Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-20
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
Exalted Character of SarmienfO.
the New President.

Colonel Domingo F. SarmientO has
inst been inaugurated President Of the
Argentine Republic. This event may
be considered the beginning Of an I'M
portant era in the history Of that country.
From the character Of the new President.
his extraordinary and varied experience,
his culture and executive ability, other
nations have a fright to expect something
effective in the way Of good government
and a thorough test Of the fitness OF a
Spanish people to govern themselves.
President Sarmiento is well known IN this
country as a scholar and q statesman OF
more than ordinary ability and foresight
He has studied the politics, the eduea-
tional system and the social economy OF
the United States with great intelligence,
and is altogether one of the most accom-
plished and progressive men who have
ever risen to power in any country OF
| South America. At the IN OF his
election Colonel Sarmiento was absent
from the Republic, and he resisted all
the entreaties Of his friends to return to
aid the interests Of his election. de had
not set foot upon his native soil for seven
wears. and he was therefore without any
| political party or any pledges OF Pohey
which should lead one class to expect
more at his hands than another.
Mrs. Horace Mann, in the preface to
her translation Of his work entitled " Life
in the Argentine Republic (more fully
noticed in another column, says OF the
new President: All who have followed
the golden thread Of his life through the
chaotic changes that have harassed the
life of the Republic, so determined to be
free and progressive, in spite Of all the
temporary reactions of the barbarie ele-
meDt which has its seat in the peculiar
composition of its society, feel, with him
that it is only by appreciation OF ms mo
tives, sympathy with his aims, and conn
dence in his ability to save them 'front.' the
present threatened anarchy, that he car
have any assurance Of doing good iron
the high position now assigned him tic
has never lattered his countrymep ht
has always recognized the barbarian ten.
denotes which have so often oyerpoWerec
the equally and persistent but vitality
p-ermanent influences of civilization, ant
he has been equally assiduous IN has EN-
deayors to rouse them from the apathy
inherent. as it were, in a Spanish and a
the same time priest-ridden community
hut ever Cordova. the City of Priests,
anchored il conservatism by the very
character of its extraordinary university
culture. looks to him now as the only
salvation for the nation.
Although a man Of decided military
ability, as has been proven at various
times when patriotism has called him t.
1.-The field, Colonel Sarmiento is eminently
a man of peace, and during a long eztl'
Of twenty years, as well as in his subse.
oueut brilliant career as Chief Of the De
partment of Schools, Senator, Minlste.
of State. and Governor Of his native
/ province, in his diplomatic missions t.
!, Chile. Peru, and the United States, h
/ has had but n watchword: The kdu
cation of the People.
The events in the life OF oarmiento
|, which read like a romance, prove that IA
is a man of nerve and extraordinary our
; ace. May he succeed in making m
/ country a Republic in fact. The people
: of the United States can hardly be IN
different spectators Of his efforts to MAKE
a country of freedom in South America
3 a worthy rival Of their own.