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Introduction xv
privacy of their homes was not invaded, and they
were free to speak and print their thoughts ; when
things went wrong they could scold and grumble to
their hearts' content. They severed their political
connection with England, not in order to gain new
liberties, but to guard against the possible risk of
losing old ones. Far different was it with the people
of the Spanish colonies at the beginning of the present century. Their government, under viceroys and
captains general sent out from Spain, was an absolute
despotism. They were subject to arbitrary and
oppressive taxation. The people of English America refused to submit to a very light stamp tax, imposed purely for American interests, to defend the
frontier against Indian raids ; the people of Spanish
America saw vast amounts of treasure carried away
year after year to be spent upon European enterprises
in which they felt no interest whatever. They had
no popular assemblies, no habeas corpus acts, no
freedom of the press. Their houses were not their
castles, for the minions of the civil and of the spiritual power could penetrate everywhere; a petty
quarrel between neighbors might end in dragging
some of them before the Inquisition, to be tortured
or put to death for heresy. For that pre-eminently
Spanish and Satanic institution survived in America
until two decades of the nineteenth century had
passed.
What was the Inquisition ? It was a machine for
winnowing out and destroying all such individuals as
surpassed the average in quickness of wit, earnestness
of purpose, and strength of character, in so far as to
entertain opinions of their own and boldly declare
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000020 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | Introduction xv privacy of their homes was not invaded, and they were free to speak and print their thoughts ; when things went wrong they could scold and grumble to their hearts' content. They severed their political connection with England, not in order to gain new liberties, but to guard against the possible risk of losing old ones. Far different was it with the people of the Spanish colonies at the beginning of the present century. Their government, under viceroys and captains general sent out from Spain, was an absolute despotism. They were subject to arbitrary and oppressive taxation. The people of English America refused to submit to a very light stamp tax, imposed purely for American interests, to defend the frontier against Indian raids ; the people of Spanish America saw vast amounts of treasure carried away year after year to be spent upon European enterprises in which they felt no interest whatever. They had no popular assemblies, no habeas corpus acts, no freedom of the press. Their houses were not their castles, for the minions of the civil and of the spiritual power could penetrate everywhere; a petty quarrel between neighbors might end in dragging some of them before the Inquisition, to be tortured or put to death for heresy. For that pre-eminently Spanish and Satanic institution survived in America until two decades of the nineteenth century had passed. What was the Inquisition ? It was a machine for winnowing out and destroying all such individuals as surpassed the average in quickness of wit, earnestness of purpose, and strength of character, in so far as to entertain opinions of their own and boldly declare |
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