New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-15

spracy had no: been able to bring TO vote Tor the
Presidents impeachment but who were yet vii
ling to allow the act to be consammated in their
absence, although they knew that it could not iaA
TO let loose On the country the horrors OF cgl war
A subsequent investigation showed that some
STAYED away from fear of dispeasng Paez others
because thew had been intinidated others-and
this in such case will seem strangest to an Amer-
ican reader-because they had conscientious scfa-
pies against favoring or preiudicins either party
At this crisis the people of Caracas being IN
formed of the plans of Paez and the Ohsarchy,
and seeing that they were about to be carried INTO
effect. determined to Illustrate them at any cost
Onthe oath the Chambers met, and both went into
secret session The Session Of the Representa-
tiyes being made public, Doctor Sanavria, the
Secretary Of the Interior. presented himself WIN
the accustomed Message from the Executive
Power He was questioned as to the tranquility
of the city, and the safety of the Legislative BODY
the replies not being deemed satisfactory the
Chamber ordered that the other two Secretaries
should be summoned, and that the Minister OF the
Interior should remain in the Chamber until the
others came The object in view was to leave
the President, without any Constitutional organ
Rumor soon spread through the city that the Sec
retary of the Interior had been detained by the
Chamber of Representatives., and as it was uni
versally believed that the conspirators in the
Chamber were capable of anything, the people
FASTENED toward San Francisco, armed with what
ever they could pick up, and were about to rush
into the building to liberatc the Secretary they
were opposed by the guards, who were at the
door, and while they were urging reasons for be
ing allowed to enter, two shots were fired from
the edifce, which killed the citizens Rivefo and
Maldonado.
This treacherous attack cnraged the people, and
from that moment they believed themselves au-
thorized to attack in turn however, when they
seemed about to enter the building-and underth
first impulse of their fury they might have left no
one living in it,-they paused and contented them
selves with merely firing from the streets and on
being called to order, obeyed the voice of the
authorities Some few ndiciduals were killed
but it was either from their imprudence Or
from their contempt OF the mass before whose
muskets they presented themselves. The Pres
ident the very man whom the consPlrators had
wished to depose and sacrifice, interposed in per
son. and with his friends placed himself between
the people and the consprators. To this many of
the latter owe their lives and it is this President
whom these very men SO atrociously calumniate
though they even acknowledge what they
owe to his merciful disposition. Had General
Monagas wished the death Of any of them,
all he had to do was to point them out to pop
ular vengeance and it is well known that his
worst enemies might then have been sacrificed
but were actually saved by his friends.
On the Goth the Chambers again assembled not
ms we have reason to believe, because the Sena.
tors and Representatives were compelled to meet
by force, but because they were convinced that
CONGRESS- ought to continue its sittings in the
first place to pass measure of clemency which
should exonerate its ownmembers who had partlci-
pated in the bootless conspiracy, and to determine
on other measures demanded by the actual state OF
circumstances, 1t is true that IN a few days az
terward the Sessions suspended, because
these very conspirators believing themselves to
be already perfectly safe, thought to favor the
cause of Paez which was their own by the disso.
luton of the Legislative body But their project
was frustrated and after an interval of some days
the Congress resumed its labors, calling in the
supplementary members in place OF those who
had abandoned the country. When some of the
latter protested from Curacao against the violence
which had been employed against them in order
to compel them to assemble on the 25th, they were
!, contradcted by some Of their own companions,
who stated that they had attended the Chamber
of Representatives freely and spontaneously
This was also proved by numbers of other persons
who had seen them go to the Chamber without
any species ofcompulsion being used oward them
We say then, that this affair of January "a grew
primarily out of the conspiracy of the Paez party
S to overthrow the President whom they could not
h make recreant to his duty The people of Ca
S racas hated that party as much as they had be-
come attached to the President, and accordingly
rose in spontaneous opposition to their outrageous
= intentions 1t is said that Monagas or his friends
} stirred them up and set them to murder the
opposition Members of Congress. Now in the en-
tire melee only three Representatives were shot
1 one of them, Senor Salas OF Maracaibo, was
friend of the President, and had voted steadily in
his favor; he was killed near the outer door but
had the attack been designed and executed under
the direction OF Monagas, he certainly would have
taken care that his adherents should not perish
in it.
The other Representatives killed in the firing
were Garcia and Argote, colored barber of Carac
/ and blind instrument Of the Ohgarchy. That
party was IN the habit Of nominating iiterate
of the labOrng class its ticket in order to
f strengthen itself al the ballot box. If this man
9 were not killed by mere accident, which we have
= no doubt was the case, he must have persisted
from the indignation the people felt toward him
f personally, for having betrayed their cause.
One more Representative only fell a victim on
this OCCASION and he was universally regretted.
We mean Senior Santos Mchelena. On the first
alarm he jumped from one OF the windows OF the
Representatives Chamber, and was badly hurt
by the fall Just as he struck the ground party
OF citizens charged down the streets with fxad