The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-11-25
The Argentine Republic.

A Washington correspondent Of the Bal
more Sun states that lis intended to send
Lieut.. Page, in the new steamer Water
Witch, to survey the rivers Parana, Uruguay
and other great branches of the vast stream
known as the La Plata, with view also to
open by Urquiza's recent decree to the ships
Of all nations in the wide regions Watered by
those rivers, and which have hitherto been
almost unknown and forbidden lands to
European and American enterprise.
Urquiza, following an opposite course to
that Of the able but narrow minded Rosas,
has made use of the almost absolute power
conferred upon him in an enlightened and
liberal spirit, more characteristic of the ideas
of modern European and American progress
than the prejudiced, and time-honored but
destructive policy of despotic restrictions
on trade. lie is dictator merely in name.
BY stroke of the pen he has achieved what
English and French diplomacy and fleets
have failed to accomplish after years of block
AIDES, intrigues and actual contest by battle,
viz: the independence of the Banda Oriental,
the Liberation of the Argentine Republic,
and the opening of the Uruguay and Parana
rivers to the shipings ofall nations.
For thousands of miles these immense
rivers are navigable, safely and easily, by
sailing vessels and by those propelled by
steam. They water vast countries, rich il
the products of a tropical climate, although
the despotism which has hitherto governed
them has paralized the development of then
resources both in population, means of trans
portation, and agriculture and manufacture
The precious metals, iron, "copper" lead, salt
alum, gypsum, sui hur, mineral pitch, coal
cotton, Tobacco, rice, sugar, indigo, wheat
maze, wines, pepper, cochineal, aloes, cocoa
dyes, fruits, abound-in short the list O
vegetable and mineral productions open
throughout thirty degrees of latitude, anC
from the Atlantic to the Andes, field 70
European and American enterprise the i'm
portance and extent of which cannot b
realized at a cursory glance such as we ar
forced to give. A glance at the map, a
the wide and fertile regions through Whicl
these rivers flow, and which are now for tn
first time rendered accessible to commerce
will estssassist the reader in forming a con
ception of the magnitude of the advantage
placed by Urquiza' liberal policy before The
world of traffic.
These rivers are prominently adapted t,
steam navigation, an assertion not to be dis
puted after the result of actual experience
They irrigate country but little less in ex
tent than the immense valleys of the Miss
issippi and Missouri, and offer equal facilitie
with thoseto the wide-stretching arm of civil
ization and its powerful agents, steam ant
commerce. The English and French vii
seize with avidity upon the opening the,
have so long battled for to grasp the com
mercial resources of the Argentine Repub
lie, and the Banda Oriental and the stel
our Government is reported to be on tn
point of taking, in sending the proper agent
to secure for American traffic concession
and advantages equal to those of other ma
tons will be properly appreciated by tn
I people of this country. No more importan
measure to the commercial interests of tn
United States could be initiated, and it
prompt development will add to an immeas
ured extent to that and enterprise which
already whiten the oceans with their sail
or plough them with their steamers
I Ptcdyuae.