New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-11-22

ktrs regularly attended their MuutilF al!u NSudi
tery Meetings going miles across the country, often
through an armed and furious multitude and some
times obliged 10 stop and remove corpscs from their
, paih Thu. Catholics angry al Protestant meetings
being thus openly held but unwilling to harm the
QuakerS advised them 20 avoid the public road, and
| 70 by private ways. But they in their qaiet limo
cent way answered that they did not feel clear 1t
/ would be right for them 10 go by any other path
than the usual high road. And by the high road
they went unmolested; their young women,
unattended By protectors, passed without insult.
Glory to the nation that first ventures 10 set an
| example al once so gentle and so bravei And our
| wars-are they brave or beautiful, even If judged
| OF according 20 the maxims of the world ! Uhe
secrets OF our cowardly encrcachments on Mexico,
and our Indian wars, would secure unanimous
verdict in the negative. could they ever be even
half revealed 10 posterity.
a few years ago | met elderly man In the
Hartford stage, whose conversation led reject
the apparent glory OF war. The thanh OF his riSht
hand hung down. il. suspended by a piece oil
thread; and some of the passengers inquired the
cause. 4 Malay woman cut the muscle Win her
| sabre, was the reply
A Malay woman" they exclaimed F." no"
came you fighting with woman
q | did not know she ~as woman; Tor they an
dress alike there said he. II vas on board the
L. 5 ship Potomac when it was sent out 70 chas'
tisc the Maays for numbering the crew OF salem
vessel We attacked one Of their forts, and Killed
some two hundred or Many OF them were
women and | can tell you the Malay women are
as good fighters as the men,.
After answering several questions concerning the
conflict he was silent for moment, and then added
with sigh, 4" All, that bad business. DO
not like 10 remember it: | wish never had had
any thing 10 do with it. have been seaman from
nv youth and know the Malays well. They are
brave and honest people. Dea! fairly with them,
and they viii treat you well, and may be trusted
with untold gold The Americans were to blame In
that business The ruth is, Christian nations are
generally to blame in the outset IN all their dlcu-
ties with less civilized people. Salem snip Went
TO Maacca TO trade for pepper. They agreed 10
give the natives stated compensation when Ger
tain number of full OF pepper were deilv-
cred Men women, and children were busy pick
ing pepper. and bringing it on board The captain
proposed that the sailors should go ashore and help
them: and the natives consented, with the most
coniding good nature The sailors were instructed
TO pick ill evening and then leave the baskets iu
of pepper among the bushes with the understand
ing that they were 10 be brought on board by the
natives in the morning. They did so, without eX-
citing any suspicion of lreachcry. But IN the night
the baskets were all conveyed on board, aud the
vessel sailed away, leaving the Malays UNPAID ior
her valuable cargo. This, of course, excited great
Indignation and they made loud complaints to the
commander Of the next American vessel that ar.
rived on their coast. r. answer to demand OF
redress from the government, they We're assured
that the case should be represented, and the wrong
repaired. But Yankee cutcness' in cheating q lew
sayages was not sufficiently uncommon TO make any
great STIR and The affair soon forgotten. Some
time after, another captain of q Salem ship played
a similar trick and carried oil still larger quantity
of stolen pepper. The Maays eXasperated beyond
measure, resored TO Lynch law, and murdered an
American crew that landed there about the same
time The L. S. ship Potomac was sent out to pun
ish them for this outrage; and, as told you, we
killed some two hundred men and women. some
times think that our retaliation not more ration
al or more like Christians, than theirs"
"Wili you please" said l, TO tell me what sort
of revenge scould be like Christians? ~
He hcsitatcd and said i, hard question TO
answer. Il felt pleasantly about that affair
continued he: | would not have killed hor, II |
had known she was a woman" asked why he
felt any more regret about killing woman than a
man. / hardly know why, myself, answered he.
a MT suppose 1 should, il 1t were q common
thing for women 10 fight. But we are accustomed
TO think of them as not defending themselves and
there is something in every human heart that makes
q man unwilling 10 fight those who do not fight IN
return IT. seems mean and dastardly, and man
cannot work himself up to it Then if one ma
ton ,coald not fight, another could not, said |.
What If nation instead OF an individual,
should make such an appeal 10 the manly feeling,
which you say is inherent in the hearth =" be
lieve other nations would be ashamed TO attack her.
he replied :" II would take away all the glory and
excitement of war and the hardest soldier would
shrink from it, as from cold blooded murder =
Such peace establishment would be at once
cheap aud beautiful, rcjoined !; and SO we parted