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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-05-12
LOS G0BIERNOS.

Ell orgullo de las generaciones de
este siglo es un velo que ha ocultado
y desfgurado todas las pasadas ms
tituciones. Religion, leyes gobier-
nos, todo ha sido puesto en- tela de
juicio, todo ha sido despreciado. Juz-
gando con ideas de esta 6poca los
successes de otros tiempos Sc han con-
denado, sin Or mas que la garrula
contemporaries, hombres y hechos
que hoy estan lejos de toda exacta
appreciation. Hoy Sc anuncian con
pedantesco alarde historias de reyes,
de papas, de la inquisicion Ga es-
critas por hombres sin conciencia,
ciegos de parcialidad, desprovistos
de documentos y de estudios ade-
cuados; hombres que acusan de en-
baucadores q respetabilisimas enti-
dades hist6ricas, siendo asf que los
tales escritores no pretenden otra CO.
sa que arrancar al pueblo de los alta
res, hacerle aborrecer los tronos y
toda autoridad para que ese pueblo
que dicen explotado coloque 4 sus
regeneradores en- lugar del Dios que
llaman fdolo, en- vez de los reyes
que llaman tiranos.
Lectores ignorantes hay que sin
nociones de la historic, que sin an
tecedentes del autor, leen una de
esas famantes historias inspiradas
por las inparciales plumas de los de-
magogos cuyo empeno es demolerlo
todo, cuyo obieto es descarriar la
opinion pdblica sobre asuntos i'm
portantlsimos que tienen en- su abo-
no la fe de los siglos, esa f6 que ra-
ra vez otorga el tempo a la menti-
ra; y Green estos candidos lectores
al pie de la letra cuanto ven escrito,
y forman juicio sobre libros que son
ibelos, sobre datos que son calum-
Mas. Para juzgar de un ibro, para
darle algun cr6dito es menester te-
ner presente- EN- primer lugar qui6n
es y que fin Sc propone su autor. An
tes de leer una historic, dice Bal
mes, es muy importante leer la vida
del historiador Nosotros que quere
mos la instruction extensa, ili1nita-
da y general porque con ella Sc
forman pueblos como ell aleman y
ell americana, tememos mucho a la
ignorancia instruida; 4 esos sabios
de nuevo cu1lo que porque leyeron
cuatro autores de moda y estan sus-
critos a cuatro peri6dicos de partido,
Sc juzgan va maestros de la huma-
nidad, capaces de fallar sobre las
mas arduas y complejas cuestiones
sociales y politicas. Un necio que
Sc cree un genio, que cree haber
visto mas en- el reducido espacio de
SUI vida miope que la humanidad to-
da en- su dilatada peregrinacion q
trav@s de los siglos, es hombre mas
peligroso que ell que todo 10 ignora,
que ell que s1nceramente sc confesa
asf mismo que NADIA sabe. Peri6-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-05-12

- A las dos concluia Marta de yestirse.l
Ienla puesto un vestido de CASA de tafe-.
tan blanco, con adornos fgurando cisnss
y botones esmaltados de colores en- forma
de dc escudos de armas,- colocados en- el ta.,
lie y en- las mangas. IL a,.a aia
Su precioso cabello estaba envuelto al
rededor de cabeza fernando una tlia--.
denla que una reina lie, habria envidiado.
Sus plececitos desaparecian q medias en-
unas pantuflas de seda- color de violeta 3
guarnecidas con nudellos de plata, FT
(QMtifNal I
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-05-12

dicos hay de esos jocosos que ha-
cen entire las masas ell mismo pa
pei de bufones, hoy que la sobera-
MIA esta en- las masas, que ell que ha-
clan aquellos juglares de la edad
media con los reyes y los senores
feudales; peri6dicos que, adulando &
las turbas y dando pabulo q sus ma
las pasiones como los expresados bu-
fones de antano 10 hacfan con los
grandes, Sc engalanan con poesfas
sobIe a'monias clerica7es, sobre pre-
tendidas expoliaciones del Papa, de
los monarcas y de otras atlas per-
sonalidades, al par que ensalzan la
m0deracion de los coneuneros de Pa
ris, que no han hecho uso de la gui-
ilotina.
Uno de los temas favoritos de los
noveles hombres de estado, 10 cons
tituye la discussion sobre los diferen.
tes sistemas de gobierno. Pocas ra-
zones les bastan para probar que to-
dos los gobiernos son malos excep-
to Ell republicano, que ofrece ancho
campo a la ambicion de las nulidades.
Y como sobre este punto de que tam
to Sc habla es justamente aquel de
que menos Sc suele escribir, vamos
4 dar sobre Gl nuestro humilde pare
Ger, quiza desacertado pero no apa-
sionadO.
Creemos que asi como no hay YES
tido que venga bien q todas las per-
sonas, asf tampoco existe un sistema
de gobierno que sea conveniente 4
todas las naciones. Querer trasplan-
tar a Espana ell regimen intacto por
ell que con tan buen tino Sc gobier-
ma la Gran Bretana, querer estable-
Ger en- Venezuela las instituciones
de los Estados Unidos, querer i'm
plantar ell la trastornada Francia las
leyes por que Sc rige la Russia, que
rer, Ell una palabra, hacer prosperar
I'm pals con CONSTITUENCIES ex6ticas,
buscar una formula de gobernar que
sea aceptada y provochosa a todos
los palses, como pretenden muchos,
es tan absurdo, tan vano, como ell
fantasma de los alquimistas de los
pasados tiempos que tanto trabajaron
para hallar la sonada piedra floso-
fal. No hay sistema de gobierno per-
tecto nj enteramente malo. Cada uno
tlene su epoca y sus pueblos. Ell sis
tema teocratico, hoy va impossible,
hizo mas bien, mil veces mas bien 4
la humanidad, que ha podido nacer
todav1a ell sistema democratico. Des-
quiciada la sociedad civilizada con
la caida de una civilization pagana,
de una civilization material parcel
da a la que no ha mucho ostentaba
la Francia, la ley de la fuerza procla
mazda por los ind6mitos invasores
del norte, Sc abrla paso casi sin es-
torbo hasta las puertas mismas de
aquella Roma que habia sojuzgado
el mundo: los soberbios castillos, los
palacios de los grandes
venian al suelo 8 ADRIAN sus puertas
ante los barbaros conquistadores. Pc
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-05-12

siete siglos de combates, SUI triunfo
de Lepanto, ''la mas alta OCCASION
que vieron los siglos pasados, los
presentes, nj esperan yer los veni-
deros" y nuestros triunfos 6picos de
la conquista de America, seria suf-
ciente para que, como espanoles,
recordasemos con veneracion la in
fuencia benefca que di6 tantos dias
de grandeza q la Patria.
Ell sistema absolutista ha sido
tambien calumniado las mas de las
veces por no conocer bien nj ell sis
tema, nj los tiempos, nj los pueblos
en- que ha dado buenos resultados,
en- que ha sido ell Gnico modo de 60
bernar possible.
ST a bordo de I'm buque hay una
tripulacion de pilotos exclusivamen-
te, sin marinerfa ignorante, una ma
yor1a de hombres versados en- todos
los secretos de la nautica, justo es
que ell captain consulte, 81 hay ITEM
po para clio, la general opinion de
los marinos todos de SUI barco antes
de resolverse 4 hacer una maniobra
importante y peligrosa, y ejecutar
10 que el mayor n1mero de votos
decida; pero 81 4 bordo no hay mas
que ely su photo inteligentes en-
hidrografla, astronomfa y demas CO.
nocimientos anexos al arte de nave
gar 5hara bien, sera prudente, que
someta la direction del buque & 10
que opinen los mas de Ia ignorante
marinerla? mo Sc perderia ell bajel
81 81 no asumiese, solo 6 con ell pilo-
to, la direction entera de la embar-
cacion? Creemos que no habra nadie
tan insensato que no crea que q toda
la tripulacion convene dejar al capt.
tan que dicte solo sus 6rdenes y sea
ell jefe absolute { indiscutible del
barco: Pues este pasa con los gobier-
nos democraticos, va sean monar-
quicos, va republicanos. Para I'm
pueblo generalmente instruido, mo-
rigerado y rico de virtudes, ell go
bierno mas liberal, aquel en- que ma
yor n6mero de individuos interven-
ga, es indudablemente ell mejor 90
bierno, va este este presidido por
I'm rey dem6crata como ell de B6Igi-
ca, va por un presidente como ell de
los Estados -Unidos. Para un pueblo
en- que la generalidad carece de ms
truccion moral y religiosa, ell go
bierno restrictive, es el mejor posi-
BILE. 81 NAL no esta, pues, tanto en-
los sistemas de gobierno como en-
las condolences del pueblo goberna-
do. No hay sistema absolutamente
bueno nj malo de gobernar como
vulgarmente Sc dice, como Green los
que estudian la historic de la Igle-
sia en- los escritos de los que tratan
de destruirla, nj la de los reyes y
sus gobiernos en- los libros de los
que tienen por mission echarlos aba
10, para alzarse ellos sobre las ruinas
de la fanatizada sociedad.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1871-05-12

70 nuDO ClorCOS 6Q11lC1OS COSCOS auu,
81 Sc quiere, porque era nueva la
idea que los habia hecho nacer, a
cuyas puertas Sc detuvieron aquellos
rudos guerreros 4 escuchar palabras
de mansedumbre dichas en- nombre
de una fuerza invisible, pero inven-
chile. Los impetuosos hijos de los hie-
los de Septentrion iban dispuestos a
combatir todos los obstaculos que 4
su triunfante marcha Sc opusieran;
pero no habian previsto aquel: no
iban preparados q emplear su ley, la
fuerza, contra la Iglesia. Lo que no
han hecho los modernos vandalos,
los barbaros de la epoca que no sur
gen del desierto sino de las grandes
ciudades que Sc dicen emporios del
saber y de la civilization actual, 10
hicieron los soldados de Atila. Aque-
Hos barbaros respetaron los minis
tros de un Dios que no conoc1an.
Los barbaros civilizados no respetan
4 los de un Dios en- que no Green.
Contrastes historicos que convene
If notando para que no nos enorgu
llezcamos demasiado de la cultura
puramente materialque hemos alcan-
zadO.
Ell gobierno teocratico-feudal ma
ci6 de una necesidad: naci6 porque
era precise salvar las riquezas inte-
-lectuales que habia acumulado una
civilization Degenerate, ST, pero lar
ga y dif1cil de volverse 4 recorrer
por la humanidad: naci6 porque era
precise que en- medic del fracciona-
miepto territorial que sigui6 & la
desmembracion romano hubiese un
lazo comun, una lengua escrita, un
inter6s general que uniese los rotos
pedazos que antes componfan la gran
nacion, y diese una direction acer-
tada a la progresiva humanidad que
estaba amenazada de retroceder al
salvagismo. Y la Iglesia Sc encarg6
de tan trascendental tarea que con-
sigui6 realizar inspirando sentimien-
tos de virtud y de honor, suavizando
las costumbres, hacienda agradable
el sacrifcio q que 10 mismo corria sin
vacilar ell guerrero en- las Cruzadas
que el sacerdote en- las misiones. Y
en- medic de las tenebrosas revuel-
tas de la edad media, cuando tantos
reyezuelos hacian despedazar los
hombres en- luchas de mezuuinas
ambiciones, cuando no Sc reconocia
autoridad alguna sino la de la espa
da, la voz augusta del pontffce cato
lico alzabase imponente entire ell fra
gor de la pelea y la efusion de sangre
cesaba, y aquellos tiranuelos veian
que habia autoridad aun para ellos.
No queremos extendernos sob1e
un asunto que darla materia q largas
y profundas consideraciones que
llenar1an, no el espacio insignifcante
de un art1culo peri6dico, sino ell
espacio de algunos tomos.
Con solo considerar que q las
ideas inspiradas por ell poder teo-
cratico debe Espana sus triunfos de
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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-27
While LABOR IN SOUTH CAROLINA

The Agricultural and Mechanical So.
ciety of South Carolina seem determined
to introduce reliable labor into the State,
and accordingly we find that n of the
most gigantic enterprises ever undertaken
in the South is now OH foot in Charleston.
As will be seen By an advertisement in
another column, an Immigration AssO-
citation has been organized for the purpose
Of securing settlers upon their lands, and
in order to raise the necessarily large cap
itsl required, they have adopted the OK.
pedient of a series of Gift Concerts, to be-
gin in Charleston, in October; the ticket
holders Of which will be participants in
the grsndest opportunity ever offered to
become rich at a small risk and with q
clear conscience. Tho number of tickets
issued is 10000, and the price is five dol
lars each.
The FIRST prizs is the Academy Of Music,
including stores, music halls, etc, built
at a cost OF $3.50, 600. The second prize is
one hundred thousand dOllsrs In cash, the
third is twenty-five thousand dollars; the
fourth is ten thousand dollars, and the
fifth is FIVE thousand dollars, besides
which, there are twety-fOur hundred gifts
varying from ten to ore thousand dollars.
The scheme has the unqualified indorse-
ment OF the best cltizsns Of South Caro-
Inns, men known in all parts of the United
States.
Generals Butler AMI Gary were both
distinguished officers in the Confederate
%sergics, the former having lost q leg at
Brandy Station, one Of the most holly
contested cavalry fights of the war, Both
belong to old families in Caroline, and
have been doing their best since the
war to restore peace in their State under
the United States Government, General
having been q candidate for Lieu
tensnt-Goyerno under the Reform party,
which acknowledged the political equal
of the races.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-27
PERSONAL.

Colonel w. d. Mann and Colonel Van
Week, Of Mobile, were in the city yester-
day, and left for home in the evening.
we make room for the following with
| pleRsure, not unmixed with regret. Mr..
Vigus has long been connected with the
| educational interests or West Tennessee
and Memphis, and has done so much to
advance them, that we dislike to lose him,
| especially now that they are being so rap
| idiy pushed and are so much in need of
his valuable aid. But since he must go,
we are willing that the new county OF
T~rousdsle shall enjoy what is to be de-
MED US. We hops he will do well, and
that in Huntsville he will find hosts of
friends, whose sympathy will console
him for what he leaves behind. Mr.. vi
| gus has our good wishes and that OF the
community of which, for so long, he has
been one of the ornaments:
Editors AppeoL-Memphis has reason,
almost daily, to regret the loss of some
useful citizen, either by death or other
wise. 1 have Just learned that one of the
educators of our city, Prot. A. S.. Vigus,
who, for twenty years, has trained n
youth in the paths of learning anG Of USE
fulDess, and who discharged his high trust
in a manner most satisfactory to parents
and advantageous to pupils, is about TO
remove from our city and take charge of
the Huntsville Masonic College, Troasdale
county. He has received several calls TO
similar institutions, and has selected this
as situated in the most beautiful and
promising region in the State. Our city
will lose by this a most efficient, thorough
and accomplished professor, who feels the
full measure of his high responsibility,
and who is thoroughly self-trsiDed in his
vocation. We lose much in parting with
snch a teacher; but the beautiful and pic
tuTesque country to which he goes will
profit by this most Valuab accession, as
we'll as by the services of his lady-a
most accomplished and refined Instructor
in art, whose works have commended her
as worthy the patronage of the most taste
full and cultivated people in u city. We
commend Prof. Vigus to the people of
Middle Tennessee as standing at the very
head OF his profession in this country.
T.
We yesterday had the pleasure of meet
ing Mr.. Jocob Frolich, Of the White River
Journal, a gentleman who has been made
to suffer at the hands of the Radicals of
Arkansas. Mr.. Eroiich was an exile in
Canada, for some months, at great cost
and loss, snd has only recently been per-
United to return to Searcy. He is again
at the head of his paper, the last number
OF il bearing evidences of his superior 1
training and skill. We congratulate him
heartily. We have known Frolich for
many years, and can say of him that in ali
the relations of life he is blameless-a
good husband, friend and citizen. The
people Of Searcy could not find his supe-
rior anywhere.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-27
NOn-Rasldant Nntica.

No. S3S, o A. and J. Btu-In the First Chan.
eely Court of Shelby county, State Of Ten.
nessee-Meredtth Yates, complainant, rs.
Parker g.. Evan. The State Of Tennessee,
The Comfy OF Shelby, The City OF Mem
phis, u Y. Il. Brown, survtvinEpartner OF
/ nrm OF T. r. Brown & Co., defendants:
| nN motion Of complainant, by his solicitor,
~ IL appearing from the allegations Of the
said bill, which is sworn to, that the said
Parker &. Evan and T.. E. Brown are nOn-
residents OF the State of Tennessee; thai said
Evan resides in Clarendon, Monroe county,
Arkansas; that said Brown resides in Des-
MONIES, Iowa; that on the 18th day OF June,
r71, a writ OF attachment was Issued in the
above cause, and the sans has been returned
levied on all the interest of said Evan in
that part OF country lot, No. 499, in said
Shelby county, situated on Adams street, in
said city OF Memphis, the same being the
parcel OF land purchased by said EVAN OF
JOIN A. Anderson, trustee, etc by deed re-
corded in Registers ONCE OF said Shelby
county, in Book No. 20, pages AS, ct seqr, and
more particularly described in said bill, to
secure the complainant in about he sum Of
S4722 70, less a credit of about 500 paid on
ground rents, which said sum OF money, It is
alleged In said bill, Is due and win to com.
p~lainant, or to complainant and said State
OF Tennessee, said county of Shelby, said
city of Memphis and said 7. L. Brown, re-
spectiVely. as set forth IN said bill, as and for
the unpaid ground rents, State snd county
and corporation taxes and NicOlsOn nave
ment tax, as set forth in said bill, and due
and owing by said Evan, as assignee OF said
land. the same being a part Of the land de-
missed by william Yates (WhOse sole heir
at-iAW - Inc cOmplalu8nD 70 TnOmaS p.
Carol, by his demise OF June 4, 1855 snd re-
newed thereof OF July 2, 1858, recorded re-
speetively in Registers ONCE OF said Shelby
county, in Book No. 4, pages 10 and II, and
Book No. Il, PIP. lS, ct seqr., and came to
said Evan by mesne assignments, as set
forth in said bill, and that said sum OF money
Is q lien on said Evans said land till paid:
1t is therefore ordered by me, as CLERK
and Master OF said Chaneery Court.
hat said Parker O.. Evan and NJ
=. Brown a their appearance here.
In, at the Court House, IN the city Of
Memphis Tennessee, on or before the drst
Monday In August next, and plead, answer
or demur TO cOmplainant's SAID bill. or tina
viii be taken lOr confessed and set Tor
hearing eXparte as TO them; and thar a eonv
OF this order be published once a week, for
four successive weeks, in the Memphis APP I
peal. This the 18th day Of June, lS1.
a cop attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, Clerk and Master.
BY B. J. BLAcK, d.. @. aud nj.
N. n. Edwards, Sol. for compIt fel7 sat
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-27
TRAGEDY.
Additional Particulars of the ARRAY Near
Kingston, Tennessee --Death Of Cap
tain /. j. Cocker.
rom the KnoxvilIo Press and Herald.

rom the Knoxville Press and Herald
Captain L. J.. Coker, who was shot on
bOfrd the Lucy Cocker, near Kingston, on
Thursday morning, died at five minutes
before 10 O'Clock, yesterday morning.
Captain Cocker was removed to the hotel
ia Loudon during the night, and received
medical attendance, but the wound was
mortal and no earthly aid could a
the life OF the woundsd man. From q
relative of the deceased we learn the fol-
lowing particulars, in addition to the
special dispatch in our issue OF yesterday:
Several weeks ago Captain O. w. Cocker
employed Captain John Fritts as captain
to run the steamer Lucy Coker. Captain
Frltts served in hat capacity about ten
days, when he was discharged by l.. J..
COlkers n Of the owners of the boat.
Eritts came to this city, after q few
days, and effected a settlement for his ser
vices, with Captain 9. w Coker, By OBJ
tanning sn order on the clerk OF the boat
for the money. On his return 10 the boat
he receieved his money from the clerk.
On Monday, the 10Th inst Fritts and l..
J. Coker met at lockwood Landing,
about twenty miles below Kingston, when
COker claimed that Fritts had drawn dOH-
BILE pay az the books of the boat showed
that he had received the amount due him,
In addition to the sum paid on the order
ofO. W. Coker.
Another version, which we do not vOuch
for, is that the amount charged on the
books against Fritts was claimed by Ccker
a. an offs5tt against a bad trade made by
Fritts while serving az captain of the boat.
During the conversation both men be-
came angry and q personal difficulty en-
sued, in which pistols and an axe were
used. The affray is thus reported in the
LoudOn Star, of yesterday:
A. rather serious difficulty Is said to have
occurred at lockwood, on Monday. be-
tween Capt. John Fritts and Capt. l.. j..
COl,er, both river men. During the fight
which ensued, Capt. VIM. Ferguson, who
interfered to prevent bloodshed, received
a severe cut on the arm from an ak in ne
hands of Capt. Fritts. He was the only
one much injured in the encounter.
The parties did not meet again until
Thursday morning, when the tragedy oe-
CURED, as detailed in our issue OF yester-
day morning.
The deceased was conscious of the severe
nature of the wound, and though at times
he suffered paroxysms of pain, yet he was
able to recognize his friends. His wife
and brother arrived at the bedside about
six hours before he died. During the
morning he made his will; giving, as we
learn, his interest in the Lucy Cocker farm
to his brother 70. W. Coker), a fam known
as the Cox Place, to DO used in liquidating
his debts, and the remainder of mis- effects
to his wife, with the exception of $1,000,
which he desired should be offered as a re-
ward for the apprehension of Capt. John
Fritts.