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THE STAB And North-Carolifia State Gazette. So. 13. RALEIGH, (N. C.) Fill DAY, 31ARGH 29, 1822. Vol. XIII. FUBLItHED WREKLY, Jtr THOMAS HB.VDERSOX. fabteriptioot thra dollar per iihid No paper "ill ke tent without at lewt R SO ecnli it paid in adranae, and tio paper dUaootiaoed, only at the option of ibe Editor, onle all arrearage are paid. Adrei-tiaeraenta, not e eeeding tweWe Km, iaaerted three timet fur oee dollar, i.d leotT-IW anu for each eoalinaanee. CONGRESS. KfcPOUT On the recognition of the late Spanish Provinces in America. noun or atriiszsT&TiTis, unci 19, 1192. The committee on Foreign Affairs, to which were referred the menage of the President, con cerning the recognition of the Ute Spanish ro viDcei iu America, and the documents therewith cooiuiuoicated, having examined the same with the roost profound attention, unanimously re- tw provinces rj.'n wrttfr Ibe political rirht of this nation to acknow ledge their independence, without oQ'endiog u theri, does no.t depend on its justice, but ou ita actual establishment. To ju.tily such a recog nition, bj os, it is uecessary only to shew, a is already sufficiently shewn, that the people of Spanish America are, within their respective limits, exclusively sovereign; and thus, in fact, independent. With tkem, as with every other government possessing and exercising the pow er of making war, the United States, in com mon with all nations, have the right of concert ing the terms of mutual peace and intercourse. IVhoit the rightful sovereign of a country, is not an inquiry permitted to foreign nations, to whom it is competent only to treat with " the powers that be. ' There is no diflerence in opinion, on this point, anions the writers on nublic law : anil no diversity, wit'u respect to it, the practice of U. S. miy now think proper to adopt in relation to the successful party in that war It surely cannot be reasonably apprehended, that nations who hsve thu-i been the tranquil opettatorshe apparent well-wishers, if not tliu t rhcient aupprt. er, of this party 5 and who have not made the faintest attempt to arrest its progress, or to pre vent its success, should Le disnlr.-i.pil wltkt thir.l power, for merely recogui.iug the government wnicn, owing to that success, have thus been vir tually permuted, or impliedly approted, in ac quiring the undisputed and exclusive control of the countries in which they are rUbluhed. It is, therefore, 011 the consist ucy, as well as on the '.istice, of these nations of Europe, that we may confidently rely, that the simple recognition, on the. part of the United States, ol the necessary effect of what has already been done, will not be considered as a iust cause of comnlaint ao-umtt them 1 white the interested fc immediate scents, civilized nations. It is not necessary: iWrtv tJwhe hv ren dirortu .! a;-i i. -..a ; coloniei, or threatened with subjugihon. but are actually recognized as brothers io the great constitutional and free lainily of Spain. A report made to the Cortes, on the 54th ot June, 1821, by a committee appointed oy that body, not only manifestly corroborate the poli cy above stated, but sufficiently intimates that the rectgnitio& of the independence ot Spanish America by Spain herself, bad nearly been tho m. II. . . i.raouie i euuiiiiiieouru oy mat committee, To leport avers, that "tranquillity is not suf ficient, even if it should extend throughout A merica with a prospect of permanency : No ! it falls short of the wishes of the friends of hu- In speaking of the measure demanded by the crisis, u kays, that this measure was not only warmly approved by the committee, but, atfirstt entirely assented to hu th tlltatlaWfi US till it had bceo discussed, and 'ailed wily to be pro-
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