Letters From Spain #267389

It is not, however, from pique or resentment that the Author has dwelt so long and so warmly upon the painful and disgusting pic ture of Spanish bigotry. Spain, with all her faults, is still and shall ever be the object of his love. But since no man, within the limits of her territory, can venture to lay open the canker which, fostered by religion, feeds on the root of her political improvements, be it allowed a self-banished Spaniard to describe the sources of such a strange anomaly in the New.