Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-31
COLUMBUS CRI ICISED.
ANOTHER VIEW OF AMERICAS DIS
COVERER BY A. P. DUNLOP.


ment of the Carib Race-InGratitude
Par Excellence-Barterin slaves for
Privileges - Ferdinand and isabella
Take the Bait-A Race Extermimas,d.
There is one fact wor hy o. note n
the coming four hundredth year cele.
bration of the discovery OF tne Ameri-
can continent, namely, that not one sin.
gle specimen of the race Columbus dis
covered will be on hand to defe I'd iliru-
SELF writes A. p Dunlop in the Satiu-
day RerieiC. Not alone has the Carib
been wiped from the face Of the earth,
but the Oldest inhabitants of the West
Indian Islands have not seen a half
breed even of that race, nor do any OF
them remember having leen It'd that
they existed in the time of their fathers
OF grandfathers. Columbus writes of
these people us the best lie had ever
seen, and says they received him wtu
overwhelming kindness. He lays, to .
that they were numerous, and TIA,
every island from San Salvador TO SSnto
Domingo was thickly inhabited.
Could one of these guileie,s sava%cs
arise to say a few words at the opening
of the Worlds Fair he might omleWhac
dsarrange the mantle of giory which
the Saxon, Celtic, and 1eutoujc races
have so prettily arranged around tie
historic figures of Christopher Columbus
and Queen Isabella. The g'nJle sayag.
might first ask why the mig ,ty eopIe
of North America We're celebrating the
advent of man who had Il, thing y. nat
ever to do with the discovery Of i.ll is
now the United States. He WoHl iia %
no record of his own people a., :,Hvo
not even left trace of their exist nc.
behind them-but he might have plc,i
into the enemy's camp for infor;na ion.
and there he would find - ohcl .pr
proved or not-that Mr.. Columbus was
said by his son Ferdinand to huv leaa
a pirate, or the descendant Of o@e,
who was constantly on the move, all
who, i'll the fifteenth centIry. ,isi..u
the home of the Vikings, aud ,..cre
heard the story of the discovery OF
Vmeland.
He could readily reconcile Mr.. Co.
lumbuss way of doing things hy au.
thenticated dispatches from Culum, IS
to Their Highnesses, Isabe la d
Ferdinand, by reading Il copy Of i ;e !..",
now in the Spanish archives, in whirA tue
discoverer informs Their Iii.huas+,,,'
that he was treated as ii brother by ,!iraa
savage people, that they gave freaI al
they had and conducted him to TIER
gold mines. Tie Carib might then l,.;e,l
the latter part Of the Dispatch evi,,'l.r
written as soon as Columbus re II. II i
from the gold mines, and sWg 5eat, il -.
easy it would be to overcome This u.i-
armed people and send them as sla es
to Spain.
Repudiating Columbus as discov-
erer, he might, on the auspicious occt-
sion, go even further, by asking why
Columbus or Isabella should be admired
or held up as examples for the youth of
the land?
The Republican party might also BE-
told that no two persons in the wori .
history ever went into a slave sieculi-
ton more deliberately. Colunl, us
tempted the cuidity Of the Queen w:,a
untold treasures as a return for her ia
vestment, and in his first letter is "A r.
quest for ships loaded with provisions,
to come "licensed for the traffic Of
slaves" Did he get them? The an
swer now in the Madrid archives is:
Their highnesses will send the yes.
sells.
If the written account of these S an
ish pirates be correct, the Carb orator
might say that - years after Columbus
arrived in the West Indies not one of
this prosperous race was alive, and he
could with truth point to the accounts
left by the Dominican friar, La Casa.
who wrote that 1000 of them were
killed on the Lucanyan group inside Of
a very short time either by the sword or
the lash of the slave drivers.
The native West Indian might sum up
his argument by saying that as an OK.
ample of deliberate treachery and cold
blooded cruelty and hypocrisy. til,
worlds history has no parallel to Chris
topher Columbus, who eXterminated a
race that he himself says received him
as zone sent from heaven, nor to his
side partner, who went into the real
estate and slave speculation with harl,
cold greed for gold, and then permitted
the discoverer to end his miserable life
as auper.