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Show FON'SKCA'S HLUMIEK. The outlook in lirazil is made more assuring by the overthrow of the dictator. dic-tator. The people have been taught that something more is necessary to self-government than a model constitution. constitu-tion. The lesson will not be without its value ami there is now no occasion to despair of the republic. The great blunder which Fonseoa made was in dissolving the congress and thus virtually assuming thedicta-torship. thedicta-torship. A few months before, having been elected under the new constitution, constitu-tion, he announced at his inauguration that the Uniied States of lirazil had entered en-tered into a legal status; that henceforth hence-forth it would be a free and democratic j government founded on a federative system that made lra.U correspond to its model in North America. This was starting out well enough, but there must have been something radically wrong in the organic law or with the executive chosen to carry it into effect. v about half a year he took it upon himself to declare the congress con-gress ineflieieut, obstructive and factious; fac-tious; that harmonious relations between be-tween the legislative aud executive departments de-partments were impossible, and that congress mubt go and go it did. JIo had no more authority to do this tiiau 1 'resident Hakkison would have to seno : the next congress back to the people should it become troublesome or obstreperous ob-streperous ou his hands. That the Brazilian Bra-zilian people were startled may well be imagined, but they seen to have recovered recov-ered from their da.ed condition. |