The New Hampshire Gazette

Having published in our last the Account of the Martyrdom lately at Toulouse in France, and in this Paper given a Relation of the Cruelties exercised towards a Family in the same Town; we shall insert the following Remarks on the Cruelty of the French; which may perhaps be timely on another Account, viz. the Encouragement the French General has given to the Inhabitants of Newfoundland to submit, that they shall be treated as FRENCHMEN.

As we have seen, and it cannot be too often repeated, for it ought to be deeply engraven on our Minds, and the Minds of our Children, that the French look on us as a Nation of Hereticks, who are not only their Enemies, but also the Enemies of God, whom, they declare, they think themselves bound in Conscience to destroy, as impious Wretches. A bloody Religion truly! This is French Charity & Popish Humanity!

Had old Paganism any Thing in it so horrible and detestable! What would the Mahometans, of Indostan, think of Christians, & their Religion, if they were to read this most impious and hellish Declaration! If the Chinese were to see it, would they not root out of their Kingdom the Professors of this diabolism, this Doctrine of Devils, these inhuman Principles, and all the infernal Furies, the Priests who teach them, in defiance of common Sense, and common Humanity...... The French declare, "We are Enemies to God, as well as to them, and therefore, they are bound in Conscience to destroy such impious Wretches." Is not this insinuating that they think, they shall merit Heaven by imitating Hell? According to their own Account they conceive, they shall be damned, if they do not murder us. What thinking Blasphemy! What horrid Impiety! They represent the great and good Creator, as giving Heaven, as a Reward for the most horrid Villanies and detestable Crimes! Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum. When old Paganism lifted the murd'rous Knife to the Throat of Iphigenia,

Grown ripe for bridal Joy.

To bribe the Gods, and buy a Wind for Troy:

It was done with Horror and Reluctance; but Popery is a holy Butchery, that teaches, that Heaven can be gained, and Hell shunned, by Tragedies and detestable Crimes; which are not, only by committing the most bloody, executed with rapturous Joy, rather than with Reluctance. Doubtless, if they had the power, we should soon see the dreadful Massacre, formerly in Ireland, repeated in England. They only want Opportunity. A Reverend Divine of the Church of England tells us, that Con Mahony, an Irish Jesuite, at Lisbon, in his Book, which he printed there in 1645, addresses his Countrymen in the following Manner: "My dear Irish, (says he) perfect the Work Of your Liberty, kill all the Hereticks, and all who aid them. From 1641 to 1645 you killed 200,000 Hereticks, as you acknowledge. I would to God you had killed all, which you must do, or drive them out, that our holy Land be no longer plagued with such a barbarous Generation." Could old Belzebub, have uttered a more dreadful, impious and horrible Speech! How must he have grinned horribly! a ghastly Smile! to have heard the infernal Declaration of his own Popish Priests.....

Milton.