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Show and Cruelties in the Well-Indies. A Relation of the Spanifh Vgage; 162 (‘flilCES1 it would not have bin carried f0 generally thro' the grain, but would have bin a fort of CIVIl War kept up only in fome particular Places: Nor Pla-, would the Spaniard: have had right even in fueh ces. to have made Slaves of thofe whom they tool; r ‘ 3 \Nar. 1n {ilhixican't to much as pretend that ever they_had a Comrhandor Order to this day from tnerrflPrrnce,eto declare \Var againit the Indians .- 'Trs ealy to vidence inch :1 Fact as this, tor the Governors and ‘ Generals have nothing to do but to {how their Commiilions if they have any. There's not one oi. en: who has any fear of God, or refpec} for hill-Pi nice, that will pretend to fhew any {Lien Comninnonfix: cept the Vice-Roy DmAiztonzo, and Don new"? Rm: ""op of Carmen; all tne tell: that havema 6 War on the Indians, are Thieves, and llonbers, Ml"; deters, and declar‘d Enemies ot file'nann. Sim: 1o fupthen the feeder-(h have had no l W11c port theirlDeclarationsof \"'73r_3§§1,"" . cc l-i fnch e in oriz of Amm‘c‘a, nor have bin auth r inqs by their Prince, it evidently follows that n: \Va‘: they have. made is infinit, and contrary to tilt Laws of Cod and Men, and conieqnently that tic Indians ought not to have bin treated as Slaves. ‘ "a All the ways the Spaniards have us'd to comply: this, end. of infiaving thefe People, have but mop; flrenllv wicked, made up of nothinghnt Fraud an: Treacherv, uni-.m'fni Tricks and Artizices, and (UL; 163' taken to abufe thefe poor Qreatures. Others hit'd the Indians with a little Wine, or a Shirt, or by giving 'em fome other trifle of fmall value, to bring 'em fa." therlefs and motherlef's Children, whom they pntoa Shipboard, and tranfported into other Countries, where they were fold for Slaves, efpecially into New; Spain, the Iflands of St. 30bit, and Cuba, or other neighbouring lflancls. But at firl‘t the Spaniards us'd open Violence, attacking the Indians that liv'd peaceably in their Houfes, fetting their TOWns on fire, maffacring fome, and after the exercife of all this Cruelty, carrying away thofe they could take alive to fell "em for Slaves. They 'us‘d without any formal procel's, to brand 'em with the Kings Arms which was enough to make 'em pals for Slaves -, and accordingly they were fold from one hand to another, till they were tranfported into the lilands. Thefe were all the forms of jultice the Sfmzirtrds oh- ferv'd in carrying away the Indians from the Continent into the Iflands of New-Spain, the Illes of Cam and St. 701m, the Coait of Pearls, Yucatan and [Wynn 00- And by thefe execrable Artifices they have lince carried away vaf‘c multitudes of People of every Age,SeX, and Condition, from the Kingdoms of Van- cue'la, Guatimala, and Nicaragua, to fell 'em in Paftama, and in Peru. They once put 4 or goo of 'em In one Ship, the greatef't part of whom died in their Pall'age for want of Food, the Allowance given 'eni being fo Very fmall. At a Town eonfilting of about zoo people, the unheard of Villanies as can‘t but fill the Minds of all that hear 'em with aftoniihrnefi and horror. 5701:: SPdniards Would require the Cacyque to fend 'ern to ia‘fnare the Door Int-Vans thitli‘fldamong 64‘ haveconlrrain'd em to own themiclvcs tnen 84: their Provilions, and work for 'em. Ill Courts of qutlce: alter {"11th enuntcd C011 ‘ 11"" CMJ'que was mightily concern‘d he could not ex~ IA'II‘ ecute this Order, not having People enough in the c O ‘ " ‘ _._, I .o-p, _.p I 3‘ ~ hon, the Governors have oreer'ci tne lungs1 Ad"? to he {it'd upon their Skin With 2; hot Iron, UK) A» v1.) bit y ~‘;\ .. Cour . .t MM ant what anunlawfal were not ignor 309 Indians at fuch a certain day and ham to out}; The p002" Whole Town; and not knowing what to do in the cafe, defired to have a day or two more allow'd him : " B1 z BU? |