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argument applies to New Andalusia or Guiaua, Licii are 
governed by intendants named by tbe president. It may 
be said that these provinces have hitherto been ui a position 
diflering but little from those territories ot the United 
States which have a population below 60,000 souls. Pecu- 
liar circumstances, which cannot be justly appreei.ated at 
such a distance, have doubtless rendered great centraliza- 
tion necessary in the civil administration; every change 
would be dangerous as long as the state has external 
enemies ; but the forms useful for defence, are not alwavs 
those which, after the struggle, sufficiently favour individual 
liberty, and the development of public prosperity. 
The powerful union of North America has long been 
insulated, and without contact with any states haviiio- 
analogous institutions. Although the progress America is 
making from east to west, is considerably retarded near the 
nght bank of the Mississippi, she will advance without 
interruption towards the internal provinces of Mexico, and 
will there find a European people of another race ’other 
manners, and a different religious faith. AVill the feeble 
population of those provinces, belonging to another dawnin'^ 
federation, resist; or wdU it be absorbed by the torrent from 
the east and transformed into an Anglo-American state, 
like the inhabitants of Lower Louisiana P The future will 
soon solve this problem. On the other hand, Mexico U 
separated from Columbia only by Guatemala, a countin' 
and extreme fertility, which has recently assumed the 
denomination of the republic of Central' America. The 
political divisions between Oaxaca and Chiapa, Costa Eica 
and Veragua, are not founded either on the natural limits, 
or the manners and languages of the natives, but solely on 
the habit of dependence on the Spanish chiefs who resided 
at Mexico, Guatemala, or Santa Pe de Bogota. It seems 
natural that Guatemala should one day join the isthmuses of 
Verapa and Panama to the isthmus of Costa Eica; and 
that Quito should connect Grenada with Peru, as La 
Paz, Chaicas, and Potosi link Peru with Buenos- Ayres. 
The intermediate parts from Chiapa to the CordUler^ of 
Upper Peru, form a passage from one political association 
to another, like those transitory forms which link together 
the various groups of the organic kingdom in nature. In 
