Dear President,
I read that you and decided to write you, with a bitter warning: the exchanges of ministers are a useless nightmare and, by hand, they are no use.
Imagine that on the morning of July 23, 1890, I woke up well, but I had succeeded me something that had not happened for years. I had dreamed, and badly unfortunately, with the killing of the ministerial organization. In almost 50 years, I’ve been through that 36 times.
That day, if I had not and determined, I would have completed 50 years of reign in our land. The bump of the ministry organization haunted me when I led a life of peace and routine in the French Riviera. My days were timed.
He woke up, read and then took a shower. He walked and, always to the same lady, bought a bouquet of flowers for my daughter Isabel. I had lunch at the hotel, made a few verses, played pool, read again, had tea and went to bed. With such a life, I didn’t dream, but just that night the nightmare of the dull ministerial organization came.
The offices of my reign differ from their own, as president, but in essence they had the same goal: to ensure the majority in parliament.
Certain attitudes of ministers may surprise you. As Caxias told me in 1862, they agree with us during the audiences and then complain in the corridors. I appointed ministers for a folder, asking them to take care of the public good, but once in the chair, they sought to create patotas.
In my time, the parties were just two, with you,. I cannot imagine more infernal situation, but today, as before, everyone expects the current ministry to fall and any of them, rising to power, has ways to easily elect their people.
The other day, I played pool with General João Baptista Figueiredo and he told me a curiosity. In ministerial organizations, everyone offers names of friends, partners, or even bosses, but in his account there was only one case that the citizen offers his own name. It was Roberto Campos, wanting to be Minister from abroad. (Vosmece unfairly implies the.)
Newspapers say that the Lord is locked in conversations about changes in ministry. It does very well, always disguise. I didn’t reveal my thoughts or my notebooks and I even recorded it. I never forgiven Getúlio Vargas for the indiscretion of his diary, either for what he did with the ministers, or the escapidas to see the beloved.
You will move in ministry, but be sure that you will be ahead for your plans. See my case, I had 36 cabinets and everything continued in the same. The great questions of my time, the end of blacks smuggling and the abolition of slavery were resolved by running over the ministry and parliament. The first, by the action of England. The second, by the cry of the world, the streets, the voids of the countryside and the conduct of Isabel.
I say goodbye wishing you success and asking you to take care of your health. I have found him a little warm. The Maia Mota and Charcot, who cared for me, say that the Lord goes well, stressing the danger of the rebate or believing in those who tell us that we can do what we well understand.
Of your Patrick,
Pedro de Alcântara
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