Los ideólogos: Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán

00 I AR PA H V ÉL z # .. ' '"~ ~ ";, / ~ ~ 7. \ . .;,~ ,, • ,, ~ fu ,h~1·· 1\metfot.1n posécsséons-. At this m~ín~nt, Jib cfoubt; his·restlCs.$ intriguers are at work to poi- 1\tteJbuiitaips .. óí patrio.tism and ·concord in tbese ºdts– "··· f~gtotf~; an'd forces ~tre prcpádn_g·y> tra:npl~ ~owo those atfi;§ ~"of', tnd~p-cndence which tbe sllghtest stUTt?g woul? w:~sµread into an nn:q uénchable bl~e- .A ~1oment is yet lef~ { :us to reso-he ou, what may sooo be unpractwa..ble. ~:,,*;<:, :~ 'fbe question üierefore, we humbly conoeive, is not, now, E ;wbq;thcr Spui n-a frieudJy, a ncu~ral, or cv~o a hostilc pow~r f: '"'~.hall retain h.er colouic-s, to thcu oppres ·ion, and our grt.-it. ~-:· 'itísadf'antage . ! bu t; .w•hethcr tlles(~ cotouies shaU pass; with "~'·'\¡ttll th-ei~ vast · cnpübilities, ínto thc po::;acs.sion of Fr!IHU ;– \ wh~th-erthese im1ncnse ahd productive r egions, thc ;~üil of so l ~fnany bopes für thc- human racc, s haU be tutne<l to the benc– ~ ~fiL,-ent purposes for whlch thcy a.re fittcc} by na urc,-or é c..'.' , ·ther tl1cy shall be scizc..'C.l by th c arc h encmy of thc rberty n?:i-d ne;a~e ot~ man~ind, and empl'?yecl as ª? . a 1iment of la\ flt:· ·~ ,, , .;'pJ>~e~· :and um ve~·:ml. oppn;;>ston·. ' \\ nh rcg«rd to Great · _,.,~ntttm, the que:;tlori 1:; uot, whether she shalt sect\r-e to her– f ""'setf" aq. imme1'lse a<lvantage, or. ncglect so to secure it; but, v.,%lyhed1e1~sh.e shall takc it to hersdl~o1· give it toherunrel<:uttng· r .. ·'.J'oe~---h~r foe, alreudy so po w·erfol; and so sure instantly t~ ~; ~~l aguiust her those ,potcnt mea.ns of whid1 her negligence · ~- \Ji~$:' altcnv-€d llim to ~~vail him. self. ~ it,., l,lo,nap~tte, QY sciiin? t~1e S~anish m~narchy has. now– ~:1T.,~rought t11e matter of dehbera_two to tlus narrow pomt,– b 1 ;JV4}~1 ber thc colouies shall remaiu, as before, attacµed to r '~dtalc ,~ormrcby,--:-in ether words, ·hall beco-me bi3 pro– ~~~~rty ..;~or wbet her tbost colonies shall be enabled': under the ', *ltt:Gl~tio~ ,uf G r-e.at. Britaín# to constitute themselves a free ~'~~~•n4, i~d'~pen~a~1 t nat ion: .- .. . . . , . · · ~ '~./-~ye .~<> not stlppose 1t WJll be ohJeetcd, tbn:t we eould, as ·7 lt\ir ex~dien~ tnake a couquest of South America foi: ves;¡ ,for we do not helievo therc .is an individual in the ·~1'-~h~ d1fok~ it wou!d be adva.ntageous to us as a coñ·· ~'-o~Jhht the business ofdefence is not at present enough' · , \\~~nt that °<)f canquest 1 cven if. it could be sup– Whi;:QI\ nd~~y 've ap:prehend is now -crcdu~ous enough tl\at tt woulq oo an easy eon.quest. · \V e men– . --~t· the-r~for~, ~<m.Jy für" tlie. pu.rpnse of settmg i~ ~- ·~:0.<-i" .. .¡.. <t:~ ~ ·- · ~-el' •ldu, howev~. whlch deserves tlie~ mo.Sct– tlll~ t«~~l attentiou. lf the Ki.ng of . ·:Ji~ :taie King of Spain_. is suieped of hiS' do- -~º"~ltt not tus ??~i~i~ns !º: Ameriéa to ·1-Yi~~ to thiá po1nt, li ~QJTunJuck1 ~"'""'~--<.,~~~--~«- ~- ·~:'. .. ":- ~ "' ..