Manifiesto del Gobierno...

Manifiesto del Gobierno y Municipalidad de Montevideo a sus habitantes. (Text:) Ha llegado el caso de manifestaros que si no somos dignos de vuestra confianza, hacemos lo posible para merecerla. La Capital, ese Pueblo donde habita una parte de nuestros deudos, con otra de nuestros intereses, se halla agitada de un movimiento, cuya naturaleza no podemos todavía deslindar. (...) (At the end:) Montevideo 25 de Mayo de 1810. Con Superior Permiso: Buenos-Ayres en la Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos.

Rare printed, essential to understand the state of public spirits on both banks of the Plata. Octavo (19.2 x 14.5 cm / 7.55 x 5.7 in), 3 pp., blank. Good copy, preserved in a modern folder. Furlong -n. 1917, volume III, pp. 331-332-, he located this title in three private and two public libraries.

In this piece, the Cabildo limits itself to stating that “no one knows or declares more than announcements of a certain political upheaval… Hear the claims attributed to the chief; put them to the censorship of suggestions that deserve our concept and your satisfaction; and resolved that Montevideo, prudent and circumscribed, awaits the last result of the capital to decide ... "And the" eastern "Cabildo continues:" All citizens live soon, ready and warned to execute great ideas as soon as the events of Buenos-Ayres manifest themselves In a more sensitive way, meanwhile, may peace, gift and good harmony reign ”. No signature is seen at the bottom of this proclamation.

At the beginning of the May Revolution in Buenos Aires, a lukewarm adherence to the emancipatory episodes arrived from Montevideo. At that time, there was no printing press in that city and the Manifesto came to light stamped in the Foundling Children press that operated in Buenos Aires.

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