El zeloso del pais
Subtitle: considerando que Guayaquil por su transformacion se preparó de hecho á toda felicidad consiguiente á su nuevo sistema: detemendose igualmente en los obstaculos que parecen reproducirse, en oposicion de las verdaderas idéas de libertad, se ha animado á publicar el presente rasgo, en que esclusivamente se propone servir esta causa
Publisher: Imprenta de la Ciudad
Published: 1822
Place of publication: Guayaquil
Language: spa
Subjects: Broadsides; History; Politics and government
Other titles: Considerando que Guayaquil por su transformacion se preparó de hecho á toda felicidad consiguiente á su nuevo sistema: detemendose igualmente en los obstaculos que parecen reproducirse, en oposicion de las verdaderas idéas de libertad, se ha animado á publicar el presente rasgo, en que esclusivamente se propone servir esta causa.
Notes: Title from caption and first paragraph of text.

Signed on p. [2]: F. de M.

Imprint from foot of p. [2]

The Republic of Gran Colombia lasted from 1819-1831 and encompassed the present day countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, and parts of northern Peru, western Guyana, and northwest Brazil. Simón Bolívar served as its first president from 1819-1830 from the capital in Bogotá. It dissolved in November of 1831 due to the political differences and tensions among the peoples of the different present day countries, which made up the republic. Elsewhere, F. de. M. writes with his pseudonym "el Zeloso"

This broadsheet, written by someone with only the initials F. de M., was published before the free province of Guayaquil (now called the Guayas) became part of the Republic of Colombia on July 13, 1822. The author argues against Guayaquil becoming an independent nation and states that the only reasonable choice is to join either Peru or Colombia.

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