The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . talis. Presentado a Felipe ii. (Philadelphia, 1821,) de Venezuela, pp. 109-117. These charges of Las Casas were publicly contradicted at the timeby Sepulveda, of Cordova, who was the official historiographer of theEmperor Charles V. Rome 15—. io6 TJie Pennsylvania-German Society. bishop of the order that introduced the Tribunal ofthe In
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . talis. Presentado a Felipe ii. (Philadelphia, 1821,) de Venezuela, pp. 109-117. These charges of Las Casas were publicly contradicted at the timeby Sepulveda, of Cordova, who was the official historiographer of theEmperor Charles V. Rome 15—. io6 TJie Pennsylvania-German Society. bishop of the order that introduced the Tribunal ofthe Inquisition into the world, and who was theoriginal instigator of negro slavery in America, tocharge the Germans in America with any such in-humanity. Further, according to the lately discovered Welser-Codex in the British Museum, the fact is provenbeyond any doubt, that the treatment of the Indiansin Venezuela by the Germans, was no more cruelthere than elsewhere. On the contrary, all indica-tions point to a policy of friendly intercourse betweenthe Germans and the Indians. Consequently, not-withstanding the implied permission enjoyed by theGermans for maintaining a slave-trade, the conditionof the Venezuela Indians was by no means so bad as. Arms of the Republic of Venezuela. Refutation of Las Casas. 107 to justif}^ the charges made against the Germans by-Las Casas. This fact is fully set forth in the aboveoriginal document. ^^ 1 Karl Klunzinger, Antheil der Deutschen an der Entdeckung SudAmericas. (Stuttgart, 1857,) p. iii.* Der Welser-Codex, see foot note 77a supra.
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