Curious South American Relic.
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WASHINGTON Cry, Oct IS, l045.


DEAR Sir You will receive herewith a small guam


y of the hair of General Bolivar the great champion
Of South American independence, and also fragment Of
the flag of Pzarro, the conqueror of Peru have had
these relics good many years and can assure you that
they genuine Had they not been, certainly should
neither have procured nor preserved them Not being
either virtuoso collector of antique and curious
things, have enthusiasm to mslead me and no credu
ty to be imposed upon


posing the former Republics of Colombia, Venezuela
New Granada and Quito, (now Ecua1or9 by the title Of
a the first
greatest of the chiefs through whose efforts the Spanish
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compelling him to misplace the accent He places on
the third syllable 1t is generally placed on the first
and this too wrong 1t should be on the second and
pronounced Bo-ieerar The pames OF great men and
heroes should be pronounced properly, when can be
done but out of their country rarely is done.
Many questions have been asked in South America
about General Vasntone and General Hacksone this
being about as near as spaniard can come to Washing


Some of Bolivar's enthusiastic admirers call him the
Washington of the south but to this high compliment
not exactly prepared to admit without some reserva-
tion that he has any very just claims Posterity which
often revses kind Of supreme court of errors con
temporary popular awards and often reverses them,
must decide this question and so leave it.


Pzarros flag was piece OF plain white silk, and the
fragment enclosed than three hundred years old
White is believe, the emblem OF peace and charity and
good will throughout the world But in Peru this ban
neI long iannd ey conquests crimson wing was the
nature Could this poor shred speak and tell OF the
horrors and atrocities has witnessed, Qf witness 1t
could beD alter the lapse of three centuries,
the bare recital would harrow up the soul monarch
murderedthe princes and mobiles OF the land extermi
mated, and their wives and daughters -. My
heart sickens at the recollection The people decima-
ted and reduced to saveryo the most ntolerable and
fatal OF all servitude-that OF the mines the country
ravaged with fire and sword made desolae and lterall
turned into desert


Faciunt selitudinem ct pacem appellant,


The justice of heaven has slumbered long, but it will
not sumber forever; and the day of its awakening will
be fearful for all wrong doers and oppressors past
/ present, and to come


am dear sir, with the highest regard,
Most faithfully yours,
j. c. PICKETT.