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Disappointed in his hopes of preferment, Cervantes had to maintain himself and his family by the exercise of his pen writing, as we learn, letters and memorials for those who needed them, while busy upon his new book. Fr. Sepulveda, quoted by Navarrete. And "employed in various agencies and businesses," says Navarrete, vaguely.
It appears to have been a drawn battle; but at length the Council decided in favor of Sepulveda. The Emperor and the officials of the government, however, must have been of another opinion, for Sepulveda's book was suppressed. At the time of this controversy Las Casas was seventy-six years old. Soon after this Las Casas resigned his bishopric and the Emperor granted him a pension.
The war of words waxed fast and furious, and the controversy attracted so much attention that the Emperor ordered the India Council to assemble at Valladolid, to decide whether a war of conquest might justly be carried on against the Indians. The Emperor himself presided, and Las Casas and Sepulveda argued the question before them all.
It probably formed part of the library in the Lateran Palace, which goes nearly as far back as the time of Constantine, and was transferred along with the other contents of that library to the Vatican in 1450 by Pope Nicholas V. We first hear of it distinctly in a letter written to Erasmus in 1533 by Sepulveda; although there is a somewhat obscure reference to it a few years earlier in the correspondence of the Papal librarian Bombasius with Erasmus.
The firelight in the tule-thatched hut of Manuel Sepulveda winked facetiously at the black fog that peered in at the open door. A night wind from the north crept up, parted the fog like a black curtain and whispered something which set the flames a-dancing as they listened.
This he did to their entire satisfaction, though not to that of his enemies, who engaged the most famous theologian and lawyer in Spain, Juan Ginés Sepulveda, to dispute the position of Las Casas and answer his arguments. Sepulveda had written a treatise upholding the conquest of the New World by war.
"And all are heavily armed, some with pistols and some with swords; if they should come alongside, they could give us a pretty fight." Captain Guzman took it upon himself to say: "General Yozarro and Captain Sepulveda if he is there are the biggest cowards in the Atlamalcan army, but the others are fighters. I know three of them who are worse than tiger cats.
He established a camp just within the northern boundary of his land; and there he stationed his most efficient watch-dog, Manuel Sepulveda, with two vaqueros whose business it was to stop the depredations. Meat for all who asked for meat, paid they in gold or in gratitude that was their "patron's" order. But they must ask.
Some hours later, as Diniz stood in his room, just before setting out in search of Henrique, that man entered the house, followed by several soldiers. "Diniz Sampayo, I arrest you on the charge of having stolen a poignard, set with jewels, from Manuel Tonza de Sepulveda." Diniz started, and flushed angrily. "I steal?
The wife of Jose Sepulveda was driven to the scene of the race with a fortune in gold slugs carried in a large handkerchief which she opened to distribute $50 gold pieces to her attendants and servants to wager. The 'Black Swan' won easily." John was carried away by the stories told them by Don Ygnacio.
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