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Message From the President of the United States at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Fifteenth Congress
Message From the President of the United States at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Fifteenth Congress Author:United States. President Subtitle: ... [together With Documents Referred to in the Message]. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: Printed by E. deKraft Subjects: Argentina History / Latin America / South America History / Americas Law / Reference Political Science / Political Process / General Notes: T... more »his is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The government also substituted moderation for the ancient system, and if the Orientals, with their chief, had been capable ot perceiving the greatest enemy of the country and themselves, to be anarchy, doubtless a reconciliation would have been effected. But experience has shewn, that they had determined to bury themselves in an abjss of evils rather than yield. Without doubt too, general Artigas believed, that a calm would diminish the authority with which he had been invested in tempestuous times. The government, fearful of seeing civil war propagated in the centre of the neighboring provinces, marched troops to Santa Fee, under the command of Don Juan Jose Viamont. This city was a key, with which general Artigas opened at pleasure the door to his seditious communications. In order to remove the distrust, and to prevent the opposition of those in the vicinity of this city, the deputy director promised them perfect liberty, and that the troops should not meddle with their domestic affairs. The death of the governor Candioti, produced much disorder. Contradictory pretensions, well or ill founded, acrimonious debates, stratagems inseparable frompar- Ły. all attended the selection of the lieutenant governor, Don Juan Francisco Tarragona. The city of Santa Fee was much incensed at this appointment. What resulted from it will be seen. Grieved at the m...« less