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board of three c \ directly civil rights. The charter party soon alter the 



under the leirislatio: ' '''<>" proposed a new constitution, largely 



l>i\im- Kitfht of Kings, Thr. iffrage, which was carried and 



Mturv dogma, implying the ; BCl in May. 1 



..at- Druids. The priests of the Celts of Caul 

 an.l Britain. According to Julius CfiBSar, they 

 tin- greatest authority among the (Vi- 

 and the popedom. :na \\-as sanctioned tic nations. They had some knowledge of 



in the h.> >n. n;ni; geometry, natural philosophy, etc., superin- 



., the Hi!. 6 right of the tended the affairs of religion and morality, and 



peoj lange the performed the otlice of judges. They liad a 



order of er the throne coinmoii superior, who was elected by a majority 



on v. :nk proper is distinctly set of votes from their own number, and who en- 

 joyed his dignity for life. They took umi.- ual 



I >nininiciiii Republic, or Santo care to fence themselves round with mysteries. 



Domingo. A state formed by the Spanish, and it is probable that they cherished doctrines 



orea Spaiii. in H>'.)7. sur- unknown to the common people; but that they 



\ of Kyswiek, had a great secret philosophy which was handed 



: the island, retaining the tlown by oral tradition is very unlikely. Of 



1 7<.'>. In the year last men- their religious doctrines little is known. Human 



-panish portion became sacrifice was one of their characteristic rites, the 



neh. In ISH. the West having victims being usually prisoners of war. 



lenoe, France formally Eastern Empire. Commenced under 



relii. in favor of Spain, all claim to the Valens, A. D. 364, and ended in the defeat and 

 _'. the colony, in imitation of the death of Constantine XIII., the last Christian 

 binental po<-e<-ion>. threw off the yoke of emperor, in 1453. Mahomet II. resolved to 

 link itself, more or less dethrone him and possess himself of Constan- 

 !y. with its African neighbors. But in or tinople; he laid siege to that city both by sea 

 about IM.'i, it assumed a separate standing as and land, and took it by assault after it had 

 the Dominican Republic, the anarchy of which held out fifty-eight days. The unfortunate 

 -.changed in 1861 for the despotism of its emperor, seeing the Turks enter by the breaches, 

 form s. In 1863, it again revolted, and threw himself into the midst of the enemy, and 

 the possession, and the republic was cut to pieces; the children of the imperial 

 maintained a troubled existence. In 'house were massacred by the soldiers, and the 

 between the Dominican Republic women reserved to gratify the lust of the con- 

 the United States was ratified, under which queror; and thus terminated the dynasty of 

 r will collect the customs revenues, the Constantines, and commenced the present 

 the Dominican Government to maintain empire of Turkey, May 29, 1453. 

 . and act as intermediary between the Ecuador. After the conquest of the Inca 

 republic and its foreign creditors. dominions, the Kingdom of Quito was made a 

 Dorr Rebellion. In IS 10, Connecticut presidency of the viceroyalty of Peru, and re- 

 am 1 Rhode Island were the only States that mained under Spanish rule from 1533 to 1S22. 

 were still governed by their colonial charters. In 1809, it revolted, and after many fruitless 

 : the lat'ter State, imposing, as it struggles achieved its independence by the battle 

 did. a property qualification so high as to dis- of Pichincha, May 22, 1822. The territory was 

 franchise two-thirds of the citizens, was ex- incorporated into the Republic of Colombia, en 

 ly unpopular. A proposition of Thomas the disruption of which, in 1831, it became an 

 W. Do'rr. of Providence. io extend the franchise independent republic under the name of Keuador. 

 1 down. Dorr then took to agitation, But a series of civil wars ensued, lasting almost 

 and finally a convention prepared a constitution without intermission for more than twenty years, 

 and submitted it to a popular vote. Its sup- From 1852 to 1858, desultory hostilities existed 

 limed a majority for it, which its op- with Peru, \Var was declared against New 

 known afl the law and order party, Granada, November 20, 1863, and the Ecua- 

 denied. Nevertheless, in is 12, the constitution dorian army was routed. In August, 1868, a 

 proclaimed to be in force. An election was very destructive earthquake occurred. In 1869, 

 held under it. only the suffrage party partici- Garcia Moreno, the head of the clerical party, 

 elected governor. ' The suf- overthrew the government. lie was as.sassi- 

 legMature assi-Mihled at Providence with nated in 1875, and Dr. Antonio Borrero, the 

 \Y. Dorr a- governor; the charter candidate of the non-official party, was elected 

 -lature at Newport, with Samuel \V. King president. A constitution was adopted and a 

 .or. Alter transacting some business president elected, and until 1884 the republic 

 the suffrage legislature adjourned. The charter enjoyed a reasonably peaceable government . In 

 lature authori/.ed the governor to take ISM, another constitution was formed, which, 

 . and an appeal for aid was made with modifications, in 1887 and 1897, has since 

 to t inent. The suffragists been in force. 



but were dispersed. Kdict of Nantes (n&nts, Fr. ndnt). This 



fled, but i!id irave himself up. was the celebrated edict by which Henry IV. of 



!! WSLS convicted of high treason in 1MI. and France granted tolerat ion to his Protestant sub- 



i to imprisonment J'or life, but was par- jeets. in l."!X. [twasrevokedbyLouisXIV.,OdtO- 



doned in 1847, and in 1852 was restored to his her 21. 1085. This bad and unjust policy lost to 



