Blas Bruni Celli • Venezuela en 5 siglos de imprenta
PHILADELPHIA: | J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. | LONDON: | 16 SOUTHAMPTON ST., COVENT GARDEN. | 1879.
Vol. I: 24 x 15 cms. xiv pp. 708 pp. Letras redondas y cursivas. A línea tirada. Textos en inglés.
En este tomo hay las siguientes referencias a Miranda:
1) Págs. 293-294: carta de Gallatin a Jefferson, Treasury Department, 11th March, 1806. Se refiere a la remoción del Coronel Smith como Surveyor of the Port of New York. Entre otras cosas dice: “Nor does it appear to me that Colonel Smith’s plea, that he was induce to believe from Miranda’s representations that government did not disapprove the expedition, can be adduced even in extenuation of the offence. Not only is it evident that his former connections with Miranda, and hopes of private advantages for his son or for himself, were his motives of action, but he acknowledges that even Miranda had not presumed to hint that government authorized or approved such an expedition, but, on the contrary, told him that he was cautioned not to commit any illegal act. Supposing Colonel Smith to have been induced in error by Miranda’s misrepresentations, it would be no justification of an illegal act; but when he expressly declares that he was not deceived on that point, and then avows that he enlisted and caused to be enlisted a number of men, does it not amount to a full acknowledgment that he committed the illegal act, knowing at the same time that government disapproved the same?, etc. etc.
2) Págs. 302-304: carta de Gallatin a Nothan Sandford, District Attorney, N. Y. de Washington, 9th July 1806. Se refiere al Juicio a Smith y Ogden.
3) Pags. 316-320, carta de Gallatin a Jefferson. de 16 November 1806. Le da consejos para el Mensaje del Presidente y entre otras cosas le dice: “On that account, and because it appears important, considering Miranda’s expedition, not to impress too forcibly the opinion that those powers are really sufficient, I would suggest not only to substitute another word to “meditated,” but to place the defect of the existing laws in that respect in a more prominent point of view than is done by the following paragraph”.
4) Pags. 321-324: carta de Gallatin a Jefferson de 25 de noviembre de 1806. Le informa sobre personajes que posiblemente fueron con Miranda, en la expedición del Leander.
Volumenes 2 y 3 no tienen nada sobre Miranda.
BN Colección Arcaya 32.804. Albert Gallatin fue Secretario del Tesoro de los Presidentes Jefferson y Madison.