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Show \Pl'F.NDI~ TO PAICl' IJI. men ; and I scarcely Rnw one, \\ ho wu') not in favor of a d1J11g·c of povcmmc·nt. They arc g·enerally Cl'<..:oles by birth, and always kept in sul>ordirl<He !~J·atles, without the lea st !-ihaclow of a probability of 1 H,in~ tO th<:: superior clig-nitif·S of' the ciJtrrch, this ha<> SO\Il'cd their ll)inds to su<'h a dq~rcc, that I alll confident ill :lS'lerting, that tlwy will k :HI the ,.,til whencYcr the ~tandurd Clf' independence is raised in that COlllllry. Polirics.- It has often been n subject of discussion with politic... iuns, in wh.lt 1nanner a mother country should treat her distant<md powert'1d colonil:'1, in order to retain thcn1 the longest in thcit· subjection; l'ot· the hi~tory of all nations <11)(1 all ages, have provcclthut no community of pee le separated t'rom another by <111 in1mcnst; ocean, feeling tlwn· powe1·, streng-th, ar.d independence, will tcm:.~ in long- subject to the motlwr romnry, JHu·ely from the tics of c0nsanguinity aPd similat iry of habits, manners, and r{·ligion. Sor; r·!y it~elf haYing· arisen from the Hllltll:ll want~, fca1· , and imbecility of the inl~lllcy of hllllHill institutions, a brgc body of that society will remain no lollr~rt· subject to anoth ' t' branrh at the immense distance or I 000 leagues, 1 han lllll il til<'y feel their maturity, and capability of providi11g fot· their own w:mts and th<'il· own dcl'cnc. c. Therefore we mny draw a conclu-.ion than no political course of conduct, whate,·er \\i ll eventually prrvrnt the separation; hut there is a line of conduct which certainly must retard it in a great measure, and prudence would dictate to the mother country, the policy of giving· way, without a struggle to an event, beyond her power to prevent. The two great examples of Eng-lish an cl Spanish Amet·ica, ar·c bdore out· eyes. England g-a\'e us ft·ee liberty to pursue the dictates of out· own judg·mcnt with respect to trade, education, and manners, by which n1ean'i we increased in powet·, Je.H·nin~, a11Ll wealth, with a rapidity unknowu in tile :1nnaJ.., of th<; wol'ld; and at the first at· tempt to inl'ring-c the ri~hts which we had hitherto enjoyed, as~crted that claim which nature :md the locality o[ our silllation gave us a l'ight to demand, and power to dcl'cnd. llad Great Britain yielded to tl1e storm with gr·acc and dignity, ~he would have secured out· ~ratituclc, ancient prejudices and aO'ections in her favor; on the contrary, by a long and arduous conflict, the murder of thousands. of Ollt' citizen~, the destruction of the country, the profanation of our altar&, and the violation of evct·y right, diYine and human, she implanted in the breast of the Amer·icans, a11 antipathy, npproach· ing- neat·Jy to horrot·, a desire of l'C\'Cnge almost hercclital'f,. and c!cstroyecl the bonds of brotherhood, "hich might ha\'C subm•ed APPENDIX TO J> ,\l{T III. 49 bctw<JCn the two conntrirs, which will take ag·es of just condu t from l1cr to the United State;. to eradicate. Spain pu1·s tecl a different line of conduct towards her l\Iexican dominions, which were scttlt·,t by Europeans sixty years previous to any pan of the United St~1tes, and might be tet·med a conquered kingdom, rather than the settlement of a savage country. Thic; country she has therefore bound up in a1l the ligatu1·es or rcstl'ictions, monopolies, prohi bitions, seclusions, and superstition; and has so carefully secluded all lig·h t from bur·sting in on t·heit· ignorance, that they ha, c ve~etated Iil,e the acom in the forest, until the towering bt·anches have brokc through the darkness of the wiJcJ 'which SUITOltndecl them, nnd It t in the light of heaven. The 'IPI'l'Oximntion or the United Stat ,'\, with the gig-antic s! rides of French aml!ition, have bcg·an to rou-;c up their dorruant qtl'llitks, and to call .into action the powers of theit· mind ' , on tile subject of their politic~1 l ~itunt ion. An instance or thci1· dispositioll for independence, has been exhibited iu their fc<.:blc atterupts nt a revolution on the 15th Janunt·y 1624·, under the vice royalty of Don Diego Cal'l'cllo Galves. The insur·1 ection on the 8th of June 1692 ; and more recently in 1797, undct· the count de Galvcs, "hen they proclaimed him king- of Mexico in 'he streets of the capital; and 130,000 souls were heard pi'Ocluiming-, " Long Ji\'e Calves, king of l\Iexico." Il was then ouly for him to ll<~ve 'wilL'd it, and the kingdom of :Mexico was lost to Charles the 4·111 for eve1·. But preferiug- his loyalty to his umbition, he rode out attcndul by his guards to the mob, with swot·d in hand, cr·yin g- out" Long live his Catholic majesty Charles the 4th," and thrc.ttcnitll; to put to instant death with his own hand, any person who refused immctliatcJy to rctit·c to their· houses. This clispei·sed the people. In anoth r quarter of the king·dom, an immense lltllllbcr had also collected and proclaimed him king. lie s nt 10,000 meu against them, dispersed them, and had four· beheaded. Those finn mcasut·cs saved the r.m:ntry at that period, and fot· which he I'Cccivcd the greatest honors from the court of , 'pain ; but was poisoned a short time aftet·, fulfilling the maxim, " that it is dangcrous to SCI've a jealous tyrnnt ;" fo1· they always conceive that the same powe1• who still'd the oce<Hl's rage, cnn by hil:l will raise the storm i.".to. all the majesty of overwhelming fury. Thus by taking- l1i-; hfe 1t relieved them from the dread of his influence with the 1\1 xiC< tns. England would naturalJy have been the power they would have looked up to, in order to form tln alliance to secure their independence; but the insati•tble avarice nnd hauteur exhibited hy tJH• :'2 |
