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Show IBEIE) 4: and swung it upon unoffending necks. Ho was made governor ot Porto Rico jls a reward for his many crimes. At St. Augustine he When the naval lor cos of Spain ami the bulled Stales clash on tho lauded in 1513. Ills inland march was a robbers' raid of pillage, arson, Atlantic it will not bo tho first ilmo such a thing has happened since and slaughter. Dead and dying red men were strewn along liis the organization of this republic. It was a bloodless coutlict beforo. outrage path from the north to tho south of Florida peninsula. His conduct a It may be again, but this is not likely, Inasmuch us the Spanish tho king, for whom ho made other campaigns and committed and soldiers have been Liking vows beforo the sacred shrine to pleased was started by Spain in return victorious or not at all. 'lhe former dilllculty was promptly other murder. Another killing expedition 1530, starting from South Carolina. Robbery and slavery wero the suppressed by the king, who ordered that all ollicers of tho United and attained. Deception was practiced on unsuspectStates should be treated with respect, even when so far away from objects sought of Spanish tactics, they followed their new home as on tho Mediterranean. It was when almost every commercial ing natives. Ignorant tho ships, attracted by music and a promised nation was paying tribute to tho Doy of Algiers to secure immunity found friends aboard wero laden with gold they had found somewhere in tho from pirates. Even England forked over its levy oery year. Tho feast. They the boats were filled almost to the waters edge the United States was tho lirst to break away. It tamo about liko this: mountains. When wero weighed. Tho gold was confiscated; the men and woJassuf Karamauli, tho Bashaw of Tripoli, seeing Algiers collect tribute anchors wero put into chains. Angry members of divided families were from Undo Sam, announced that ho would declaro war unless tho same men rescue wives, husbands and children.- The king amount of money wero paid annually to him. Ho was informed that shot as they tried to was pleased. Lucas Vasquez, sent tho next year to do the same thing, ho might make his declaration as soon as he liked, but that he would as far north as tho Chesapeake and Delaware bays. lie used siminever collect tribute from tho United States. His declaration quickly went lar tactics, but was frustrated to some extent by a storm. followed, and that in turn was followed by tho appearance of an American lleet, which in time brought both tho Bashaw' of Tripoli and The next assassin was Pamphilo de Narvaez. He was a brutal the Dey of Algiers to Americas terms. Tho history of that short war is interesting in every detail to anybody who has any prido in tho fellow and ho also bore a commission to rob and murder. Landing in Tampa bay in 1528 with 400 other cutthroats, they won tho confidence United States navy. of village after village, to repay kindness with wholesale slaughter, Tho American lleet was a stranger in those waters and its excited tho admiration of all Europeans except Spaniards. in ono village they massacred 2500 men, women and children in the They left a trail of dead and stole Ono day as tho Essex was standing in tho roads of Barcelona, her com- night. As one writer says: mander, Captain William Bainbridge, was returning from the city in everything they could carry. Next came Ferdinand de Soto in 1539. His band of his boat, when ho was overhauled and fired upon by a Spainsh gunboat. Tho American was abused, insulted, ordered alongside and com- numbered GOO. They captured, maimed and tortured hundreds of They burned many at the stake, cut off the hands of others and manded to climb into tho Spanish boat. I want you to understand, sir, that I am the captain of an Ameri- turned them out in the forest In one place they piled a pyramid of can frigate, answered Bainbridge, when ho perceived that the Span- 3000 heads of their victims. The massacre of the French colony at St. Johns was the next iard was looking for trouble, and Im d d if Ill go aboard any ship achievement of the noble Spaniards. In the night these soldiers of but my own. And he pulled away under Spanish fire. tho cross swept down upon their fellow' Christians, 250 women and 900 men were hanged to The next night a party of American lieutenants, returning from babies were maltreated and beheaded and make a Spanish holiday. But history records the retribution. A French shore, wero insulted in tho same manner and by the same man. One the 'murderers out and hanged them to the same of them was tho impetuous Stephen Decatur, who, as soon expedition sought I do not this as trees, with this remark from the French leader: A FORMER CLASH WITH SPAIN. th up III Hr Da offi-ter- nui La for the ur lin, rar llfil - 1Sfi( !)Ot frar Prm for 1 friui heig ap-peara- i If tw 1 free-boote- rs red-me- fire-eat- er as it was possible next morning, went over to the xebec and demanded an immediate interview with her commander. But he was disappointed. Tho commander was not there. Well, then, tell him when he returns, said the irate young American, that Stephen Decatur of the United State frigate Essex pronounces him a cowardly scoundred, and that when they meet on shore he will cut his ears off. The message was delivered promptly and serious trouble threatof the port, seeking to avert it, begged ened. The captain-generCaptain Bainbridge to keep his officers confined to the Essex while the ship remained in port. But that did not suit Bainbridges idea of the situation at all. He sent back word that the officers of the American navy were gentlemen, and that if Spaniards did not know how to treat them as such they would have to suffer the consequences. And he went ashore as he pleased. to terms, and his This spirited reply brought the captain-genernext appeal was to Madrid, where the report quickly reached the ears of the king. He was not caring for any argument with the American navy, so he quickly sent out the order that American officers be treated with courtesy and respect, and added, More particularly those attached to the United States frigate Essex. The order was faithfully carried out, and the American navy was not further pestered by the impertinence of Spanish petty officials. al al unto Spaniards or mariners, but as unto traitors, robbers and supri r in IS that 1 was whicl Amer ramp war i Ouinc Oallai Go u lb Ir A writer in a Chicago paper relates the following: war, i Spain refused to recognize the Continental Congress, long after procee the independence of the United States had been established. Juan de Oi Miralez came to Washington in 1778 to live. He went home a little took p later, because the Government found he was a royal spy and in- p?e no Th triguer from Madrid. Spain insisted to 1782 that the boundaries of the United States on the west should be the Allegheny mountains and(-;tried to get the powers to support the command. Franklin said no.!fions c Congress backed him. Spain acquiesced, when forced. It acquiesced! on many other propositions at the point of threat. The kings keptinefon drawing back from pretenses, and finally the romancers, adventurers:-pf-arand plunderers were left no inch on this northern part of the con-jcrp,( tinent save Cuba. They have lost everything, and Bancroft says it isor jTn retribution for their policy of treachery and unfairness. pforrisc n ( p Palmer erence: PEACE CONGRESSES OF THE CENTURY. reaty. War is upon us. At is close another spot will be made historic, sland. A peace congress will be held. Several such gatherings belong to the ger record of this century, beginning w'ith Amiens and ending with where a treaty was made between China and Japan. :tatesm The peace of Amiens in 1802 left Napoleon without a war, temjP(j porarily, and England in humiliation. It proved Talleyrand more than a match for Pitt, the leading English statesman. Three years later came the famous treaty of Schoenbrunn, in which the Little Corporal triumphed over the Prussian statesman, Haugwdtz, who obtained peace wdth dishonor. Then followed tht peace congresses of Presburg and Tilsit in 1807, the second peace oi ame pa Schoenbrunn in 1809, all embarrassing to Prussia. But Napoleons ca ajn er reer was practically ended with the second treaty of Paris in 1815, ami i0Tls we the congress of Vienna about the same time. The latter was perhapi g Shi-monosk- SPANISH CHARACTERISTICS. It has been said of our discoverers that Spain never conducted a And certainly it fair or honorable transaction with this country. seems, after a careful perusal of history ,that her dealings have been stained with murder, treachery, arrogance and massacre, from the time a colony was established on San Domingo to the more recent crime of Havana harbor. It has been a long, bloody record, covering a period of four hundred years. In the beginning, Columbus had more trouble on account of Spanish treachery on both sides of the Atlantic than he had in any other way. Ponce de Leon took up the sword of massacre man n. i, old-bu- |