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Show 212 and Crue/tie! in the Weft-Indies. 2l3 Therefore your Majei‘ty ought to incorporate the A Relation of the Spaniih Voyages hundred Leagues from 'em', or lhall they addrefs themfelves to your Royal Throne, which is diftant above three thoufand? What courfe fiiall they take to prove the lnfults, Vexations and Perfecutions they endure from the Spaniards in Countries f0 re- mote, where they can expeél: no relief? Indie: With the inheritance ofyour Crown, that you may be the univerfal Father, Protee‘ror, Governor ‘ ind Lord of all the Indians. 1 add to all the foregoing Reafons, that the Spaniard: impofe intolerable Burdens on the Indian: and exact fuch Services of 'em as reduce 'em to the; The Spaniards are f0 hardn'd by their excelhre Ayarice, that they are not in the leaft touclrd with the Greans and Complaints of thefe niiferable Peo- extremityof niifery and defpair. 'Tis their firil: and printipal duty to ferve and obey their OWn na- tural Princes; becaufe this is founded on the Law of ple; for nothing makes imprelhon on their minds ‘ Nature. In the fecond place, they owe your Maje~ but Gold and Silver. The Condition to which they lly fervice and obedience, as being their univerfal advance themfelves in the Indies is {0 far above their Soveraign', which is an obligation of Divine Right former ftate, that it infpires 'em with intolerable i founded on the Engagement your Majel‘ry has con: Pride and Arrogancy. They pafs away their time traded to fend 'em the Light of the Gofpel, and in pleafure and feafting, and clothe themfelves after - to take care for their Inftruétion in the orthodox f0 fumptuous a manner, that nothing in the World Faith. The third kind of Service is that which the can be more magnificent. And withal it may well be Spaniard: oblige 'em to render them whether they faid that nothing can equal the corruption, licen- ‘ Wlll or no, which is a fevere and tyrannical Yoke, my tioufnefs and dill'olutenefs of their Manners, and to fupply all thefe fuperfluous Expences and Excell‘es, more intolerable than what the Heathen Tyrants impos'd on the primitive Chriflians 3 it may be liken'd they fuck out the very Blood of the poor Indians. i to the torment the Devils infliét on the Damnediu Now feeing there's no hope of obliging the Syn-V Hell. The Violence of it is contrary to all the Laws nidrd: to alter their Conduét, and both the Laws of of Nature and Reafon, nor can it be jufiified by any God, and right Reafon, and all the Maxims of Poli- human Laws. It muit be remembred that the Incy and Prudence oppofe the giving of any Govern- diam. are naturally weak, going alwaysnaked, and ment into the hands of covetous and indigent Per: continually expos'd to the heat ofthe Sun: 'ti‘s therefons, who are prejudic'd with a violent delirc of fore contrary to all Juftice that they fhould be op- gain: Much lefs ought your Majefty to fuflei‘ thfi Spaniard: to ufurp a‘Title to the Indians as their prei's'd With heavy Burdens far above their firength, Free-hold, when they are fo greedy and infatiable, reafonable Men. that they'l make no difficulty to facrifice all kinds of duty to the delire they have of raking fiims of Meny together any way in the World. For all thy" tures do can't fatisfy the Spaniards, who therefore fet alIOHicer over 'em ftriflly to infpeét their Aé'cions, Indultry will be employ'd in pillaging their Vallab'w and which is yet more to be lamented, whiletlie}r cruelly deprive 'em of temporal Life, they likclmc take a coiirfe to expofe 'em to eternal rigged. ere- aswell as contrary to Charity, and the Cuftom of all All the fervice thefe poor Crea- and render their fervitude fl'ill more terrible. This Employ IS ufually beftow'd on fome cruel and inexo7fable Monfter, who always fiands over 'em to make ‘31 work the harder, and puné'cually to obey all his P 3 Commands. |