The History of Paraguay: With Notes of Personal Observations, and Reminiscences of Diplomacy Under Difficulties, Volume 2Lee & Shepard, 1871 - Paraguay |
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Page 49 - ... physician. His excesses were constantly bringing on ill-turns, and at last brought on a chronic infirmity that must have soon ended his days, had he not perished by a lance. Though he habitually drank largely, yet he often exceeded his own free limits, and on such occasions he was liable to break out in the most furious abuse of all who were about him. He would then indulge in the most revolting obscenity, and would sometimes give orders for the most barbarous acts. When recovered from such debauches...
Page 609 - SIR, — I have the honor to inform your Excellency that I have arrived in front of Angostura, having on board his Excellency General MT McMahon, the Minister of the United States to the Republic of Paraguay.
Page 129 - ... would be not only unpleasant, but personally damaging. He therefore, with a courage indicating the high confidence that he enjoyed with 'the late Secretary of Navy, refused to obey his orders, and in reply to my request for a gunboat and convoy he said that he would not send them, as I /tad not yet complied with my instructions. My position now was more embarrassing than ever. It was known by everybody at the mouth of the river that our government had ordered the blockade to be forced, if necessary,...
Page 512 - ... clothes, and, suffering from hunger as we did, we were glad to purchase a day's life at the price of a coat or a shirt. Amongst them were many women, some of them belonging to the best families in the country ; some quite old and gray-headed, others young and pretty, — especially Dolores Recalde, a very tall and beautiful girl, and Josefa Requelme, a handsome woman, with very fine eyes. They suffered much, poor creatures, though they had little A-shaped straw huts to shelter them, as did some...
Page 610 - I have the honor to be With the highest respect Your Excellency's Most obedient Servant ANSON JONES WALKER TO RUNNELS.
Page 62 - Name resound unceasingly from our lips; let his glorious image abide forever at the bottom of our hearts; let his august Person be the entire object of our contemplations ; let us think in Him, think with Him, think by Him, let us not sleep, let us not wake, but under the sweet and vivifying influence and under the beneficient and refreshing shade of FRANCISCO SOLANO LOPEZ, who is so justly the glory, the honor, and the joy of his country, its only and entire hope. " Full of gratitude, of respect...
Page 494 - John A. Duffield, Thomas Carter, and a man by the name of Sheridan. Manlove had been already executed. There were also two naturalized Americans, — Jose Font and Leonard Charles. Duffield and Charles escaped by being taken prisoners by the Brazilians ; the others are all supposed to have been killed by Lopez. From a letter received from Duffield, dated July 6, 1869, I give the following extracts, as indicating the zeal of my successor in looking after the interests of his countrymen. " My True...
Page 575 - ... the execution of the sentence of death already pronounced against her and his tortured sisters. *' He made good his threat of driving all non-combatants before him All the boys above nine or ten years old had been taken for soldiers, and therefore nearly all of the remainder were females Lopez's orders, as he retreated, were that no Paraguayans should be left to fall into the hands of the allies ; and parties were sent in all directions to drive in and keep in front the women and children that...
Page 614 - Excellency's command on the morning of the 8th instant. I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, your Excellency's most obedient servant, CH DAVIS, Rear- Admiral commanding the Naval Forces of the United Siatet in the South Atlantic.
Page 125 - I now most earnestly do, my protest against it. I protest against the detention as a violation of the laws of nations and of all diplomatic usages and courtesies. I protest against the detention as unnecessary and unlawful in itself, and I protest against the manner in which it has been effected.