Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-05-04

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ship. Their relIglsn ~As one of peace
and love. If their temples elled with dow
ere and birds And fountains, and their
daily life and conyersation and ttae man y
virtues transmitted to their descendants-
IL these works are any evidence OF their
faith. They had wealth of gold and sil-
yer, and artistic workers in their precious
metals. They had fine houses and great
public works, temples, squcducts, road
ways. They had calendar measuring
the solar year more accurately than ours,
and requiring read ju.tment not every four
years, but only once in half century.
They had full records of their own civil
ixation and history, but they we're richer
yet in the possession of ample and au-
thentic records of the races before them.
Humboldt. who visited Mexico about
the beginning Of this century. and wrote
from the spot, says:-The Mexicans az
tecs) were in possession Of annals that
went back to eight and half centuries
beyond the epoch of the arrival of Cor
tez in the country of Anahuac''-tha is,
to about 1870. Bancroft, in his "Native
Races of the Pacific States" says these
Aztecs derived their system of tradition
from the Toltecs, "whose written annals
they also preserved" Bancroft says that
at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards
in Mexico there were 'great quantities Of
manuscripts treasured up in the country,
and that the dexterity of the numerous
persons employed in producing these
writings and painting astonished the un-
lettered cavaliers and illiterate priests
who came over from Spain to kill and
plumber.
Now there is not one of these invslu-
able documents to be found even 10
museum or library.
What became of thems Let Prescott
tell:-"The first archbishop of Mexico
collected these paintings from every quar-.
ter, especially from Tezeuco, the most
cultivated capital in Anahuac, and the
great depository of the national archives.
He then caused them to be placed up in
mountain heap as it is called by the
Spanish writer's themselves, in the mar
ket place of Tinteloco, and reduced them
all to ashes"
So persisted the classic history of North
America. 1t was the first contribution
of the Latin Church to the New World.
In these barbarous flames, lit in the name
of the learning and religion of Spain by
high dignitary of her Church, were de-
stroyed the records of eight centuries of
the history of human nations whom God
had led to high degree of advancement
and well being, and who worshipped him
daily in every city and town and home
lit with the rising and setting of the sun.
And this vandalism is the more inexcus-
able in this that these destroyed records
were replaced by nothing at all. These
ignorant priests, who looked on the learn
ing of the Astecs as the work of the
devil, just like that of Savonerols and
Calico, did not even have an intelligent
or graphic picture of Aztec life and man
nsrs a. they saw it in their ignorance,
barbarity, and superstition. Their rec
ords, filed at Paris and Madrid, are filled
with monkish storie-, awkward miracles.
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