The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-29

given TO their assertions. The statements made by
| Sir Robert Peel aud M. Guizot seemed to render il
certain that II the vscount had not been instructed
TO bring about an Intervention conformity with Bra
z, he had al least made proposal TO that effect on
his own responsibility, 70 which the two govern
ments had declined TO aecede. Ministers, accord
ingly, were charged with fasehood as well as folly.
But few days since, Limpo dc Abren, in a remark
ably lucid and effective DISCOURSE made manifest
| as far as official documents could show that the
entente eordals" had entertained the idea OF inter
fering long prior 10 the advent of Abrantes and that
the latter had done no more than sound them as to
their desgns-it being highly important for Brazil
to ascertain their aims Referring 10 the assertions
Of the premiers he made the significant remark thai
he was Of coarse bound to feel the profoundost re-
spee for the statements Of two such eminent men as
| NJ. Guizot and Sir Robert Peel but that be would
leave the chamber to draw its own inference from
the facts which he had laid before TIA polite way
Of inning that the Statements of the eminent men
might be more respectable than true--acts, in the
phrase Of Burns, being chiefs that dinna ding and
wad nae be disputed" The inference 70 my mind
is, that the yiscount was less discreet with his
tongue than he has been with his PEN II is so easy
in the excitement Of talk TO say than il intend
cd that there would TO be much greater prob
ability Of his having uttered something liable TO the
Interpretation put upon IL by the premiers, than that
two such men should have been guilty of delibe-
nte and concerted alsehood. m - .. A..
The last intelligence from the river shows that the
guardian angel, whether good or bad, of Rosas has
| not deserted him. Gen. Paz and the governor Of
Corrientes have quaTreled and come to blows, aud
the former, after two defeats, has been com eed to
retreat into Paraguay with the forces Of thai repub-
lie. Thus have persisted all the ful-bown hopes Of
destruction from that quarter TO Gen. Bosas and thus
crushed the project which was entertained Of jon-
ing Enlre. Reos Corrienles and Paraguay into con-
federation under English guardianship, by which the
navigation Of the river would be controlled, and the
great snake Of Buenos Ayres be scotched, IL not
killed The phrase which Moreau is said to have
uttered, when he received his death. wound, in re-
gard TO Napoleon-Caeoqai,i Test tOgjOHs hsi1sur-
applicable TO the Guacho as 1t was TO the Cor
sican. .. ... ..
Bribery, without doubt, is the secret Of the move
ment in Correntes. The governor Of that province
is the brother OF the General Madriaga who com.
handed the vanguard Of Paz, when il was routed
by Urguiza in the beginning Of the last campaign,
and who was then made prisoner, but who was
treated with such unexsmpIed lenity as to engender
The strongest suspicious Of his having been seduced
BY the diclator's gold, rather paper, of which
there is no end. Immediately after the flight OF
Paz, the captive was released from the parole on
which he had ostensibly been placed, and sent at
The head Of 500 Of Urguizas soldiers assist his
brother. The next arrival viii doubtless bring
news Of the reunion Of Corrientes with Buenos
Ayres, in which case the veteran army OF Urguiza
will be free TO march upon Montevideo, and, COM
bned with the troops Of 0ribe, be abundantly sufi.
that Mr.. Ouseey has received peremptory commands
10 send away the two regiments which he has been
keeping from their destination--the Cape OF Good
Hope-withont, or rather against orders, be cor
rect. Fifteen thousand fighting men, such as the
~outsiders" would then have, would be more than
match for few hundred British, even il they
we're Waterooans, supported by few negroes, and
Basques, and lialians--s motley, discordant crew
Of not more than three thousand at most. Rivera,
10 be sure is between Oribe and Urguiza, but his
followers may be counted by tens; and he has,
moreover, avery bad habit Of being beaten by both
those generals. ass.ufrrET .s.
The luck Of Rosas can only be equalled by the
corruption Of his nature, and the imbecility of his
foreign enemies. Never were two great nations
gagged in 80 little contest, carried on In 30 little a
way. They seem TO have adopted the Shaksperian
idea that though it is excellent to have giants
strength, it is tyrannous to use it like ginnt but
change must now come over their dream Of pacific
warfare or they will be made TO cut the most
temptible figure that offered to the dersion
the world. The shout of cup and at them" must
now be substituted for the ejaculation Of peace,
peace, while there is no peace--particularly since
The decree which Rosas has just issued, ordering
his officers TO treat as incendaries all French and
English prisoners, in consequence of the burning of
number Of vessels in the harbor of Ensinada, by
boats of the bockaders of Buenos Ayres. This de-
cree is in keeping.wih the famous piratical mani
festo, which created much excitement, but which
was never carried into effect there having been
much danger for the luxury. Yet it may plausibly
be urged, that the English and French governments
themselves have put the brand of incendarism upon
their troops by their protestaons that there is no
war, whilst those same troops have been burning,
and plundering, and staying, SO rutblessy and so
uselessy for so long time; and they can, surely,
not be justified in complaining, if they are treated
accordingly by the victim Of their lawess and muir
derous attack. They cannot claim to be treated as
prisoners of war, who discain the existence of war
II. A. III, al A plieb
midshipman has been captured since the promclga-
lion of the decree, and is supposed to have been in
continenty put to death. Should this be the case
and it is by no means improbable, for the dictator
has never made himself obnoxious to the sarcasm Of
Juvenal that "nulla tnquam de morte hominis
taio Jorge esi-it is to be presumed that the Brit
ish lion and the Gallo cock will begin to roar and
to crow with something like vengeance. A pre-
text will have been afforded for direct attack upon
Rosas, by which the "incendaries" will be CON-
PEELED, as it were, to profit; though if they do 60
regularly to war with him, they will involve them
selves in one of the most bothersome affairs of the
sort in which they have ever been engaged. IT
will be easy enough for them to take the town of
Buenos Ayres, and they may march all through the
country with flying colors, but they will only march
back again as the grand result Of the campaign.
Should they determine take possession, their plan
must be to establish a military colony, and make
gradual conquest in proportion to their means Of oc
lcupation and settlement, subjugatng the land just
orefathers did the territory of the northern
aborigines. They will not be INDUCED with any
thing like pitched battles, but will be Obliged TO
dure all the infections of gacho ingenuity, pertina
city, intrepdity, and ferocity Long years Of havoc
urge their destined course England, undoubtedly,
if she should succeed in DISTINGUISHING herself Of
the French alliance, must at last prevail-and should
she do So will it be injury to the United Statesi
Ultimately, it may be asserted with confidence not,
Without referring to the universal benefits which
must accrue from the development of such region,
whatever momcntary advantages England may de-
rive from it to our detrment will be more than
connterbalanced by the eventual establishment of an
independent nation, who will play the same part in
the South as the United States do in the Northwho
will become rival and barrier to the mother coun-
try, able to say to her authoritativcly as we do,
"Thus far thou shalt go and no farther" and at the
same time, be connected with US by the strongest
ties Of sympathy and interest. Every new colony
planted by England is the germ Of people, by
whom her power is to be clipped. No one but
Ajax could conquer Ajax, and nothing but Anglo
Saxonsm can overcome Anglo-Saxonism. The old
I'D Io e,nd