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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
nce, and the closest internal unity. Immediately on its institution, their missionaries, kindling with a heroism that defied every danger and endured every toil, made their way to the ends of the earth; they raised the emblem of man's salvation on the Moluccas, in Japan, in India, in Thibet, in Cochin China, and in China; they penetrated Ethiopia, and reached the Abyssinians; they Chap. XX.} planted missions among the Caffres: in California, on the banks of the Marañhon, in the plains of Paraguay, they invited the wildest of barbarians to the civilization of Christianity. The genius of Champlain, whose comprehensive 1632 mind planned enduring establishments for French commerce, and a career of discovery that should carry the lilies of the Bourbons to the extremity of North America, could devise no method of building up the dominion of France in Canada but by an alliance with the Hurons, or of confirming that alliance but by the establishment of missions. Such a policy was conge
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
priests, without regard to their birth, education, or age, were sent on board ships to land where they could. They were executed less perfectly in Mexico and California, and still less so along the South Pacific coast and the waters of the La Plata. But the power of Spain in her colonies had been promoted by the unwearied activity of the Jesuits. Their banishment weakened her authority over Spanish emigrants, and still more confused the minds of the rude progeny of the aborigines. In Paraguay, where Spanish supremacy had rested on Jesuits Chap. I.} 1778. alone, who had held in their hands all the attributes of Caesar and pope, of state and church, the revolution which divided these powers between a civil chief and Dominicans, Franciscans, and monks of the Lady of Mercy, made a fracture that never could be healed. It was as colonial insurgents that Spain dreaded the Americans, not as a new Protestant power. The antipathy of the king to the United States arose from political m
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1860., [Electronic resource], From Paraguay. (search)
From Paraguay. --News from Asuncion, Paraguay, is to September 20. Improvements of various kinds were progressing. Houses are going up in all directions, the streets are well lighted, several workshops have been added to the arsenal, the railroad is advancing to completion, and there is a new steamer on the stocks, built entirely by Paraguayans. There is every confidence that the United States claims will be settled with strict justice, but the relations with Great Britain are not so satisfactory, that Power refusing to abate one job from her original demands.
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource], Postage to the Argentine Confederation, Paraguay and Uruguay, via England. (search)
Postage to the Argentine Confederation, Paraguay and Uruguay, via England. --After the 1st of January next, the postage upon letters sent from the U. States in the British mail via England to Buenos Ayres or any other part of the Argentine Confederation, to the Republic of Paraguay, and to Montevideo, or any other part of the Republic of Uruguay, will be increased to 45 cents for a half-ounce letter, prepayment required. This increased rate of postage results from the fact that the old rat mail via England to Buenos Ayres or any other part of the Argentine Confederation, to the Republic of Paraguay, and to Montevideo, or any other part of the Republic of Uruguay, will be increased to 45 cents for a half-ounce letter, prepayment required. This increased rate of postage results from the fact that the old rates of postage upon letters sent from the United Kingdom to any of the above-mentioned countries will be re-imposed by the British Office on and after the 1st of January, 1861.
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
hand ready in case of an attack by boarding parties. In the same year, in the same vessel, and during our difficulties with the English in the Gulf of Mexico, our Commander had occasion to board the English steam-frigate Devastation, again were we at quarters with the indispensable hot water ready for service. Again in January, 1859, upon the Paraguay expedition, the same steamer, at that time the flag-ship, was the first vessel of the fleet that reached Assumption, the capital of Paraguay, in doing which it was necessary to pass the strong forts and batteries at Humniis. Not cognizant at the time that there was any difficulty to apprehend, everything was, however, cleared for action, and in its place and ready for use was the arrangements for throwing the hot water. In all these instances I had charge, under the direction of Chief Engineer Harman Newell, of the steam pumps and appurtenances necessary to force the water on deck in case it was needed. Although nothi
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest Northern news. (search)
was significant, as follows:-- "While the army is fighting, you, as citizens, see that the war is prosecuted for the preservation of the Union and the Constitution, for your nationality and your rights." Foreign news, a day or two later, to the 1st inst., is telegraphed from Halifax. The English papers say little in regard to American affairs, except that the Times draws attention to the immense increase of our Navy. The Grecian question is to be quieted. President Lopez, of Paraguay, to whom the American Minister had just been presented at last advices, is dead. The privateer steamer Alabama is supposed to have been seen on the 6th inst., in longitude 71 deg. 41 min., latitude 34 deg 40 min., by the bark Mary Bentley, on the way from New Orleans to New York. An extensive defalcation has been discovered in the New York Custom-House. Lord Lyons recently had an interview with Seward. The Yankee correspondents, in speaking of the interview, says "that
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
President Lopez, of Paraguay, is dead, and his son is provisionally filling the vacancy.
The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], Croakers. (search)
have not the signature of a responsible minister, as contrary to the spirit of the British Constitution. The Spanish Minister of Colonies estimates the expenses of the San Domingo war at 200,000,000 reals, and the deficit occasioned by the war in the revenue of Cuba at 100,000,000. Marshall O'Donnell, in a speech in the Spanish Senate, regarded the abandonment of San Domingo as an accomplished fact. He was, however, ready to guarantee with his head that he would put down the rebellion in three months. The Finance Committee of the Austrian Reichsrath insists on reductions in the budget. It is reported that the Hungarian Diet will be convoked to meet on May 15th. The Right Hon. Frederick Peel, in a speech on the American war, urged the continued observation of the strictest neutrality. A Paraguay correspondent states that a dispatch from Secretary Seward to the President of Paraguay praises the attitude of the latter, and condemns the ambitious schemes of Brazil.
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