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 Title: Representación de los emigrados colombianos al Congreso de Colombia
Creator: Cárdenas, Vicente
Publication Info: Quito : Fundación de tipos de M. Rivadeneira, 1878.
Physical Details: 14 p. ; 20 3/10 x 13 3/10 cms.
Physical Condition: Slightly foxed on wrappers, good interior pages.
Summary: Vicente Cárdenas, a Cauca exiled in Ecuador, wrote this pamphlet as representative of, according to him, more than three thousand people who had fled the Cauca region during the political violence in 1877. Cárdenas here accuses public functionaries, who were liberals, of appropriating and selling confiscated property. He asserts that the exiles are entitled, as Colombian citizens, to return and be compensated for their economic losses.
Historical Notes: The Colombian civil war of 1876-1877 began when Conservatives declared war on the central Liberal government who advocated secular education. The war erupted in Cauca where the conservative oligarchy had lost its political strength, but was quickly supported by Antioquia and Tolima where conservative groups, some of them armed, dominated local politics. The war ended with an agreement between the central Liberal government and Antioquia and Tolima. Tirado Mejía, Álvaro 1982 El estado y la política en el siglo XIX. In Manual de historia de Colombia. Second edition. J.G. Cobo Borda and S. Mutis Durán, eds. Pp. 372. Bogotá: Procultura SA.
Donor Notes: A petition by the Colombian exiles in Ecuador to the Colombian Congress, requesting permission to return to their homes. - J.L.H.
Subject(s): Exiles -- Colombia
Exiles -- Ecuador
Colombia -- History -- Civil War, 1876-1877 -- Claims
Cauca (Colombia : Department) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Type: Pamphlet
Language: Spanish
Format: JPG
PDF - Color
Donor: Helguera, J. León
Collection: Helguera, J. León Collection
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Accession Number: P01794
Record Number: 159
Islandora ID: islandora:811