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Show K -' inwpw i inm 1 1 i ii ! i in ' H Lpum s Decay. H A little over one hundred yuusrg H i Spain possessed nearly all of Sutitl H America, Central Anioiica, Florida all o H the West Indies, a nairow atiip alo g H tho Uolf of .Mexho, nit of Mexico, m.d H all of tlif Ui.i'ul HiAlua lyinur ustof itu H Mississippi ilvu-iib fiu not lii asUaiiadii. H In one contuiy all tins lma passed from m licr possession except war t-wvpi Unba. H All has gouu because of her lust for gold B and hot inhuman ticUtinunt. Draper H H.iys: " fhe hiet (or sold was only too m icady to tiud its jiis'.ille.ition in the B obvious conclusion; and Spaniauld, witli m app.tliiig atrocity, proceeded to act K toward these uiifortiiuates as though B they did not belong to the human raci B Already their lands and goods hud been K taken fiom litem by apostolic authority. B Their persona were next seized, tnulei B the text that the heathen are given ttb B mi inheritance, and the uitui Ino-st parts B of the earth for a possession. It was one B unspeakable outrage, one unutteiable B ruin, without disci imination oiageoi B sex. Those who died not under the B lash in c tropical sun died in the diuk- H ness of the mine. From sequestered fl cand-banks, where the ted fhimingo B lislies in the gray of the morning ; iiom B feyei-dtricken mangrove thickets, and H tho gloom of impeuetiable forests; l'tom B liiding places in the clefts of locks, and H the solitude of invisible caves; fiomllie B eternal snows of the Andes, where there H as no witness but the all-seeing bun, H th'.-ie went up to Uod a cry of human H lispair. By millions upon millions, H whole races and nations were ie- H inorelc&sly cut oil", Tno Bishop of H Chiapa ailirms that moie than lifteeu H "millions were exterminated in bis time! m From Mexico and Peru a civilization H tliat might liave inatiucted Europe was K crushed out. It is for nothing that B Spain has been made a hideoiu skeleton B ,"" among living uationsu warning epeotiv B ' ' clo to the world? Had not her punish- B -luOnt overtaken her, men would have B ' - " surely said, 'There is no retribution, B '- there is no God !' It has been her evil B ' destiny to ruin her civilizations, Orienta1 H and Occidental, iiwdjto be ruined thereby B herself. With circumstances of dreadful B - Imrbarity sho expelled the Moors, who B liad become children of her soil by as B long a risidcucc as tho Normans h.ivo B iiad in England from William the B Conqtieior to pur time. In America she B destroyed races moro civilized than her- K self. Expulsion and emigration have B deprived hr of her best blood, her great H cities have sunk into insignilicanco, and H towns that onco had moro than a mil- H tniou of inhabitants can now only show H a few scanty thousands." |