Saint Augustine Florida Sketches of Its History Objects of Interest And Adva
Saint Augustine Florida Sketches of Its History Objects of Interest And Adva
Thrse Yelverton
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The excuse or pretext for these continual attacks was the accusation that the Spaniards inveigled and retained slaves belonging to the British, and they stormed the place with a view of recovering them. Slavery was also the actual cause ofthe long Floridian war which desolated the country for so many years. And Slavery has, alas, del- uged not only Florida hut the who!. ' of tliis fair continent in blood. Pray heaven thai this hydra- headed monster in this last great Struggle has bled itself to... death. Its history in peaceorwar is written in human blood, not alone of the soldier who perished at his post, to enforce barbarous laws, or the wild Indian dyeing with his heart's hi I the green leaves of his hummuok, but of helpless woman, Bcrecohing oul her sad story un- der the lash of the tyrant. One breathes more ly this delicious air, to know that these atro- SAINT AUGUSTINE. 21 cities are at an end for ever ; to believe that the worm corroding at the heart of the fairest land of God's creation is destroyed ; that the great skele- ton looming over her youthful beauty has crum- bled to ashes, and that now she may ripen to maturity and perfection.
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