New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-14
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, OCTOBER ID.
Cen Pnez END the Corporation of New


Gen. Peez has Just presented to the Cisy
the sword worn by him during the Yene-
zuelen war of independence, and We pre-
sumo it will he gratefully accepted aud do.
posted among the curiosties Of the Cor
po-a;ioD, II Is not uR@orthy Of that desti-
ny. Il is a relic Of the time when It's woarer
served his country with honor and 7ge may
believe with sincerity. The Corporation
had literally complimonted him f7G thai
part of bis career and this is his acknowl-
edgement. We are bound to suppose they
did it With perfect understanding of VIA
they were about. We did not complain at
the time the ceremonies we're going forward
and DO not n0g. Who shall doubt the wis
dom Of our Corporation
But Gen. Paez is not N erely the Liberia
tor of Venezuela. Time long since brought
that Office to an end, and since then he has
acted in other functions of less commend
able character. He seems 10 be acting in
one Of them now, aud this fact has appar-
ently cloded the remarkable penetration Of
the Corporation We desire to bring it to
public notice,
When Gen. Paez left Venezuela To come
to the United States, It was net as Lj6er-
ator, applauded bg his feIIow.citizens aad
by the world lie came as m exile, who
had left his country for his o0untry's good.
He was banished from Venezuela By the
representatives of the people for having
reasonably attempted to destroy The legitj-
mate Government Three times he had
made hat attempt three times he 8ss pat
down, Tot by soldiers fighting for the MAJ
ters who paid them, for there is no standing
army in Yenezuela-bat by the sp0ntane-
Gus rising Of the Inhabitants. lie was pQs
down, c0ntendiug not to overthrow tyranny
but to establish his own personal DONNA
ton; not in behalf Of democracy butag1ins
it; not for free institutions but that he might
c0Dfscato the Republic to his own profit
contending, too, be it remembered, not
peaceably through the press and the ballot
boz, but with fire and sword with bloodshed
and the outrages Of civil var.
Though banishei from Venezuela, where
he and his party are in small minority, it
is now plain that Gen. Paez aims to keep up
On agitation there. He would fam have it
thought that he has the support and admit
ration of the people Of this country, not for
what he was in his youth, but for what he
is now, and that he may here find hackers
who will help him to make a triumphant
return This is his purpose in this sword
presentation. In his published letter ac-
companying it, he shrewdly congratulates
himself that he has obtained the approba-
ton "of the great people of the United
States and of the enlightened City Of New
York" We protest against such an aSsump-
top, and denounce the purpose lurking be-
hind it. We do not believe that the people
either of NewYork OF the country at large
wish to he accessories to any plot to foment
disturbance in Venezuela. Nor do we think
that, ready as their appreciation may have
been for Paez the Liberator, they can have
any satisfaction in Paez the intriguer, rioter
and assailant ef his country's freedom.--
They may admire the beginning of his ca
reer, but not the deep stains which sully its
subsequent stages.
As long as the ovations to Gen, Paez could
be supposed to be a tribute to his early
achievements offered by persons ignorant
Of his later history and accepted because
they could not be declined, we foroore to
comment upon them from natural unwil-
lneness to add to the psiR of exile. But
when Gen. Paez tbruSts himself Voluntarily
before the public the case becomes different
and we merely discharge duty, not OILY
to the people of this country but to the Re-
publ, of enezuela, in putting his ante
cederts as well as his aspirations and pur-
poses in clearer light than he probably