The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-06-19
Montpelier, June 10, l845.
From the Christian Citizen.
Brute Humanity and Human Brutality.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF
ABBE RAYNAL.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
ABBE RAYNAL.
A woman 10 whom hunger had doubt.
less given the courage 10 brave death, e.
Iuded the vigilance of the guards which
had been placed around the colony 10 pro.
tect it from the dangers 10 which it was
exposed by the famine.
Maldonata, that was the name OF the
fugitive after having wandered about for
some time in unknown deserts, entered a
cave to rest from her fatigue. What was
her terror to meet there a lioacss, and her
surprise, when she saw this formidable
beast approach her with haIf-trembIing
air, ard caress her, and lick her hands,
with soryowfuI meanings. better calculated
% excite her pity than her apprehension.
The Spanish woman soon perceived that
The lioness was enceinte, and that her
mornings were the language OF mother
imploring assistance in her accoUchment.
MaIdonata look courage. She aided nature
at that painful moment when she seems
to accord with reluctance to every created
being, the life which she permits them to
breathe for such brief space of time
The lioness, thus happily delivered, went
Immediately in search of food, and bro't
i, in abundance to the feet of her bcnefuc-
tress. The latter daily shared it with the
Young lions, which, owing their birth TO
her care and brought up with her, seemed
TO recognise by gambols aud innocent BIZ,
logs, benefsclIon which their mother
paid with more tender solictade. But
when age had given them the instinct of
seeking their prey themselves with the
strength to take aud devouL it, the family
dispersed in The forest. The ioness, no
longer called back 10 her cabin by mater
nal tenderness, disappeared herself and
roamed in. a desert which her hunger dai-
ly deropulaled.
Maldonata alone, and without the means
Of subsistence found herself reduced TO
leave cavern fearful TO so many living
beings, bot which her pity had been able
TO make her an asylum. Deprived 10 her
sorrow of cherished society, she had moi
wandered about long, before she fell ino
the hands Of the savage Indians. A lion.
ess had nourished her, but men made her
slave. Soon after, she was re-capInred
by the Spaniards, who conducted her 10
Buenos Ayres. The commander, more
ferocious in himself than the lions and the
savaees, thought that she had not been
sufficiently punished for her evasion oflhe
guards ov all the dangers and evils she
had experienced. The barbarian com
manded her to be lied 10 tree 10 The mid
die of a forest, there TO die with hunger,
or to become food for devouring nous.
tiers.
Two days afterwards, some soldiers
went to learn the destiny OF the unfortu0
nate vic i'm They found her full of Iif',
in the midst of iamishcd tigers, which,
with their lhroats open upon the prev,
dared not approach her before a loness
and her wheIps which were crouching ut
her feet. The Iieness, when she saw the
soldiers, removed from the tree. as if TO
leave them TO unbind her beneaclrcss' -
But when they would lead her away with
them, The animal softly approach d 10 con
firm with lis caressrs and lcnder meanings
the prodiyics of gratitude which the wo,
man related 10 her beI ators. The lion