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ly to advance their cause ; and that, by retiring 

 for a time, he might eventually more essentially 

 advance the great object of his life, than he could 

 hope to do by struggling against the wishes of 

 the country so decidedly expressed. 



This is stated neither as praise nor as blame ; 

 but simply as affording some explanation of a ve- 

 ry curious historical event. Whether or not it 

 would have been better for the cause of the South 

 American Independence, had the chief actor been 

 a man of a sterner nature, is another question en- 

 tirely ; my sole object, in this sketch, has been to 

 draw as faithful and impartial a picture as I pos- 

 sibly could of what has actually taken place. 



