I Was Informed That The Hospital
Authorities At Asuncion Gave Them The Cast-Off Fever Clothing Of
Their Patients During An Epidemic To Sweep Them Off The Face Of The
Earth!
The Indians have been ill-treated from the beginning.
Darwin relates
that, in their eagerness to exterminate the red men, the Argentine
troops have pursued them for three days without food. On the frontier
they are killed in hundreds; by submitting to the white man they die
in thousands. Latin civilization is more terrible to them than war.
Sad to state, their only hope is to fight, and this the savage
affirms he will do for ever and ever.
Francia, the Dictator of Paraguay, ordered every Indian found - man,
woman or child - to be put to death! Lopez, a later ruler, took sport
in hunting Indians like deer. We are told that on one occasion he was
so successful as to kill forty-eight! The children he captured and
sold into slavery at fifteen and twenty dollars each. The white
settler considers himself very brave if he kills the savage with a
rifle sighted at five hundred yards, while well out of range of the
Indians' arrows, and I have known them shot just "for fun"! The
Indians retaliate by cutting off the heels of their white captives,
or leaving them, in statu naturae, bound with thongs on an
anthill; and a more terrible death could not be devised by even the
inquisitor, Torquemada, of everlasting execration. The Indian is hard
and cruel, indifferent to pain in himself or others.
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