Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-12-19

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ry feeble health, and threatened to shoot him
it he did not 90 with them TO a Catholic
priest, to be christened. They had not led
him tar, before he sank down from extreme
weakness. What do you say to our prop
o%sition!" asked one of the soldiers handling
his gun Significantly. The old man quietly
replied, "If thou art permitted TO take my
life, | hope our Heavenly Father will forgive
thee" The insurgents talked apart for a
few moments, and then went away, restrain
ed by a power they did not unde. stand.
Deeds of kindness added strength to the
influence Of gentle words. The officers and
soldiers Of both parties had. some dying broth
er tended by the Quaker or some starving
mother who had been fed, or some desola;e
little one that had been cherished. Which
ever party marched into a village victorious
the cry was, "Spare the Quakers! They
have done good to all and harm to none.'-
While flames were raging, and blood flowing
in every direction, the honest peace-makers
stood uniniurcd.
1t is a circumstance worthy to be recorded,
that during the fierce and terrible struggle,
even in counties where the Quakers were
most numerous. but one of their ociety fell
d sacrifice. That one was a young man, who
being afraid to trust to peace principles, put
on 4 military uniform and went to the garrl-
son for protection. The garrison was taken
by the insurgents and he was killed. His
dress and arms spoke the language of ho5til-
ily,' says the historian, "and therefore they
invited it,"
During that troubled period, no armed cit
izan could travel without peril Of his life; but
the Quakers regularly attended their Month
" and Quarterly meetings, going miles a
cross the country, often through an armed and
! furious multitude, and sometimes Obliged to
stop and remove corpses from their PATH
The Catholics, angry at Protestant meetings
being thus openly held, but unwilling to
harm the Quakers, advised them to avoid the
| public road, and 20 by private ways. But
they, in their quiet, innocent way, answered
that they did not feel clear, it would be right
for them TO 70 Ivy any other path than the
usual high road. And by the high road they
went unmolested; even their young women,
unattended by protectors, passed without in
suit.
Glory to the nation that first ventures to
set an example at once so gentleand so brave!
And our wars-are they brave or beautiful.
even if Judged of according to the maxims of
the world? The secrets of our cowardiy en-
croachmcnts on Mexico, and our Indian wars
would secure a unanimous verdict in the neg
ativc, could they ever be even half revealed
to posterity.
A few years ago, l met an elderly man in
the Hartford stage, whose conversation led
me to reflect on the baseness and i|niquity of
ten concealed behind the apparent glory of
war. The thumb of his right hand hung
down, as if suspended by a piece of thread;
and some ofthe passengers inquired the cause.
"a Malay woman cut the muscle with her
sabre was the reply.
ga Malay woman!" they exclaimed:-
'How came you fighting with a womanl''
Il did not know she was a woman; for they
all dress alike there said he. IL was on
board the u. S. ship Potomac, when it was
sent out to chastise the Malays for numbering
the crew of a Salem vessel. We attacked
one of their forts, aud killed some two hun
dred or more. Many Of them were women;
and | can tell you the Malay women are as
good fighters as the men,"
After answering several questions concern
ing The conflict, he was silent for a moment,
and then added with a sigh, "Al, that was a
bad business. | do not like to remember it
l wish | never had had any thing to do with
it. | have been a seaman from my youth,
aud | know the Malays well. They are a
brave and honest people. Deal fairly with
them, and they will treat you well, and may
w Asli wv KUN liz 4hAtItliNhilS
were TO blame in that business. The truth is
Christian nations are generally to blame in
the outset, in all their difficulties with less
civilized people. A Salen ship went to Ma
lacca to,trade o rpepper. They agreed to give
the natives Il stated compensation, when a
certain number of measures full of pepper
were delivered. Men, women, and children
were busy picking pepper, and bringing it on
board. The captain proposed that the sailors
should 20 ashore and help them; and the ma
t!ycs consented, with the most confiding good
nature. The sailors were instructed to pick
till evening, and then leave the baskets full
Of pepper among the bushes, with the
understanding that they We're TO be brought
on board hy the natives in the morning.
They did so without exciting any suspicion
of treachery. Bat in the night the baskets
were Ill conveyed on board, and the vessel
sailed away, leaving the Malays unpaid for
her valuable cargo. This, of course, excited
great Indignation, and they made loud COM
plants to the commander of the next Aneri-
can vessel that arrived on their coast. In an
swcr to 4 demand of redress, from the gov
eminent, they were assured that the case
should be represented, and the wrong repair
ed. Bat Yankee cuteness' in cheating few
savages was not sufficiently uncommon to
ulAhc any great sur, ana une affair was soon
forgotten. Some time after, another captain
Of a Salem ship played a similar trick, and
carried of a still larger quantity of stolen pep
per. The Mdlays, eXasperated beyond meas
ure, resorted to Lynch law, and murdered an
American crew that landed there about the
sam time. The United States Ship Poto-
mac was sent out to punish them for this out
rage; and, as told you, we killed some TWO
| hundred men and women. lgometimes thipk
that our retaliation was not more rational or
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