Books with author Hezekiah Butterworth

This volume relates the story of liberty and progress in Latin America. It is also an introduction to a study of the Andean republics and those on the Spanish Main.The struggle for liberty in Cuba but follows the events of the Latin republics of the Andes, and throws a new light on those heroic endeavors.South America is one of the lands of the future. The immigration to that country is now rivaling that to North America, and to the over-crowded populations of Europe the south temperate zone is the waiting world.An English poet of prophetic gifts is recorded as saying that in the progressive development of America, South America, or the table-land of the Andes, was not unlikely to become the theater of great achievements, an opinion also shared by the author of Social Evolution. It is objected to this that much of South America is tropical, and that the lands of the Sun are unfavorable to the development of the virtues and arts of peace. But out of nearly such conditions of mingled temperate and tropical climates came the poems of Job and Homer, the arts of Egypt, and the sacred literature whose principles govern the conscience of the world. Sarmiento, the educational President and prophet of Argentina, once said that Buenos Ayres would become the greatest city of the three Americas. This may be too large a vision. But whatever may be the future of South America, her growth is such as to make her recent history a very interesting study to the popular mind.To write an adequate history of South America and Central America would require a lifelong preparation of study and travel, and more than ordinary ability, insight and vision, to which gifts the present writer can make no claim. He has wished to interest others in the story of liberty in these lands, to picture Bolivar's march to the south and San Martin's to the north, the meeting of these heroes, the central campaign in the Peruvian highlands, and the progress of the new republics after the Congress of Panama. If such be but history in outline and picture, it is a story most pleasing to write, and, we may hope, not uninteresting to read.

Abraham Lincoln has become the typical character of Americaninstitutions, and it is the purpose of this book, which is a true picturein a framework of fiction, to show how that character, which socommanded the hearts and the confidence of men, was formed. Hewho in youth unselfishly seeks the good of others, without fear orfavor, may be ridiculed, but he makes for himself a character fit togovern others, and one that the people will one day need and honor.The secret of Abraham Lincoln’s success was the “faith that rightmakes might.” This principle the book seeks by abundant storytellingto illustrate and make clear.In this volume, as in the “Log School-House on the Columbia,” theadventures of a pioneer school-master are made to represent theearly history of a newly settled country. The “Log School-House onthe Columbia” gave a view of the early history of Oregon andWashington. This volume collects many of the Indian romances andcabin tales of the early settlers of Illinois, and pictures the hardshipsand manly struggles of one who by force of early character madehimself the greatest of representative Americans.The character of the Dunkard, or Tunker, as a wandering schoolmaster,may be new to many readers. Such missionaries of theforests and prairies have now for the most part disappeared, butthey did a useful work among the pioneer settlements on the Ohioand Illinois Rivers. In this case we present him as a disciple ofPestalozzi and a friend of Froebel, and as one who brings theGerman methods of story-telling into his work.“Was there ever so good an Indian as Umatilla?” asks anaccomplished reviewer of the “Log School-House on the Columbia.”The chief whose heroic death in the grave of his son is recorded inthat volume did not receive the full measure of credit for hisdevotion, for he was really buried alive in the grave of his boy. A likequestion may be asked in regard to the father of Waubeno in thisvolume. We give the story very much as Black Hawk himself related it. In Drake’s History of the Indians we find it related in thefollowing manner:“It is related by Black Hawk, in his Life, that some time before theWar of 1812 one of the Indians had killed a Frenchman at Prairie desChiens. ‘The British soon after took him prisoner, and said theywould shoot him next day. His family were encamped a shortdistance below the mouth of the Ouisconsin. He begged permissionto go and see them that night, as he was to die the next day. Theypermitted him to go, after promising to return the next morning bysunrise. He visited his family, which consisted of a wife and sixchildren. I can not describe their meeting and parting to beunderstood by the whites, as it appears that their feelings are actedupon by certain rules laid down by their preachers!—while ours aregoverned only by the monitor within us. He parted from his wifeand children, hurried through the prairie to the fort, and arrived intime. The soldiers were ready, and immediately marched out and shothim down!’ If this were not cold-blooded, deliberate murder on thepart of the whites I have no conception of what constitutes thatcrime. What were the circumstances of the murder we are notinformed; but whatever they may have been, they can not excuse astill greater barbarity.”It belongs, like the story of so-called Umatilla in the “Log School-House on the Columbia,” to a series of great legends of Indiancharacter which the poet’s pen and the artist’s brush would do wellto perpetuate. The examples of Indians who have valued honor morethan life are many, and it is a pleasing duty to picture such scenes ofnative worth, as true to the spirit of the past.

This volume of children's stories was published in 1895.From the Preface:The stories that were told on old red settles by chimney fires in old New England days had a peculiar spirit and coloring. Quaint as many of them were, they carried deep spiritual meanings. Reward or retribution was somehow associated with the queer tale of the country grocery store, the ordinary, the husking party, or of the neighborhood or town. I used to hear many of these tales when a boy in the old home farm in the Pokanoket country on the Mount Hope and Narragansett Bays. They have always haunted me at such times as my mind wandered back to the past, and I have liked to reproduce them in my own way for the magazines and papers. Of the stories in this volume, A Halloween Reformation (Captain Tuttle and the Miracle Clock) and A Regular Old-fashioned Thanksgiving (The Haunted Oven) appeared in the Century Magazine, and are used here by permission of the Century Company. The Inn of the Good Woman appeared in Harper 's Magazine, and is used by permission. Wych Hazel, The Poet's Corner, and No Room in the Inn were originally published in the publications of Messrs. Harper and Brothers, and are reproduced here by the courtesy of the publishers. Of the other stories, some have not been printed before and others have appeared in The Youth 's Companion, The Household, and popular papers which have kindly allowed me to republish them.

The whole of South America for the two centuries after the Columbian discovery was a viceroyalty of Spain. At first it had but one viceroy, the seat of whose government was in Peru. From a very early period Lima, which came to be called, in the poetic language of the conquerors, the "Pearl of the Pacific," was the "City of the Kings." In the golden days of the Spanish Main colonial settlements multiplied in the viceroyalty, and some of the most important of these were on the eastern coast. There New Granada arose, with the city of Cartagena, whose gigantic fortifications and walls are still a wonder.As the population grew the viceroyalty was found to be too large for the administration of the government. For this reason Spain created another viceroyalty in New Granada in 1718, and a captaincy at Caracas in 1734. During this period of subdivision a viceroyalty was founded at Buenos Ayres, and a captaincy in Chili.South America was wholly governed by the kings of Spain, who maintained for the judgment of its common affairs the Council of the Indies, or of West India. This council instituted a local court of inspection, called the Audiencia. This was also a court of appeal. The authority of these bodies was only advisory. The King of Spain governed all; his will was supreme.The viceroy, or vice-king, represented the Spanish throne. He was president of the Council of the Indies. His salary was sixty thousand dollars, or pesos, in Peru, and forty thousand dollars in New Granada and Buenos Ayres. The viceroy, as a rule, held his office for five years.The cabildo was a popular assembly somewhat corresponding in purpose and form to a council of a mayor and aldermen. An alcalde was a judge, or a justice of the peace. A Spanish creole was a Spaniard born in the colony. He was little more than a Spanish slave...

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