Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-11-05
TO THE PEOPLE OF QUITO.

A
Inhabitarts If Suito
The fatal moment, so often dreaded BY
h Just and upright, hath At length arrived,
in which the unbridled rare ofyour infamous
tyrants was 10 tear the enIrails OF al Inno-
cent people.
The victims sacrificed to the fury of a
bru,al sodiery too we'll display the wounds
Of bleeding COUNT y-snd he .ssass Nations
Of your citizens, will be the bloody mantle,
carried through the provinces, to arouse .
country to vengeance
Yeyroy and Death have been the measures
res0rted to by cruel and destroying gov
ernment-let Terror and Death be too our
deYice ChaisI and Dungeons have been the
means they have used 10 sllfe the groans
Of humanity, crying for redress let CHAINS
and Dungeons then be the fate OF our op.
pressors
Vainiy hath an angel Of peace, borne on
the wings of desire from Europe, poured
balsaIn into your wounds. Iyrants, al
WAYS naughty, always Insenslhle, are graft
fed with cowardiy triumph. They call
themselves peaceable they are peaceabie
AS the Tiger, with talons still dripping with
the blood of your brethren. Unhappy peo-
pie your misfortunes have aroused the
mild nature Of Americans, & the consuming
fire of vengeance now circulstes IN their
veins. Raise your humbled heads !;
throw off your SaciOth and Ashes (; behold
the first heroes Of our liberty extended in
the dust victims 10 the ferocious monster
whom hell has disgorged for our destruc-
ton Behold the streets they are covered
with the carcasses Of your friends your
wives disgraced your children bulcbered
Behold with shame The Frustrated dIgni-
lies OF Tie man whom you invested with 50
many honors the last year. "A whole coun-
try flies to your aid 1t burns with the ire
olllberly. Heroes spring up in our streets,
and alrcsdy a tyrant exists not IN The north
of our continent The bloody NAMES Of a
Morales, Quiroga, and Salinas, point TO
heir wounds < "cry aloud Tor vengeance !"
Let us avenge ourselves. May the poiluE-
ed blood OF those who irave precipitated
hem to the tomb. glut the soil, stained
with their cruelties and crimes
True copy Of letter from Don Carlos
Montufar, from PoPayon, Of the Goth Aug
u.s..
TORRES, Secretary.
"a COPY Of the same received from Santa
Fe.)
CarthIgena, 18Th September, 1910.
PlNNERES,
REVOLLO, Secretaries
In consequence of the SAID COMMUNICATIONS
the Supreme Juuta assure that Of St Fe,
hat they correspond with them in senti-
ments, and will afford them every assist
-.nce to extcrminate the barbarous authors
TX 50 many atrocities. To the troops in
Quito and the neighbouriag provinces they
send invitation to withdraw their obedience
10 the tyranis of that unhappy soil, and that
for the repose of the souls of the illustrious
victims, who have been sacrificed TO despo.
tlsa, solemn Mass be celebrated, and ]
funeral, 1t which this Janta' shall assist, Al
the members wearing deep mourning fcI
the space ofthree days. The Junt@ pledge,
itself to take whatever steps they may judge
most suitable to foster and sustain Tie HOLY
cause. common 10 all the provinces Of ou
New Kingdom
Carthagens, 18th Sept. 1910.
feSe IEG, a. G,acia de Toledo,
President,
RevoIlo, Pinreyes, Secretaries.