Recurso al Tribunal de la Opinión Pública (...). 1830.

Recurso al Tribunal de la Opinión Pública, que en justificación de su Conducta Oficial hacen los individuos, que compusieron la Comisión Mediadora, Enviada por el Exmo. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, cerca de los Beligerantes del Interior, con el objeto de negociar la terminación de la Guerra Civil. Buenos Aires: Imprenta Republicana. (1830)

Octavo, (19 x 13.2 cm / 7.48 x 5.19 in), 32 pp., (Includes Title page, blank), XXXI pp., With eleven documents. Cloth binding, leather spine and gilded titles. Good copy. Not in Suarez. Not in Palau. Bohdziewick, pp. 186 to 189.

After the War with Brazil in 1828, the National Army headed by Juan Lavalle returned to Buenos Aires and revolted against the government of Colonel Manuel Dorrego, insubordination that led to his execution. Days later, General Paz arrived in Buenos Aires, who took over the Ministry of War from the unitary government of Lavalle and shortly afterwards left again with his troops for Córdoba, with the purpose of submitting the interior provinces to the new regime.

Bustos, federal governor of Córdoba, having news of the proximity of General Paz's army, withdrew with his forces from the city, leaving it unguarded, and moved to the campaign seeking refuge among the mountains. Paz took possession of Córdoba and sent emissaries to Bustos to agree on the bases of a peace treaty and recognition of his authority. But in the middle of negotiations and intrigues, he defeated him almost without fighting and Bustos was forced to flee seeking the protection of Facundo Quiroga's troops.

These episodes were followed by a period of calm, broken by the attitude of La Rioja, Catamarca and Cuyo, who, influenced by Facundo Quiroga, organized an army and launched themselves against Córdoba, but with adverse luck: they were defeated in the battle of La Tablada. Faced with this event, the government of Santa Fe interposed its mediation, accepted by Córdoba, which suspended all hostility and limited itself to defending its territory.

In those scrambles, the Buenos Aires government, already headed by Juan Manuel de Rosas, spoke out in favor of peace, sending a Mediator Commission made up of its ministers Pedro Feliciano de Cavia and Juan José Cernadas. The Commission was gratefully admitted to Córdoba, but upon intercepting its letters addressed to former Governor Bustos, revealing that the commissioners were acting in bad faith favoring Quiroga, the situation became critical.

In the brochure that is offered, the authors —Cavia and Juan José Cernadas— intend to provide the data and elements of judgment necessary for public opinion to be able to judge with justification the reciprocal accusations between the government of Córdoba and said Mediating Commission. The brochure encloses an appendix with the transcription of numerous documents.

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