Roses Tyranny
Address delivered by (Estrada) the Rector of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires before their students the April 24, 1877, during the funeral held in Buenos Aires, victims of tyranny. This speech was taken in shorthand and published in the way they reproduce. We thank Dr. Suarez Herter, teacher of the subject "The ideas and political circumstances at the Faculty of Law at the University of Buenos Aires for providing the text for this publication. Young Students
popular movement that I wanted to associate the school, I never let the political storms thunder breaks the silence of our vigils, involves lessons that come to investigate, driven by the duties, in a paternal way that I link to you, and love eagerness with which I am interested in your future. (Applause) Wretched
people who forget! Those whose heart away the memory of their benefactors, as sepulchral inscriptions erased living in passing, those whose consciousness disappears hatred of great evil, like the fire of a torch lit on the wave abominable! Thank God, because we glorify San Martín, let us give thanks that we defy Rosas, and lift at the altar of Christian prayer for all those who resisted the corruption and fell under the knife!. (Applause)
The people of Argentina rejects the apotheosis of evil. That is the philosophy of the show confrontational and beautiful that we have seen today.
And I say to that end was wicked, and how filthy mire of wickedness did the man whose victims have reminded this morning in the presence of God. Rosas
born of anarchy and all the tyrants that are not conquerors, but no generic concept explains exactly the special nature of anarchy in which it arose. Two movements
society gave to Argentina the revolution of 1810: one end, leading to the political emancipation of America, the other interior and organizational and institutional transformation.
does not penetrate the human eye that holds the future for nations, but even Argentina Republic comes a day after the peaks of power and glory, never our children nor our children's children, outweigh the generation bold, inspired and generous broke up the American family of English-colonial tribe. The revolution was, in this light, fast and triumphantly unwrapped. Horrendous tests
But we have attributed the work, not less fertile, to remake the political society under the rule of republican principles. "The focus was high: those elements of action weak and inconsistent. The mind class thinkers, who rested guide the unexplored trails civic body was seduced by generating theories of French democracy born of his success or turbulent. "The active forces were moved by the passions of envy against the old regime lucky, pride born of the glory won in the battles of independence ambitions, naturally degenerate individuals desire to exalt the outputs heavy crowds within ...
of this inconsistency, and the disproportionate social elements with the intended purpose, was born, along with the revolutionary initiative, discord, insignificant at first, irreducible later, between politics and the wild horde of montonera.
Ten years of work, they were tested in contention statutes springs of government, organization men, repressive violence, tenderness peaceful end in the catastrophe of 1820: the democratic weight drag artificial combinations, and political equality, sovereignty of the number, winning takes precedence over the bloody fratricidal battles dust. (Applause.) What a pleasure omens
immediately soothe the sorrows and singing patriotic fibers. New men in politics, speaking with an accent generous, the swords are broken at the grave of the victims, and emerges as a core that attracts bright and energetic as it is pure and healthy, forgotten complaints yesterday, confessed to the symbol of the Constitutional Republic and moderate. "Then representative government is organized, encouraged industry, credit is given based on the public, attracting European immigration, and encourages youth with a strong hand to growing points of science and the arts.
A supreme crisis paralyzing the upward movement of society. The contentions of the parties out of political theater constitutional and parliamentary and flow into the conspiracy and revenge ... The great vengeance and the great shame is prepared.
The feds had conspired and conspired to turn unit: one appealed to the spear of the leader, the other to the soldier's sword, and the sword of the soldier's head claimed the only Argentine who could break the spear of caudillo. (Loud applause)
Borrego On the tomb stands Roses ... The political development ceases, and a social war begins ... I want to comment repress. Rosas
There are two men: the leader and the tyrant.
-Contemplémosle in his first term. It was a monstrous embodiment of the masses subjugated barbarian (deserting the urban culture was born) for the expression of similar quality and sympathetic to its character and tendencies. He was bold, licentious, cunning. Eclipsed, in the bull fight and dominated the rack, the skill and bravery of the crowd, and sang songs at the campfire ever so wonderful gaucho entity by force and courage. Belial The beauty of watching him. "To drag the gauchos inspirábales hatred: hatred: hatred of the city, against wealth, against culture, against the moral discipline, against all that was different from the barbaric country. Have no doubt: against the dignity of marriage, against domestic honor, against the book that illuminates, comforts against the altar ... On a critical day need comforting ... You know you are looking to acquire examples breath? The savage of the desert and the tiger of the desert! ... And with encouragement and guts of wild tiger in Infanda day he heard the first roar. (Applause)
war against society, I said. The game unit
is already defeated and scattered, and his most illustrious followers, far from home fighting look with pain and disaster. Federal party remains reluctant personal victory Roses, Balcarce, Alcorta, Viamonte, Medrano, have not hidden his face flushed in his torn cloak of patricians. Tyranny needs abjection abjection of the slave who defies the sword, but it pays to whip. "It was necessary to fall in disgrace in the city: the city of 1807, the indomitable center of the revolution, those whose mothers arm arming their children in the heroic days, the stronger of the adversity that enthusiastic about the triumphs and the glory! (Enthusiastic applause)
Society can not be preserved and go without governments, to prostitute them off just societies. Such was the tactic of Roses. Propúsose stubbornly to impossible to establish any government in Buenos Aires. "His strength, on one hand, and secondly, the isolation of the federal party, reduced to impotence, one after the other administrations that followed since 1829, and especially since 1833. Acquired influences individuals emerged from the inner layers of society for a moment that could be handled in the service of higher interest but it took little escape from every direction and work for their own interest, interest outweigh unhealthy. "So governments simultaneously lost moral respectability and elements that support. "The lawlessness is transplanted from the campaign to the city. In the fields, a multitude of subordinate leaders, Instr.mentos Roses, arrogantly flout authority, without law that restrains his caprice. "The urban mass peasant mobs assembled with a break-out of customs and ideas, the generic type of life was in semi-urban, semi rough, slaughterhouses, and the group that encircled the town hoodlum, being the vanguard of the montoneras. Rosas extracted from this fund, with diabolical malice, advanced agents. They formed the nucleus of the abominable Cob remembrance. -Advocated joining Rosas, and outraged society and the law, without the conservative powers of peace and public decency, life and honor the neighborhood strong enough to repress and punish them. Every scandal with impunity, every act of violence tolerated each rush montonera not rejected, every insult and every act of violence supported by the peaceful people, the ruin of every merchant and every owner and every industry, victims of general unrest, the dishonor of each family , the exhaustion of every public man, was a blow to the existence of the law, was a bitterness that popular energy intemperate, a disappointment that unnerved, even corrupt in apathy, and shamefully turn her eyes to all that seemed to be strong in the midst of universal decay ... The only thing Rose was strong ... and lean city ... The city of 1807, the city in 1810 elcuello hands and spread it, and tied barbarian his hands and neck and tied her hands and barbaric stepped on his neck! (Loud applause)
Rosas longer a peasant leader from the infamous referendum of 1835 he raised a throne and humiliate a people. Since that day was a tyrant locked in his obstinate selfishness, idol and sacrificing their own rites.
used the absolute power that gave it an act of abjection, following the background already characterized.
in four words I'll tell you why work could be judged when the Lord saying cowards bent ...
ignored the atrocities of the hordes managed by him in 1830, during his first administration, usurps the authority of the courts and sentence and does execute prisoners, whose trial was pending ... Attracts, pretending to her protector, a more unfortunate Montero, who delivers, by way of recommendation, a death warrant, which was accomplished by the barbarian who received ... Prisoners of warlords 1831 allies are sentenced to death in San Nicolas de los Arroyos, including the ninth Montenegro that followed his father, who died as children die with their parents bitter, their joy of martyrdom, the agony of the father that his son is wrapped in the same shade ... (loud applause) So atrocious
gravitated responsibilities on Roses consciousness when he was exalted omnipotence. I can not paint
tyranny.
The social hierarchy is reversed. Already know that their bloody cooperative unions sought, Solomon and his accomplices wearing military insignia ... Rose had his court intriguing women, who spied families through the servants, and men who still worth less than their spies and courtesans His daughter attended ... African dances to the foot of the Pyramid ... And they loved the unfortunate and poor? ... No, but it was still appropriate to flatter the populace: no, it was necessary to humiliate the eminent social! Bridled a class through poses to ... In the quarter, a penalty arbitrary judges correction in the discipline of rural police, were the lower classes hardness tyrannical instruments that were against the upper classes ... Moreover
. He broke the montoneras fiber, a dagger or poison killed the leaders that the captains disciplined armies, seduced general, armed savage Indians, and drove the poor against the rich, the gaucho against the city, the soldier against the gaucho, and the police against mazorquero, to level everything under the weight of his terrible greatness! (Applause)
whim seized honor in killing his wife whom he had mocked in life, and honor ... a popular abjection. Honored by wearing the livery of the descendants of slaves Moreno. (Enthusiastic applause)
wanted to surround his royal daughter of veneration, and remember having seen in my early childhood, as recalled a dream in which haunt us just fantasy and terror ...
Your parents no doubt you have spoken of the parties parish. Judges, military and horribly young students! The Wives and children of those judges and those soldiers, chariots dragged in the portrait of the tyrant, and placed in the sanctuary, and cowardly priests sang songs to the God of the Holy meekness honoring the implacable monster that exposed the cult of the masses ... (Loud applause)
You know what I mean tyranny served by the betrayal? ... Ah! Little thought is to turn and devour moans ... A word thrown in dreams, when the mind loses the shackles of sense, just to start the parent's home, to immerse in the orphanage and misery of children, women and old !
the universal sacrifice of the dignity of men had a rite: the motto and slogans and cries of extermination that disturbed the silence of the night, embittered parties, school ship went to the rostrum of the priest, ashamed of the chest of men and women's temple and forehead immaculate
children ... And then the terror: the terror methodical and shrewdly prepared for that mixture of tiger and snake ... Rosas
not bloodied by anger, or for sale: the bloodied calculatedly, because it was bad ...
dispensed with the brutalities preceded the dictatorship. Phoenicia In 1840 the period for which it was established, and a revolution, supported by foreign aid, threatening to destroy it ... and gives Dungeon Unleash the law of the seizure, not impoverish the slaughters, and the dispossession and extermination visit all classes of society, the forum, property, commerce, politics, everything that constitutes a guild has a victim, because it is must prove that no one is free of the wrath of the hangman ...
describe to waive the torture suffered by prisoners of the revolutionary armies. In 1842 were shot all those who had not succumbed to pain or shame. I remember how
.- Each group was sentenced to death led to a site where a huge bones for burial to be common. Then they shot them two by two, the survivors threw into the pit the bodies of their comrades, and returned to his funeral operation to be executed in turn to other colleagues who were also buried, and die after ...
In 1842 he played the satanic scenes of 1840, and I have no color or accents to treat box those without such brutality with which the followers of Rosas submitted within the Republic ...
In those lonely places, Avellaneda with the saw torn neck, shouting: "just"! and Buenos Aires the rocket burned mazorquero announced the sale of fruits, pulling carts full of freshly cut heads as a trophy and roses bore the members of the victims that were offered in holocaust! (All right, brave) was considered
After Forever said, came the revolution that gave ground. Twenty arbitrary executions, tested in the process reproduced the terror in 1851 ... I tried to consolidate as in 1840, as in all the critical moments of his life, spreading terror around him.
No tyranny is forgivable. There are, however, designed so that mitigates the horror of posterity, because they have been a violent and brutal way of shaping a society, to hasten a transformation of developing certain element of culture. Pericles and Augustus were despots. Grim tyrant was Louis Eleventh, which, however, destroying the dominion, robusteció legal element in society ...
Rosas Judge for yourself ... "Should you something
Argentina civilization? ... He closed the public treasury to the University and Schools, hospitals and asylums, to the centers of enlightenment and charity centers.
emblazoned be guardian of national honor before the universe led to the Republic the only race that has been embarrassed, and changed to a red rag was waving the flag in all the victories of America (Applause).
Apedillabánle his servants flattering "The Restorer of the Laws", ufanábanse with the public display of their faith federal government and absorbed in his will omnipotent, and blood puddles provinces to bring them under the power his lieutenants, and isolated each of the capital, and mocked its name, its institutions and your children!
called him "Father of the People" and the old peasant leader emptied the fierceness of the enhanced mass as it rises on a monster waves. Sent them to extermination in their battles and vilified in the camps of its committees and the Holy Places Bastille.
His administration was exploitative, sterile policy, his example corruptor. That gentleman was watching formidable
the night, fearful of the knife and sleep ...; lived stunned, lingering like a madman with his fools and the abjection of his courtiers ...
His wit was enough to prepare his ways, to sacrifice their rights, culture and dignity: but nothing I see in their tyranny on the lip off the hatred that followed in life and in death. (Applause). Customized
power, and this reduction of the political movement to the rivalry, personal ambition, this spirit montonero inoculation in the upper regions of the authority, are the most important and lively product of their abominations. Were the sole purpose of his life tyrannized by delight by vocation, driven by organic is not that fate without giving the country the peace that was promised, before carrying from one end to another in the Republic of depravity and iron, destroying all moral and legal conditions on which rests the order of human societies.
Rosas, by its system of government is out of politics, as its moral depravity, is out of humanity. (Applause). After an age
tormented by remorse, if any notion of good and evil in his consciousness survived, has sunk into eternity ...
It begs forgiveness and forgetting is evoked about their crimes, and a unanimous cry execration resounded in the assembly of the people, and a prayer has been raised to heaven in honor and love of the martyrs who sacrificed.
Sorry ... No! Christian charity to forgive which is purified in repentance and sorrow, but the civic conscience will not forgive the tyrants, or death were subtracted from the curse passed on from one age to another age. Rosas, chasing Lavalle's body to enjoy, like a jackal, growling over his flesh decomposed, Rosas, who gave the beating death fetus in the womb of a woman ... there will not be forgiven ... Achieve them God's mercy; but enduringly Argentine generations will curse his works and his grave ... (Enthusiasts applause.) Young
students! Behold the horrible lesson of tyranny to understand that people are drawn depths relaxing on the licenses demagogic extremes of ferocity as they reach the ambitious, overlaying the love of power and glory to the sacred love of the fatherland!
and preserve the sentiment that has made today's breast beating all pure men, "the hatred of the executioner, the gratitude and devotion to the victim! (Applause).
Ah! If I were permitted to instill in your mind those truths, like a light for hours anguish of uncertainty, as a force for the dark times of temptation and struggle, if he could return to the family, and deliver life steeped in these feelings pale and cool on my lips, I exclaimed: non UFOs memory: no, not die at all! (Prolonged applause and cheers.)
