Los ideólogos: Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán

--02 •r!f!" • "\ .. i.1 ..' '. derit and 'be_l~v~~ p~trit11Óni.c~ ánd' di$n}tics in ·91& Spatri ·~ while they fatthfoUJ s erve thctr mMtel' 11' the ~ eY1; th-it it i:S for the intetr.tst of bo.tp ~ountrfos they sho ultl be uri.iterl, .:nsit;·\vere, ipto o,n,c~a nd Jlb way so dfet ;tu.al ~ as 'an imer– comnwnity of propertie~ and <lí5 1itics ~-· Ict h irn, b.v . t~ese 1 •• toéa·ns, te.ach the gre·at men whu woultl foBo\V thc uw. tarch~~ ;~ ,to. fix tbeir bop-es at1d aftC.ctíons 11 po: th ei ,. ;t:wic:1t conditiün ,·tllJ.d property in Spain~-á11<\ in tl?':se sil ~:e n . aad gokh:n <"' cord~ he wo~.tld hold them b~un<l as fasJ as u"'' c11ahls c.f ada– ' ··man t. Theo woulcl the· aífairs of Snuth .. t\ti cr!ca be go– j ycrne·<l ~u~irely ~t the nod of .Bonn:p<irt~; aud it ~rnul l he casy tor hnn, tmder ready prctcxt:;, to rntroduce l! to h at .),·~~untry his troops, tíll thc time at last shoulcl arri'Ve \faeo he . . i ~oufd declar;. it his own. . · t ;o/. { ln énde~vouria.g-to forro any opinion u pon the nature of ·: the change which sl1ould be att-emptetl in the:sefi.necountrie: ;~ '·--';1h.e:ñrl$.t ~híng to be tak:u inl? thc · pc-ou nt is the di p~siti on ·: ...of --tlie people. On tlus p omt we. h:tve already .produced ,;q>J>;r~tty ~ dec_i~ive e11idencc: but it n'. ay be proper to bri:og to– .1' getht:-r a. fe\\~ additional circurns n<.:e~, ·which seem. to us to .:: . pl~tce·that -matte.r in the dear ~t l oint of Ú<t\y. Depons" 9f /~;~Yhll:S.e ~?l'k . on CttnlCCt~s aad tb e 'Qnügious proyiu~es, the <." .tea.der vnlJ fuu:l a vcrv foH nccount at p. J7B. ' oL \ U L of :;;\ this Jou:rnal, gi' ves a hi;~ tory of un in urc~tion ngain t .th-e- go- . \~ernmerrt, which he is extrenH!lf anxions to repr ~;)en as .notbiug sedous ;~:in nnxietv which follows as a matter of '< · co\tr~e, fro1n tÚc strorig dísposicion tb t1at er the Spaui ~ ., , governn1e'i1 t~ with whid1 he e\id\'ndy . set ou t. Yet e l'.'en . he lets maoy exp1:es~fons escape him, which indica.te the ttrop.g fcefü1g ,he had of the spírit 'OÍ ..disuni on ~h ich. cxi stclt · betweeu tP,e f!Opulatiou of South America. a.nd the govem– lneqt <~f Spain. e .Malgré tóus CeS'p 1nts d 'appu i·, .says he~ (p. 2~S. Vól. I.) 'de la souvcraineté Eip:tgnole da.ns les Indes Orien.ta"les, élle fut;'en 1797, sur Le poott' d'épr nu.r:e r une u- .:!;OJ(sse. qangereuse dans la province de Vcnezuela} A little furrheron: 1 p~ 22-9, he,.$ays, 'Tomes les inte1·ro-=>ation que su- , bit~-0t )e.$ aceusés, toutt.-s ks d ispo11tion.s <les témoin$· prou-. \' ~r~.nt , que le soufüvemeot avoit pour objet de. détruir~ . li 8?1Jiu;rr:en.uml actuel, et de le re t~ placer p~ un !?ºu ~crne~e~it rcpubhcaltl; d.e ne .plus recon1101tre la ~o.u~erat.m~te de l.&– pag1u, et. de proclamer l'i11dépendance. At thc hot m ' -0f thc sarne .page he addS', ' Si cet affreux projet n'cút avorté,, c"e11 6.tcitfait des posses$ions E~a<ruolc : . Theevidenee to .the SMM pul·¡~iC of qur own· officers- upon _ibe bttsfocss of Buenos Ayrc ·, 1s clcar and 1,mv-a.r ing. In a lt:tter fNtn $1r Samoel ..:khmuty to Ir. \Viudh~m, d~ted