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to so incredible a height arose his love of liberty
& his noble frankness, that he denounced
himself as dangerous to the new born freedom
of his country, & in order he might be deprived
of the means of ever working it its mischief.

Such conduct silences all panegeric. The words
of the hero himself are the only fit commentary.
The reader will find, further on, the Speech pronounced
by the Liberator of on this memorable
occasion, as well as on the duty which with from
the same exalted motives he prescribed to the
Pres. of Congress. Both these documents were inserted
in the official gazette of Bogota of the 4th
of November —

To celebrate this heroic act was the
object which the author of these pages proposed
to himself — an object doubtless above his strength
yet of such dignity as to cover by its protecting
shadow whatever faults may be found in the execution
of his work. He only desires that his lines
may attest his love for liberty & his enthusiasm
for those illustrious men who raised the patriotic
standard in the long-enslaved America.

Oh! that they may find imitators in the
remotest corners of the globe earth; so that at length

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