The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

and posterity would never weary of admiring that
heroic act by which the last remains of an infidel
race were cast out from the land. Those who had
even remotely participated in the glorious
consummation were to be rewarded by the choicest
blessings. Themselves and their families were
under the immediate protection of heaven. The
earth should bear more fruit, and the trees should
clap their hands. Instead of the thorn, should come
up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier, the myrtle.
A new era was now inaugurated, in which Spain,
purged of her heresy, was to be at ease, and men,
living in safety, were to sleep under the shade of
their own vineyards, sow their gardens in peace,
and eat of the fruit of the trees they had planted.”
These were the promises which the united
church and state held out, and which the people
believed. It was told how that now the arts, the
commerce, the wealth, and magnificence of Spain
would flourish and increase as never before, since
heretical Jew, and idolatrous Mohammedan had
been cast out of the land. Her ships were to plow
the seas, and crowd the ports of other shores. Her
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