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vows with ours against the impious policy with which the Spaniard, after mur- 

 during you, drags away your sons to fight against their brethren, who are 

 struggling for the liberty of their country ; and oblige us to destroy one 

 another in order to rivet our chains. 



But the hour destined by the God of justice and mercy for the happiness 

 of Peru is arrived, and your brethren in Chile have hastened to make their 

 utmost sacrifices in order to protect you by a respectable squadron ; which, 

 guarding your coasts, will present aid to you wherever it is called for by 

 your necessities or by the sacred voice of liberty. A large army, composed 

 of the brave soldiers of Chacabuco and Maypu, destined to secure the pos- 

 session of your right, will also occupy your territory. 



Peruvians ! These are the pacts and conditions on which Chile, in presence 

 of the Supreme Being, and calling on all nations to witness, and to revenge 

 their violation, will front death and toil to save you. — You shall be free and 

 independent : you shall frame your government and your laws by the sole and 

 spontaneous will of your representatives. No influence, civil or military, 

 direct or indirect, shall be exercised by these your brothers over your social 

 institutions. You shall dismiss the armed force which is going to protect you 

 the moment you wish it ; and no pretext of your peril or your safety shall 

 serve to keep it there without your will. No military division shall ever 

 occupy a free town, unless called for by its magistrates ; and those peninsular 

 opinions and parties which may have existed before your liberation, shall 

 neither be punished by us nor by our help ; and, ready to destroy the armed 

 force which resists your rights, we pray that you will forget all offences before 

 the day of your glory, and reserve severer justice for obstinacy and future 

 insult. 



Sons of Manco Capac, Yupanqui, and Pachacutec ! These venerable shades 

 are the witnesses of the conditions which the people of Chile offer you by my 

 voice, and of the alliance and fraternity we seek, in order to consolidate our 

 independence, and to defend our rights in the day of peril. 



Bernardo O'Higgins. 



El Supremo Director del Estado de Chile a los Naturales del Peru. 



■ Hermanos y compatriotas : ha llegado el dia de la libertad de America, y 

 desde el Misisipi hasta el Cabo de Hornos en una zona que casi ocupa la 

 mitad de la tierra se proclama la independencia del Nuevo mundo. Megico 



