Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-10-30


THOS. IlERTTELL.
From the Boston Chronicle ard Patriot.
MARGARITA.
From the Curacao COurant Of 18th
September, received at this Office by the
General Jackson, we extract the follow
ing interesting paper. 1t is headed
Manifesto to an impartial worla.
Since God created the universe, or this
huge abode Of MORALS, from which period
we reckon an interval Of more than six
thousand years, there have been revola-
tons which Rave afflicted it with the de.
struction of the human species.
Venezuela occupies the lat page in
this dismal history. On the 18Th April,
of the year 1910, she tuned the sacred
hymn Of her emancipation, aud among
remarkable eliods, she struggles agains:
The strongest conclusions to obtain it.
Glorious jouraies-briliaat and distir.
gui.hed conflicts are the most irrefrasa-
bic proofs OF Venezuelan valor.
Tie island Of Margarita, one Of the
principal and complete parts Of the cun-
federated states, reared likewise the
standard of honor, and walked upon the
tracks Of her ie!low-citizens.
On the 4th Of May, Of that same year.
she deposcd with the greatest moderation
the Spanish commander; the same who.
a, the entrance of Monteverde, in Ca
racas, had been commissioned 70 afiiict in
the prisons Vt Puerto Cabello, among C.
Their Amei leans, the native; Of Margarita.
CaIthasena supported the cause Of
Venezuela in the year 1915; and lead
er, chosen by the sutf.ages of the people,
marched forward to break asundcr the
chains Of his oppressed brethren.
They all blessed the work Of their IL
berator; but in opening a new campaign,
this same people was doomed again %
suffer mournfui vicissitudes their unfor-
tunate emigration, witnessed by the
windward islands, presents one Of the
most melancholy pictares Of homes. flmi-
lies breathing BY the mercy of foreign ma
tons, whose generosity is stamped IN the
heart of every good American
If Providence. casting an eye of com
passion on their sufitrngs, should one
day grant them the well deserved chart
Of their liberty, that they NAV have a 60
vernment oil their own to secure and pro-
tect the sacred rights Of lnan. they shall
by distinguished benefits require the re
ligious hospitality which has been afford.
ed to them by these fri<Ldly colonies.
The circle OF their revolution is not ye:
closed. This furious vulcan is still emit
ting dreadful flames. The independents
are ambitious Vi their liberty; they de-
mand to hohl seat among nations;-
death cannot discourage them-they look
upon him as relief from ignuminy.
Notwithstanding these liberal ideas,
there are degenerated Americans, who,
STOPPING servilely before the false idols
OF Iberia, have caused innumerable evils
to the soil which gave them birth.
Against these only are directed the
pointed steel Of the ircemen-their name,
are, by an unanimous voice, erased from
the number Of beings who beautity na-
ture.
10 conquer or to die is the alternative
OF the children Of the great Columbia -
although struck by panic, SOME Of the
EASTERN peonle have lately separated fIom
the coalition, while Margarita, amid the
hazards Of war, Iouked ny to them lug a
brave deIeUce vi their country.
The city of Csriaco fell IN manner
not to be conceived, aud her disorders
may infect the adjacent countries. TO
D, eserve that union, on which SO highly
dcpends the safety of the states, Marga-
rita received ia her bosom The supreme
government If Vr,eHleia, coD'oked by
general Murinu; but on the Slst o, May
last, twelve days alter ITS establishment,
il withdrew from Margarita, aud in our
squadron proceeded towards M-!urin -
aud the island 1uctnatins alone, in the
middle of dangers, Jiockaded at ,hattm
by two corveltcs aud five briys, and
threatened by tesh naval foice, far
from dcsroni,ng, confirmed the cath Of