Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-16

/ teFs, and news of all the political events
of heworld Itis to be observed that
! Spain had no other commercial city upon
the Atlantic coast The war with Eng
land hastened the emancipation of mems
minds, and awakened among them q
sense of their own importance as State
Buenos Ayres was ike a child, which,
having conquered a giant, fondly deems
itself hero, and is ready 20 undertake
greater adventures. The Social Contract
few from hand to hand. Mably and
Raynal were the oracles of the press
Robespierre and the Convention the APP
proved models. Buenos Ayres thought
itself a continuation Of Europe, and. it
did not frankly confess that its spirit and
tendencies were French and North Amer
ican, il denied its Spanish origin on the
ground that the Spanish Government
had patronized it only after it was full
grown The revolution brought with it
armies and glory, triumphs and reverses,
revolts and seditiOns. But Buenos
Ayres, amidst all these fluctuations, dis
played the revolutionary energy with
which tits endowed Bolivar was every
thing Venezuela was but the pedestal
for that colossal figure Buenos Ayres
was whole city Of frevolutionists-B Bel
grano, Rondeau, San Martin, Alyear, and
the hundred generals in command. of its
armies, were its instruments, its arms, not
its head nor its trunk
THE TIGER OF THE L1ANos."
Not the least interesting part of Col.
SArmiento's book is that which consists
of sketches Of the prominent or notori.
Gus characters of the,republie. Ifa peo-
pie is to be judged by its leaders, We can
hardly form.a favorable notion of the
Argentines. One of those was Quiroza.
+" the tiger of the Llanos, a short, stout
" built, shaggy headed, vigorous sort of
brute, of no ability, who won his way
upward by being quicker, more desper-
ate and more reckless in his acts of vio-
lence than his comrades OF him it is
related that he kicked out the brains Of a
man with whom he quarreled at play
that he tore off the ears of a woman, he
had lived with, and laid open his son, 5
head with an Ak Yet this monster be-
came Governor, in fact, Despot Of La
Rioja.
CHAOS.
About this time, 1925, the Argentine
Republic presented singular picture.
Says the author
All interests, all ideas, all passions,
met together to create agitation and tu-
mutt. Here was a chief who would have
naught to do with the rest of the repub-
lie there, community whose only de-
sire was to emerge from its isolation
yonder, a'goyernment engaged in bring
ing Europe over to America elsewhere,
another to which the very name of civil
ization was odioUs; the Holy Tribunal
of the Inquisition was reyiving in some
places in others, liberty of conscience
was proclaimed the first of human rights;
the cry of one party was for confedera-
ton; of others for central government;
while each different combination was
backed by strong and uneonquerable
passions.
BARBARIsM VERSUS CIVILIZATION.
One of the results Of Quiroza's ag-
gressive campaigns was sufficiently dis
astroQs. 1t was the destruction of Men
doza, city where civilization had
home and progress was the rule. The
author says
The swamps had been drained, the
city ornamented, societies ofagriculture,
industry, mines, and of public education,
had been formed, and directed by INTEL
ligent, enthusiastic, and enterprising
men nannfactory of WOODEN and.fl
had been established which furnished
clothing for the troops, and an armory
for the making of swords, cuirasses,
lanees, and bayonets, with none of the
work imported except some parts of the
cannon"
With. the presentation of this phase of
the conflict between civilization and bar
barism in the Argentine Republic, we
must close the present long extended ar
ticle, deferring further notice until
another occasion.