Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-10-17

Teule, your outlawed husband, shall be
short and sharp, " he began roughly. IA
while hence you came hither to seek an
army to aid Cuitlahua, emperor Of the AZ
tees, In his struggle with the Teules, the
sons Of Quetzal That army was given
you agairs 1T the wishes Of many Of US, for
you wo., Ger the council by the honey OF
your words, and we who urged caution or
even an alliance with the white men, the
children of God, were overruled. You went
hence, and 20, 900 men, the flower OF our
people, followed you to Tenoctitlan. Where
arc they now? I will tell you. Some
600 of them have crept back home, the rest
fly to and fro through the air IN the giz-
yards of tho zaphilotes or crouch on the
earth in the bellies of jackals. Death has
them all, and you led them to their deaths.
Is it, then, much that we should seek the
lives of you two in payment for those ~, :
600 of our sons, our husbands and our Ia
thers? But we do even ask this. Here be-
side me stand ambassadors from Malinche,
the captain of the Teules, who reached our
city but an hour ago. This is tho demand
that they bring from Maliuche, and IN bis
own words:
"sDeliyer back to me Otomie, the
daughter Of Montezuma, and the renegade
of her paramour, who is known as Teule,
and who has fed from the justice due to
his crimes, and it shall be well with you,
people of the Otomie. Hide them or refuse
to deliver them, and the fate OF the City OF
Pines shall be as the fate Of Tenoctitlan,
queen Of the valley. Choose, then, between
my love and my wrath, people Of the Oto-
mie. If you obey, the past shall be forgiven,
and my yoke will be light upon you. II
you refuse, your city shall be stamped hat
and your very name wiped out OF the REQ
ords of the world.
"Say, messengers Of the Malinche, are
not these the words Of Malinche"
s'They are his very words, Maxtls, said
the spokesman of the embassy.
Now again there was tumult among
the people, and voices cried, "Gtve them
up; give them to Malinche as a peace offer
ing" Otomie stood forward to speak, and
it died away, for all desired to hear her
words. Then she spoke:
''It seems, people Of the Otomie, that
am on trial before my own Tassals, and
nv husband with me. Well, I will plead
our cause as well as woman may, and
having the power you shall judge between
us anu IhGAUli auu tA1l1SoJ 4t1ShAAlASAS S@1N
the Tlascalans. What is our offensef It
is that we came hither by the command OF
Cuitlahua to seek your aid In his war with
the Teules. What did tell you them l
told you that if the people Of Anahuac
would not stand together against the white
men they must be broken one by one, like
the sticks of an unbound tagot, and cast
into the flames Did speak iesH Nay,
spoke the truth, for through the treason
of her tribes, and chiefly through the trea-
son of the Tlascalans, Anahuac Is fallen
and Tenoctitlan is ruin sown with dead
like field with corn"
''It is true" cried voice.
ssYes, people of the Otomle, 1t is true,
but say that had all the warriors Of the
nations of Anahuac played the part that
your sons played the tale had run other
wise They are dead, and because OF their
death you would deliver us to our foes and
yours, but I, for one, do not mourn them,
though among their number are many OF
my kin. Nay, be not wroth, but listen.
1t is better that they should lie dead In
honor, having earned for themselves
wreath of fame and an immortal dwelling
In the houses Of the sun, than that they
4 should live to be slaves, which, 1t seems,
Is your desire, people Of the Otomte. There
Is no false word in what said to you
Now the sticks that Malinche has used to
beat out the brains of Guatemoc shall be
broken and burned to cook the pot of the
Teules. Already these false children are
his slaves. Have you not heard his COM
mand, that the tribes, his allies, shall la
Dor in the quarries and the streets TILL the
vic of
upon the face of the waters? Will you not
hasten to takn your share in the work, peo-
plo of the Otomic, the work that knows no
rest and no reward except the lash Of the
oyerseer and tho curse Of the Teule? Sure
" you will hasten, people of the noun
tains! Your hands are shaped to the spade
and tho trowel, not to the bow and the
spear, and 1t will be sweeter to toll to do
the will and swell the wealth Of Malinche
in the sun Of the valley or the shadow OF
tho mine than to bide here free upon your
hills, where as yet no foe has set his footP'
Again she paused, and murmur OF
doubt and unrest went through the thou
sands who listened. Ma1tla stepped for
ward and would have spoken, but the peo-
pie shouted him down, crying: "Otomie,
Otoniel Let US hear the words OF Oto-
mie."
IT thank you, my people," she said,
'sfor have still much to tell you. Our
crime is, then, that we drew an army after
US to fight against the Teules. And how
did we draw this armyP Did I command
you to muster your arrays Nay, I set out
my case, and I said Now choose You
chose, and Of your own free will you dis
patched those glorious companies that now
are dead. My crime Is, therefore, that you
chose wrongly, as you say; but, az ! eelii
hold, most rightly, and because OF this
crime I and my husband are to be given as
peace offering to the Teules. Listen. Let
me tell you something Of those wars In
which we have fought before you give Us
TO tho Teules and our mouths are silent
forever Where shall begin2 know not.
Stag: bore child-had he lived he would
have been your prince today. That child
I saw starve to death before my eyes; inch
by inch and day by day saw him starve.
But it is nothing. Who am I that should
complain because Ihaye lost my son, when
so many Of your sons are dead and their
blood is required at my hands? Listen
again" and she went on to tell In burn
ing words Of the horrors Of the siege,
of the cruelties of the Spaniards and Of
tho bravery Of the men Of the Otomie
whom had commanded. For full hour
she spoke thus, while all that vast audience
hung upon her words; also she told Of the
part that played in the struggle and OF
the deeds which had done, and now and
again some soldier in the crowd who served
under me- and who had escaped the famine
and the massacre cried out:
ut is true. We saw it with our eyes"
"And so," she said, lat last it was fin
ished, at last Tenoctitlan was ruin, and
my cousin and my king, tho glorious Qua
temoc, lay a prisoner in the hands Of Ma
linche, and with my husband Teule, my
sister, myself and many another Ma
linche swore that no would treat Guate-
moe and his following with all honor. Do
you know how he treated him2 Within q
few days Guatemoc, our king, was seated
in the chair of torment while slaves burned
him with hot irons to cause him to declare