The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-08-23

and slavery! IL is well known. n soon as
the Forte feaFd of the resurrection in the
Morea, aud s,indry Islands of the Arehipe. |
laso, !; sent here Paeha with three tails.
having with him about 5000 trooos the
whole of the expenses of the garrison was
aeifayed ~ our ISLAND, which in the course
oi about fourteen months paid more than
s,'Oo,ooo Piasters, each according to his
means. BESIDES this, the Sultan ordered
cilo.ce To be made of sixty Of the most
considerable and respectable from our coiin-
trymen, beginning with our Archbishop
Plato, the Elders, and other principal inEa-
bitants. ItFe motive in thus treating VA
was no other tran mean spirit Of envy
and jealousy, at the reputation for riches,
which some of us had acquired by an active
life spent in commercial pursuits and at
the laws and institutions so superior in our
island, even to those of the capital. When
the news Of the invasion of the irnprudent
Samlots first spread in Scio--the principal
inhabitants waited on the Pacha t. apprise
him otit-what was his answer ?--To send
iato the castle, as hostages, some more of
| those innocent men, and to transport all the
provisions out of the city into the citadel,
| habitants OF the city, who were so nume-
rous. A month after, when the SamiOts
landed, the Pacha sent some of the hosta-
gcs, with several Tarks, TO prevail on the
Samiots to evacuate the islands, but they
imprudently resolved TO advance, and told
these ministers of peace that they would
| sooner pat them 10 death than do SO. The
Paclla then shut up in the eostle, with
all the military, taking with him all the hos
tages. II was understood that number
Of the peasartry had joined the Samiots I;
they were III a manner forced to it, being
| apprehensi'e of the SamiOts themselves,
and they were only armed with sticks and
slaves. Eleven days after the Turkish
| neet arrived at the island, and landed fifteen
thousand soldiers, or rather assassins, who,
lJolned by the 5000 in the castle, being I'M
able TO attaCk and defeat the 5000 Saniots,
used their weapons against the innocent
and disarmed the inhabitants. and turned
| their fury against women and children, Kill
ling, burning, and taking in slavery all the
inhabitants of the place; the men they
slaughtered, the women and children they
brutally treated, and huddled tes,ether in
one OF the large squares, which contained
several hundred of most respectable fami-
lies; they have not left a stone, upon n
stone, all destroyed, all ruined !; it would
I'LL volumes to recount the different scenes
OF horror which the riiiiiars were guilty of !;
humanity shudders at il. But this uniyer-
sal dissolution had not yet satisfied the blood
thirsty followers Of Mohammed /; they had
4 heaped upon their trembling and tender
victims all the bitterness oftheir fancticism
% men, the first Of their nation, both as to
character and property, men who had al-
ways followed the paths of recttaae in
| their commercial transactions, whose rela-
ions, were established in almost every
known commercial city in the known
world, nicn innocent Of any maclinaton
against the Turkish Government, and Eho
could not if even they would, have been
participators in the rising of the island,
since they had been Ii months under the
grasp OF the Turkish oatrap. Ten of these
were at COnstantinople, the remainder at
Scio. Lord Strangford maGc Strenuous
Efforts TO save them neglected no re1non-
strances, evipeed the greatest ardour in the
cause OF Soldering innocence, and thought
he had succeeded in sheltsring them from
their impending fate, having obtained
tprOmise from the Porte thatno harm should
be done them, when it suddenly gave or
dsrs for their execution fine ten in Con
stantinople were behcaded, and .tle % in
'Scio were hung outside of the castle in that
very square where 80 many OF the slaves
were placed in sight of the Tarksh feet,
"ho had their decks covered with Greek
Slaves oh how the heart sickens at such
refinement of cruelty, and turns with loa-
tlf1R ard horror from that he'll .bQFn ma
lice that could take delight in deriding the
mental agony of the innocent sufferers ia
tins tragic scene. What number of wives
were forced to be spectators of the cruel
death Of the husbands Of their affections
TO see, ct the same time, their sucking
babes tern from their breasts! Thus be-
reh at once of their support and hopes
many driven to despair by this barbarous
usage, threw themselves into the sea, Others
stabbed themselves, to prevent the loss of
honor-to them worse than death-to'
winch they were every moment exposed
from the barbar4ns. But alas let IA
draw veil upon those who have thus sunk
uiltmely into the grave-let Us not harrow
up your souls with the recltals of these a.
trocltles; their Sutterings are over, and
| their felicity, let us hope, begun. tits now
time to turn your sympathy towards the
unfortunate survivors of the general wreck
TO cali, dear countrsmen, your attention
to the miserable, naked state of thousands
of Our Sciots, with which the markets
here at Smyrna and Scio are glutted.
Prtur, to yourselves children of the ten
dercst age, till now nursed with the mos,
delicate atteation, now driven about with
only piece of cloth around their infantine
limbs, without shoes or any other covering,
having nothing to live upon but piece of
bread thrown to them by their inhuman