Read the excerpt from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. And this also is as really true. . . . the very Tyrants and cruel Murderers cannot deny without the stigma of a lye. . . . the Spaniards never received any injury from the Indians, but that they rather reverenced them as Persons descended from Heaven, until that they were compelled to take up Arms, provoked thereunto by repeated Injuries, violent Torments, and injust Butcheries.

–A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies,
Bartolomé de Las Casas, 1542

How does Las Casas describe the Spanish?

as tyrants and murderers
as fair and just
as wealthy and cruel
as weak and godlike

Henry h. amringe commented in reaction to the 1850 women’s rights convention. women in europe may fill the throne, as reigning monarchs. shall they who are thought worthy of the highest station, in hereditary monarchies, be deemed unworthy of election to office, by the suffrages of a free people? if women, placed in the administration of great and vast national affairs, by the mere accident of birth, have acted wisely, much more might we expect not wisdom only, but integrity in the government of women, selected by free citizens, with a view to mental and moral fitness. short-answer questions where did henry amringe make these comments? what argument does amringe give to support his views?