The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-09-24

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ed At the hour appointed, late "a
the night. Campbell, with the men
Hof his regiment, previously heavily
Piled with liquor, to deadea any
feeling Of humanity or sensibidty
remaining IN their bosom, began
With sword, musket and bayOnet, the
horrid work Of slaughter.
MacIan and his people, not sus-
pecting this hideous perfdy, asleep
and unaFmed, were taken complete
y by surprise. MacIan himself,
with number of his clansmen, and
portions of their families, In all
numbering thirty-eight persons al
though resisting desperately, were
ruthlessly slain. No distinction OF
age or person was made. At the
early dawn, a little child, six years
of age, being discovered covering
in alright, wailing for It's murdered
parents, was shot by the order OF
Drummond, who had arrived with
an additional body of troops, to aud
in the nefarious work. The houses
were burned to the ground, hund-
reds of cattle, horses, sheep and
goats driven off, and everything OF
value, that belonged to these unhap-
ply people carried away.
II is impossible to delineate in its
true colors, the dreadful picture.
The crash of firearms, the groans OF
the dying, the shrieks of the frantic
women, the mangled and bloody
corpses, the curses of the rum
maddened soldiery, the glare of the
burning buildings, combined to
form n scene as dire, as horrible,
and as demoniac, as any presented
in Dantes Inferno.
Heartrending was the situation OF
the women and children who escap-
ed the butchery. Left without food
or shelter, the mountains covered
with snow, the rivers impossible,
raging tempest filing the air, no
human habitation within many
miles of them, a number persisted
from want and exposure.
There is no language known to
man that can adequately portray
the unspeakable infamy of this hell
ish crime, with all of its attendant
horizons; crime of such magnitude
and enormity, as to place its per-
petrators, il such a thing be posi-
BILE, beyond the mercy and forgive
ness of the most Merciful and most
Terrible God.
feeling of the Macdonald race ever
afterwards should have been that
expressed by Aytounes' immortal
ethic:
Weep not children of Macdonald,
Weep not, but when years are
over,
And thine arm is strong and sure,
And thy foot is swift and steady,
On the mountain and the muir,
Let thy heart be hard as iron,
And thy wrath as fierce as hre,
Till the hour when vengeance
cometh,~
For the race, that slew thy sire!
MANY other inhabitants of these
Gleus would have fallen victims to
This murderous invasion, during
This fearful night, but that rein
forcement of four hundred soldiers,
who had been sent to assist IN the
destruction of these people, were de-
laved in their march from lnyer-
lochv, by the terrific wintry storm,
and did not arrive until all was over.
Tt is needless to endeavor to FUR.
ther particularize the incidents OF
this black iniquity.
We close this subject by quoting
the Language of Mr.. Aytoune IN mn ms
eloquent sketch entitled, The
Widow of Glencoe" in Which the
whole infamous conspiracy is lad
hare with the most convincing proof
and the story of the abhorent crime
narrated with thilling power:
etSuch was the awful massacre OF
Glencoe. an event which has left an
indelible and execrable stain upon
the memory of William OF orange.
The records of Indian warfare
can hardly afford parallel instance
of atrocity, and this deed, coupled
with his deliberate treachery in the
Darien scheme, whereby Scotland
was for time absolutely ruined, IS
sufficient to account for the little
Estimation in which the name OF
the sgreat whig deliverer'' is still re.
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