ANTONIO PAEZ R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM Df los generdes, cud es el vdientef Mi Generd Pdez con toda su gente Llanero Soldiers Song. KENNIKAT PRESS Port Washington, N. Y. London JOSE ANTONIO PAEZ First published in 19E9 Reissued in 1970 by Kennifcat Press Library of Congress Catalog Card N, o 7Z-11Z799 ISBN 0-8046-1069-X Manufactured by Taylor Publishing Company Dallas, Texas GENERAL JOSE ANTONIO Gloria de Acarigua, Jefe incomparable de los inditos Llaneros de Venezuela a qulenes llevo siempre a la victoria en todas sus ...
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ANTONIO PAEZ R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM Df los generdes, cud es el vdientef Mi Generd Pdez con toda su gente Llanero Soldiers Song. KENNIKAT PRESS Port Washington, N. Y. London JOSE ANTONIO PAEZ First published in 19E9 Reissued in 1970 by Kennifcat Press Library of Congress Catalog Card N, o 7Z-11Z799 ISBN 0-8046-1069-X Manufactured by Taylor Publishing Company Dallas, Texas GENERAL JOSE ANTONIO Gloria de Acarigua, Jefe incomparable de los inditos Llaneros de Venezuela a qulenes llevo siempre a la victoria en todas sus batallas. The Glory of Acarigua, incomparable Chief of the famoios Llaneros of Venezuela, whom he fed to victory in all his battles. ILLUSTRATIONS General Jose Antonio Paezz Frontispiece Facing page Tablet Set i p at Paez Birthplace 1 8 Caballero 34 Dem Pablo MLorillo General Pa z 9 Three Typical Signatures 162, Portrait of General Pde Admiral The Honble. Charles ElpMnstone Fleeming Dona Cataliwa. Paulina de Fleeming 2,58 At end of Book KANSAS CITY MO. PUBUC LIBRARY PREFACE A HUNDRED years ago, the name of Paez. was a house hold word in Europe. Kings sent him swords of hon our, queens corresponded with him upon equal terms. Later in life he sat beside the Empress Eugenie at a banquet at the Tuileries. To-day who knows his name in Europe except a few mole-eyed historians or biographers, who inhale into their lungs the dust of libraries and whose brains are sicklied over with the shadows of the past A dreadful occupation that of the historian or biographer, more dreadful than the samphire gatherers trade, for if he miss his footing on a cliff, he does not live to see his fall Still, the historian or biographer the two are as near akin as is the poacher to the tramp persists, just as men go to the north pole, and ladies swim the channel. Certainly his reward is scant, for he does not obtain even that notoriety that golfers or pugilists enjoy, in their own right, as heiresses succeed to peerages. Paez-without a doubt, of all the heroes of the epic struggle for independence against Spain, was the most sympathetic character. Bolivar, the greatest man the Americas have yet produced, was superior to him in genius. San Martin, the hero of the amazing march with his Gaucho cavalry across the Andes, was a better and a more experienced soldier, but Paez had what is called in Spanish cc el don de gentes, that is a personal magnetism, that none of them possessed. Born in a little straw-thatched house, on a lost little river of the Llanos, educated at a hedge school by an old woman almost as illiterate as her pupils, he rose to be x PREFACE be the first man in the land. Twice president, in both his terms of office, he showed a liberality of ideas sur prising in a man who had passed his life on horseback with lance and lazo always in his hand. He was the first to advocate the freedom of the negro race in the Americas, urged to it as he says in. his Memoirs, not by any theories of the rights of man, for at the time he first advocated emancipation he had never heard of them, but by his native breadth of mind and generosity. He had himself passed several years in a state nearly approaching slavery, apprenticed to a brutal negro, one Manuelote, who, after a long day of hard work on the plains, mounted on a half wild horse, forced him to wash his feet. This, however, could have weighed with him but little, for generous natures are not influenced by personal suffering, andbitterness in any shape or form was alien to him. Venezuela that cast him out with ignominy, after his second term of presidency, owed more to him even than she owed to the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. Had he not risen to the occasion and championed the national desire for autonomy a disastrous war with New Granada was certain to have ensued. Had Venezuela been defeated, she would have been to-day a mere dependency of the more powerful state. These were his exploits in the field of statesmanship...
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