Review of reviews and world's work . began in 1818 to side with Spain;but Washington diplomats interfered infavor of the complete emancipation of therevolting colonies, and Lafayette, supportingthis view, declared to his government that any opposition made to the independenceof the New World might afHIct humanity,but could not put that independence in attitude of the United States, supportedby England, turned the diplomatic scales;and at the Congress of Verona (1823) theEnglish prime minister, Canning, declared: The battle has been fierce, but it is won. Thenail is clinched. Spanish
Review of reviews and world's work . began in 1818 to side with Spain;but Washington diplomats interfered infavor of the complete emancipation of therevolting colonies, and Lafayette, supportingthis view, declared to his government that any opposition made to the independenceof the New World might afHIct humanity,but could not put that independence in attitude of the United States, supportedby England, turned the diplomatic scales;and at the Congress of Verona (1823) theEnglish prime minister, Canning, declared: The battle has been fierce, but it is won. Thenail is clinched. Spanish America is free,—Novus seclorum nascitur ordo! The causes of the revolution are not farto seek. Spain and Portugal carried theirfeudal absolutism to their colonies, but couldnot plant there their system of privilegedaristocracy and social inequality. The goodand the bad seed alike fructified by cultiva-tion in a new soil, the natural product beingdemocracy. It was a rebel world that grewup under the auspices of absolutism. Spanish. .STATUE OF SAN MARTIN AT BUENOS AIRES.(The liberator of .\rgentina, Chile, and Peru.) America was regarded as the personal prop-erty of the monarch, by virtue of the Bull ofAlexander VI. Thus the colonies were mere-ly united to the nation by allegiance to acommon sovereign. When the monarch dis-appeared, his power lapsed to his vassals, thelogical and legal result being the separationof the colony from the mother country. Three names stand out prominently In the LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. Ill
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