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Title: South America; a popular illustrated history of the struggle for liberty in the Andean republics and Cuba
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
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Publisher: New York, Doubleday & McClure co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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from the colossal mountain-wall,and form crystal lakes. To drink of their pure, clearwater is to live. The hills roll like billows of land intothe quiet sea of the plain. The condor wheels in the skyas on a motionless wing, a creature that typifies his ownnative wilds amid the peaks of the air. Mendoza, SanJuan and San Luis were then parts of the province. Therewere some forty thousand inhabitants in the province.They were a hard-working, clear-thinking people, of largesympathies and of sterling moral worth. Here was the road to Chili over the Cordilleras, and alsothat from Chili to Buenos Ayres over the pampas. Herebullock-carts lumbered along the unfenced roads. Herecame and went pack-mules with fruits, flour and wine. San Martin was named governor of Cuzco in 1814. Helived in republican simplicity. He refused to occupy thehandsome house offered him by the cabildo (town-meet-ing or folkmoot) of Mendoza, and he returned one halfof his salary in the interests of public economy. He 126
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cuzco 127 accepted the position of general in the army only on thecondition that he should resign it when the service wasno longer a necessity. Chili had gained her liberties, but only to lose them again.To free Chili would be, in his opinion, to win the cause ofliberty for South America. To that cause San Martin nowgave his heart. To lead an army over the Andes was hisambition. Such an army must be one of no ordinarymen. The virtuous laborers of Cuzco were men who pos-sessed uncommon strength of body and soul. San Martinbegan to organize such an army, and to arouse the peopleto a sense of their opportunity. Unpaid volunteers re-sponded to his call. The ladies of Mendoza, headed byhis own wife, cast their jewels into the public treasuryfor the patriotic cause. He was a stern disciplinarian, yet his heart was full ofmercy. One day an officer came to him. I have donewrong. I have lost, in a game, money that was intrustedto me for the regiment. San Martin saw that the soul ofthe man had

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