A Sketch of Chili Expressly Prepared for the Use of Emigrants From the United
A Sketch of Chili Expressly Prepared for the Use of Emigrants From the United
Benjamn Vicua Mackenna
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This, gentlemen, is what we shall know when the news arrives, from Europe and the United States in the early days of the coming year, of the effect which the conduct of Admiral Pareja has produced ; and the war between Spain and Chili which, if to-day it be an isolated aggression, will to-morrow be a con- tinental act. But with regard to what you will do on the Isthmus of Panama, this route which to-day is the property of all free and enlightened nations, but which to-morrow may possibly be als...o the momentary property of invading rulers, we need not await news from anv part. Will you consent, all the ports in the Pacific once closed, as I deeply hope they soon will be, to the Spanish squad- ron, that their public or private emmisaries should take from this Isthmus a single naval supply, a single grain of powder, a single grain! of wheat, a single grain of sand ? (Unanimous cries of No ! No !) And if to sustain these noble intentions you should have to fight among your picturesque mountains, in the wild defiles of your grand railway, against a bold invader, I am sure of this, you will not fight alone.
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