General Urquiza, President of the Argentine Republic, 1858. 'Gen. Urquiza has assisted strenuously to raise the religion of his country from the state of ruin into which it had fallen with the destruction of the Spanish rule in 1810. At the same time he has proclaimed freedom of education, and granted freedom of worship for all is as yet comparatively young, of a strong constitution, [and is] the richest landowner in the Argentine '. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.

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