The Weekly register., 1843-11-04
INSECT LANECUSe
Horrible Massacre!
DESTRUCTION OF THE HISTORIAN CHRIS
TIANs BY THE TURKS.

| Christians, dwelling, in primitive sim
1 plicity and happiness in their mountain
Businesses, have been sought out by the
bloodhounds Of Mohammed, and doomed
to annikilation. The circumstances con-
nected with this sad event are melan-
choly in the extreme, and are detailed
by correspondents Of the London Morn
! ing Chronicle, writing from CONSTANT
ncpIe under date Of the 18th Of August,
as follows:
You have been informed Of the COM
hination between the Pacha of Mosul
and several powerful Kurdish chiefs for
the determination of the HISTORIAN
Christians Of Chaldeana. Letters re-
ceived the day before yesterday contain
depIorable account of the results of
the attacks OF the United Troops. They
had penetrated the centre Of the Thy
arce district burnt the villages and
churches, destroyed the crops, ana put
!
sword. Three. or according to other
| accounts, five brothers the Patriarch
have been slain, his mother was cut in
half, and his sister horribly mutiated.
The Patriarch himsel had fled to Mosul
and taken refuge in the British Vice
Consulate. Thus a sect which had pre-
served its independence during centu-
rics, and had resisted the prosecuting
sword Of Islam, when welded by the
most powerful and most intoIerant Of
the followers Of Mohammed-which, in
its simplicity and isolation, had main
tanned the doctrines and forms Ola pri-
mitive church for above fourteen centu-
ries, and which had escaped the corrup-
ton Of religion, morals, and Of charac-
ter,so conspicuous in all other christian
sccts Of the East-has now, in the weak
ness of Mohammodausm and lin the
strength Of European Christianity; been
delivered over to destruction.
Although the Turkish authorities
merit the STRONGEST condemnation for
the part they have taken in the massa-
ere, yet there are others concerned who
are ulmos, equally responsible for The
results. The history Of the fall Of the
/ HISTORIANS is new example of the
| consequences Of a system pursued by
/ foreigners in the East, which we can
not contemplate without the utmost IN
dignarion. All those. who have been
the direct or indirect instruments of
their dcstructions although they may
not have anticipated a result Of SO seri-
Gus nature to their intrigue, and al
though they may now shelter themselves
under the cloak Of religion, have been
guilty Of a great crime against humanl-
ty. In their mountain Businesses the
HISTORIANS had retained their indepen-
dence for centuries. The first western
traveller who succeeded in penetrating
into them, was DR.. Graft IN AMERICAN,
missionary. His objec, in visiting them
was the establishment Of schools and
other means ofinstrEction. No sooner
had DR.. Grant met with some success
il the mountains, than the Roman Ca
,hoiic missionaries at MosuI, supported
by French political agents, endeavored
to counteract it. The English High
Church was also jealous Of American
encroachmcnts in the midst of sect
still venerable in EpScopacv; and an
additional frebrand was thrown into
the country last autumn, in the person
of the Rev. Mr.. Badger. During last
winter the three partes--the American
the Puseyite, and the Roman Catholic
have wagcd an open warfare among
themselves. The Americans who had
been first in The field, only acted on the
defensive; the influence they had alrea-
dy acquired among the HISTORIANS, ena-
bIed them, without much difficulty to re
tain their position. The object of the
two remaining parties was to eject the
Americans, and to establish their own
influence. They did not act in concert,
for their mutual enmlty equalled their
hostility to the Americans. No means
were left untried to effect their object