailed, the conflict would not have been ended, it would only have been adjourned : that which had been born, would have been born again. It will be the same with Spanish America if contrary to everv reasonable expectation

1 Spain should succeed in a first encounter. From the nature of things, will not America be led to renew the attempt on every occasion which may present itself? Above all, for the large colonics, liberty is so great a good, so palpable an advantage, tint they will not cease to strive for it whenever they see a chance. The exclusive system of com It was the levies made in the English colonies that took Louisbourg and the Havanna. Note of the author