Colombia; siendo una relacion geografica, topografica, agricultural, comerical, politica, &c. de aquel pays, Band 2Baldwin, Cradcok, y Joy, 1822 |
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Angostura Antioquia Apure arms army Article authority battalion Boca Bogota Bolivar cacao cane Caracas Carthagena cause chief coast coffee Colonel colonies colour command commerce Congress Congress of Colombia constitution Coro cotton Creoles Cúcuta cultivation Cumana Cumanacoa Cundinamarca Curaçoa declared decree dispatched ditto dollars duty enemy establish Europe Excellency executive power exportation favourable governor Grenada Guayana Guayra honour hundred independence indigo inhabitants island Junta justice La Guayra land laws leagues Liberator liberty loan Maracaibo ment military Minister Morillo mouth navigation necessary officers Orinoco Paez Pamplona Pasto patriots piastres plant plantations Popayan ports possession pounds Powles present President principles produce province Puerto Cabello Quito received Republic of Colombia respect river royalists Santa Fé Santa Martha senate sent Socorro soil South America Spain Spaniards Spanish sugar Tierra Firme tion tobacco trade tree troops Truxillo Tunja Varinas Venezuela vessels Vice-President
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Seite 723 - It has long been manifest that it would be impossible for Spain to reduce these colonies by force, and equally so that no conditions short of their independence would be satisfactory to them.
Seite 486 - Angostura was invited to open a negotiation for the settlement of differences between the parties, to which it was replied, that they would willingly open the negotiation, provided the acknowledgment of their independence was made its basis, but not otherwise. Of further proceedings between them we are uninformed. No facts are known to this Government, to warrant the belief, that any of the Powers of Europe will take part in the contest; whence, it may be inferred, considering all circumstances,...
Seite 164 - Since my departure from the banks of the Oronoco and the Amazon, a new era unfolds itself in the social state of the nations of the West. The fury of civil discussions will be succeeded by the blessings of peace and a freer development of the arts of industry. The bifurcation of the Oronoco," (the Cassiquiari,) "the isthmus of Tuamini...
Seite 31 - ... diameter ; and the middle one, to which the moving power is applied, turns the other two by means of cogs. Between these rollers, the canes...
Seite 253 - Sir, — Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, your letter of the 8th...
Seite 409 - Legislators ! Condescend to receive, with indulgence, the declaration of my political creed, the highest wishes of my heart, and earnest petition, which, in the name of the people, I have dared to address you. " Vouchsafe to grant to Venezuela a government purely popular, purely just, and purely moral, which will enchain oppression, anarchy, and crime — a government which will cause innocency, philanthropy, and peace to reign— a government which, under the dominion of inexorable laws, will causp...
Seite 386 - ... that happiness consists in the practice of virtue, and that the government of laws is more powerful than that of tyrants, because they are more inflexible, and all ought to submit to their wholesome severity ; that good morals, and not force, constitute the pillars of the law ; and that the exercise of justice is the exercise of liberty. Thus, Legislators ! your undertaking...
Seite 392 - ... purified the air we breathe. Our hands are indeed free, but our hearts are still suffering from the effects of servitude. Man in losing his liberty, says Homer, loses half his spirit. A republican government has been, is, and ought to be that of Venezuela ; its basis ought to be the sovereignty of the people, the division of power, civil liberty, the prohibition of slavery, and the abolition of monarchy and privileges.
Seite 486 - Grenada, the colonies have gained strength and acquired reputation, both for the management of the war, in which they have been successful, and for the order of the internal administration. The late change in the government of Spain, by the re-establishment of the constitution of 1812, is an event which promises to be favourable to the revolution.