The record-union., 1898-08-02
WASSERMAN, DAVIS & co.
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
How Spain Was Driven From Her
South American Colonv.

There was from the first a very great
| difference between the colonizing of
South and North America. The one was
| settled by Adventures, the other by
sober and GCd-fearing Puritans. With
| out instituting any ungenerOus COM
| parison between puritanic and some
times fanatical Professionalism, and that
picturesque Catholicism which appears
to have allowed so much license of life
| it is impossible to doubt for a moment
which proved the best and surest foun-
| datiOn for the building up of a nation.
| The one tended to permanency, the
other to decay. Spain, as the result
of brilliant daring and unscrupulous
valor, gained a hold of South America
which promised to bring her ever-in-
creasing wealth and prosperity: but
that hold grew weaker and weaker One
by one the rich southern States slipped
from her grasp, and she has left little
behind her but memories of corruption
and impotence.
With regard to the Vtreynato de
BuenCs Ayres, which we now know as
the Argentine Republic, it is interesting
10 note that England had an influence
indirectly, in the gaining of her inde-
pendence. Spains rule had proved to
DC tAc Iule VI iIiC ldA-SdtIeIGI, OF
| rather of the extortioner. The first
struggle on the part of Buenos Ayres
was brought about in the following
manner Britain was at war with
Spain, in the early days of this cen
tury, and as a means of harassing her
enemy abroad the British Government
sent a small force to Buenos Ayres,
under command of Lord Beresford 1T
was easy for the British to take pos
session, but not easy to keep. After
holding the city for two months, Ber-
esford suffered defeat at the hands of
General LINERS, who, on his own be-
half, had organized the natives. with
out assistance from the Madrid DOW
ers. The Spanish Viceroy had. in fact,
fled on the approach of the British. and
it was by their own endeavors that the
inha btants drove out our forces. Eng
lands efforts in the matter were prob
ably half-hearted, her chief desire being
to annoy Spain; and second force sent
against BuenOS Ayres was served in like
manner TO the first, for the natives had
begun to feel their strength, and had
become self-reliant. This is the ex-
planation why certain British flags ap-
pear to this day the walls of the ca
thedral of the southern city. Britain
reaped little glory, and nothing more
solid. from this abOrtive attempt.
1t was their success against the Brit
ish that led the people of Buenos Ayres
to think they might be equally lucky
against Spain. The armies of Napo-
leon were overrunning Spain, and the
time seemed ripe for striking. In May.
1910, the people assembled in their chief
town, declared their purpose. compelled
the resignati tion of the Viceroy, and es-
tablished a junta which. at first, pro-
posed to govern in the name of the
Spanish King. Spain was busily en-
gagged at the time, struggling hard to
keep her hold on Brazil, Peru, Chile
and others of the southern States that
were aspiring towards liberty; and be-
fore long the junta made no aurther
pretense of serving in the Kings name.
| The main thing to do was to overpoWer
Montevideo, where the Spanish power
was firmly established; and this was
a last effected Even then the strug-
/ gle was not over. and it might possibly
have had a different ending but for the
| coming of deliverer in the person of
| General San Martin. by whose skill and
bravery the Spaniards were defeated in
several different places. 1t was through