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VENEZUELA. 



VERMONT. 



titude of the Chilian envoy utterly prevents the con- 

 tinuance through him of relations of harmony and 

 friendship between Montevideo and Chili, which it 

 is our purpose to consolidate : 



The Provisional Government decrees : 1st. The 

 exequatur of Senor Lastarria is hereby withdrawn. 

 2d. The Minister of Foreign Affairs will explain to 

 the Chilian Government the motives which have re- 

 luctantly called for this measure. 3d. Let the whole 

 correspondence be published, as well as the decree 

 on prizes. (Here follow the signatures of the Gov- 

 ernor and four ministers.) 



The decree relative to prizes prohibits: 1st. 

 The construction of privateers in any port of the 

 republic. 2d. The sale of prizes by either bel- 

 ligerent. 3d. The delay of Chilian or Spanish 

 war-vessels for more than twenty-four hours in 

 any port. 4th. The conveyance of contraband 

 of war in Montevidean bottoms. 5th. The in- 

 tervention of Montevidean citizens for either 

 belligerent. 



V 



VENEZUELA, a republic in South America. 

 President, Ant. Guzman Blanco, elected in 

 1865 Vice-President ; became President in con- 

 sequence of the resignation of President Juan 

 Orisostom*? Falcon. Minister of the United 

 States near the Government of Venezuela, 

 Erastus D. Culver, appointed May, 1862. Min- 

 ister of Venezuela in Washington, Bias Bruzual. 

 Area, 426,712 square miles. Population in 1858, 

 1,565,000. 



In September, 1864, the State of LaGuayana 

 declared itself independent of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment, on account of several measures adopt- 

 ed by the latter. The Federal Government 

 prepared to prevent the secession by force of 

 arms, and declared the mouth of the Orinoco 

 in a state of blockade. The difficulty was, how- 

 ever, peaceably arranged in October, between 

 commissioners of the Government and the State 

 of La Guayana. 



The Federal Congress was opened at Caracas 

 on March 18, 1865. Of twenty States of the 

 Confederation, nineteen voted for the reelection 

 of President Falcon to the presidency. Gen. 

 Falcon entered upon his functions on June 8th. 

 Soon after the President went to Maracaibo, in 

 order to suppress an insurrection instigated by 

 the young General Venancio Pulgar. The lat- 

 ter had, however, been defeated before the 

 arrival of the President, and with difficulty 

 escaped Into the neighboring republic. Tran- 

 quillity having been fully reestablished, the Pres- 

 ident returned to Caracas on July 24th, and 

 entered upon the exercise of his presidential 

 functions. 



VERMONT. The political campaign for 

 1865 opened with the meeting of the Demo- 

 cratic State Convention at Burlington, on June 

 27th. Charles N. Davenport was nominated 

 for Governor, and D. C. Liusley for Lieutenant- 

 Governor ; and a series of resolutions was 

 adopted, of which the following are those re- 

 lating to national affairs : 



Resolved, That we have renewed confidence in and 

 reneration for democratic principles. Because those 

 principles were disregarded, we have been afflicted 

 with one of the worst civil wars that the world has 

 ever known, destroying, probably, a half million 

 of our citizens in the prime of life and the vigor of 

 health, and oppressing us and our posterity with a 

 national debt of more than four thousand millions of 

 dollars, and the consequence of taxation to provide 

 for the same ; and deploring these and other evils to 



the country, which have come upon it in conse- 

 quence of a disregard of the principles of the Na- 

 tional Democratic party, we have to-day renewed our 

 devotion to that party and its principles, as the only 

 basis of national liberty and self-government. 



Resolved, That armed resistance to the General 

 Government having ceased in all the States and 

 Territories, civil law should immediately be restored, 

 not only in the States which have been true to the 

 General Government, and which have been arbitra- 

 rily and unjustly deprived of it, but throughout the 

 whole country. 



Resolved, That this being the military condition 

 of the country, the control of the several States as 

 they existed before the rebellion, should at once be 

 given to the white citizens thereof who have borne 

 true allegiance to the General Government, and 

 those who will now take an oath to hereafter bear 

 true allegiance to the State and national authority. 



Resolved, That believing, with the immortal Doug- 

 las, that the Government of the country was organ- 

 ized for, and should be controlled by, the white race 

 therein, and that the good of all will best be pro- 

 moted by confining the right of suffrage to the white 

 citizens thereof, we are unalterably opposed to con- 

 ferring the right of suffrage upon the ignorant ne- 

 groes of the country. 



Resolved, That in the wise and constitutional pol- 

 icy of President Johnson to restore all the States to 

 their constitutional position, reinvesting them with 

 rights and corresponding duties, and cementing 

 anew the integrity of the Government, we discern a 

 most happy augury that the malignity which strife 

 and collision have engendered may be happily sup- 

 planted by the fraternity which enabled our fathers 

 to form the Constitution and create the Union ; and 

 if, with Jacksonian firmness, he will maintain his 

 policy against the plottings of treason on the one 

 hand, and the raving and ribaldry of fanaticism on 

 the other, we tender to him our earnest and undivided 

 support. 



A motion was made to strike out the word 

 "white" in the fourth resolution, on the 

 ground that it was unnecessary, and would be 

 detrimental to party interests. But after con- 

 siderable discussion, it was decided to make no 

 change in the language of the resolution. 



The Republican call for a Convention invited 

 all freemen of the State who would support the 

 administration of President Johnson, and aid in 

 reestablishing the Federal authority and Gov- 

 ernment over all the States and Territories of 

 the United States, upon the enduring basis of 

 universal freedom, to meet at Montpelier on 

 June 28th. Paul Dillingham was nominated 

 for Governor, and A. B. Gardner for Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor. Among the resolutions adopted 

 by the Convention were the following : 



