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Carlos Pellegrini Argentine Nationalist (1846-1906)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John E. Hodge*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina

Extract

Prominent among nineteenth century Argentine politicians, Carlos Pellegrini is best remembered today as the harassed chief executive who inherited the mantle of Miguel Juárez Celman and the challenges of the terrible depression following the “Revolution of ’90.” He is likewise recalled as the ardent defender of Argentina's obligations to its foreign creditors at a time when European investors were being blamed for most of the ills besetting his country. Less well known, however, are his views on the subject of national unity and his untiring efforts, primarily in the Argentine Congress, to sell his countrymen on the dream of a unified Argentina devoid of exaggerated local and provincial loyalties.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1966

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References

1 The statement, found in certain English works, that Pellegrini was educated at Harrow is incorrect. Headmaster's Secretary, Harrow School, to the author, October 24, 1961.

2 Congreso Nacional, Diario de la Cámara de Senadores (hereinafter cited as Diario de Senadores), 1881, I, 603.

3 “Sobre instrucción pública”, printed in [Carlos] Pellegrini, Obras (Buenos Aires: Imprenta y Casa Editora “Coni”, 1941), III, 1-18.

4 In his impressionistic work, Treinta años después, originally published in 1896, reprinted in Obras, III, 257-276.

5 Obras, I, 332.

6 Congreso Nacional, Diario de la Cámara de Diputados (hereinafter cited as Diario de Diputados), 1876, p. 419.

7 Ibid., p. 443.

8 Ibid., 1878, p. 581.

9 The matter was debated off and on in both houses from 1875 through 1879. The journals of both houses include the debates and many pertinent documents.

10 Diario de Diputados, 1879, p. 543.

11 Diario de Senadores, 1881, I, 23.

12 Ibid., pp. 58-60.

13 Ibid., 1882, pp. 136-139.

14 Ibid., p. 713.

15 Ibid., 1881, p. 603.

16 The complete message to Congress and the nation regarding the assumption of these debts is printed in United States Consular Reports (Washington: Government Printing Office, No. 124, January 1891), pp. 78-79.

17 For a brief account of the founding of the bank see Williams, John H., Argentine International Trade under Inconvertible Paper Money 1880-1900 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920), pp. 130132.Google Scholar

18 Mabragaña, Heraclio, Editor, Los mensajes. Historia del desenvolvimiento de la nación argentina, redactada cronológicamente por sus gobernantes, 1810-1910 (Buenos Aires: Talleres gráficos de la Compañía gral. de fósforos, 1910), V, 3.Google Scholar

19 Diario de Senadores, 1900, p. 59.

20 “Segunda carta norteamericana”, in La Nación, December 19, 1904.