Phenix Gazette

POLITICS OF THE TWO AMERICAS.

[From the National Gazette.]

The official Gazette of Bogota, of the 27th February, contains an article (which is ascribed to the Colombian Secretary of Foreign Affairs) on the intended Amphictyonic Congress at Panama, which we mentioned yesterday. The objects of this Congress are affirmed to be twofold-some affecting belligerents exclusively, and others common to belligerents and neutrals. They are thus stated:

Objects for the belligerents exclusively.

1. To form, or renovate in the most solemn manner, the perpetual close league between all the new American states against Spain. 2. To issue a manifesto on the justice of their cause. and their system of policy towards the other Powers of Christendom. 3. To enter into a Convention of Navigation and Commerce between them all as allies and confederates. 4 To decide. with respect to the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, whether all should combine in liberating them from the Spanish yoke; and, in such case, what military and pecuniary contingent each should furnish. 5. To take measures for carrying the war in concert to the seas and coasts of Spain. 6. To determine whether those measures should be extended to the Canary and Philippine isles.

Objects common to belligerents and neutrals.

1. To take into consideration the means of rendering effectual the declarations of the President of the United States concerning any future designs of colonization on this continent, and of resisting every attempt at interference in our domestic concerns. 2. To settle, in concert, disputed principles of the law of nations, and chiefly those which operate between belligerents and neutrals, and agree upon the footing upon which ought to be placed the political and commercial relations of those countries of our hemisphere which either were, like Hayti, or should be, separated from the mother country, without having been recognized by any European or American Power.

The writer of the Bogota article thinks that the United States, and the other American Powers similarly circumstanced, will not refuse to depute representatives to the Panama Congress, in order to deliberate and act as to the latter series of objects.

We shall not undertake to say what ought to be the decision of our government on this point, but we are sure there are weighty obstacles to compliance, and we are, moreover, free to confess, that we do not consider the new American States as quite ripe for the arrangements in question. It would be easier to co-operate with the Congress, if no special belligerent ends were in view.