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ties which should for ever unite the different 

 parts of the Columbian territory (Venezuela, 

 New-Grenada, and Quito), a partial life may 

 be spread by degrees throughout this great po- 

 litical body, not to divide, but augment its 

 vigor. 



The powerful union of North America has 

 long remained insulated, and without touching 

 any states with analogous institutions. Al- 

 though, as we have observed above, the progress 

 she makes in the direction from east to west, is 

 considerably slackened towards the right bank 

 of the Mississipi, she will advance without in- 

 terruption towards the internal provinces of 

 Mexico; and will there find a European peo- 

 ple of another race, other manners, and a differ- 

 ent worship. Will the feeble population of 

 those provinces, belonging to another dawning 

 federation, resist, or will it be enveloped by the 

 torrent of the east, and transformed into an 

 Anglo-American state, like the inhabitants of 

 Lower-Louisiana? The future will soon solve 

 this problem. On the other hand, Mexico is 

 separated from Columbia only by Guatimala, a 

 country of extreme fertility, and which has re- 

 cently assumed the denomination of the repub- 

 lic of Central America. The political divisions 

 between Oaxaca and Chiapa, Costa Rica and 

 Veragua, are not founded either on the natural 

 limits, or the manners and languages of the 



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