Nicaragua : $b its people, scenery, monuments, resources, condition, and proposed canalSquier, E. G. (Ephraim George)
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Nicaragua : $b its people, scenery, monuments, resources, condition, and proposed canal
Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George)
Nicaragua; Nicaragua -- Description and travel; Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua)
“FELLOW CITIZENS, FRIENDS OF SOCIETY!
“Social order is attacked; the lava of sanguinary destruction
threatens to overflow our dearest interests. The assassin of the
honored Venerio, and of the innocent Solorio, the destroyer of the
pacific Rivas, and the hated cause of innumerable other misfortunes,
has seduced a portion of the unreflecting people of the department
Meridional from their allegiance, and is leading them into the direst
iniquities, while, like another Nero, he revels above the ruins of the
capitol of that unfortunate department. But if your valor and
patriotism unite to support the cause of order, they will interpose an
efficient obstacle to the dangers which threaten us, and turn back in
confusion the enemies of the State.
“The supreme government, the centre of order, has invested me with the
largest authority to act for its support; and with your effective aid,
I go with my soldiers to fulfill the duties with which I am charged.
The country asks, if it need be, the lives of her sons; our wives,
mothers, and children look to you in this emergency for the security
of their liberty and lives!
JOSE TRINIDAD MUNOZ.
“HEAD-QUARTERS, JUNE 21, 1849.”
The subjoined is also a specimen of the announcements and appeals made
by the editors of the official Bulletin, with the view to rouse the
patriotism of the people, and concentrate their indignation against the
insurgents.
“We denounced before the people, in a previous number, the
incendiarism, pillage, and bloodshed, with which that most ferocious
barbarian, (_antropofago_,) Bernabe Somoza, had desolated the
department Meridional; but those crimes were as nothing in comparison
with the most unheard-of outrages and unparalleled barbarisms which he
has more recently committed in that important section of the State. He
has spared neither age nor sex, not even the unresisting wounded, nor
the corpses of the dead; and with impious hand has seized upon the
sacred vessels in the temple of the God of Justice, who, penetrating
at a single glance the hearts of men, and always as just as inexorable
in the end, will as assuredly save the virtuous, as he will, with his
terrible lightnings, strike down the wicked and the criminal. In
evidence of the new and almost incredible horrors which have filled up
the cup of sorrow, for all those who possess souls and human
sympathies, we publish the following account, communicated by Don
Trinidad Salazar, commandant in the department Oriental, to the
General-in-chief:
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