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Title: Atención ciudadanos!! Atención!!
Creator: Ospina Rodríguez, Mariano, 1805-1885
Publication Info: S.I. : s.n., [1856].
Physical Details: 27 x 21 cm

Summary: Mariano Ospina, claiming to be a true conservative, warns Colombian voters of the potential dangers of a Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera presidency before the 1857 presidential election.
Historical Notes: Mariano Ospina and Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera were bitter rivals. Mosquera lost the 1857 election to Ospina. In 1860, Mosquera led a rebellion against the Ospina government, which became a Civil War between Liberals and Conservatives. Mosquera took over the presidency from Ospina in 1861. Castrillón Arboleda, Diego. Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera. Banco del Estado (Popayán, Colombia). Publicación del Banco del Estado. Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia: Planeta, 1994.

Subject(s): Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1832-1858
Elections -- Colombia -- 19th century
Mosquera, T. C. de (Tomás Cipriano), 1798-1878
Ospina Rodríguez, Mariano, 1805-1885

Type: Broadside
Language: Spanish
Format: JPG
PDF - Color
Donor: Helguera, J. León
Collection: Helguera, J. León Collection
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Accession Number: B00814
Record Number: 445