Excerpt from Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, Vol. 2 You Spaniards have committed two great errors: the first, in hot removing to Cuba Six or seven hundred known and proven traitors, condemning to the scaffold three or four heads of the most eminent; the second, in not drawing closer' the ties of affinity and commerce with Columbia, with a full acknowledgement of her independence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.