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and a i t their friend , their brother , and their children,-the chil- dren who were lured from their mother's fold by a treacherou Gov- ernment, under flatterinrr promise of Liberty and law, that they n,ight render it fit for cultivation, a country which, their br/llt/ery industry, and enterprize, had failed to accomplish Y It would be too tedious for the pre ent, to enter into a minute history of our settle- ment and wrongs. Let it suffice, for thi occasion, that your kins- people and children, a I have said, under stron"' a surances of pro- tection, from illegal agression, did, through much want and privation, danger and blood hed, settle and bring into enviable notice, the then unknown, but faire t portion of heaven's works. That the e trial of difficulty and danger (con equent upon the et- tlement of a wilderness) were scarcely complied with on their part, before the foot tep of the tyrant wa , upon hi promi es; his equal laws and cbristian protection, forgotten in the gratification of his avarice and ambition. Our mo t intelligent citizens, whose greatest offence wa intelligence, abused and impri oned, our women in ulted and driven to menial service, our prisoner of war cruelly mas acred. Ye ! Let it be remembered and told to the yet unborn, that in this age, in this century, there lives a tyrant whose brutality disregards the pains and helples ness of the ick couch- who an wer the wants of sickne s and disease with the bayonet! ! Ought I, hall I tell the re t ~-their bodies 1uere b11rned to ashes, 11.:ith savage delight, in the presence of wives, mothers, a'nd <laughter ·! ! · Herod's bloody decree again t all the male children in Judac, (that our Messiah might not escape his vengeance,) has shocked the moral ense of the whole Christian world, for 1836 years. At the end of which time there lives a monster, who has thundered forth one, to which this is charitable and humane; that neither age, nor ex, nor condition, shall be spared, \rho speak a langual?e, or hold a rcli.,.ion, different from his own. The e things will be remembered : they cannot be forgotten. 'l'hey are engraven deeply upon the heart of every freeman. They will be handed from sire to son, for age· yet to come. To fir the young idea, and ever keep separate and hostile the future generations of nglo-American and th~ adulterate and de.,.enerate blood of -the once high-spirited Castillian. They teach a lesson which will hug clo ely and fondly to the heart, and which a combination of all the despots on earth can never er11dicate- ye . my countrymen, the tyrant judged poorly of u -this conduct, which would have disgrnccd the Savage Indian, in hi. wilde t tate, in tead of . baking your ifii-m hearts; and inducing yon to lay down your arm., with a prayer of forgivene .-has fired the noble t pirit of om· nature -has sealed and confirmecl the liberty of our country. hall we, after such brutality, committed by men under their 11a,·nlr of ho11or, yield our ·elves to the lenient mercy and . crnpnlou. justi<'<' of :mtn Anna T 1 'ever! there is not, my existence upon it,-n man, woman, or child, who would not first witnes. the burning of the la t log hut and pnnnel of fence. and th m. Ives drh•eu to th fn. tnes. of a cane brake for Shelter. Since the e.·hibition of their bn1tality nt the Alamo, I hnYe witnes)'ed this spirit, not in the violent outpouring of a nation's grief for the unnaturnl end of her brav st men; not in
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