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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
most intense hatred, strengthened by desperation. Hitherto the defensive of the Caucasus had been weakened by fends, family quarrels, claims of individual and personal interest, and the separate action of disunited tribes. Now they resolved to bury forever all private passions and interests, and a convocation of princes and chiefs of clans was summoned, who formed a confederation, every member of which bound himself, by the most sacred oaths, to maintain the liberty of his country against Russian aggression with his best blood. A solemn interdict was placed on all intercourse with the enemy, even for salt and other necessaries, under pain of the most signal punishment. Even families which had received benefits from their foes were forced to join the league; and, as a proof of their determination, the whole property of an invalid, who had gone for medical assistance, was committed to the flames.--Such is the only spirit which threats of extermination arouse in the breasts of a free