Volume I Part 18 (1/2)

Another proclareat reward for apprehending the murderers

But these proclamations have as yet produced no discovery; the ainst those that disapprove their proceedings, that the whole country seems to be in terror, and no one dares speak what he knows; even the letters froned, in which any dislike is expressed of the rioters

There are some (I am ashamed to hear it) ould extenuate the enor, ”The inhabitants of the frontiers are exasperated with the murder of their relations by the eneh thisout into the woods to seek for those enee upon the into the heart of the country to murder their friends

If an Indian injures e that injury on all Indians? It is well known that Indians are of different tribes, nations, and languages, as well as the white people In Europe, if the French, who are white people, should injure the Dutch, are they to revenge it on the English, because they too are white people? The only crime of these poor wretches seems to have been, that they had a reddish-brown skin and black hair; and some people of that sort, it seeht to kill men for such a reason, then, should any man with a freckled face and red hair kill a wife or child ofall the freckled, red-haired men, women, and children I could afterward anywhere meet with

But it seems these people think they have a better justification; nothing less than the Word of God With the Scriptures in their hands and ht that express command, _Thou shalt do no iven Joshua to destroy the heathen Horrid perversion of Scripture and of religion! To father the worst of crimes on the God of peace and love! Even the Jews, to whom that particular commission was directed, spared the Gibeonites on account of their faith once given The faith of this governiven to those Indians, but that did not avail theovernment

We pretend to be Christians, and, froht to exceed heathens, Turks, Saracens, Moors, negroes, and Indians in the knowledge and practice of what is right I will endeavour to show, by a few examples from books and history, the sense those people have had of such actions

Homer wrote his poem, called the _Odyssey_, some hundred years before the birth of Christ He frequently speaks of what he calls not only the duties, but the sacred rites of hospitality, exercised towards strangers while in our house or territory, as including, besides all the common circumstances of entertainer of life, from all injuries, and even insults The rites of hospitality were called _sacred_, because the stranger, the poor, and the weak, when they applied for protection and relief, were, froion of those tioodness of ht receive, where they ought to have been protected These sentiments, therefore, influenced the manners of all ranks of people, even the er to the hut of Eus ran out to tear the ragged man, Euer!' (thus the faithful swain Began, with accent gracious and huate, Thy reverend age had met a shameless fate!

But enter this my homely roof, and see Our woods not void of hospitality'

He said, and seconding the kind request, With friendly step precedes the unknown guest; A shaggy goat's soft hide beneath him spread, And with fresh rushes heaped an ample bed

Joy touched the hero's tender soul, to find So just reception fros grace'

(He thus broke forth) 'this friend of huuise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise

For Jove unfolds the hospitable door, 'Tis Jove that sends the strangers and the poor'”

These heathen people thought that, after a breach of the rites of hospitality, a curse fro they did, and even their honest industry in their callings would fail of success Thus when Ulysses tells Eumaeus, who doubted the truth of what he related, ”If I deceive you in this, I should deserve death, and I consent that you should put me to death;” Eumaeus rejects the proposal, as ould be attended with both infauest, great laud and praise were ifts bestowed, I stained my hospitable hearth with blood

Hoould the Gods hteous toils succeed, And bless the hand that er bleed?

No more”

Even an open ene to the foe, and asking life and protection, was supposed to acquire an iht to that protection Thus one describes his being saved when his party was defeated:

”We turned to flight; the gathering vengeance spread On all parts round, and heaps on heaps lie dead

The radiant helmet from my brows unlaced, And lo, on earth my shi+eld and javelin cast, I meet the monarch with a suppliant's face, Approach his chariot, and his knees embrace

He heard, he saved, he placed me at his side; My state he pitied, and eful foe expressed, And turned the deadly weapons frouard the hospitable rite, And fearing Jove, whoht”

The suiters of Penelope are, by the same ancient poet, described as a set of lawless ardless of the sacred rites of hospitality And, therefore, when the queen was infor that Ulysses was returned, says,

”Ah no! some God the suiters' deaths decreed, Some God descends, and by his hand they bleed; Blind, to contehteous cause And violate all hospitable laws!

The powers they defied; But Heaven is just, and by a God they died”

Thus much for the sentiments of the ancient heathens As for the Turks, it is recorded in the Life of Mohaion, that Khaled, one of his captains, having divided a number of prisoners between himself and those that ith him, he commanded the hands of his own prisoners to be tied behind them, and then, in a most cruel and brutal manner, put them to the sword; but he could not prevail on his ht, they had laid down their arms, submitted, and deht to him, applauded the nation, ”Oh Khaled, thou butcher, cease to old as large as Mount Obod, and shouldst expend it all in God's cause, thy uilt incurred by thethe Arabs or Saracens, though it was lawful to put to death a prisoner taken in battle, if he had made himself obnoxious by his former wickedness, yet this could not be done after he had once eaten bread or drunk water while in their hands Hence we read in the history of the wars of the Holy Land, that when the Franks had suffered a great defeat fro of Jerusalem, and Arnold, a famous Christian captain, who had been very cruel to the Saracens; these two being brought before the sultan, he placed the king on his right hand and Arnold on his left, and then presented the king with a cup of water, who immediately drank to Arnold; but when Arnold was about to receive the cup, the sultan interrupted, saying, ”I will not suffer this wicked enerous custom of the Arabs, would secure hienerous custo the Mohammedans, appears from the account, but last year published, of his travels by Mr Bell, of Antermony, who accompanied the Czar, Peter the Great, in his journey to Derbent, through Daggestan ”The religion of the Daggestans,” says he, ”is generally Moha the sect of Ose, for the most part, is Turkish, or, rather, a dialect of the Arabic, though e One article I cannot oreatest enemy comes under their roof for protection, the landlord, of what condition soever, is obliged to keep hi his abode with hih his territories to a place of security”