Blas Bruni Celli • Venezuela en 5 siglos de imprenta
PHILADELPHIA: | J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. | 1867.
Vol. I: 22 x 14.5 cms. lii pp. 658 pp. Letras redondas y cursivas. A línea tirada. Textos en inglés.
Vol. II: 22 x 14.5 cms. xxxviii pp. 618 pp. Letras redondas y cursivas. A línea tirada. Textos en inglés.
En este tomo II: Págs. 218-221, carta de James Madison, desde Washington, March 10th, 1806 a James Monroe. Entre otras cosas le dice: “You will find much in the newspapers with respect to Yrujo and Miranda. The case of the former fully explains itself, and no longer interests to public attention. That of the latter is still a subject of much noise and misrepresentation, and vigorous attempts are made to turn it into a battery against the administration. Miranda had the address to make certain persons at New York, among others Col. W. Smith, the Surveyor, believe that, on his visit to Washington, he had enlisted the Executive into a secret sanction of his project. They fell into the snare; and in their testimony, when examined, rehearsed the representations of Miranda as to what passed between him and the Executive. Hence the outcry against the latter as violating the law of nations against a friendly power. The truth is, that the government proceeded with the most delicate attention to its duty; on one hand keeping in view all its legal obligations to Spain, and on the other, not making themselves, by going beyond them, a party against the people of South America. I do not believe that in any instance a more unexceptionable course was ever pursued by any Government”. En otra carta págs,. 225-226 dirigida a Pierrepont Edwards, desde Washington, August 4, 1806 le dice: “I have received your two favors of the 30 and 31 ultimo, and am much obliged by the kind and confidential communications made in them. || We were not inattentive to the suggestions that an improper acquittal of Smith and Ogden was to be apprehended from the course which was indicated. But is was impossible to apply a remedy without establishing a precedent objectionable in itself, and which might be turned to a more mischievous account than the case apprehended. We were aware, also, fully, of the policy in summoning the testimony from Washington; but it was thought best, on the whole, and in a permanent view, to meet it in the mode pursued, rather than to abandon our public duties, and exhibit the Heads of Departments as the sport of party management, and appearing in court, not for the sake of evidence, which it was known was irrelevant, and, therefore, could not be received, but rather to be examined as so many culprits. || It were certainly to be wished that a fair state of the transaction, as far as the interviews of Miranda with the Executive are connected with it, could be laid before the public. It would prove, I believe, that the conduct of the latter was precisely such as became the guardians of the laws, and as was required by justice, honor, and sound policy. There is a real difficulty, however, in making such a disclosure without encountering obvious objections of different kinds, some of them apparently insuperable in their nature. The disclosure, therefore, must be left to time, which alone will do full justice to all parties. For the present, the public must be left to its candid inferences from the circumstances before it; and I cannot but believe that these will, everywhere, except the immediate theatre of the illusions, be such as they ought; nor do I think that even there the illusions will long resist the force of some of the facts brought out on the trial. It is against all experience that evidence, law, and argument, can long be borne down by such means as have been employed against them”.
No hay referencias a Miranda en vol. III.
BN Colección Arcaya 32.727.