Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — History of Paraguay. [ARTICLE]

History of Paraguay.

Paraguay has a rich history. Ascuncion, the capital of Paraguay, is the oldest city on the Atlantic slope of South America. But even more significant than this, Ascuncion was the colony of the new world to defy the doings of its foreign masters and elect its own governor. Here for the first time burned the fires of liberty on American soil, and here for the first, time was poured out precious bipod for the establishment of those principles for which so many have since died and which we Ail hold so dear. Twenty-five years before the Plymouth brethren landed at Plymouth Rock, the little colony in Paraguay* had elected one of its own na-tive-born Americans as governor, and had forced the king of Spain to recognize his authority and glye him the royal support.