“MONSTROUS AND ILLEGAL PROCEEDINGS”: LAW ...
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esource to challenge those outcomes. For Salto’s colorados, establishing connections with prominent Brazilian elites across the border offered a mechanism to bolster their position in the clashes to control their local courthouse. The peripheral legal relationships critical to securing property claims in local fora on either side of the border were again setting the stage for renewed violence across the borderlands. Canabarro again provides a good example of the ebb and flow of these legal struggles over private law rights on both sides of the border. As his personal conflicts with the Ribeiros heated up in Alegrete in the early 1860s, Canabarro began to intervene aggressively in property disputes in Uruguay. The Brazilian commander offered assistance to a number of merchants based in Alegrete throughout the early 1860s in property and commercial disputes across the border. For example, Canabarro aided José Gonçalves Vianna, a merchant in Alegrete, in securing several contested tracts of land around the Uruguayan city of Tacuarembó. 156 Vianna represented precisely the type of ally Canabarro needed in his struggle with the Ribeiros in Alegrete. Although born in Portugal, Vianna had lived most of his life in Alegrete. He had operated a commercial house in the town since the 1830s. He further possessed trading ties to merchants up and down the Uruguay River through a partnership with another Alegrete merchant, Manuel Manjardim. 157 In connection with his commercial operations, Vianna had also provided testimony as an “honorable 156 Uruguay, Documentos Oficiales Justicativos de la Conducta de las Autoridades Departamentales de la República Oriental del Uruguay Contra las Acusaciones de la Camaras Brasileiras (Montevideo: Imprenta de El Pais, 1864), 33-34. 157 These ties included cities like Gualeguaychú in Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, as well as nearby Uruguaiana and Salto. APRGS. Alegrete. Tabelionato. Registros Diversos, Lançamento de uma carta de Antonio Cabrera dirigida a José Gonçalves Vianna (July 5, 1853), 24-24bis; APRGS. Alegrete. Tabelionato. Registros Diversos, Lançamento de um Recibo passado por Antonio Manjardim a José Gonçalves Vianna (July 5, 1853), 24bis-25bis; APRGS. Alegrete. Tabelionato. Registros Diversos, Lançamento de huma convenção e quitação extrajudicial passada por Manuel Lopes Manjardim a José Gonçalves Vianna (July 5, 1853), 25bis. 222
vizinho” in Alegrete’s courts on several occasions. 158 He perhaps also bore a grudge against the Ribeiros. Vianna had been a business partner with Francisco Paulo Rocha, Alegrete’s public notary until his 1852 murder. 159 As we saw in the last chapter, Canabarro’s faction had repeatedly accused Teixeira and the Ribeiros of orchestrating the killing. Both Canabarro and Vianna, therefore, had ample reasons to forge a mutually beneficial alliance to resolve various legal disputes and questions stretching from Alegrete across the borderlands. To sustain relationships like the one with Vianna, Canabarro necessarily became embroiled in disputes over property rights in the Estado Oriental. As it had in the dispute between Lima and da Silva, Canabarro’s aid to Vianna bolstered the reciprocal ties between the two men. These could then be deployed back in Alegrete’s courthouse if and when the need arose. Canabarro similarly intervened in the 1852 dispute between Manuel Policarpo Tavarez and Alejandro Antonio da Roza. 160 In that case, Tavarez had used his connections to the colorado faction in Salto to secure a verdict for 336 head of cattle. As a result of the verdict, Antonio Fernandez de Lima, a Brazilian military commander and Canabarro ally, had lost cattle promised to him by da Roza. Canabarro sprung into action. He used his political influence to block a subsequent sale of cattle to Miguel Gelabert, a correntino merchant, until Tavarez made Fernandez whole by tendering several head of cattle to him. 161 Through his actions, Canabarro secured the continued support of an important military ally. 158 Camillo Lilles Rodrigues c. O Procurador Fiscal Antonio Peixoto do Prado, por parte da Fazenda Nacional, APRGS. Alegrete. Cartório Civil e Crime. Ações Ordinários, Maço 33, No. 764 (1842), 25bis. 159 Antonio Lopes Manjardim c. Antonio Joaquim Barbosa, e outros, APRGS. Alegrete. Cartório Civil e Crime. Ações Ordinarios, Maço 35, No. 833 (1853). 160 D. Manuel Policarpo Tavarez cobrando 800 reses a D. Alejandro Antonio da Roza. 161 AGPC. Fondo Mantilla. Archivo Valdéz, v. 18, Miguel Victorín Gelabert al Sor. D. Gregorio Valdés (January 12, 1852). 223
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vizinho” in Alegrete’s courts on several occasions. 158 He perhaps also bore a grudge against<br />
the Ribeiros. Vianna had been a business partner with Francisco Paulo Rocha, Alegrete’s<br />
public notary until his 1852 murder. 159 As we saw in the last chapter, Canabarro’s faction<br />
had repeatedly accused Teixeira and the Ribeiros of orchestrating the killing. Both<br />
Canabarro and Vianna, therefore, had ample reasons to forge a mutually beneficial alliance to<br />
resolve various legal disputes and questions stretching from Alegrete across the borderlands.<br />
To sustain relationships like the one with Vianna, Canabarro necessarily became embroiled<br />
in disputes over property rights in the Estado Oriental. As it had in the dispute between<br />
Lima and da Silva, Canabarro’s aid to Vianna bolstered the reciprocal ties between the two<br />
men. These could then be deployed back in Alegrete’s courthouse if and when the need<br />
arose.<br />
Canabarro similarly intervened in the 1852 dispute between Manuel Policarpo<br />
Tavarez and Alejandro Antonio da Roza. 160 In that case, Tavarez had used his connections<br />
to the colorado faction in Salto to secure a verdict for 336 head of cattle. As a result of the<br />
verdict, Antonio Fernandez de Lima, a Brazilian military commander and Canabarro ally,<br />
had lost cattle promised to him by da Roza. Canabarro sprung into action. He used his<br />
political influence to block a subsequent sale of cattle to Miguel Gelabert, a correntino<br />
merchant, until Tavarez made Fernandez whole by tendering several head of cattle to him. 161<br />
Through his actions, Canabarro secured the continued support of an important military ally.<br />
<br />
158 Camillo Lilles Rodrigues c. O Procurador Fiscal Antonio Peixoto do Prado, por parte da Fazenda<br />
Nacional, APRGS. Alegrete. Cartório Civil e Crime. Ações Ordinários, Maço 33, No. 764<br />
(1842), 25bis.<br />
159 Antonio Lopes Manjardim c. Antonio Joaquim Barbosa, e outros, APRGS. Alegrete. Cartório<br />
Civil e Crime. Ações Ordinarios, Maço 35, No. 833 (1853).<br />
160 D. Manuel Policarpo Tavarez cobrando 800 reses a D. Alejandro Antonio da Roza.<br />
161 AGPC. Fondo Mantilla. Archivo Valdéz, v. 18, Miguel Victorín Gelabert al Sor. D.<br />
Gregorio Valdés (January 12, 1852).<br />
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