Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-05-27
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MURDER or THE cHEHAw INDIANS

The massacre Of the friendly Indians
in Georgia, announced in MONDAYS Ma
tional Intelligencer, and so justly and
feelingly reprobated by the editor Of that
paper, is as black a transaction as ever
diseraced human brute. In the annals
ofvillainy there cannot be found any thing
to surpass it, ia cold, cowardly, unre'
Ienting cruelty. For once, the barbara
It's of Collot De Herbois, at Lyons, and
of Carriere. al Nantes, these Intervals OF
the French revolution, are fully matched
Nay surpassed; for they had the spur Of
ambition, perhaps tso of the execrable
policy Of fear, to prick them on, and
might have imagined that in the murder
of iunocents alone, they could find refuge
from the punishment due to their own
guilt That it should come to this -
That the delegation Of power to the base
and low, should at length terminate a.
mong US in such shocking abuses!-that
thi, country Justly pronounced the most
free il the world, should by the perver-
sion Of one Of its principal instruments Of
Freedom, be stained with such deed
The murderer was elected I'm the name
OF God who could have elected him s-or
what sort Of beings in the shape OF men
could he have had in command, who
could call themselves men and yet for.
bear to revolt from his orderss
The affair is altogether so abandoned,
aud cruel, that an interrupted heart
must find some difficulty in believing it;
we do not therefore wonder that the edi-
tor of the National Intelligencer should
endeavor to find within the vide bounds
of possibility, some relief for it from mis-
take. II is natural tor the young and
interrupted SO to feel, but we must be
permitted to assert that all hope of that
kind must fail US, unless the article OF
intelligence from which the black &C.
count is taken be false THE emily ms
take that can have taken place, must be
in that account iii there be an error it
must be 10 Mr.. Pearrs. or the Milledge-
willie Rehector-it cannot have been IN
Wright aud his bandi,ti.-We know that
multitude Of instances might be adda-
ced of ships Of the same nation, and de.
tachments Of Il oops from the same army
mistaken each other for enemies and do
ing each other much mischief, but never
Of their perseverance alter one OF them
had struck, and ceased to attack or to
resist. II Mr.. Pearre's statement be true
(aad II it be not, the whole consideration
of the matter had better be postponed to
wait further intelligence) not only ,Domen
and children were murdered, but an old
man, the chief OF the village, whose
silvery head aud totteriDg limbs might
have begot,en pity in the most savage
beast Of the forest"-Cthese are the words
Of Mr.. Pearre] d" stood exposed to the fre
Of the whole bal alton with the flag OF
peace extended, begging mercy, and ma.
king the most solemn as'everatioEs of his
most peaceable intentions, and that he
wished no war. Even after he had iallen
on his knees, he held the flag extended
and begged for mercy--but inhumanity
stopped not here--he was again fired at,
and after they had murdered him, the or
nameu,s we. e torn from his ears"
To hope, the efOre. that there could be
a mistake on the part Of those assass'ns'
If the relation of Pearrs be not utterly
fal.e, would be to hope IN the very teeth
Of impossibility. And for our ewn parts
we must say that the only hope left to US
is that the justice Of GU government may
be raised high, and let to fall upon the
offenders with . weight that shall crush
them to death.
There exists in this union two perPe-
tual sources Of pollution to the morals OF
eur country and of EQUALIZATION to the
feelings Of certain descriptions of our
citizehs--oDe is slave.hOlding-the other
the condition Of our Indians. As to the
toru,pr n xvnuId hardly he credited NV