Identifier: southamericapopu01butt (find matches)
Title: South America; a popular illustrated history of the struggle for liberty in the Andean republics and Cuba
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
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Publisher: New York, Doubleday & McClure co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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racas together (December, 1810). At thattime they were ardent friends, the young man and the old. Monteverde wrote to Miranda, proffering terms of peace.Miranda sent the letter to Congress, then in session atLa Victoria. Congress gave to Miranda the authority totreat with the Spanish general. As a result, a treaty wasconcluded July 29, 1812, in which it was stipulated, amongother things: That the constitution presented by theCortes to the Spaniards should be accepted by Venezuela.That no person should be prosecuted for his politicalopinions. Thus the republic was for the time destroyed, and Cara-cas, the theater of thrilling events, fell again under thedomain of Spain. On July 30, 1812, Miranda arrived at La Guayra, afallen man. He was criticized by all the patriots. Hewas as one who had shattered the fabrics of his visionswith his own hands. He found at La Guayra a companyof patriots, and among them Simon Bolivar. The questionarose among these patriots, Would it not be for the inter-
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THE FAILURE OF MIRANDA 61 est of the new treaty to hold Miranda here ? The old manarrived in the afternoon, fatigued by the intense heat. Theship was waiting for him. The patriots invited him to stayto supper, and to remain on shore overnight. No, saidthe captain of the ship to Miranda; it is for your interestto go on board to-night. You are too tired to go onboard the vessel now. The land-breeze will not arise untilmorning, said the patriots. I will spend the night onshore, said Miranda, whose wits seem to have gone. Thecaptain of the ship shook his head. The supper was pre-pared. At the table sat Bolivar, with other patrioticleaders, among them Colonel Manuel Maria Casas, themilitary commandant, at whose house he was entertained. In the house was a closet that could not be locked.Colonel Casas ordered that a bed be prepared for the oldman in that closet. Miranda retired early. The patriotssat down to consider the consequence to the treaty shouldthey allow him to depart. They decided

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