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necessary to man, and more august on account of the union of hearts and 

 hands. 



" Then let us proceed, confident in the destiny that Heaven has prepared for 

 us. Under the empire of new laws and new powers, the very activity of the 

 revolution will be converted into the wholesomest engagement to undertake 

 every kind of toil that may maintain and multiply the products and benefits 

 of society. On the first return of peace, those very ravages that spring 

 from the great political convulsion of this continent will be like the lavas of 

 of the volcano, which become a principle of fecundity in the very fields 

 which they have overwhelmed. So your plains will be covered with all the 

 riches of nature ; your multiplied cities will adorn themselves with the splen- 

 dour of science and the magnificence of art ; and commerce will freely spread 

 its movements over the immense space that nature has assigned to us. 



" Americans ! The victorious army of an insolent tyrant can only cast terror 

 over the people subject to his triumphs ; but the legions I have the honour to 

 command, forced to make war against the tyra?its they combat, can only promise 

 friendship and protection to brethren "whom victory is about to free from ty- 

 ranny. I engage my most sacred honour, that this promise shall be scrupulously 

 fulfilled. I have declared to you my duties and designs : your conduct will 

 tell us if you will fulfil yours, and deserve the illustrious name of true sons- 

 of your country. 



" European Spaniards ! My proclamation is not that of your ruin : I come 

 not into this land to destroy it. The object of the war is to preserve and 

 facilitate the increase of the fortune of every peaceable and honest man. 

 Your good fortune is bound up with the prosperity and independence of 

 America ; your misfortunes will be the effect of your own obstinacy : you 

 know it. Spain now finds herself reduced to the last degree of imbecility 

 and corruption : the resources of that kingdom are dilapidated ; the state is 

 charged with a monstrous debt ; and, what is worse, terror and distrust form 

 the basis of public morals, and have forced the nation to become melancholy, 

 pusillanimous, stupid, and mute. The freedom of Peru alone can offer to you 

 a safe country. To the intimate ties which unite you to the Americans you 

 have only to add your wishes and your conduct, in order to form a great 

 family of brothers. Respect for persons, for property, and for the holy 

 Roman Catholic religion, are the sentiments of the United Provinces. I 

 assure you of them in the most solemn manner. 



" Inhabitants of Peru ! The eyes of more than three parts of the world are 



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