Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-09-20
Of new dynasty. established witbou, eur

Ol q dEW oNHabtFs GStAOtsoCO WtthOOs WI
consent. While we avail ourselves OF the
rights of men, which have been withheld
from US by force for more than three centu-
lies. and TO which we are restored BY the
political revolutions in human affairs. We
think it becoming TO state to the world the
reasons bv which we are called to the free
exercise If the sovereign authority.
We deem il unnecessary to insist upon
he unq1, stionablc right which every con-
qaered country holds to restore itself to
liberty and indie pendence We pass over IN
generous silence the hong series OF afhic-
tions, expressions, and privations, 10 which
the fatal law of conquest has indiscriminate-
ly involved the discoveries, conqIerors,
and settlers, OF these countries; whose
condition has been msde wretched by the
ve.y means which should have promoted
their fehcIt, throwing a veil over three
centories Of Spanish dominion IN America,
we shall cobh1e Ourselves TO the narration
of recent and well known facts, which
prove how much we have been afil icted !;
and that we should not he involved IN the
eosmo,ions, disorders, aud conquest.
sskit n have divided SPAN.
The disorders IN Europe had enereased
the evils under which we before sphcred /;
bv ob~tructing complaints and frustrating
che means of redress b, au'horIsiog tbs
governors placed over Us by SpsIn, To in
suit and opprcs, Us ~i'h 'mpuuit'. leaving
us without the protection OF the support oil
the laws
Il is contrary to, the order Of nature, i'm.
prac ticable in relation To the government oi
Spain, and has been most fl cling to A.
m RIGA, that territories SO much more IL.
| tensive, and pcpolation incompsrabfy
more numerous, should be subject aud de.
pendent on pc ninsuLar corner OF the Eur
ropean contipent
he cession and sbdication made at Bay
onne, the trausacti, ms 1T the Escuria and
at Arsoinez and tho orders issuedby the
imperial lieutenant the marsha! the Duke OF
Beige TO America, authorised the exercise
of those rights, which till that period the
Americans had sacrificed to the preseFva.
tin and integrity of the Spanish nation.
|! he people Of Venezuela were the FIRST
who genersil, acknowledged, aud who pre-
tered that integrity, never forsakng the
Interests OF then European brethrsn while
there remained the least prospect OF saliva
ton.
America had acquired new existence;
she was able and was bound to take charge
of her own safet, and prosperity; she was
at liberty to acknowledge or to reject the
authority of king who SO little de-
serving of thai power as to regard his per-
sonal safet, more than that OF the nation
over which he had been placed
All the bourbons who conturred in the
futile stpu'ations OF BA, onne, having with
drawn from the Spanish territory contrary
10 the viii of the people, abrogated, dis-
honored, and trampied upon al the sacred
obligations which they had contracted with
the Spanlards of both worlds, who with
their blood and treasures had placed tnem
on the throne, IN opposition to the { Hs'rts OF
tn house OF Auattia: such conduct has
end,rcd The m unfi, TO rule over tree PEI
Pile, whom they disposed OF like gang CT
slaves.
he intrusive governments which have
arro8 tied TO the mselv the authority which
belongs onl, to the national Representations
trcachp rousl, availcd themselves of tn
knu~n good fallh, the distance. and effects,
which ignorance and oppression had pro.
'iuced among the 4 merr ana, to direct their
passions against the new dynasty which had
been imposed upon Spin, In opposition to
their own principles, kept up me illusion "a
mong,t Us IN favour of fe'd,nand, but on
~ IN order TO be FIJI. our national hopes aud
TO make as WIN greater impun'ty then
prey, ; thew held tostn to US promises of IL
oerty, equality, and fraternity in pcmpous
dlscourses, the more effc,tualiv 70 conceal
the snare which they were ins,dlouol laying
tor us by an Inefficient and degrading shew
OF re presentation.
As soon as the various forms of the Span
| Ish COVE were oveIthrown, aud others
had been SUCCESSFULLY substituted, and i'm.
perious necessity had taught Venezuela to