Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-03-14
FROM ANGOSTURA.

the best means of obtaining the most
correct information as regards South
American affairs, we can safely venture
to vouch for the authenticity of what he
relates. Charleston City GGz.
Extract Of letter to the editor, dated st. Tho.
mas, Jan, d, 1890.
Dear Sir--The late memorable cam
paign of the interchangeable Bolivar, to the
kingdom of New Grenada, has long since
undoubtedly been communicated to you
through different channels, and would
be but of little interest to you, for me to
repeat it in detail. The results Of it
however, are, and will be, of such i'm
portance to South America, collectively,
as to redeem millions of her sons, at
period not far distant, from the ignomini-
Gus sceptre of despotsm and cruelty, and
elevate her name to the first dignity
among the civilized nations of the world,
that of free and independent republic.
Yes, the name of Boyaca, like another
Augker's Hill, will be pointed out as the
proud spot where the satellites of Ferdi-
nand and his nefarious tyranny, were con-
quered and BUNDLED by the valor of
American proves, and the victorious
banners of freedom, waved triumphant
over the fallen, degraded standard of
royalty, never more to rise. So fatal
and destructive was this battle to the
Spaniards, that their brave chieftain and
viceroy, Samano, fled with the rapidly
of bird Of the wing from his capital
Santa Fee, on the receipt of the mourn
full intelligence from the battle ground
of Boyaca. The city of St. Fee, shortly
afterwards, received with applause and
shouts of welcome " vivas" the brave and
conquering hero and liberator, Bolivar,
who, with the almost unparalleled
activity ola Bonaparte, marched with his
little band Of patriot warriors, through
country intersected by more than a hun
dred deep rivers, which he had to ford,
overcoming a thousand unforeseen and
heart-rending obstacles, entering into
combat under the most embarrassing
circumstances, defeating regular disci-
plined troops almost double the numbers
of his Trojan followers, and at last ami
hilating the enemy's forces, which were
treble his own, when he undertook that
arduous and glorious campaign for the
liberty of New Grenada, entered its ca
pital in rs days on taking Up his line of
march from Montecal, in Venezuela,
distance of more than 52s leagues.
More than three millions of dollars in
the kings treasury, inclusive of the pri-
vate effects of the enemies to the cause,
were found in metal on the Independents
occupation of that place. The whole of
the Spanish army in New Grenada, with
the exception Of 800 men who effected
their escape from its capital, headed by
the sanguinary Cal2ada, were either ia
ken, or surrendered themselves prison.
ers of war, with their general in chief
Barreyro, and all his staff, officers, sc.
Two very respectable armies were
Immediately embodied, the one for the
south, and the other for the north, to IL
berate the different provinces in New
Grenada and Venezuela, and marched
on the same day (the Goth Sept for their
respective points of operations. After
having established a Professionally 60
vernment in ST. Fee, for the safety of the
kingdom Of Grenada, general Bolivar
left said city at the same time with the
northern army, to place himself at the
head Of the republican corps in the pro-
vince of his native Venezuela, and to
open a vigorous and decisive campaign
against the blood thirsty Morillo, and
thus terminate war of ten years, which
has cost them upwards of $50, 900 souls:
left their country in desolation, and rs
inhabitants overwhelmed with hardships
and misiortunes, without openly having
received the protecting hand of any for
eign nation or power W hatever. 4
The taking of St. Fec by Bolivar, pro-
duced, as if by electricity, general po-
litical revolution throughout that vast
country and before the liberating army
should have reached the capital of any
one of its provinces, its undaunted citi--
zens effected their periidious emancipa-
ton, and hurled the sycophants Of base
monarch from their seats of power, and
restored again to independence the vir
tuous sons of Columbia, awed by the
too successful operations of the expcdi-
ton of Morillo against Carthagena in
1915, which occasioned the melancholy
loss of all that kingdom.
BY the last official accounts, fourteen
provinces were already in the full en-
joyment Of their rights and privileges,
only Carthagena and St. Martha being
in possession of the royalists, which must