garrottings

Updated: May 10, 2025

For all, freedom at intervals triumphed, and the priests became the "outs;" but ever potent, and always active, they would soon get up a new "grito" to bring about a revolutionary change in the Government. Sanguinary scenes would be enacted hangings, shooting, garrottings all the horrors of civil war that accompany the bitterest of all spite, the ecclesiastical.

Mayne Reid - The Lone Ranche