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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
led to the entire abolition of the slave-trade, but for the hostility between the Christian church and the followers of Mahomet. In the twelfth century, Pope Alexander III., true to the spirit of his office, which, during the supremacy of brute force in the middle age, made of the chief minister of religion the tribune of the people and the guardian of the oppressed, had written, that Nature having made no slaves, all men have an equal right to liberty. See his letter to Lupus, king of Valencia, in Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores; Londini, 1652, i. 580. Cum autem omnes liberos natura creasset, nullus conditione nature fuit subditus servituti. But the slave-trade had never relented among the Mahometans: the captive Christian had no alternative but apostasy or servitude, and the captive infidel was treated in Christendom with corre- Chap. V.} sponding intolerance. In the days of the crusaders, and in the camp of the leader whose pious arms redeemed the sepulchre of Christ from t
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1860., [Electronic resource], Slow Work. (search)
Slow Work. --Telegraphic communications between Algeria and France, via the Halearic Islands and Valencia, in Spain, have been recently established, but they take six hours to transmit, and are confined to the dispatches of the Government. The journals of Algiers express the wish that private dispatches may be allowed to be sent.
The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Venezuela. (search)
From Venezuela. --Files from Laguayra, Venezuela, are to March 14. General Paez arrived at that port on the 13th, on board the Joseph Maxwell, from Philadelphia, and was received with every mark of respect. A salute of thirteen guns was fired, and speeches delivered. M. de Toureil, French Charge d' Affair es in the absence of M. Mellinet, who is in Europe, died at Carracas on March 1. His funeral was attended by all the dignitaries of the Republic and the foreign representatives. The Canary Islanders were returning in considerable numbers from San Domingo, most of them in a very destitute condition. The greatest harmony prevails for the present between Spain and Venezuela. The affair at Valencia, which we noticed the other day, was simply an emeute by a battalion of Government troops stationed at that place, who took possession of the town during the night and liberated all the prisoners. During the next day they were attacked and dispersed, with a few killed and wounded.
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Trains Delayed. (search)
Wrecked. --The full-rigged ship York, Capt. P. Wheeler, on her way in ballast from Valencia in Spain, to Lewistown, Del., went ashore on the 5th inst., on the North Carolina coast, near Bogue's Inlet. Her officers and crew, numbering twenty-one in all, were saved, but the vessel was a total loss.--Norfolk Day Book, 14th.
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Horrible of Execution in Spain --The Discussion publishes a horrible instance of the degrading influence of fanaticism and ignorance among the Spanish peasantry: "A farmer of the neighborhood of Culls, district of Castellan, province of Valencia, was some years back attacked with vertigo and pains in the head, which returned regularly at intervals of a month. His wife and three daughters did all they could to relieve him, but in vain. At last, a pretended sorcerer who called at the house made the woman believe that the man was possessed by a devil, and that he would never be well as long as the field lived. Accordingly, a few nights back, she and her three daughters, who shared her belief, attacked the man with hatchets as he was in bed asleep, and did not leave off until he was not only dead but literally out to pieces. The next morning the woman went to the parish priest, and related that she and her girls had killed the demon who had so long effected her husband. The
The Daily Dispatch: June 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], A letter from commissioner Rost. (search)
the weather was extremely cold. and my wife being in feeble health, I delayed my departure until the 18th of February I stopped on my way at Bordeaux, at the request of Captain Ruse, to see about getting some of his freight on board or a steamer fonding in that poor, and then went in the neighborhood to see one of my sisters, who had been seriously, ill; there my wife fell sick, and after a few days parted from her only way to Marsedies, where Brook the French steamer of the 5th March for Valencia. Mr. Fearn met me on the way. I arrived here on the 8th, and was well received unofficially; but as far as I can ascertain, there is truth in what was told me at the Spanish Legation in Paris, and also by M. Thouvenel, that Spain would not act alone on the American question. When you left, we did not expect that our Government would be recognized, but we had a well founded hope that the blockade would be set aside. You will no doubt, have seen that the declaration of Earl Russell th
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Art of weeping. (search)
part. A Spanish force sent to get possession of the road leading from Bayonne to Madrid was out to pieces by Bes. sieres at Rio Seco. But this triumph was balanced by losses which the French army sustained. They were compelled to evacuate the seaport towns, the bay of Biscay, especially Santander, which was especially valuable to the Spaniards, as furnishing the means of introducing supplies and arms from England. Marshal Moncey, with a powerful force, was repulsed in an attack on Valencia. Murst, sensible of the powerful effect these various transactions had wrought upon the populace of Madrid, withdrew his army to the Retiro, an eminence commanding the city. Joseph Bonaparte, under the protection of 10,000 men, entered his new capital on the 27th of July, the very day that Dupont's army surrendered. As soon as the news reached Madrid, the new monarch and his court fled for their lives, the former consoling himself by carrying off all the regalia and crown jewels. Nor di
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