The Republican journal., 1892-06-09

influence with the hundreds of people en-
ployed about the docks, who will soon be
called upon to vote for a legal successor
to the acting Vice President Pexotto. He
declares that he has done nothing secretly
or illegally, but has published his protest
in the newspapers, as did many others,
against the unconstitutional ousting of
the Governors of States; and that he has
also respectfully suggested that Peixotto
ought to make provision for a fair presi-
dental election by the people. He says
he was given no notice whatever of the in
tended arrest, but was hustled on board
the transport ''between two days. en-
tirely unacquainted with the charge
against him and of course, with no chance
to make any defence. To quote Senior
Carvalhu' own words to the L. 5. Consul.
he said. ~ on know that neither Deodora
Fonseca nor the present Vice. Florianna
Peixotto, were elected by the people. Our
Provisional Congress appointed them to
serve only until such time as arrangements
could be perfected fora proper election by
the people: and now that Fonseca is out,
we think that the question OF his success
OF should be left to the people, and the
place not pre- cmpted, rs one might say,
by a Vice, to fill out the uncxpired term.
1t is believed that Congress will pass laws;
authorizing such an election. There is
generally motive for every act; and one
need not look far to discover what prompts
the present government TO arrest Members
of Congress who are opposed to his isul-
pation-or to Danish men who may he able,
in reputable way, to exercise an influence
on the voters who are to be sent to Con
gress.'
1t is well known that Senior Carvalho
cannot be influenced by any intrigue with
Da Fonseca's friends for not long ago he
took personal command OF gunboat in
opposition to that gentleman's pretensons
at Il critical juncture when the short-live
President attempted to dissolve Congress.
In reply to a hint that if these banished
naval and military officers are really guilty
of conspiracy they deserve punishment,
he said: ''To begin with PeiXotto should
be the very first to suffer. While a trust
ed officer of the late Emperor, he was the
head conspirator, in secret, against the En-
pire; afterwards he conspired against his
leader, Deodora Fonseca, whom he had
sworn to sustain; and thirdly, notwith-
standing the solemn oaths of his high
office, he is conspiling against the people
for his own selfish ends.
Some twenty families of the exies have
accompanied their husbands and fathers
to far distant Amazonia, as many noble
Russian women have chosen to follow
their loved ones to Siberia and share their
perls and privations. Among them are
gray haired cid ladies, young matrons
with babies in their arms, blooming girls.
children, nurses and servants, most of
them bearing the indetinable bat unmis-
taxable marks Of culture wealth and re-
finemcnt Tor these eXiles are not from the
ranks OF the fioipolloi, but from the creme
de la creme OF BRAZILIAN alistocracy The
, thing that seems to rankle most in the
minds of the Older men, particularly tie
military and naval officers of high rank, is
what they consider the GROWING Insult and
depreciation OF being sent away under the
guard of a lot of small boys Besides
twenty three cadets from the Military
School of Dom Pedro III and fifteen off
| GERS. the highest of whom has the rank of
second lieutenant, the prisoners are guard
| ed by $40 younger lads, all in their early
teens, who strut about with surprising
/ display Of shirt-cutf, gilt braid and "a
little brief authority" Such grizzled vet
Grams as Field Marshall Barretto, the hero
of hundred hard-tought battles would
infinitely prefer military execution to this
| humiliation and the living graveyard to
which they are being consigned. Had they
| been guilty of any real offence. such as
seeking to originate a conspiracy against
| the Dictator. a more honorable and easy
death might have been their portion But
! they have made no attempt at lnStigating
revolution, it is simply that the usurper
breads their wealth and influence; and
not daring to give them the opportunity
OF legal defence in open trial. by court
marshal OF otherwise, he hulries them oft
| in the darkness of the night, to perish bv
inches in the desert. The cable dispatches,
which have probably conveyed news of
this outrage to the world must not be de-
pended upon to give anything like a true
version OF the affair, because all such com
municationS are under PeiNotto's most
rigid censorship and not a word goes over
the wires detrimental to the interests of
the usurper who bids fair to out Gar the
Car Of all Russas in his arbitrary decrees
No truer words We're ever spoken than
those by Senior Jose Carvalho to the rep
resentatiNe of the United States at Para.
! when he said: "Our people have no proper
conception of a Republic. First we have
40 political education; second. we have
not even Republican ideas: third, we have
not enough patriotism: fourth, there is
too much personality and mercenaly feel
ing: fifth, | am a Naval Officer myself but
contend that the military and navy should
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