Every European can perceive means which would rescue these unfortunate beings from inevitable destruction.

They alone are insensible to the expedient; they feel the woe which year after year heaps upon their heads, but they will perish to a man without accepting the remedy.

It would be necessary to employ force to induce them to submit to the protection and the constraint of civilization.
The incessant revolutions which have convulsed the South American provinces for the last quarter of a century have frequently been adverted to with astonishment, and expectations have been expressed that those nations would speedily return to their natural state.

But can it be affirmed that the turmoil of revolution is not actually the most natural state of the South American Spaniards at the present time?
In that country society is plunged into difficulties from which all its efforts are insufficient to rescue it.

The inhabitants of that fair portion of the Western Hemisphere seem obstinately bent on pursuing the work of inward havoc.