New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-17

Gov enemy. He thought that should have mac DOM
the will and the power to induce my Government ~
his cause and by active intervention IeScuo
him from the desperate situation into which DIS own
folly and ambition had led him. But as hau
neither the will nor the power he was from VnaU
time accustomed especially IN his maudLn Nus 10
obuse me in the most gross and indecent terms lie
did not allow this TO appear however III his official
relations, and l only learned of 1t long aiterWard
In the desperate attempts recently made 10 1oresta
public opinion as to screen Admiral DAVIS anu MS
inquisitOrs, Ramsey and Kirkland, 1t has been the
policy of Lopez's admirers to represent him as hav-
ing been grossly malgned by me and Others The
statements put forward in his behalf said to be
ON the authority of my successor, Gen.
Mcmahon. But this testimony is only
of negative character. Gen. Mcmahon can
only testify that he didn't see anybody tortured or
executed. Neither did /, and / was in the country
ten times as long as he was. Yet know, as well as
if l had seen it, that thousands of people were IN
humanity tortured and executed by that execrable
monster And all this was DONE too. not for any
crimes committed but to forever silence those whcse
money he had stolen, and to give him the greatest
delight of which his base nature is capable-that OF
inlictng the most internal torture on his helpless
victims. Even Gen. McMadOn admits that this para
gon President killed his bishop and number OF MS
priests but whether he considers the killing OF
priests and bishops the proper diversion for GOOD
Catholic ruler hShas not yet, believe, informed
the public.
The direct and positive testimony is all one way.
All the witnesses competent to give any testimony
from their own knowledge concur In their state
ments regarding Lopezs character, cowardice and
barbarities. An attempt has been made to throw
discredit on the testimony of Messrs. Bliss and Mas
terman on whose memorial to Congress the investl
cation was ordered But their statements are cor
roborated by everybody else who has since escaped
from the monsters grasp. Perhaps If give their
names shall expose them to be slandered and Will
fed as Mr. Bliss has recently been by the friends OF
Lopez in this country.
And here will endeavOr to dispel the illusion
which most people under that the cause OF Lopez
| is the cause of Republicanism against monarchy.
The government of Paraguay, from 1911 till now, has
! been more absolute and despOtic than that OF any
king or emperor in the world and it the inten-
| ton of Lopez on commencing the war to have HIM
self declared Emperor of Paraguay if it should result
favorably to his plans and he could annex SUFFICIENT
territory to his dominiOns to give the country the
appearance on the map, of respectable dimensions
! He once told me that Brazil had encouraged him to
have himself declared Emperor which he said 1T was
perfectly easy for him to do He even instituted an
| "order of merit after tho manner of the French
| Legion of Honor to the highest grade of which
none but crowned heads and hereditary princes were
eligible and it is stated that "a model OF an lmpe-
| rial crown was lately found among some articles OF
furniture of regal magnifcence. ordered by Lopez IN
Paris probably destined to be put in use at his coro-
nation" His hope was that, having once been
acknowledged by His Majesty Don Pedro as his
great and good friend aud brother" the Emperor
| would then become his father-in-law by giving his
| second daughter to share his throne. Oyertures OF
that kind were made, and during the time his hopes
| in that direction were most exalted he was intend
| ing to make his for empire on the Argentine
Republic, and make his territorial acquisitions from
that country But the Emperor who was already
aware of his ferocious disposition, would
sooner have intrusted his daughter to buck
alligator in the river than to the tender
merces of Lopez Greatly to his modification
and SURPRISE therefore he learned through the news
| papers during the Summer of 1854 that the daugh-
tiers of the Emperor were TO be married to the grand
| sons of Louis Philippe. From that time he was
| urged on in his imperial designs by Mrs. Lynch.
This woman, the wife of a surgeon of the French
army, he had picked up in Paris some seventeen
years before. She bore him several children, and
she INDUCED the hope that her might be the sec
ond emperor, and she and her paramour DO the
founders of dynasty.
1t was with such intentions thatIthis champion of
| Republicanism commenced the war without having
given any previous notice, and in manner so saw
age, and in such utter defiance Of the laws of ma
TONS that Brazil could never treat with him with
out mourning deservedly the contempt of the world
| And now wish to give the testimony of some Of
the foreigners who witnesses or victims of Lo
PEGS barbaries Let it not be said this the test
mony of the Brazlans-I give the statements of
| honest, respectable EDglishmen, Germans, and
Others, of what they saw and suffered, and ii any
man shall deny them, have only TO say that he lies
| Mr. R. Won Fisher Trenenfeldt, the builder of tele
graphs in Paraguay, a most reliable and excellent
man. is one Of my witnesses lie was at liberty
when left Paraguay, but when, some weeks later,
! he asked permission to leave the country on an
Italian gunboat that had gone above the blockade,
| be was Immediately arrested as cOnspiratOr, taken
| to headquarters and put his trial. He escaped
| in the battles of December last. He thus describes
! his treatment: II was told that the tri-
bunal had many proofs that / knew all
| about the revolution; that l had received
money from Commandant Fidanza TO maintain that
revolution. denied both accusations which caused
one of the captains to order corporal to bring pair
of letters, which, fortunately, they never put me-
| - The judge assured me that the tribunal is
| perfectly assured of my guilt-that the tribunal
never calls person except he is guilty, to which
| answered that so far as my knowledge goes trib-
unal has right to call any person. but only punish
the guilty. With this the examination had an end,
and was advised to regulate my soul with God, be-
cause my life would be short, and was then taken
again to my prison, and never anything more of
! Judge OF jury have TO state that the Paraguayan
tribunal was not furnished with table, neither pen
ink or paper But you see, dear Sir that have
been the most fortunate of all the prisoners because
they never put me into fetters ROT did they use me
with all the dabolical machines Of the time OF