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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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o his life and conduct. Fromboyhood he delighted in cruelty, and this nature grew inhim until he became like a beast of the forest that hastasted human blood. He gloried in his power over men,and in his power to do injustice. He did not believe in God, in any morality or virtue.He had a magnetic will, and to exercise this thrilled him.He was like the hawk when the bush-bird cowers beforehim. In the line of battle his soldiers trembled with terror,not of the enemy, but of their own chief, who strode be-hind them brandishing his lance. They fell upon theenemy merely to put something between their eyes andthe figure of Quiroga, which haunted them like a phan-tom. Quiroga aspired to set up a president who should obeyhim. He named Dr. Jose Santos Ortez, ex-governor ofSan Luis. Quiroga had one impulse; it was to free Argentinaentirely from the rule of Spain. He breathed the air offreedom, and drew men after him like the wind. He hadcaused the old Spanish cities to fall before him, and wher-
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THE TYRANTS QUIROGA AND ROSAS I 77 ever he went he left desolation. He put his own wild willin the place of foreign tyranny. Sarmiento, in picturing the mad career of the tyrant ofthe plains, says: On the Godoy farm in San Juan areshown mud walls of Quirogas treading. There are othersin Fiambala and in Rioja made by him. He himselfpointed out others in Mendoza. In that place he hadcaused twenty-six officers to be shot. What motivesinduced this man, brought up in a respectable family, todescend to the hirelings work of treading brick? Thequestion may perhaps be answered by saying that to be-come a hero of the plainsmen one had at that day toidentify ones self with the people. In the fullness of his power, for men to laugh at him wasdeath. He murdered a girl whom he had promised tomarry, and struck dead his own son. Pax, he said ofone of his enemies in the field, shot six of my officers;I have shot ninety-six of his. Quiroga talked of the country as though he held its fatein his hand, y

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