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the real culprits , he gathered together some twenty whom he knew to be the worst amongst his subjects , shot half a dozen of them whom he thought the most likely to have committed the crime , and sent the rest as recruits to the army , from which they gradually deserted and returned to their old haunts . And the country-side critics on the
affair pronounced Don Estanislao to be a Gran Justiciary or great ' justice doer / not meaning thereby that he was a great moral agent , but simply that he was , as Prince Henry said to Falstaff , ' a rare hangman . ' - * Justified , ' in Spanish , has the same meaning as amongst the ancient Scottish Borderers when they talked of Jeddart Justice , i . e . Ranged first , and tried afterwards .
There is another paragraph of the same date , stating that Don Felipe Ybarra , Governor of the Province of Santiago del Estero , has published an address calling on all the provinces to join in a sort of crusade against the Indians . This may be a difficult matter to accomplish , for some of the said provinces have a decided advantage in purchasing from the Indians the cattle stolen from their
neighbours . Don Felipe is a tall and rather good looking man , of some forty years of age . He corresponds little with an Englishman ' s notions of a Spanish Governor , being devoid of pomposity , and much preferring poncho and saddle to cloak and caner usually wandering about the streets of his capital city dressed as a gaucho , and provided with a guitar , visiting all the wine houses , and courting all the prettiest girls . In short , he is a sad rake , but not held the less agreeable
on that account , possibly on the principle , that what is generally approved by concurring tastes , must be of good quality . He is considered a good fellow , but he has one defect which , though not very important in his immediate neighbourhood , would not beheld exactly orthodox in an English community . He is apt to take deep revenge for light offences , and that not according to law , but after the simplest mode . In England a man may ruin his enemy according to law , and
enjoy ^ a vast quantity of respectable revenge , but customs differ in different places , and in some parts the knife is preferred . It certainly saves much loss of valuable time , but there is no poignant relish in it compared with that of seeing your enemy die by inches in poverty . Don Felipe Ybarra is , however , a man of considerable genius , and the mode he has hit upon for supplying- his exchequer , betokens a far-sightedness and power of ready adaptation to the wants of the age . The province of
Santiago del Esteio is not very fruitful save in people , and the surplus males commonly betake themselves to the employment of muleteers and cart-drivers . Don Felipe cast about how to turn to his own account the principal production of his territory , and having found , subsequent to the great revolution against the Spanish tyranny , that small revolutions were in constant demand in the neighbouring
provinces , for the purpose of turning one great man out of the governorship , and turning another in , he organized a small body of his subjects as a kind of militia , serving without regular pay , and ready to fight for any one upon a reasonable gratuity being given Thus , when a neighbour had a few thousand dollars to spare , and was willing to barter them for a short-lived authority , Don Felipe could furnish him with an army for the service . Tucuman has been the theatre of much of this kind of business , and the Santiagueno
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Uncivilized Christians and Savage Indians . 857
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 857, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/53/
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