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Title: South America; a popular illustrated history of the struggle for liberty in the Andean republics and Cuba
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
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Publisher: New York, Doubleday & McClure co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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We shallfight to disarm, not to exterminate, our enemy! Such words as these express Bolivars sentiments. Hemade mistakes, but at heart he was generous, merciful andtrue. He lived in the hope of all that was best for hu-manity. He desired influence, but only to use it for thegood of all mankind. On the 29th of June General Bolivar again enteredCaracas in triumph. There were no arches, no strewingsof flowers nor ringing of bells. The city was as one ofthe dead. There was hardly a white inhabitant in thedeserted streets. The houses were empty. There werepitiful beggars and dead bodies everywhere. Somenegroes cried, Vive Colombia! then all was silent savethe wails of the famishing. But the north was free, and another movement forliberty, under a leader as noble, was going on in thesouth. The two leaders would soon be marching towardeach other, one from the south, one from the north. Thehigh Andes was soon to witness the final triumph of thecause of each. To that movement we will now turn.
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WASHINGTON PLAZA, CARACAS, VENEZUELA. CHAPTER X ARGENTINA—THE LIBERATING ARMY OF THE SOUTH A A J HAT good airs are here! exclaimed a SpanishV V sailor on landing on the shores of the pampas, inthe age of the explorers. His exclamation, Buenos ayres! according to the popular tradition, gave the name to thelittoral part of that country which became the viceroyaltyof Buenos Ayres, and is now the Argentine Republic.The Spanish viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres occupied a wideterritory. On the separation of the country from Spainthis territory came to form, after some changes, the re-publics of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and the BandaOriental del Uruguay. It covered an area as large ascentral and western Europe, and its resources and fer-tility are such that it might sustain a European population.Here the sea, the air, the sky, wear a purple hue; the flagof Argentina is purple ; and that color so prevails that thecountry has been called the purple empire that Eng-land lost. Argentina is the

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