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of showing them hostility, of diminishing their army, and of closing to 

 them all resources ; — that they are closely threatened by a numerous, 

 trained, enthusiastic army, in perfect discipline, and well supplied with 

 provisions and ammunition ;— that this army, part of which occupies 

 the south of the valley of Cauca, another part the Andes of Quindio, 

 and the other preparing at Mompos to penetrate, if necessary, into 

 Antioquia, commanded by experienced generals, under the immediate 

 direction of the President of the Union ; — 'and lastly, that the insurgent 

 troops will amount at most but to a third part of those sent against 

 them by the Government ; that they are in want both of provisions and 

 arms, as also of able generals : — when all this is considered, I say, it 

 must be concluded that ere long peace will be re-established in these 

 two States as it has already been in the rest of Colombia. It is not 

 without regret that the President is about to undertake military oper- 

 ations against the two disturbed States, for his most earnest desire has 

 been to establish tranquillity by means of conciliation, without fighting. 

 The conduct observed by him since the commencement of the civil war 

 has been in keeping with this desire. Only to mention recent events, 

 hardly was Bogota occupied in 1861, ere he addressed himself with 

 this object in the most conciliating terms to the Governments of the 

 insurgent States. That of Antioquia had not even the courtesy to an- 

 swer him. A new and even more advantageous offer of peace, on the 

 occasion of convoking the National Convention, has been made, proving 

 the patriotic feeling of the President and the obduracy of the Central- 

 ists ruling in Antioquia. And it must be remembered that the 

 leniency of the Government of the Union is so much the more 

 praiseworthy, as it has been the Government of Antioquia which has 

 brought upon Cauca the calamity which has now prostrated it. In 

 fact, peace and law would have obtained there many months ago, but for 

 a cruel faction supported and reinforced by the Antioquian Government, 

 who renewed it when it was failing, supplied it with money and muni- 

 tions, assisted it with military forces, and maintained anarchy and, not 

 alarm, but terror, in the State of Cauca. But notwithstanding these 

 weighty motives for inducing the Government of the Union to send its 

 army against the State of Antioquia, yet with great magnanimity it has 

 declared that it will only do so in the event of the Government of An- 



