The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.Smile, R. Elton
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The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.
Smile, R. Elton
Science fiction, American
_Codecio._ “In answer to your inquiry, a clear demonstration of facts,
derived from auramentation, will prove all sufficient for your
comprehension of the real governmental status of the republic in
question. We have traced the progress of the United States from their
earliest date; at first with the hope of influencing the adverse
experience of the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English colonists for
lenient consolidation, despite their religious tenets, which had been
the cause of counter oppressions and expatriation. This was attempted
with the ulterior intention of effecting a cohesive tendency from a
united education, adapted to their practical requirements for real
progression in freedom from precedental imitation. But the repulsive
elements of instinct continued, under the aggravations of exile, to grow
more rampantly rabid in inveteracy, offering but little hope for the
encouragement of our efforts for kindly reconciliation. With the one
remarkable exception of the colony founded by Penn,—who tested and
proved the trustworthy natures of the savages, when subject to honorable
treatment,—the labors of our auramentors were void of effect. Of all the
colonists those of New England waged the most ruthlessly relentless war
against their aboriginal benefactors, seemingly intent upon offering
them as a grateful sacrifice for their selfish ‘freedom to worship God.’
The next inevitable stage of instinctive fanaticism, was the
inauguration of sectarian persecution, in direct rebuttal of their own
claims for sympathy, and freedom of privilege. But a few generations
passed before the old leaven of hereditary intolerance flourished its
sceptre of arbitrary compulsion with renewed vengeful despite. Then a
new bone of contention for future generations was introduced by the
mother country, who bestowed the African troglodytes as bond slaves to
work out the heavenly salvation of the colonists.
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