Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-08-02
August 2, 1s43.

August 2, 1S43.
ans and they had killed only one, and al
had had a hand in The matter. the State of
Pennsylvania would kill the whole oflhem
of course. Their dividing the matter up
between them would be no mitigating con-
sideraiion. in the eye of the community.
They would all be held accountable as
murderers And no one will pretend to say
that any one ofthe twenty five would be the
less murderer because he shot only one
ofthe twenty FIVE bullets through the hear,
Of the individual. How then, beg to
know, is the matter to be divided up in the
community who kill the twenty five p
Alter the community Of whites have kill
cd the twenty-five Indians for killing the
FIVE whites. suppose the white community
TO be killed in turn by five times their nu II
Der Of Indians. How would the matter
then stand? Will any one undertake 10
tell the relative numerical proportions be-
tween killers and killed that will Justify
the former! The Indian 10 the case oc-
caSloning these remarks, il seems, was
above lyilg. He scorned the meanncss
Of adding lalsehood-to cruehy. When
asked for the reason for his awful act, he
shrunk not, but boldly declared The shpck
ing truth to his enemies. Ii was "rerenge!,
rcrenge!!,' that had moved him. But
they TO whom he declared il will not have
as much honesty when they have killed
hin. When the protesting Christians
have killed the savage, they will turn about
and add falsehood 10 their deed Of man
killing. Notwithstanding the indication is
plain that those presen; were ;hirsling AMI
impatient for his blood, without the mock
formaIilies Of the jill, the courtroom and
The gitoe.--anl notwithstanding il will slip
from n thousand tongues that hanging
IS too good for HIM all his killers viii
deny haiboring any TereHge against him.
And this is not all or the worst Of it. To
cover up this fjul fllsehood they will add
another and greater, involving hypocrisy
black as hell, and declare they iored him !
But my own mind was taking mo-
mcntary view OF the operative influence
cxsried by such cases Of revvnge as that
Of the Indian now under consideration,
and such cases as the one alluded 10 In the
Bl5le. AS | said before, everybody will
BE- Mortified at the doings OF lhe lndlan.--
But the Wholesale revenge anC slaugb bier
recorded Of the I>rnei,es among them
selves, claims TO. BE- the transaction Ct the
chosen people O. God, and TO have gone
on ia the most destructive part OF the
Slaughter, under his direction. The effect
Of this and like things has been 10 iufusc
The same spirit into nearly all who take
The Bible os .heir guide. The revenge Of
This poor Indian, il it was not excited By
PERSONAL OF individual iojury, was called
Drh bv The wrongs his race haycsuHered
II tue hands Of Bible followers and thei:
DESCENDANTS will now resort to TINT book
10 Justify their killing him, just as theit
predecessors have used tito justify them
selves inlheir more wholesale slaughter o.
his predecessors, and as their coIempora
ries now sustain themselves from il in all
heir violence 10 liberty and life, which
they profess at the same iime 10 recogniz
as The nalirnabie rights ofman. lIsAould
not be forgotten that the aggressionscom-
Wenced on the part ofthe protesting Chris
iaus, and thai they have always killed
more OF the savages, so called, than the
avagcs have OF them. Who then, 10 re-
ally, are tie sarages?
PRoPnEcy AND ITS FuLFlLLAENr.-