render sufficiently intelligible the unanimity which characterized the first proceedings of the Creole Insurgents. Throughout the whole Continent of America, the same causes were everywhere in operation; and, with little or no difference in point of time, they every where produced the same effects: in Cărācăs, Būēnos Ayres, Bŏgŏtā, Cărthăgēnă, Chīlĕ, Upper Peru, and Mexico, by one simultaneous movement, the people deposed the European Authorities, and transferred the reins of Government to Juntas, composed almost exclusively of Native Americans.[1]
These Juntas assumed the title of "Guardians and Preservers of the Rights of Ferdinand Vll.[2] In some, Europeans were at first admitted: in others, the Viceroy himself, (where not personally obnoxious,) was invited to preside.[3] In all, the most amicable sentiments towards Spain were expressed,
- ↑ The revolution of Cărācăs took place on the 19th of April, 1810; that of Buenos Ayres, 25th May; of New Grenada, 3d July; of Bŏgŏtā, 20th July; of Cărthăgēnă, 18th August; of Chīlĕ, 18th September; of Mexico, 16th September.—Vide "Representation of American Deputies to the Cortes," dated 1st August, 1811. Appendix.
- ↑ Junta Conservadora, or Cuerpo Conservador, de los Derechos del Señor Don Fernando 7mo.
- ↑ As at Buenos Ayres, where the Congress was convoked, and a Provisional Government formed, at the suggestion of the Viceroy, Don Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros.—Vide his Proclamation of 18th May, 1810.
