Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1843-10-28
HORRIBLE MISUNDERSTANDING,
OF THE HISTORIAN CHRIsTIASx
BY THE TURKS

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OF THE HISTORIAN cHRIsTIASs
BY THE TURKS.
The pure and upright Nestori,,
Christians, dwelling in primitive Sim
plicity and happiness in their noun
tain Businesses, have been sought a.,
by the blood hounds of Mohammed
and doomed to humiliation. The n,
cumstances Of this sad event are mai
ancholy in the extreme, and are A..
tailed by correspondent of the Lon.
don Morning Chronicle, (wri,ing from
Constantinople under date of l7,h Of
August.) The correspondent saws
I" You have been informed Of the com.
hination between the Pacha of MoI
and several powerful Kurdish chief,
for the determination Of the Nes,ori,n
Christians, or Chaldeans. Letters re.
ceived the day before yesterday contain
a deplorable accoun, of the results Of
the attacks Of the United Troops
They had penetrated into the centre
Of the Tiayree district, burnt the villa.
gesi and churches, destroyed the crop.
and put the Inhabitants of both sexe,
to the sword. Three, or according 10
other accounts five brothers of the Pa.
triarch have been slain, his mother Gu,
in half, and his sister horribly mutils.
ted. The Patriarch himself had fled
to Mosul, and taken refuge in the Brit.
ish vice consulate.
"In their mountain Businesses N.
HISTORIANS had retained their indepen.
dence for centuries. The first west.
ern traveller who succeeded in penetra.
ting into them was DR.. Grant, an Amer.
lean missionary. His object in visit
Jog them was the esta blishment Of
schools. No sooner had DR.. Gran,
met with some success in the noun.
iains, than the Roman Catholic mis-.
sionaries at Mosul, supported by the
French political agents, endeavored TO
counteract il. Fhe English High
Church was also jealous Of American
encroachments in the midst of . sect
! still generating Ep,scopacy; and an
additional hrebrand was thrown into
/; the country last autumn, in the person
Of the Rev. Mr.. Badger. During the
last winter the three partes-lhe A.
merican, the Puseyite, and the Roman
Catholic-have waged an open war
among themselves. The Americans,
who had been first in the field, only
acted on the defensive; the influence
they had already acquired among the
HISTORIANS enabled them without much
difficulty TO retain their position. The
object Of the two remaining parties
was to eject the Americans, and to e.-
tablish their own influence. They did
not act in concert, for their mutual en-
nifty equalled their hostility TO tn.
Americans. No means were left IN.
tried to effect their object. The agents
of the church of Rome received the
earnest cc-opcration-in fact became
the tools--of the French political a.
gent Mr.. Badger enjoyed the sup
port Of the British local authority.
"Strict justice compels US to state
that the Americans are in this instance
without blame. Az il is, one Of the
most ancien. and interesting sects in
the mountaineering from its origin,
from its language, and from the purity
ofits Christianity--has been sacrificed
10 the quarrels Of American Indepen-
dents, English Puseyites, aud French
Roman Catholics"
The number of persons who have
persisted has not been ascertained. The
population was about 100000. Nei.
Their age, sex, nor condition were spar.
ed. All were sacrificed By the savage
Turks.