New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-28
The War en- the River Plata.

Live the -iISchtIHC Noh4S"SASs1"''
Death to the Unitarian Savages !" is the
amiable motto which has for years stood ia
scribed on the public ediices, at the head of
almost every column 10 the newspapers, and
on all of the official documents of Buenos
Avres and the other States of the Argentine
| Confederation. To it an addition has lately
| been made, in the words, death to the
traitor fool the nasty Unitarian Savage Ur-
uuiza This latter invocation appears
along with the others, even on ordinary
Custom. House papers, aud the more ardent
| lovers of the Government which for near
quarter of century has prevailed at Buenos
Ayres. cannot invite their friends to the en-
! joyments of social festivity without COM
mencing the billet-rose-tnted and gilt
! edged, of course-with this delicate and hui
msne ejaculation.
The Unitarians on whom death is so OBJ
streperously invoked, and who have been
the object of the most bloody and barbarous
persecution ever since RoSas has been in
power at Buenos Ayres, were the party eX-
ercising the government of the Argentine
Confederation from 1919, when on April 30,
the Congress of Tucuman decreed Fed
eral Constitution, till 1929. when they were
put down on occasion of the revolt of
one of their own extreme partisans. Their
policy was the organization of the fourteen
States comprising the country into Fed
eral Republic, on the model of the United
States, and hence their party name. They
were the jewellers in cities, the men to
whom civilized life and cultivation were not
unknown. They were animated with
ideas of improvement and progress. They
were emulous of the freedom and growth of
the great Republic of North America.
Their period Of authority was marked by
the passage of liberal and enlightened laws.
They established the liberty of the press
and inaugurated the principle of religious
liberation. At Buenos Ayres they founded
a University, and provided for primary
schools in every district of the country. As
an instrument of industrial and commercial
development, they organized a national
bank They encouraged immigration from
other nations and believed they were laying
the foundations of great and prosperous
people.
But all this time they reckoned without
the inhabitants of the country. These men
were, as they still are, savages-a sort OF
cross,between the Spaniard and the Tartar.
They are called gauchos their business is
the herding and butchering of cattle.
Nothing can be more unsocial than their
life, or more calculated to develop ferOcity
than their occupations.
From among their haunts though of
once respectable Asturian family,-sprung
JOHN MANUEL RosAs. A large, muscular
man, of imposing appearance and great
talent, he is as cunning, as heartless, and as
cruel as beast of prey or demon internal.
Excelling the gauchOs in their own brutal
arts, as well as in the gross and disgusting
style of language in which they delight,
he knows equally well how to put on the
polished manners of European gentleman,
and to outwit diplomat fresh from the
salons of Paris OF London. Utterly I'M
scrupulous as to his means, in fact cher
ishinq love for shedding the blood of men,
capable, for instance, of finding amusement
in the administration of vitriol injections to
an unhappy victim, this man has known how
to rule the Argentine Confederation with
utter despotism for twenty years. The
Unitarian Constitution (the last one was
PROMULGATED on Dec. "a, 1926 which he
overturned, and whose adherents he has
since numerically slaughtered, had no ap-
Proclamation to central power like that
he has exercised since March 7, 1885, when,
in compliance with his own WILL the Ma
tional Legislature passed decree con-
ferring on him the sum Of the public au-
hOrity.
The person does not live who has com.
mitted so many or so inhuman crimes as
.Rosas. He has tolerated the existence of
no man whose ability or growing influence
made him suspected. The assassln's knife,
poison, or the bullets of platoon of soldiers,
have destroyed every opponent and every
man likely to become such. To the SAN
culinary tastes of his immediate followers
he has given full qualification. In the city
of Buenos Ayres he caused to be organized
a band of rufians, known as the Mashorca
club, to whom the execution of his bLoodiest
mandates was committed. Their career