New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-28

traordinary rarI alive. and who agree as to
the main facts, we should reject the whole
az too cruel and sanguinary to be probable
We can appreciate the apology oil po!iti-
cal necessity we can understand that IN a
country like that Of the Plata, which, tneuga
sixteen times as large as the State oil view
York, has only three-quarters OF million
of people scattered over its surface ana
those engaged in pastoral occupations ac'
customed to civil war, merciless and ready
to take life, great severity may at times
be necessary on the part of the ruler who
attempts to keep them in order; nor do we
measure the character and career of Kosas
by the standard of our own ideas of what
is lust and humane But making every al
lowance. taking every circumstance into
consideration, ard judging by the standard
of his own country, it seems impossible to
regard him as other than a monster, who will
hereafter be classed among the scourges.
We have sought anxiously in the history
of this man for the good that he has done,
and seeing him zealously lauded in respect
able journals of Paris, London and New
York, we have spared no pains to arrive at
the reasons of such laudatl0n. We find,
then, that he has kept order in his country.
But il has been the order of the grave, en-
forced b. butchery and terror, founded upon
weakness the most pusillanimOus on the
part of the people he had trampled on. IN
toiling through the narrative OF these
twenty years, and seeing how the inteli-
gent, wealthy and respectable classes have
submitted TO have their throats cut and
their property taken from them, by this
eoucho, one is filled with un utterable con-
tempt for them, and with a sort of compare
Ave respect for the maaly qualities of the
murderer and tyraut. They are pusillani-
nous and crawling as worms, he is strong
like a tiger.
Beside this preservation of order, he has
encouraged the raising of grain with such
effect that the country which formerly did
not supply its own bread, now often has
more corn than it needs and he has put
an end to highway robbery for hundred
and fifty miles around his capital. These
are the benefits he has conferred. But OF
measures for the education and improve
ment of his people we find no other trace
he has governed to safe his cruelty, crafty
his ambition and enrich himself and his
minions, but he has not even provided for
the permanent organization of the country,
and as tyrants always do, will leave it in
worse condition than ne found it. His
system is personal despotism, and when the
despot dies or runs away there is dire con-
fusion, unless a new despot hastens to fill
his place All his benefits are poor apo
ogy for such crimes as his.
Rosas is the Chief of the party who call
themselves Federalists. Their doctrine
is State Rights carried to extremes.
Under their auspices the Constitution Of
1926, having been extinguished, treaties
were negotiated in 1929 '3O-'3l, between
the States of Buenos Ayres. Entire Rios,
Corrientes, Santa Fe, Cordoya and San
Juan. subject to the adhesion Of the eight
other provinces, which has never been
officially given, though Rosas, through his
creatures, has ruled them as much as the
others. These treaties guarantee the indie
pendence of every State, as to It's own affairs;
establish an alliance, offensive and defen-
sive, between them against foreign invasion;
appoint the Governor and Captain General
of Buenos Ayres to the direction Of the
foreign relations, and of the army and navy
of the entire Confederation establish lib
erty of commerce and navigation between
the different States and agree that a Con-
gress shall be held to form a federal con-
stitution, and arrange such matters as the
navigation of rivers, the domestic and
foreign trade, the raising and apportionment
OF revenues ana the payment vi Tic Puollc
debt. Such Congress has never been
held, Rosas finding it better to get on with
out. Nor in his administration has he paid
any nice regard to the other points of the
federal treaties.
A great feature in his system has been
the monopoly of the foreign trade at Buenos
Ayres giving him the control of both i'm
port and export duties-a rich source Of
plumber. That city, as our readers may
see bya glance at the map, lies On the south
side of the Plata, some hundred and fifty