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GENERAL RoSAs AND HIS ENEMIES.

The violent and unprovoked attacks upon the
| character Of General Rosas, governor Of Buenos
Ayfes which government Is enchaTged with the CON
Quoting Of the foreign relations of the Argentine
Confederation, made in the American Review" for
February last, and in the New York Evening Mir
ror OF the 10th Of the month, were, to certain
extent, refuted IN a communication published IN the
daily Union Of the 10Th uItimo The writer Of that
article there expressed as 1t will be observed, his
intention, at some future day, 10 refute IN a more
full and detailed manner the accusations which had
been brought against General ROsas. He will now
do so, particularly those first attacks have been
followed by others equally violent in the Evening
Mirror Of the 7th and 18th of last month.
The people of the United States will not suffer
their Judgment 10 be surprised by the one-sded rep
RESERVATIONS and wholesale denuneistOns contained
in the American Review and Evening Mirror,
against the chief who Is noby defending the lib
critics and independence Of his country against the
united attacks Of England and Of France.
Al the head Of population ofony about two and
a half millions, we find General ROsas boarding the
British lOn, and the ex-imperisl eagle Of France,
setting their united efforts al defiance, and declaring
To the world that Argentines would sooner die on
the field of battle freemen than 1--we the degraded
slaves of England and Frances and In his mouth
these are not mere yaln-glorious expressions, but
every thing shows to us that they the deep-felt
and firm determinations Of hero and a patriot,
sustained by the unanimous voice Of brave and
magnanImous people, who have not yet forgotten
that two English armies, whose standards as trO-
plies Of victory now adorn the Buenos Ayrean ca-
thedral, have in former days laid down their arms
before the brave but undiscipned militia Of that
cltyj and that France, within very few years has
once before been bafled its attempt to impose laws
on the Argentlnes.
Have not the Argentines and their chief enough
TO contend against IN defending themselves against
the unjust and united attacks OF England and France,
without having also To combat against some of the
public presses Of the United States, who, by their
bitter and unprovoked attacks upon General Rosas,
are iurtherlsg the designs Of those TWO great and
powerful European mOnarchIes against one Of our
SISTER republics, against whose government there
never has been even the slightest complaint on the
part Of any American cItIzen' No American citizen
has ever said that he has been wronged or injured
IN any manner by the Buenos Ayrean government
the acts OF that government have always been loyal
and highly liberal towards us, and | have yet to
earn the name Of any American citizen Who has
ever been injured by il. Without our having any
teaty OF reciprocity with that country, we find its
government for years putting our vessels
and their cargoes upon the same foot.
ing as those Of Buenos Ayres and also
those Of England, with whom il had, before the
late intervention, treaty of commerce. And yet
we find an American Review, and an American
newspaper, at this most critical moment for South
American Independence, aiding England and France
by their unprovoked and unjust attacks upon the only
man who, by his frmness and energy, is capable Of
successfully defending his country against the com.
blned attacks Of two Of the most powerful monar-
chies in Europe
Happily for the credit of country but one or
two of the almost innumerable newspapers of the
United States have Joined in the Ango-Franco hue
and-cry against Rosas. England and France know
well how to WELD the accursed arm of calumny
against their enemies Our countrymen well know
hn n Iah uyrtfp hau. oIoI 4
'sbolt against US, and most frequently against those
at whose hospitable table they have fed The
American people cannot, will not, sustain any re-
view or newspaper in an Ango-Franco alliance in
the war against General Rosas.
In the present most critical position of our affairs
with Great Britain on the Oregon question, which,
however deeply it may be deprecated, may possibly
bring on collision between the two countries, is
It prudent, is It wise, TO publish in any of the
American newspapers, the most abusive and most
Insulting articles against General Rosas the COVER
nor of Buenos Ayres, and which have been invent
ed by his enemies at Montevideo. Would it not be
we'll TO bear in mind that Buenos Ayres has a sea
coast on the Atlantic, stretching from the mouth of
the river DE la Plata to the southernmost extremity
OF Patagonia of over 500 miles, with numerous
ports, to blockade which would take the entire ma
Wy of Great Britain, and that that coast from its DO
sltlon, offers the greatest facilities for our prvatee re-
and men-of-war to carry their prizes TO- and tina,
English commerce with the East Indes China and
the Pacific, which must pass far from that coast
either to double the Cape ofGood Hope or of Cape
Horn, could be annihiated.
In speaking of the article written by Mr. Cusb-
ing on "French' and English Intervention in the Rio
de la Plata-Democratic Review for March, :" the
Evening Mirror of the 7th of that month says "Mr
Gushing is disposed to throw doubts over &C
counts that come from Montevdeo. Caution is IN.
doubleday necessary in reviewing this, any other
testimony concerning men who act pro ninent part
IN times of high revolutionary excitement'-every
man of common sense will agree with the Mirror
that such "cauon is undoubtedly necessary"-and
had the editor of that newspaper followed the rule
of caution" 80 ably laid down in the Mirror, h.
would probably have been more cautious in admit
ting into its columns the attacks made upon General
| Rosas which undoubtedly have had their origin
amongst the bitter and deadly enemies of that chief
tain assembled at Montevideo.
| Further on the Mirror asks-"why such distrust
in MontevIdeo and such faith in Buenos Avres ~
This question might well be reversed and adore ssed
to the Mirror-why such dstrust in Buenos Ayres,
and such faith in Montevdeo For in all the various
attacks which it has made upon General Rosas it
will be seen that they originate from Montevideo,
that they are entirely and wholly of Montevidean
origin, born, nursed, and sent forth the world to
seek their fortunes by their Montevdean fathers
who think to serve their purposes by vfying the
statesmen at the head of the Argentine Confedera-
ton. This shall be more fully shown in my next
number by AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
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