The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1838-05-04

GeAAeinen eQlld not resist lts toTees a.
eOek-6ghiing would Be an amnssmenl q
sneh only A. have no character 10 snslsin
Bet 70 return 10 our extracts.
/" u mnsi sppear astonishing 10 eFer]
referiing mind. that mode ~ diFersioi
50 ernei and inhnman - thsI Of roek.6ghl
ing. should 80 generally prevail. thai m
only the Aneients. BarbsFisns. Greek
and Romans should have adapted Il: bu
that practice 80 savage and healhenisi
should be eOnlinuedby Christians in Ihess
better and more enlightened tines"
" The snrieni Greeks and Ramsrs, :.
Is well kn0En. were won't On call al sile
nations in the world hsrbarisns; vet Ger.
isinly. il we consider the many instances
81 cruelty PraeIissd among them. there
Vas very little reason for The distinction.
linman sacrifices were common both IN
fhem and the barbarians: and with them
the sxpnsing # infants, the eombais al
men with Wild beasts. ard Of men with
men in the glalliaiorial scenes. we're spec
iarles 81 delight and lesliviiy."
II should seen ihsl Al lirsi enek.ishI-
ing Was partly a religious and partly a
polilieal institution Al Athens; and was
there continued for Tie purpose Of i'm
proving the seeds If r.lOr in their youth;
but Was afterwards abused AMI perverted,
bath here and IN other parts of Greece.
10 common paslime, without any moral.
political or religious intention, and as il j.
now followed and prac,ised among u.s."
AT Rome. as the Romans were prone
TO initiate the Greeks. we mar expect TO
find them following their example in this
mode of diversion. and in The worst way.
viz. without any good or landable mo-
lives. The Romans. however. did not
give into tie custom I'LL the decline Of the
empire"
Ill is observable that cocks and quails.
Pilied for the purpose Of engaging one an.
other. Ouirancs, or 10 The last gasp. for
diversion. are frequently compared, and
With much PROPHECY, 10 glsdislors.
Hence Pliny's expression, galiOrun-eeH
giadialOrunl; and tina, OF C0lumella, rix-
Osarwin Grium ianis'e; ianista being the
proper term for the master of the gladi-
s,Ors. Consequently one would exprei
that when The bloody scenes Of the am
phiiheare we're discarded, as they were
soon after the christian religion became
tie establishment Of the empire, the wan
ton shedding Of mems blood in sport be-.
ing Of too cruel and savage a nature u
be pairnnised aud encouraged in an insii-
tuition SO harmless and innocent as the
christian was. one might justly expect
that the OrfUgOmGliia and the alekfru-
0manid would have ceased OF course.
The fathers Of the church are continual
Is inveighing against The speclscles Of the
arena. and uPhraiding their adversaries
with them. These were. indeed, more
unnatural and shocking than a main Of
cocks; hut this, however, had tendency
towards in(uslng the like ferocily and i'm
p!acabIliiy in the breasts aud dispositions
Of men,"
" The tenderness of The cock towards
his brood is such, that. contrary To the
custom of many other males. he will
scratch and provide for them with an as
sidui,y almost equal to that of The hen;
and his generosity is So great, that on
finding hoard Of meat, he will chuckle
the hens together, and without touching
one bit himself, will relinquish the whole
Of il 10 them. lie was called the bird,
by way Of cminence by many of the an
clients; he was highly esteemed in some
countries, and in others even held ss.
cred,s insomueh that one cannot but re-
gre, that a creature so useful and noble,
should, by a strange fatality, be so enor.
monsly abused By US. Il is true, thai
0lekiruOmmlia, or the massacre OF Shrovs
Tuesday, is now in declining way; and
in few years, il is to be hoped. will be
totally disused: but The COCKPIT, still con.
,inues, a reproach 10 the humanity 81
Englishmen. and to their religion, the
puresi, the ienderest and the most com
passionate Of all others, not excepting
even the Brschmannic.
might make other extracts equally in
teresiing, some perhaps more so: but al
this article is already long enough. adj,
no more. Should you please to publish
these, may send you the rest next week
May Sd. Q.
He was held sacred in Britain q, the tim,
Of julius Ca ,ar's invasion, as he asserts in BIZ