xed is the Concordat of the revolutionary provinces:--

In the year of Our Lord 1824, third year of the Independence of
Brazil, and the 3rd of August in that year, in the Hall of Session of
the Government of the Province of Pernambuco, there being present,
the Brazilian citizen, Quaresma Torreao, on behalf of His Excellency
the President, Carvalho Paes de Andrade, and the Illustrious and
Reverend Francisco da Costa Leixas; Jose Joaquim Fernandez Barros,
and the Citizen Jose Joaquim Germiniano de Moraes Navarro, on behalf
of the province of Rio Grande del Norte, by diploma dated August 16,
1824, and also the Illustrious deputies commissioned by His
Excellency the Governor of the Province of Pernambuco to treat on
behalf of his Government, with a view to extinguish dissension in
political opinions, which has so greatly retarded the progress of
Brazil, and of independence and liberty; and, at the same time, to do
their endeavour to banish a servile spirit which tends to enthral
Brazil by a pretended Constitution, domineering over the Brazilian
nation like that of the Grand Seignior of the Ottoman Porte.

The Commission of the Government of this province, and the
illustrious deputations before-mentioned, having maturely considered
these subjects, agree--

First,--That these provinces of Pernambuco and Rio Grande
unite in a fraternal league, offensive and defensive, to assemble
all their forces against any aggression of the Portuguese Government,
or that of the Government of Rio de Janeiro, to reduce these
provinces to a state of thraldom.

Secondly,--That the said league shall extend to the establishing
constitutional liberty throughout the said provinces, and to supplant
the servile spirit with which they are infected, and thus avert civil
war, engendered by the intrigues at Rio de Janeiro, the influence of
which now pervades the whole of Brazil.

Thirdly,--That to insure the effect of this compact, the Government
of Rio Grande must form a body of troops, and place them on
the borders of the province of Parahyba, to be employed as necessity
requires.

Fourthly,--That this body of troops shall be supported by the
province of Pernambuco, but shall be afterwards supported by the
"Confederation of the Equador." And that the same may be
carried into immediate effect, this Concordat shall have full force,
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