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age or heroism could have animated you, or can ever animate 
any man who lifts his cowardly hand against helpless women 
and children. You had lately, it seems, been greatly afflicted 
by the sudden deaths of your wife and only child, and God 
forbid that I should needlessly harrow up your feelings by 
reverting to the subject. I do so merely because it serves in 
some degree to explain the dreadful tra.edy for which you are 
now about to answer with your life. Unable or unwilling to 
submit with patience to the affliction with which it had pleas¬ 
ed God to visit you, you abandoned yourself to discontent and 
despair, until shortly before the bloody transaction, when you 
went to the mosque to pray !!—to pray to whom or to what? 
Not to senseless Idols of wood or stone which Christians 
and Maliomedans equally abominate—but to the one omnis¬ 
cient, almighty, and all merciful God in whom alone Christi¬ 
ans and Maliomedans profess to believe ! But in what spirit 
did you pray, if you prayed at ail ? Did you pray for resigna¬ 
tion or ability to “ humble yourself under the mighty hand of 
God”? Impossible. You may have gone to curse in your 
heart and gnash with your teeth, but certainly not to pray, 
whatever unmeaning sentences of the Koran may have issued 
from your lips. Doubtless you entered the Mosque with a 
heart full of haughty pride, anger and rebellion against your 
maker, and no wonder that you sallied forth again overflowing 
with hatred and malice against your innocent fellow-crea¬ 
tures; no wonder that, when thus abandoned to the devil, 
you stabbed with equal cruelty, cowardice and ferocity un¬ 
armed and helpless men, women and children, who had never 
injured, never known, probably never seen you before. 
Such are the murders which Mahomedans alone have been 
found capable of committing. Not that I mean to brand 
Mahomedans in general as worse than all other men, far from 
it; I believe there are many good men among them,—as good 
as men can be who are ignorant of the only true religion. I 
merely state the fact that such atrocities disgrace no other 
creed, let the Mahomedans account for the fact as they may. 
But whatever may be the true explanation ; whether these 
fiendish excesses are the result of fanaticism, superstition, 
overweening pride or ungovernable rage, or, which is probable, 
of all combined, public justice demands that the perpetrators 
should be visited with the severest and most disgraceful 
punishment which the law can inflict. 
The sentence of the Court therefore is, that you, Sunan, 
be remanded to the place from whence you came, and that on 
the morning of Wednesday next you be drawn from thence 
on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there hanged by 
