Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12
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the spade, and crept noiselessly TO the cor
ner of the house. The steps came nearer
and nearer. George raised the spade
The Serb turned the corner, and-lay the
next moment upon the ground, with his
skull split. He had not time for a single
cry.
George took the dead mans clothes and
weapons, took his daughter in bis arms, and
left the town. The morning star glittered
IN the frightening sky. Towards day
break, and without having exchanged a
word, father and daughter reached the
nearest village. George had many ac-
quaintances there, and with one of them he
thought, he could leave bis daughter. He
found but poor reception. Nowhere was
ne suffered to cross the threshold. None
offered him as much as a crust of bread
y II closed their doors, and implored him
to depart, lest he should bring destruction
on their heads. The villagers were neither
hard-hearted nor cowardly; but they fear
/ ed that if the Serbs of St. Thomas heard of
their sheltering a fugitive, they also would
be murdered or piundered. With anguish
in his soul, the wretched man again took
| his child in his arms, and resumed his Jour-
ney.
For six days he walked on, over stubbe
and fallow, through storm and cold by night
and parched heat by day-his child, his be-
loved child, on his arm. He asked not
what allied her, and she uttered no COM
plant.
On the sixth day the maiden died, of
hunger, misery and grief.
The father felt his burden heavier the
arms that clasped his neck sIackened their
hold, and the pale cheek that nestled on his
shoulder was chill and cold.
But the spires OF Szegedin now glittered
in the distance. George hurried on, and at
last exhausted by his speed, be reached at
noon-day the large and populous city.
In front OF it, on the vast plain, great
multitude was assembled ; more than twen-
ty thousand souls We're gathered together,
listening TO the words Of popular orator
exalted upon scafiolding in the midst
George made bis way into the throng; the
speaker was relating the incredible atroci-
ties of the Raitzen. Several Of his hearers
noticed the weary, Withholding, travel
stained man, carrying in his arms a pale
girl with closed eyes, who stood amongst
them like a fugitive from a mad-house.
"Whenee come you ?" they asked him.
"From St. Thomas"
"Ha Up! up with him on the scat
fold :" cried those who heard his reply.
ga man is here from St. Thomas. Up
with him, and let him speak TO the peo-
pie"
The crowd opened passage, and George
was hurried TO the scahold. When, from
this elevation, his emaciated and ghastly
countenance, furrowed by suffering and
despair, bis failing limbs, and the faded and
ashy pale features of the child upon his
! shoulder, became visible to the assembled
multitude, deep shuddering murmer ran
through its masses, like that the Platen
Lake gives forth when tcmpestS near its
shores. At sight and sound of the heaving
throng, a hectic flush famed upon Georges
cheek, an unwonted fire burned in his bo-
som he felt the spirit Of revenge descend
upon his head like forked and fiery
| tongue.
"Nlagvarsn. he exclaimed, in loud and
manly tones, 81 come from St. Thomas, the
sole survivor Of all who there prayed to
God in the Magyar tongue. My goods ale
pundered, my kinsmcn slam. Have any
of you friends there prepare your mourn
ing, for of surety they are dead. OF all
| possessed have saved but one treasure
my unhappy child. Approach ye that
are fathers, think OF your virgin daughters,
and behold what they have made OF mine 2"
As he spoke, he lifted bis child from bis
shoulder, and then only did he perceive
that she was dead. Until that moment, he
had thought she was only faint and silent,
as she had constantly been for SIX days past.
"Dead :" shreked the despairng man,
and clasped the corps to his heart. "She
is dead" :" he repeated. The words died
away upon his lips, and hr fell, like one
thunderstruck headlong TO the ground.
"Revenge.- bloody revenge" thun-
dered a voice: and the tumult that now
arose was like the bowling of the storm.
"To arms to arms! all who are men y"
was shouted on every side, and the people
thronged through the streets and lanes of
the city. "To armS-to arnsI' was re-
echoed from house to house, and in an
hours time ten thousand furious men stood
armed and equipped, and ready to set out
for St. Thomas.
Then there got abroad a sullen apprehen-
sion, speedily succeeded by fierce re-
solve. Some one chanced TO say
"But what if, when we march away, the
Raitzen rise up and murder our children 2"
The word passed from mouth to mouth.
"They shall die" exclaimed many vol
ces. "Let them perish, as our brothers
perished at St. Thomas They must die !"
And with a terrible ferocity the people
turned against their own city, and like a
mountain torrent, overpowering all re-
straint, poured into their neighbors' dwell
lings and slew the Raitzen to the very last
man.
This occurred on the sixth day after the
determination of the Magyars from St.
Thomas.
The name Of RaZen is synonymous with Ser .
''Arsenius Czemoiewie, ufder Leopold l., transr' ,i
large number Of Serbs from the ancient Rasca r. iIS