The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-02-21
COLUMBUS CRITICISED.
ANOTHER VIEW OF AMERICAS DIS
COVERER BY A. P. DUNLOP.

Few Plain words About His Treat
ment OF the Carib Ruee-I Ingratitude
Par Hxrelienc .--liarter ng slaves flr
priviieg 3 Ferdinand aud lsnb L.
Take tho Halt-A Race Kxtermiunt
There is one fact wor by of note in
the coming four hundredth year cell
bration of the discovery of the Amei
can continent, namely, that not one sin
gle specimen of the race Columbus dis
covered will be Oh hand to defe 4 hi1
If. writes A. p Dunlop in the Satur
dan ReUielC Not alone has the Cuih
been wiped from the face Of the earth,
but the uldest inhabitants Of the West
Indian Islands have not seen a half
breed even Of That race, nor do any OF
them remembtr having leen t, Id that
they existed in the time of their fathers
or graudfathers, Columbus writes OF
these people as the best lie had ever
seen, and says they 1, ceived him with
overwhelming Kindness He says, too,
that they we're numerous, and that
every island from San Salvador to Santo
Domingo was thiclkly inhabited.
Could one of these guileless savages
arise to say few words at the opening
Of the Worlds Fair he might somewhat
disarrnnge the mantle of glory which
the Saxon. Celtic, and 1eutonic races
have so prettily arranged around the
historic figures of Christopher Columbus
and Queen Isabella Tie gentle savage
might first ask why the mighty reople
of North America were celebrating the
| advent If a man who had nothing what
ever to do with the discovery Of What is
now the United States. He woull have
| no record of his own people-Nho have
not even left a trace Of their exstenc
behind them--but he might have looked
into the enemy's camp for information,
and there he would iind - Whether
proved or not-tat Mr. Columbus was
said by his son Ferdinand to have been
a pirate, OF the de,ccnlant Of one.
who was constantly on The move, and
who, in the fifteenth century, isited
the home of The Vikings, and there
card the story of the discovery OF
| Vmeland
lie could readily reconcile Mr. CO.
umbus's way Of doing things 10y au-
thenlicated dispatches from Columbus
to "Iheir Highncsses, Isabella a d
Fei dinand, by reading a copy of a letter,
now in tile Spanish archives, in which the
.liscoverer informs "Iheir Hishnesses" P"
that he was tire. ted as brother 10y these
savage people, that they gave freely all
they had and conducted him to their
gold mines. TIE Carib might then read
Tie latter part of the dispatch, evidently
written as soon as Columbus returned
from the gold mines. and G ,ests "ho"
easy it would be to overcome this un-
armed people aud send them us sla, e.
10 Spain
R,pudiating Columbus as dscov-
erer he might, OF tine ausp,cous occa.
'ion, go even further, by asking why
Coluu bu OF Isabella should he mireI
Jr held up as examples for the youth OF
the land?
The Republican party might also b
told that no two persons in the worhi''
history ever went into slave sleculI
ton more deliberately. Colum, IL
emp ed the GU ility Of the Qlcen wllI
ntull treasur s IA return tur her in
vestment, and in i first letter is re
quest for slips loaded with provisions
" Cplle IlCeUSN loI lile IL 4lC H
slaves Dad he get them? TIE an
,wer now in The Madrid arcl ives is
Their 'highnesses will send the yes
,el
f the written account of these S an
sh pirates be correct, the CIR b orut1
night say that IL years after. Co.unbU
iriv Il in the West Ind es not one q
his pres eruus race was alive, aud III
could with truth point to the acc unt
eft by the Dominican friar, La Casa
vhu wrote that 4J.O00 OF them Ver
,illed on the LucanS an group inside %
u very II ut time eitlier by the sword o
the lash Of the slve drivers.
Tie native West Indian might sum II
is argu ent by saying that us an eX
umple Of deli crate treachery and coli
1looded cruelty and hypocrisy, tn
worlds history has no parallel to Chri-
pher Columbu no tx erminated
race that he himself says received hii
as zone sent from heaven, nor to hi
side partner, who went into the re.
estate and slave speculation with har
cold greed for gold and then permtte
3 the dicoverer to end his miserable lif
as a auper
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