SUCRE ANTONIO JOSE DE: (1795-1830) Venezuelan independence Leader and Hero. Statesman and ...

SUCRE ANTONIO JOSE DE: (1795-1830) Venezuelan independence Leader and Hero. Statesman and General, also known as the ''Grand Marshal of Ayacucho''. One of Simon Bolivar's closest friends. President of Bolivia 1825-28 and President of Peru 1823. Assassinated. An excellent and rare L.S., `A.J de Sucre´, two pages, 4to, Quito, 13th August 1822, to the Minister of the Superior Court of Justice, in Spanish. The letter bears to the heading the printed text ''Republica de Colombia – Departamento de Quito” (“Republic of Colombia – Quito department”). By the present document Sucre, on behalf of H.E. Simon Bolivar, and the Colombian government, provisionally expel and put on trial a court clerk, Manuel Calixto, accused of suspicious political behaviour, stating in part `Son terminantes los decretos del Gobierno para que ningún empleo público sea desempeñado por los notoriamente desafectos a nuestro Sistema, en cumplimiento del cual, y de las repetidas ordines que me ha comunicado S.E. el Libertador… se servirá disponer con los demás Ministros de la Corte Superior si el escribano Manuel Calixto ha tenido una conducta política sospechosa… sea excluido del oficio que ejerce, procediendo en este punto con arreglo a la ley…´ (Translation: “The Government's decrees are strict so that no public employment is carried out by those notoriously disaffected to our System, in compliance with which, and with the repeated orders that H.E. the Liberator has communicated to me.... It will be necessary to decide with the other Ministers of the Superior Court if the notary Manuel Calixto has had suspicious political behaviour... be excluded from the office that he exercises, proceeding on this point in accordance with the law...”) Sucre before concluding reminds that those who act against the interest of the republic can be sentenced to expulsion from the territory. The letter bears to the left border of the two pages, two hand written annotations by court clerks, the first referring to Calixto´s refusal to recognize and accept the Court that judges him. Overall age wear and staining, with partial repair to edges, none affecting the signature. About G

After Colombia had been liberated from the Spanish, Simon Bolivar sent Sucre to the Quito region (at today´s date Ecuador) where he would won on 24th May 1822 the brilliant and key victory of Pichincha near Quito. At Pichincha, patriot forces under Antonio Jose Sucre routed the Spanish royalists and freed the territory that was to become Ecuador.

The present letter is dated less than three months after the famous battle of Pichincha.