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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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t voice; South American commercewith foreign countries was carefully guarded; no vesselwas allowed to sail the Spanish Main without a licensefrom the foreign court; the South Americans were notallowed to make any contract with foreigners, either to sellor to buy, without the approval of the Spanish courts;no one was allowed to visit America without the royalpermission, under the penalty of death ; in 1706 the RoyalAudiencia of Peru published a law that no Indian shouldbe allowed to have stores or to trade, for the reason thatsuch industries put the native population on a social levelwith Spanish merchants. But not only were Americans forbidden to trade withforeign nations; they were forbidden to engage in trafficbetween the provinces. The tyrants hand was laid alsoupon the products of the fields. Here was prohibited theplanting of vines and olives, there the sowing of flax; inone place the export of wines, almonds and raisins, inanother place the building of mills. The Spanish grandee
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THE EVENT OF JULY 4 47 controlled everything in the interests of the throne of thePeninsula. The church was as intolerant as the government. Ithas been quite common for Protestant writers to depict invivid colors this form of intolerance, themselves forgettingthe ecclesiastical bigotry and crimes of the days of Calvinin Geneva and of Mather in New England. There are,however, few chapters of horrors in the worlds historythat can equal that of the Spanish Inquisition of Mexico,Cartagena and Peru. It would be a painful task to de-pict the tortures inflicted upon helpless people by it forobeying the laws which God has written in every soul.Apart from these merciless tortures, into which entered thespirit that animates the bull-fight, and which gratified themost inhuman and unchristian instincts, the general pur-pose of the ecclesiastical rule was to forbid any freedom ofthought or of personal rights. Few South Americans ever rose to public office. Outof one hundred and sixty viceroys, onl

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