Memoirs of General Miller: In the Service of the Republic of Peru, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829 - Peru |
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Page 463 - 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.
Page 470 - ... one another are the significant advantages that work in favor of royal authority, thereby rendering it almost unlimited. Consequently, the significance of these same advantages should serve to justify the necessity of investing the chief magistrate of a republic with a greater measure of authority than that possessed by a constitutional prince. A republican magistrate is an individual set apart from society, charged with checking the impulse of the people toward license and the propensity of...
Page 488 - Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us, in such a contest." (A contest with insurgent slaves.) — Jefferson. "Slavery is the infringement of all laws — a law having a. tendency to preserve slavery, would be the grossest sacrilege.
Page 489 - Legislators ! I shall make mention of an article, which in my conscience I ought to have omitted. No religious creed or profession should be prescribed in a political constitution...
Page 147 - Depots of provisions and forage were secreted in mountain caverns, formed by the galleries of exhausted miners. Some of these depots were established within the line of country nominally possessed by the Royalists. That near Pachia, and on the same bank of the Rio Grande, was only eight leagues from Tarma. The entrance of the cave was in the perpendicular side of a cliff fifty or sixty feet from the ground, and as many from the top. The only way to get up was by the assistance of a rope fixed in...
Page 465 - I refer solely to the democratical part of it ; and in truth it may be denominated a monarchy in system, in which is acknowledged the sovereignty of the people, the division and equilibrium of power, civil freedom, liberty of conscience, and of the press, and every thing that is sublime in politics. A greater degree of liberty cannot be enjoyed in any kind of republic, and it may indeed claim a higher rank in social order. I recommend that constitution as the best model to those who aspire to the...
Page 197 - At the important moment of the battle, just described, he opened a heavy fire from four field-pieces and a battalion in extended files. By this, he obliged two battalions of the Peruvian division La Mar to fall back. The Colombian battalion Bargas, sent to support the Peruvian division, also began to give way. Two royalist battalions crossed the deep ravine, already spoken of, on the left, and advanced in double quick time in pursuit of the retiring patriots.
Page 479 - I have dared to address to 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 cause equality and liberty to triumph. Gentlemen! Commence your duties : I have finished mine.
Page 471 - ... arising from our recent situation, from the state of warfare we have been suffering under, and from the kind of foreign and domestic enemies we have had to deal with, and with whom we shall still have to contend for a length of time. Let the legislative power resign the attributes belonging to the executive, and acquire nevertheless fresh consistency, and fresh influence in the equilibrium of authority. Let the courts of justice be reformed by the permanency and independence of the judges, by...
Page 195 - This was a moment of extraordinary interest. It appeared as though respiration were suspended by feelings of anxiety, mingled with doubts and hope. " It was during this operation, which had an imposing effect, that General Sucre rode along his own line, and, addressing a few emphatic words to each corps, recalled to memory its former achievements. He then placed himself in a central point, in front of his line, and in an inspiring tone of voice, said,