The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-09-08
Affairs OF La Plata.

huahfb OF La FMtus
BuEvos AYKEs, July ?, 1s47.
EpIron New YoRK HERALD:
The vessel by which you last night could not
get out in consequence Of low tide.
The srmistice for i've months, Of which spoke,
proposed but Count Walewski and Gov. Rosas could
not the terms rather Arana the Minister
ofthis government laughed at the terms proposed The
question which the conference broken of now
well understood to have been the right of this govern
ment to control the navigation OF the and
Uruguay In the propositions submitted by the minis
tiers, there acknowledgment that the rivers be-
long to the governments bordering them but they
inserted that their navigation should regulated by
the laws Of nations Gov Rosas insisted that the laws
Of nations had nothing TO do with regulating navga
ton Of internal rivers. The ministers finally agreed
only to treat Of the river Uruguay and in doing SO
their object became papsbe Their governments have
q treaty with the government In Monteyideo (Which
Rosas insists is Illegal and intrusive government of
the Banda Orienta for the FREQ navigation Of the
quay. As you know, one bank Of the Uruguay belongs
to the Banda Oriental and the other to the Argentine
Confederation.
The whole question Of difference then resolved itself
back to the recognition Of the legality Of the Rivera
Government. This Rosas has refused, firmly, from the
nrst and he will not be tricked into thing that
be construed into such recognition by implica
ton.
peace-makng mediators If they sincere in their
disclaimers Of intention desire to interfere with the
internal affairs of these why do they not
withdraw their forces from Montsvdeo, raise their
illegal blockades Oribe would then enter Moptevdeo
almost without opposition and then would be the time
to insist on his compliance with any treaty they may
the dc 1acto and, Therefore the de urs soyernment
then they might have some shadow on argument to JUS
iy coe.ciys measures h Now they are hbockaang
VIII the people Of the Banda Oriental wish to rule
them refuse to act right They placing Rosas
in limbo because they fearful Oribe intends doing
wrong! hope government is not much occupied
with Mexico as to prevent from occasionally turning
interests the few Of who are here are suf
ferng serious damage.
July s.-Again the vessel by which write could not
get last night Nothing of interest has tran
spred Lord Howden IL to embark this afternoon aud
the Count to- morrow or next day.
Yours, &C.
CITIZEN OF THE UHiTEe STATES.
From tho Buenos Ayres Packet, June 26.1
ut has been already proved to demonstration that
without entering protest resign the Presidency Of
the Oriental State and that he not only suffered
ercon by the rebellion Of Rivera and other ruthless
assertion of The Imperial Government, that General
without compuision or a protest" cannot be re-,
gsrded but as very incorrect The Imperial Gov
no less false and inadmssibe, when it maintains
that President Oribe was succeeded by Gov
subsequently by that elected in oonfemty to the Con-
stitution OF the Republic" That The Presidency OF
sh
| election 10 not allowed"
The Imperial Government knows perfectly well that the
principles OF the Constitution and the fats aceomps
far from proving its assertions contradict them in the
| fullest and most positive manner.
Let the Constitutional history Of the Republic Of the
Uruguay be chronologcaly examined, and the demon
stration OF what We establish will at once appear
| The Oriental Republic Is composed Of nine Depart
ments all OF them disavow the authority Of the
sve in Montevideo which holds sway in that
city and the fortified towns Of Msdonada and Colo
| mia, only by the aid Of foreign bayonets. There
not In those three places one thousand Orentas In
and old men and children included. Almost all TO-
In the nine DEPARTMENTS of the Republic the Oriental
nation which the intrusive Government in Mon
tevideo acknowledges and upholds the legal President
Brigadier d. Manuel Oribe This Chief Magistrate has
his eide army Of nearly IA 900 Orienals the deci
sion OF the Inhabitants Of the towns and country Of the
Republic the entire body Of the nation.
This the fact existingan evident fact and
entirely national and 1t Is accompanied by an unques
tionable right
the State according to the 22nd Goth and Oth
articles of the Constitution Of that State the last
The Constitution having been sworn to the 18th OF
june $780, the first Legislature elected which COM
menced its session in October $780, and chose Rivera
President.
That first Legislature concluded its session the 9th
Of June 1885, because the legal period Of Legislature
Is three years. according to article Of the Con-
stution that of each of It's sessions is closed from
the 10th OF February to the 10th Of June in each year
according to the 40th article Of the Constitution.
The legal period of each presidency should last four
years. according the 10Th article VI the constitution
and rivera ended his on the aath Of OCT 1854: a..
Of March 1885, the President Of the Senate exercised the
executive power until that day in conformity with the
| nth article Of the constitution.
The second legislature elected the last Sunday
in November 1888, and commenced its session the
10Th February, 1884. On the LIST Of March, 1885, it
elected General ID. Manuel Oribe president Of the Re-
public. President Oribe to govern until the LIST Of
March 1885, and the second legislature to continue
| Its sessions until the 10th OF June. s36.
On the last Sunday in November, 1886, the third le
the 18th Of February 1897 and should have entered
on the 18th Of june 1885, eectng on the LIST OF March
in same year the third President Of the Republic.
All the constitutional powers of the Oriental republic
then In existence by the free and lawful will OF the
nation Rivera then revotsd in july 1885, at the head
Of the ruthless Unitarian emigrans IRON the Argentine
confederation the purpose Of deposing the legal
cuve power Not bong able to effect this, he solicited
the French and with the aid Of the latter
accomplished in October, 1885, the usurpation OF the
Even though he should have preserved the third Le-
gslatue which should existed until the 10th Of
June 1885, its continuance would have been Illegal mas
much 1t would not have derived its authority from
the rights and will Of the nation but from the personal
will Of rebel. But Rivera far from continuing that
third Legislature dissolved it by declaration per Ell
ante for his ends and purposes the llth OF No
vember 1888 in which, amongst other things he stated
| what follows
of the constitutional institutions of the republic in
the manner in which they established in our pot
cal code.
I'D. To render this solemn guarantee sHectua sus
pend momentary the exercise Of the high constitution
al powers.
I'D This suspension shall last longer than shall b,
strictly recessry for the reestabshment Of order al
laying passions and preparing the free exercise OF thos
high powers.
"4th As the representative of the public will ant
commander of the forces which placed under me tt
uphold the same, will adopt Of my own accord ths
measures which may consider expedcnt as long as the
suspension referred TO shall last but crcumscrioins
myself to those which may be necessary for accomplish
ing the objects Of the foregoing article.
Il establish from this day register which shall bear
my name solely In which will order all my DEGREES 10
be Published by my Secretaries TO which Office appoint
Messrs. ssDtiago Vssquez and Brgadier Generai bn-
riqus Martinez and which register viii close tue Gay On
which the suspension OF the exercises of the constu
ti0nal power shall cease y -,
This usurpation Of tho public powers through tns
| O he French Intervention, was unth