Council Of The Indies Essay

For decades, we have fought in honor for our native land, the glorious Spanish Empire. Contrary to common belief, this is no age of destruction and crisis. It is the beginning of the Golden Age of Spain, which will reign on for eternity and never fall. While the recent New Laws are among the most controversial of discussions that this council has faced, we, as the leaders of the Indies, must unite to maintain Spain’s supreme power and undying legacy. The Council of the Indies has addressed the encomienda system on countless occasions, but so far, with little success; the reasons for this being the imbalance of the proposed approaches, and the timeless occasions on which anarchy was used to affirm the rights of our colonies to self-determination, thus breaching them from the Spanish Crown, solely due to ignorance of the system’s effective aspects.

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The unspoken corollary is that our society must embody some form of slavery… Where the natives free of Spanish rule, they are incapable of taking care of themselves and dammed for disloyalty and ignorance towards our Lord Jesus Christ. It can thus only be called cruel to set free such destitution and suffering on the natives. While it has been suggested that the policies of the encomienda system are detrimental to native societies, stealing, raping, killing and general mayhem- all sins in our Christian faith- will engulf New Spain. Therefore abolishing the encomienda system would not just lead to severe bloodshed, but it would also be absurdly impractical and utopian. Rather than turning to abolition, feeding, clothing, housing, and occasionally even entertaining the natives will encourage them to focus on a better life, while maintaining the presence of the Spanish Empire in the