The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-20
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BuENos AYREs.

W. Asosoo, SoVefuuf Ot pucuOo hyfcc, CT
charged with the foreign relations of the Argentine
Confederation. The attack is founded upon ar
tele which has lately appeared in the American
Review, under the head Of "Buonos Ayres and the
republic of the Banda Oriental, by Mrs s. p Jen-
kins," who, according to the Mirror, has resided
for six years at Monteyideo, and consequently, as
the editor OF the Mirror remarks, has "enjoyed
many facilities for obtaining accurate knowledge
Of the circumstances which she details"
Fortunately for the distinguished statesman who
10 now at the head of the Argentine Confeds
this attack on the part Of the Evening Mirror is sc-
companied by its own antdoe; and il is surprising
that the editor whose sagacity and talents are well
known, did not perceive the force of the an tidote
when he penned it, and have Immediately thrown
under the editorial table the attack which he had
just previously penned.
The second paragraph Of the editorial article,
speaking Of Mrs. Jenkins's narrative, is az fol-
lows
"As depicted here, Rosas, the dictator Of the
/ Argentine Confederation, is no common tyrant If
VIC can believe the half which Is told Of him here,
and we have no reason beyond the stnangeness OF
the horrors revealed, for doubling any part Of il
he must be one Of the most atrocious and blood
thirsty villains that have ever held the rens of gov
eminent. He seems TO US TO have had no parallel
since the days Of ths French revolution, and to
deserve place with the boodiest actors in that aw-
full drama"
Rosas, comes Immediately afterwards the antidote
"The strangest part" Continues the editor) "of
all this tale Of horrors Is the silence so long kept
by the representatives of foreign powers at the court
of Buenos Ayres. And this certainly needs ex-
PLANTATION. That men may be temporarily I'M
neryed by fear, or blinded by interest, is matter
Of common observation. That bodies Of men, in
Guiding merchants of wealth and information, and
ambassadors, should for series Of years witness
such horrors, and yet keep silence, almost sur
passes belief"
Well might the editor say, that such persons
"shouId for a series of years witness such horrors
and yet keep silence, almost surpasses belief" And
the editor may depend that every having the least
particle of common sense will be Of the same opn-
Ion but they would not stop there, but proceed to
the very logical conclusion, that such men as Mr.
Fox, late minister to the United States, and as Mr.
Parish, Mr. Hamilton, and Mr.. Mandevie-all of
whom have been British ministers at Buenos Ayres
since General Rosas has been at the head of its
govenment--as Mr.. de Lisboa, the talented and
highly accomplished Brazilian minister 10 the United
States, and who, previous 10 coming TO this coun-
try, was long time Brazilian minister at Buenos
Ayres-as the Count de Lurd and M. de MareuiI,
both Of whom have been French ministers To that
country during the administration of General
Rosas-and also the diplomatic agents which the
United States have had at Buenos Ayres, and one
of whom is still there-and all Of whom have been
living for years in the very midst Of the places
which are depicted by Mrs. Jenkins as the scenes
Of such demonstrating never. accused General
Rosas as having perpetrated them, is it not natural
and reasonable TO conclude, when such men hold
their tongues, that those atrocities have never
been committed'-and have existed onIy in the warm
imaglnations of the deadly enemies of General
Rosas who have been for years residing in the
same city, (Montevideo,) where the editor says, Mrs
Jenkins has been passing six years Of her life and
from whom she has unquestionably obtained the
list Of the atrocities charged aganst of the most
remarkable personages of the age, who has, by his
hrmness preserved his country for than fifteen
years from the horrors of those constant revolutions
such as have desolaed every other republic of South
America, and whose only crime in the eyes of some
people is, that he is vaanty defending the inde PEN
dence and rights of his country against the unjust
Intervention OF European monarches. IL is Curl
GUS to remark that the first time these atrocities
were brought forward and charged against General
| Rosas was, when he was defending his country
few years ago against the former attacks of the
Preach. 1t now appears that with the late inter-
venton of the French and English, the world is
aga IN to be inundated with them.
| As it is the intention Of the writer of this com.
munication to refue, in few days, in a more de
| tailed manner, the accusations which have been
brought against Genera Rosas, by the writer of the
article in the "American Review" he cannot bet
ter close this article than by transatng entire the let
ter of the late French minister to Buenos Ayres, M
de Maf6ul, OF inc Zou september, $40, addressed
to the Argentine government; IN which NJ de Ma
reu refules several Of the charges brought against
General Rosas by Mr. Ouseley and Baron Deffaudis,
the English and French plenpotenta es encharged
by their respective governments with the conduct
ing of the armed Intervention against the indepen-
dence and liberties Of the Argentine Confederation,
and which accusations had been brought forward
by them as among the causes Of said intervention
! Among other atrocities which have been ascribed
| to General Rosas by his enemies in Montevdeo
amongst whom the writer in the "American Re-
view has been residing for six years. that of the
massacre of large number Of prisoners taken at
| the battle of India Muerta. Let us see what NJ de
Mareull says to the atrocious accusation.
The Buenos Ayrean government, although at
war with France yet having implicit confidence in
| the high and honorable character Of M. de Mareui
wrote to him previous to his departure from Buenos
Ayres, and requested him, as gentleman who had
| resided among them sufficient time to well Know
| the men and the affairs Of that country, to inform
them what had been the character of his relations
with them, and of his knowledge relative to this
and other atrocities ascrbed to General Rosas, and
which had been fabricated at Montevdeo by his en-
emes. M. dc Mareuil's reply was that Of high
minded and honorable man, who appears TO think
that, although his country is at war with the Ar
gentne Confederation yet that atrocious accusations
should not be made use Of to aid his countrymen in
their war against General Rosas.
| GTnnslationl
| "BunNos ArRrs, September 90, 1s45.
"To his ercslleney NJ .arana minister Of foreign af
| fairs at Buenos Tyres:
"Sir: have just received the note which your
excelIency has done the honor of addressing me,
under the date of yesterday, and by which you
have made known to me that you had brought to
the knowledge Of the government the necessity in
consequence of the establishment of the blockade,
of my ceasing my relations with the government,
and Of quitting the Argentine territory.
"At the same time, your excellency informs me,
that you are encharged by his excelency the
governor 10 ask Of me explanations upon many
points tending to establish what has been, during
my residence here the character Of the relations Of
the legation Of the king with the Argentine govern
ment, and the conduct Of this government in the af
airs which have found myself in the case of treat
| ing with it.
| al am so much the more disposed to give to your
excellency the explanations which you ask from
me, as have already transmitted to the govern
ment Of the king precise and circumstantial in
formation upon many points mentioned in your
| Communication.
/ al take the requests Of your excellency in the