THE SOUTH AMEIUi'AN KAHTIhjU.VKES. Ill) 



qucrors, it has repudiated slavery; daily, the sweat of 

 the European meets and mingles with that of the Indian 

 in the same furrow ; often, there arc even formed be- 

 tween the two races those conjugal alliances which ele- 

 vate one Avithout depressing the other, and which pre- 

 pare the way for the great unity of the future. But if 

 Avords be needed, in the presence of such facts, there are 

 those of the Liberator, cl Libcrtado)\ as they call the 

 illustrious Bolivar: ''Popular education should be the 

 earliest care of a Coiigress. The two poles of a republic" 

 [what / would say is — the two poles of any free coun- 

 try] '*are morality and light. ^.lorality and light are 

 our prime necessities."" 



Let these noble words, and the acts which followed 

 them, wipe out forever the recollections which I have 

 been compelled to recall ! Else, future age, more glo- 

 rious even than the present ! Be lifted up, thou cross of 

 Christ, so many a time profaned, over the manses of a 

 chaste and devoted clergy, over convents of poor and 

 laborious recluses, over schools taught by pious and 

 learned masters ; and shedding wide thy blessings over 

 these reconciled populations, stand, the monument of a 

 harder and a holier work than the punishment of crime 

 — its re})aratiou I 



IL Tlie Trial of Virtue. God's judgments, brethren, 

 are not only, — not even chiefly — punishments ; in a far 

 higher sense they are trials. It is not well for man too 

 long to drooi") the head before them ; let him rather rise 

 up, at once with humility and with pride, to resume his 

 toil, and recommence his conllict. Man is both work- 

 man and soldier ; workman in a mightv toil, soldier in 



* " La educacion popular debe ser el cuidado primogenito de un conjjresso. 

 Jloral y luces son los poloa de una republica ; moral y luces son nuestras pri- 

 meras necessidadcs.'"— The Words of the Liberator to the Congress of Angostura. 



