The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-01
AFFAIRS I'm VIZ NHzunEA.
TIE PRESIpENTIAL ELEgTIOG,
&C.. &C., Sc.
OUR CARACAS CORRESPONDENCE.

| OUR CARACAS CORRESPONDENTS.
| CARACAS, August ., 1850.
! GeReral Pae. as Warrior and Statesnan-Hs,
FaretcsA to his Country-OptHiows of him By a
| Poiuicdi Oyponent-lf,s IYtaiih, &c, Sc.
| General Jose Antonio Pasz, who is now in the
United States, an exile from the country he has
fought for hard aud loug-banished from the CORA
| try of his birth and brilliant achievements
may disse inmate his opinions with more freedom,
and, perhs in the genial atmosphere of the Repub
lie of the North, may cry out with the old Romaa,
Whats bsnisbed, but set free?' He sailed from
st. Thomas On the 23d of June, and long since, |
presume, has landed in the United States. Give
him welcome for what he has been, and give
him your sympathy for what he is. He has left
Venezuela, but not forever; and will venture the
assertion that another year will see him recalled.
He is a noble old man-one OF "nature's noble
men," Well and valianty did he fight for the in
dependence of his cosntry; aud when it was gam
| ed, he might have been seen resting calmly,
Cincinatuslike, in the retirement of his hacienda
in Aragua, little dreaming that he would ever be
called again to battle. But his sword and his lance
hung on his wall; and as the tocsin of Caracas
tolled the alarm, his children brought him his
armor-he buckled it on; and the old dictator,
"the hero OF a hundred battes," was ready 70 /,
the fight i care not what may be the political
| opinions OF the man-ultra and ambitious they
may be, and such always thought them-but there
are thank heaven, feelings in all that will sym
pathise with a noble deed and generous action.
Twas glorious sight to see that old civilian
warrior, his head silvered with more than sixty
winters, rush eager TO the hight, with the blood OF
| youth renewed, mantling to his brow. His views
may have been wrong-his actions, politically seen,
| doubly SO. But who thinks now of the polite al
creed Of those who batted for the liberties of Anne
nca! For the moEent, his enemies may cry out
against hun; but the Kaleidoscope will change May
his fortunes, too As long as advice alone was
needed, his friends were legion; but when hard
blows and flashing swords told that the fight had
begun, he was alone himself host il is true; but
his opponents were too many for him, and the cas-
tie OF Cumana saw the beginning of his unhappness.
gave you long since his later history, and now
you must judge him for yourself. Before leaving
81. Thomas, he addressed letter TO the people of
Venezuela, in which he pays well-merted tribute
Of thanks TO the people of Cum,na, and concludes
thus
"From the country of the immortal w ashiugton,
where shall soon be, will constantly direct my
prayers to Heaven for the happiness OF my coun-
try"
Such was the farewell-short, but eloqusnt-of
poor Paez. May he find happiness on the shores
OF that republic, whose principles he labored so
long and so fondy TO inst into his own long
cherished country And yet, with all this,-wtt6
the memory of his many brilliant achievements
still green in their memores,-he leaves them one
would think to be followed with soothing regret,
and the anxious prayers of thousands of those cosn
trymen for whom be promises his prayers to Hea-
ven. But far different is the tone of one OF the
chief organs OF our city. After long article in
answer to the above letter, the Repubiicdoo edited
by Bias Brussual, closes bitter denunciation of
the exiled chief in the following unmanly terms
"Paez has been the most constant enemy Of re-
publican princ iples, STAGE he was the first propose
crown 10 the Liberator, (Bolivsr,) and because
he has been the most constant enemy of constitu-
tional order and hberty,-and now that his power
has been wrested from him, through his excuses
and his crimes, like hypocnte he feigns love for
republicanism. God grant that the bsmy air Of
the country Of the immortal Washington may so
temper bis immederate ambition, that he will return
ne more TO shed other blood in the country Of the
And, remember, this is said, not through political
animosity alone, for the party that once owned
Psez as its chief is merged into another, and, like
its mighty prototype. will soon be forgotten,-at
least its principles will not long be remembered As
those which he cherished. fear they were en-
gendered,-l mean these denuncations,-by bitter
hate Tor one whom, much, as you well know, al
ways opposed, cannot hut took upon as an orna-
ment TO the world as the friend for years Of one
who stands side by side with another for whsm
the world has never found name. Now that Gen.
Psez has left us,I will say why thought his political
faith wrong one and call it "faith," for sin
cerely believe he was az honest he was valiant.
Paez, knowingly, could not commit wiifully
wrong deed against his coustry.
thought HIM in error, because his ideas were
too ultra and unsuited-yastly unsuited-to the
times and country he lived in. He was beyond
them both. He forgot the training his country
had bsd-he forgot that she had tined long a
monarchy, and that monarchy Spanish one. And
who would now attempt the Herculean task of en-
grating republican sentiment on old CASTLE, un-
less after years OF lsborous government Of milder
form than Spanish monarchy, and yet more rigid
discipline than republicanism IL was in this he
erred and surely IL vas generous fault, and our
posteriy will forgive him, as she ranks him side
by eide with the hberator Of Colombia, Simon Boil
he failed. lie loved her not wisely, but too well.
He had advisers who would only sdvise him, and
when the sincws Of war were wanted, they failed
him too and he was left alone to decnt principles
which his advisers gloried ia Mitigating, 40 long
as words alone were needed. Political fame could
not have been his object. lie had been twice Pre-
sideDt, and was acknowledged the greatest gene
raj of his time. He was always looked up TO as
the one to whom the country would have recourse,
hill or valley in Vepezuels that he has not made
historic with his exploits, and many are they who
will boast 81 was a soldier Of Paez." Such, then,
Is the man who seeks q refuge your shores.
Money he wants not, for he Is immensely rich.
His hostility TO- Monsgas is rather greatar than the
latter merits. However, am one OF those who at
tribute many Of the Presidents acts to his mimic
MonaRas, and cannot find in him the cause Of all
that has been attributed to him. But ind myself
again trespsssipg my limits, and will close. The
election is the only topic that engrosses public
opinion in Caracas. .Guzman gains favor daily
They only want here some Of those energetic torch
light processions-speakers there are in abundance
to rival you of the States. FEsTCs.
SEwsPAPEB ACCOUNTS.