Americanos
Subtitle: El orden politico del otro hemisferio ha reducido la España á ser victima de la prefidia y la opresion; y este pueblo generoso conducido de uno en otro infortunio va ya á ser borrado del catalogo de la naciones, para no existir sino en la memoria de los hombres y en los fastos del heroismo. .
Publisher: [Matthew Gallagher and James Lamb]
Published: 1811
Place of publication: Caracas]
Language: spa
Subjects: History; Politics and government; Broadsides
Other titles: Orden politico del otro hemisferio ha reducido la España á ser victima de la prefidia y la opresion; y este pueblo generoso conducido de uno en otro infortunio va ya á ser borrado del catalogo de la naciones, para no existir sino en la memoria de los hombres y en los fastos del heroismo.
Notes: Title from caption and first part of text.

Imprint supplied by Grases.

Printed at head of caption title: Causam quae sit videtis: nunc quid agendum sit considerate.

July 5, 1811, is Venezuela's official independence day, following more than a year of wrangling and temporary measures following the deposing of the Captain General on April, 19th 1810 and the establishment of a caretaker government that already styled itself as "independent" despite paying lip service to loyalty to Ferdinand VII. This document dates from immediately after July 5th, as internal evidence shows. Here the Junta Suprema explains what it sees to be the political reality of Spain's dissolution into non-nationhood under Napoleon and thereby justifies "Venezuela [having] entered now, Americanos, into the number of free nations of the Americas"

Grases, P. Historia de la imprenta en Venezuela hasta el fin de la Primera República, 1812, 80.

Purchase; 2018; 19-049.