Badaró had republican tendencies and used the newspaper to strongly criticise the political situation and the perceived authoritarian policies of emperor Pedro I.

The liberal newspaper had a moderate feature, like the one that Evaristo da Veiga printed in Rio de Janeiro, the Aurora Fluminense.

"Luminaires, bands and more demonstrations of joy practiced by the inhabitants of São Paulo for the overthrow of the tyrant and anti-constitutional government of France", as the Chamber of Constitutional Commission (as it appears in its Annals, 1830, tome II), assumed to the ombudsman Candido Ladislau Japiaçu criminal acts and led him to sue some protesters, preferably young students.

Pedro I lost prestige with facts like this, which demonstrated his authoritarian stance, since the bourgeoisie that supported him in the process of independence wanted to get rid of control of Portugal.

Father Diogo Antônio Feijó , as a member of the Council, took an active part in the deliberations and his initiative were the main measures to seek punishment for the culprits.

The German Stock was convicted of the murder, but Japiaçu the Caligulazinho was acquit His death was caused a great public revolt and outcry, and the emperor was blamed.

A few days after the proclamation of the republic in Brazil by general Deodoro da Fonseca, on 15 November 1889, Badaró was honoured by a public ceremony and his remains were transferred to another cemetery.

The offices were unpopular, though with men of valor sometimes; The prince, since the dissolution of the Ministry on 4 December 1829, when he had dismissed the Marquis of Barbacena, seemed incompatible with the constitutional system.