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Show 1\ P P L l'\ IJ I X T 0 P A H T 11 I. lllt'll; and I sr:IJ'l'( •lr saw Ollc, '"hn W ;\S 11()1 in faHll' or a rll t\1\gc o f !~0 ' <' I'IH~.cnt. Tll<'\' arc !~ <'fl<'rall~· ct·colt-s by birth, and alw.tys ktpt in suiJO rdin:t tc p;t ·ttks, "it hnut t lu· ka<.,t ~ h <ICIO\v of a pro bo~hility of ri~in g- to the superior digniti_.s or the cinm.;h, tlJi~ ha~ SOUred th<•i1 lllincls to ~ ucll a degTc·c, that 1 a1n conlidt·nt in ao.;sc nin r,, that they will k:td the van whcucn.: t· the st.llldard of independence is raised ill that c o1111 try. l'olitit s.-It has often bt: c!n a suhjcct of di scussion with politicians, in ''hat lll<llllll' l' a ntoth er country ~ hould treat her distant and pt)\\'crrul c..ulonil's, in order to ret.~in thetll the long ·st in their su bJeCtion; f(u· the hi~tory of alln:1tions and all ag-es, have provt:d that uo COJlllllunity of people !:><.:par.ttcd from anotltc·r by <Ill imn1cnse ocean, C l.'litl!{ tlw11· pnwcr, s trcn~;th, and ind<'pendcncc, will IC· Jllain long· subj c·< t to the mothl'l' country, purdy frolll the ti t:s of r ousallP 11inity and siJni l.11 i1y of hahih, lll 'lllncrs, and rl'lig ion. -· u~ r icty il '->df h.~, in ;~ arisl'n from thc mutu.d "ants, fear~, and ind)l~c.. ility vf the illfancy or 1Hillllll1 in stitlltiOil'i, a Llrg·{! body of that socie ty will I'Cillain no longer ~ uhje n to ,llwtliCI' llr;\Jlch at the im~ mcnse di !it:IP cl' of 1000 lc <~g-t l c s, than until they fe el their matlll·ity, ancl capabi lity of pru1 idin~ for th t il' O\\'ll ''ants and th<'il· own deknc.. e. '1 hLrc.foJ·c ''e lll. t}' draw~~ concl usion than no political course uf condu ct, \1 ha tcvc1· ''i ll ev<'ll tually prcvcnt the Sl'paration; but thrre is a Jine Of' conduct \\ hi r h C 'l'tainly 11l11 Sl retard it in a ~!'Cat measure, and prudence would dictate to the 111othcr country, thl' policy or giving- way, without a stru ~~glc l<> ~Ill event, 1.,\·yolld her po\\ et· to prevent. The t\\O g-rc;.~t exalllples of Eng lish ancl Spa11i sh America, nrc.. bcl'orc our cy<·s. Engla11d g·avc tt'l free libeny to illll'Stle the dictutt:s of our own judgment '' ith rcspcct to u·adc, education, and lllalln(•rs, br '' hirh 111eanb we itH' J'cas<:d ill po\\ er, Jc ., rll ill )~, a11d wc ;.~lth, witlt <.t l'apidity unkncm11 in tl1e <.ltlt lab ol tltt' \1 orld; and at the {i r~t at~ l!n.pt to infl·inge tilt ri ~~ hts which" v Lad ltlt hcrto l'lljoycd, a~sl'ttcd th \ I cl tim wl,iclt natlll'C und the Joe .d t.y of Oltr ~illJ ,tt ion ~~a' c us " l'i·; ltt to ckmancl, and puwd· to clef'vttd. lf <~d Grl': tt Urit.1in yielded to the storm with g't'dCC und cli~nity , sl11· would have secured our g tatitu clc, :mr ic:nt prcjtldice!'l and all'ertions i 11 ht r [IV<H'; on the ( 1ll1t t'. try, by a long· and nrduou ~; rn11f1ict, the murdcr of thousands oi' tJlll' citi.1.cns, the cl c:strllt·tion or the country, the profanation of •llll' altat·s, and the violation of C\ cry rig ht, di' inc and human, she ~mpl :llttccl in the bt·cast or the AtllCI'i t:ath, att :wtip:lthy, approach~ 1ng ncal'ly to hol't'Ol', a de~ire of l'C\' Cn ~~<.: almost hereditary, ami destl'oycd the bonds of brotherhood, which might have sub:,istetl APPENDIX TO P AHT liT. between the two countries, which will take ag-es of just conduct from hct· to the United States to eradicate. Spain pursued a difl'el'ent line of conduct towal'tls hc1· l\Iexican dominions, which were setttcc} hy Emopeans sixty years previous to any part of the Unitell States, ~mel might be termed u conquered kin1~dom, rather thun the settle ment of a savage counu·y. This country she has therefore bo\mcl 11p in all the lig:Hurcs of restrictions, monopolies, prohibitions, se dusions, and superstition; untl has so carefully secluded all light from bursting in on their ignorance, that they have vc~ctatcd like the acom in the forest, until the towering branches have broke th1·ough the darkness of the wild which sul'l'OUIHled th em, and let in the light of heaven. The approximation ol' the United States, \\ ith the g igantic strides of F1·cnch amuition, have be ~an to rouse lip their dormant qualitic:s, and to call into action the powers of th cit· minds, on the subject of their political !:.ituation. An instance of their disposition for independence, has been exhibited in their feeble attempts at a revolution on the 15th January 1624, undc1· the vice royalty of Don Diego Cal'l'cllo U.tlvcs. The insurrection on the 8th of June 1692 ; and 1uore recently in 1797, under the count de G:.dves, '"hen they proclaimed him king or Mexico in the stt·ects or the capital; and 130,000 souls were heard proclaiming, " Long live Galvcs, king of Mexico." ll was then only for him to have 'lui/L'd it, and the kingdom of 1\lexico was lo!:.t to Charles the 4·1h f(H· e,·er. But prefering his loyalty to his umhition, he rode out attendecl by his guanls to the moo, with sword in hand, cryin~ out" Long live his Catholic majesty Charles the 1th," an(l threatcnin~ to put to instant death with his ownltand, any pct'SOII who refu sed immediately to retire to tltei1· houses. This clispersecl the people. J n anotlter quarter of the kin g·clom, ;1n immense number had also collected and proclaimed him king. Ilc sent 10 ,000 men against them, dispersed them, and had four beheaded. Those fi rm mcasmes saved the cot:ntry at that period, and for which he rcceircd the greatest honors from the court of Spain ; but was poisoned a short time after, full111ing the maxim, " that it is dangerous to serve a jealous tyrant;" for they always conceive that tlte same powet· who still'd the occan'ti rage, can by his will raise the storm into all the majesty of overwhelming fury. Thus by taking- hi., !il'c it relicvcd them from the dreod of his influence witl! the l\1exiCUIIS. Eng·lantl would naturally have been the power they would hare looked up to, in order to form an alliance to sccme their indcpcn< lcnrc; but the insntiable ararice and h"uteur exhil>ited by the ()I') '1 |