The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-06-24
For the Union,

ueman already spoken OF in No. g. addressed TO the
editor OF the London Morning Post, and dated the
Bank Higtgate, January Is, lS45," that gen
| tlsman says: ..I.' .., =. ,
"Fabreators Of murders are not 80 dull at inyen-
,ion as to mar the plot for want of a witness. !
have myself had occasion to peruse the depositions
| OF several OF the ocular and hearsay witnesses
brought forward, and crammed for the turn of the
taoias dc sangysJ and in several Of the cases where
their histories could be traced, have found them 60
be convicted felons or forgers il not something
worse or rabd partisans. In various instances OF
murders thus atroeiousy charged against General
| kosas have also read the, protests of the living
victims, 30 ruthlessiy butchered IN print against the
record OF their ASSASSINATION, with courteous invita-
tons TO friends, or whosoeyerit might concern 10
verify personally their state Of health the address
OF ldomlcile gwen, (eae) street and number so-and-
80; That am not singular in my reading which
Indeed, must be common to all parties interested In
the affair OF the river Plate, The following extracts
reproduced from that respectable Partisan journal
La Presse, may probably be accepted as evidence:
\ So Exr.4tE =.
| ''Hsye they pei published, Tor example, that
Rosas was an eHtrnyngsnt tyTaDt, who in a moment
Of caprice, caused himself 10 BE- drawn in a chariot
through' the streets by naked women This fable
distion into our Journals, and even 10 the parame
| tAry tribune, Why would they not also add, a. we
were "a creduious vein, that the representatives of
all the civilized powers who reside at Buenos Ayres
assisted and aPp'sadsd at this spectacle, as the
| Romans did ofthe Bias Empire@ : ...'-- go. H.
| THAT Il may be well known, then, that in those
countries prey TO all the hatreds Of party there
are always TO be found people who arc interested in
spreading flsehood and ealumay, and who spseu-
late upon our ersduli,y, no obsdisot and s.sy, 10
| run down the character Of enemy whom they
cannot yanquish. Then let one well examine the
| effect these absurd stories produce at a distance
| which we accept as true, and which only become
ridiculous on their arrival in the country Of which
| they speak" H.. ..-r.... D..
"The other day the Journal Des Debats, which,
until now, has prudenty abstAined, also took the
maeneonireir part Of entering into the question by
reproducing news the most notoriously false which
has come TO US from the borders Of La Pats--we
speak Of the assassination Of four prisoners Of
| taken from LUCIA yessel by Admiral Brown. The
official Journal Of Buenos Ayres to put their ease
| the families Of those prisoners whose assassination
| had been announced at Monteyideo published their
names, and made known the place Of their detention
where their friends could go and visit them"
Mr. Mallalien then continues
1.-THE abominable Islander here referred to, that
Rosas had promenaded the streets of Buenos Ayres
in a chariot, drawn by naked women was one OF the
impudent fabrications Of the press Of Montevideo;
90 also Of the sailed ears Of one OF her fathers
| victims, figuring on the piano-forte Of Senoia
Rosas, and ostentatously displayed for the grutca
ton Of friends; and so also Of the mandatory Of
whips out OF human skins said TO be carried on in
the house Of General Rosas. These demoniacal
inventions served their turn; half credited at the
time in parts Of Spanish America, they circulated,
| and were accepted IN some European quarters as
truths. The shameful manufacturers Of these bar
barrie monstrosities do not scruple TO sDeer at
the amazing creduIity Of their dupes."
Iii really astonishing that the editor Of Amer
lean review should have admitted into its columns
the atrocious and utterly unfounded caumny in
vented at Montevideo, against the truly amiable and
lovely daughter Of General Rosas, that some Of the
| ornaments Of the drawing-room Of Rosas, which
has been seen again and again by foreigners visiting
at his house, 10 giass-case containing the salted
\ ears Of Colonel Bofda, which were sent by Don
! Masucl 0ribe, to the daughter OF Rosas, Donna
Manuela. A more unfounded and atrocious false
hood never was invented. Ask the late English
minister to this country, and who is still at Wash
ington-ask the Brazilian minister in this city,
| both Of whom have for many years resided at
Buenos Ayr.s-ask those gentlemen whether there
is the slightest foundation of truth in the atrocious
tale, and they will say Nat il is infamous abri
cation by the enemies OF General Rosas at Monte
video. Neither of those gentlemen can or will say
that he has ever the disgusting sight spoken OF
! in the American Review, 'as having been seen again
and again by Foreigners"
have myself conversed with many persons who
| have been at Buenos Ayres, and with one voice they
say that the lovely daugher of General Rosas
the highest cultivation Of the mind, the most angelic
form and features, and whose soul is pure from
| spot blemlsh as the snowy flakes fresh from
heaven before they come in contact with the earth
Was it not sufficient for the American Review to
open Its columns to the atrocious tales invented at
Monevideo against General Rosas, but it must also
| admit shameful attack upon one Of the loveliest
| and most accomplished Of the daughters of South
| American
Donna Manuela, the cherished daughter of Rosas,
enjoys, It is said, great influence over her father and
| employs that influence a,odys to sooth irritation
and IN behalf NJ the unfortunate. For heavens sake,
whatever periodicals. may say against men, let
them at least forbear to make war upon women. The
high moral and chivarc feelings Of our countrymen
outraged by such attacks. The female character
is sacred with us, and in no country Of the world
have women such power as in this, and to which
we, one and all, bow with pleasures for fortunately
for our happiness, they exercise that power with
all that discretion and prudence which shows them
worthy to possess it. With all this high reverence
for the female character, what then would be our
feelings, should foreign periodical so Ear forget
itself as to admit within its columns outrageous
attack upon daughter Of our chief magistrate? The
filthy arena Of party strife is disgusting enough even
for men; for heavens sake, them do not drag wome
into it-let them at least be sacred, |
| will close this number with a translated xtract
from the speech Of M. de Gabriac, made by him
the 18th of last January, in the French Chamber of
Peers:
81 will (said the honorable peerJ say it at myI
risk and peril, will say 1t under the fire Of the
ana,hemas Of the honorable gentleman against Gen
Rosas, that the triumph Of Rosas will appear to
an error but have the profound conviction that he
is the only man capable of maintaining it on the
borders Of La Plata. - w. ."' 't...
cater what has been said in the newspaper 3,
this opinion may appear to have something sol
paradoxical that il il necessary for me, feel il
to enter, in the first place, into some explanations
upon that grave accusation of horrible cruelty which
has been brought forward against Rosas; and, as a
preface, ask, can we Aatter ourselves that the de-
scendants of nation so proud and so violently pas
al A,ffa
that in America the brothers of Nina and ofRo-
guerra, of Spain, carry, in the fury Of their civil
wars, a conduct more mild, legal, humane, than
those in their discords in the midst of Europe5
81 then ask Of the honorable gentleman If he be-
preached Rosas and 0ribe, in surprising them to
be true the privilege Of the federal party, and III
he thinks that the unitarian party has not similar
ones to reproach itself WITH In point Of sssassina
tons generals and ofgovernors Of provinces those