Letters on the United Provinces of South America: Addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the U. States

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J. Seymour, 1819 - 259 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 86 - Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Sayfa 208 - Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared.
Sayfa 94 - Pater nosters," said to liberate souls from purgatory. This service, which occupies but a moment, costs six pence, and although the price is so trifling, it is a source of large income to the priests...
Sayfa 13 - The republic of the united provinces of South America, comprehends, with some exceptions, the same territory as the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, which was established in 1778. It extends from the 16th to the 45th degree of south latitude; from the left margin of the lake Titicaca, which lies between the two cordilleras of Peru, on the north, and to the coast of Patagonia on the south.
Sayfa 90 - Curas and friars inculcate, with the most ardent zeal, the doing of good works here, in order to be happy hereafter. These good works consist in the festivities before mentioned, and saying masses.
Sayfa 153 - ... silver upon the world — to animate enterprize and reward industry ; to pamper the luxurious and minister to the comforts of the sober and virtuous ; to disseminate knowledge and religion ; and to spread the desolations of war ; marshalling armies in the field and pointing the thunder of navies upon the ocean ; filling cities with monuments of taste and art, and overwhelming them with ruin ; founding mighty empires and levelling them in the dust : inciting, in short, to virtue and to crime,...
Sayfa 91 - These good works consist in the festivities before mentioned, and saying masses. Every mass costs two dollars ; if chaunted, the price is double. At Buenos Ayres it is but one dollar. There is a royal tariff, Arencel de Derechos, which regulates the rates of these religious exercises.
Sayfa 90 - Curat are many Europeans and others, who do not understand the Peruvian language, and who procure their parishes by the recommendation of the Viceroy, or some Spanish chief. Although the canon law requires that the parish priests shall understand the language, and reason certainly demands the same thing, still his Majesty dispenses with that knowledge in the qualifications of the Curas, and there are therefore preachers and hearers who cannot understand each other ! It is sufficient for the Cura,...
Sayfa 97 - ... for their deceased relatives and friends.' '' (p. 88.) " ' From their religious festivities I now pass to their funerals. The tax levied upon these solemnities is most painful to the Indians, and the most barbarous avarice is displayed in its exaction. The sum which the Indian is obliged to pay is in proportion to his wealth, varying from 85 to $100.
Sayfa 97 - Indian is obliged to pay is in proportion to his wealth, varying from $5 to $100. His property is narrowly investigated, and the violence of oppression unites to aggravate the afflictions of a man who has lost a father, a brother, or a wife. I have seen the poor Indian weep till his heart was well nigh broken at the levying of this unjust contribution. But the European Curas, whose hearts are harder than the gold they covet, turn a deaf ear to the wailing of the widow, whose children are taken from...

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