The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-26

Colorado party TO action In all the departments and
on the 24th or september, seventy days after the
the proteSs q brazil MADE Them
selves masters Of the situation, the President Giro
being Obliged to take refuge on board OF foreign
There was then proclaimed Q triumysrate to take
charge OF the executive power. This was composed
o. General Rivera VINO was ~ me sms IN Sraz III
death In bed. and Colonel Venanc0 Flores, who, as
Minister OF War, had SO faithfully served his party
and Brazil.
The partisans OF the government new to arms in
the interior and after several encounters with the
Colorado troops, commanded BY Flores, sometimes
conquered, sometimes victorious, they were finally
forced TO abandon the struggle for the reason that
President Giro renounced the Presidency AMI retired
to his own hearth. At the same time Lavaleja and
Rivera died, leaving Flores master OF the situation.
TO strengthen himself he conv0ked an assembly of
his friends and caused himself to be named Briga-
dier General and President OF the republic.
Everything marched to the satisfaction OF Brazil,
which demanded rom Flores the execution of ar
cle four OF the treaty of friendship to effect the en-
trance into Montevideo OF a regular army, which re-
shifted In their garrisonng the capital with the object
OF settling the difficulties arising from the de-
narration OF limits. In effect the Oriental commits
sary who had been obliged to succumb and submit
to the line Of the Chuy. at the Lake Of Merim &C
cording TO the spirit OF the contract invoked the
same doctrine In favor of the republic when they
arrived at the frontier OF the CerrO Largo and cs
pecally at the Rincon de Artegas III the pOlnts the
river Cuarain, which by its name clearly indicated
the possessions and property OF the oriental reDub-
lie. But the empire which ever applies to Its neigh
DOTS TIC INV vi 5LEOuS OVeT UHt weak,
here tne letter OF the treaty and not its spirit count
ing upon the TACT that a government whose exist
ence depended upon Brazilian bayonets in the
capital would have to accept by pleasure
or by force the imperial conditions and such
was the result. The Flores government, which
had solicited and obtained from Brazil sub
sdy for one year OF $50 0oO urged no objection to the
legation and terminating the boundary line in per-
feet agreement between the repnbic and the en-
pre the Brazilian army retired from the country
The discomfort CT the country against the inlQut-
ous administration OF Flores finally became uni
versa The conservatives, fraction OF the Colo
RADIO party which had made the revolution OF July
Is and which found themselves despo led of power
by the fraction Colorado Florisa, or Colorado,
party improving this discredit, pronounced In revo-
luton on the 27th August, 1855 Flores fed TO the
suburbs OF the city, ana then advised that the
Der Of his enemies was small, he gathered some OF
his partisans and prepared To attack The cOnserva-
tives comprehendng the danger called to their aid
the Biancos Of the capital, who seeing In the move
ment sep towards the best interests or the coun
try sustained the revolution and made 1t impossible
for Flores TO make his contemplated assault.
Flores lost without friends or troops, initiated the
conservatives and asked aid from the BlancOs Of the
interior, Offering to them and to General Orbe, who
had arrived from Europe, to call the country to new
elections. portion OF them accepted, and from
that moment Il became easy for the Bancos to domi
nate the position; for the triumph OF the other
bands OF the Coorad0s, momentarily divided, de-
pended upon them. The result was the resignation
OF Flores and the organization OF provisional gov
ernmcnt which was placed in the hands Of Don
Manuel BasiliO Rustamente, an honorable citizen,
who In the month OF November, decreed new eiec-
ton for the organization OF public authority.
Thus terminated the Ominous administration OF
Flores, which only be compared to that OF Gene
raj Rivera in the first constitutional Presidency.
Suffice IL to say that the books OF the Treasury had
disappeared, aud the new administration, finding
everything empty upon all sides had to throw a
veil over the past and abandon the Installation Of
the accounts for the reason that there was no point
OF departure or base in that administrative chaos.
The situation did not suit the conservatives. In
November OF the same year the provisional govern
q was hose 70 1ae ~ e
VOTERS. Conquered and pardoned they accepted
Buenos Ayres as temporary point Of exile. The
Flores, cOunseiled by his adherents Initiated and
celebrated a compact OF union with General Orbe to
the end that the new legislative body and govern
ment which was TO be named might be the true eX-
workings OF bands and circles.
Don Gabriel A. Pereira, a citizen distinguished for
his services to his country. o reputed Colorado on
account OF having filed the 0ffce of Vice President
OF the republic In 1882 and who retired soon after to
private life, now presented a'pOlitcal programme
which filed the public exlgenctes. He offered to
govern according to the constitution, without refer
ence to political parties, whose existence had caused
the fundamental law TO be ignored, and to gather
oil the 0rentals under the nag OF the country.
Known for his indomtabe energy and for his honor.
qualities which had caused him to retire from public
life, both Blancos and Coorados accepted him,
fding in his honor and his word, which had never
On the list OF May 1885, the representatives OF the
people unanimously elected him constitutional Prcsi
dent This election was Nailed wl, jubilee ,.s through
programme, called TO his Cabinet the most istri0us
members OF both parties, confding the public en-
to his political opinions, and leaving to the heads OF
departments the selection Of subalrcrns or conf
The raising Of Pereira to the Chief Maglstracy was
o complete r0ut for the government OF BuenOs
Ayres, which had spent large sums and founded q
newspaper, Ell Me1rurto, In Montevideo, with the
hope OF erecting the nomination OF General O-sar
Diaz, that Minister OF War who declared before
snntsy sha ne %as % sG as
Brazilian treaties. Buenos Ayrcs converted itself
into Revolutionary focus. from which little later
was to leap forth the lame to ktndle new civil war
In Uruguay. All the Oriental dscontents were then
employ ed In the administration or in the army TO
The greater part OF the Colorado party not finding
In President Perera the man Of party whom they ex
pected commenced ensting themselves IN the ranks
OF the c0nspirarOrs. Buen0s Ayres, at that time
segregated from the Argentine republic, sought at
any cost an ally In Montevideo to combat General
vnces which form the rest Of that nation and which
q little later were to attempt the overthrow Of the
rebel State. From here came that decided protec-
ton TO the conservatives and C0lorados, the only
men who reaching power might revive the interests
or the Portehos.
To produce change OF administration number
OF notable conservatives changed their residences
from Bucnos Ayres to Montevide0. Among them
Juan Carlos Gomez. man OF easy language, OF
quick intelligence, and known for his Ideas OF an
nexatiOn OF the Oriental to the Argentine republic,
TO form the United states OF the Rio de In Pata-the
golden dream OF the old Argentine Unitarian party.
Puolic were the banquets given to these birds OF
prey, and statesmen like the reputed Dr. Veez Sars-
field had no embarrassment IN hotly manifesting IN
their toasts the hopes which they founded In the
parricidal mission OF DR.. Gomez.
In the meantime the conspiracy was no secret TO
the Oriental government. IL was 10 be executed In
Montevldeo, where many Of the publi' employees. TO
whom there had been given an unmerited conn
dence, took part In It, On the eve OF the movement,
VIII en- took place under prciext OF popular
gathering I'm the theatre, which IL but ffty PAGES
from the Government House. the President dissolved
the meeting and on the following day exiled the
principal conspirators, who, rs usual. took refuge
In Buen0s Ayres to commence new plottings. In
this act the Executive was seconded by the two
Colorado members OF his cabinet, General san
Vicente and Colonel Batell, the present Incumbent OF
the Presidency OF Uruguay.
This succeeded In November, 1857. The abortive
revolution IN the city caused on the following
MONTH an uprising in the department OF Mlnas or
ganized by the caudillo Brlgido Sveria, and In the
districts OF Durazuo and Florida by the command
ants Cabalero,. Espinoza, Tuas and Pogo.
The rebel forces marched upon the city where the
government alone counted apon few well inten-
TONED Colorados and the youth OF the Blanc0 party
which formed into national guard: for from day to
day came new suspicious Of the completely OF the
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