And , adding a grievous contumely to the wrong already done us , the miscreant has now fallen asleep as quietly as if nothing were to be dreaded from our wrath ! It behooves you , fellow-countrymen , to consider in what aspect we shall stand before the world , and what will be the verdict of impartial history , should we suffer these accumulated outrages to go unavenged . `` Antaeus was our brother , born of that same beloved parent to whom we owe the thews and sinews , as well as the courageous hearts , which made him proud of our relationship . He was our faithful ally , and fell fighting as much for our national rights and immunities as for his own personal ones . We and our forefathers have dwelt in friendship with him , and held affectionate intercourse as man to man , through immemorial generations . You remember how often our entire people have reposed in his great shadow , and how our little ones have played at hide-and-seek in the tangles of his hair , and how his mighty footsteps have familiarly gone to and fro among us , and never trodden upon any of our toes . And there lies this dear brother -- this sweet and amiable friend -- this brave and faithful ally -- this virtuous Giant -- this blameless and excellent Antaeus -- dead ! Dead ! Silent ! Powerless ! A mere mountain of clay ! Forgive my tears ! Nay , I behold your own . Were we to drown the world with them , could the world blame us ? `` But to resume : Shall we , my countrymen , suffer this wicked stranger to depart unharmed , and triumph in his treacherous victory , among distant communities of the earth ? Shall we not rather compel him to leave his bones here on our soil , by the side of our slain brother 's bones ? so that , while one skeleton shall remain as the everlasting monument of our sorrow , the other shall endure as long , exhibiting to the whole human race a terrible example of Pygmy vengeance ! Such is the question . I put it to you in full confidence of a response that shall be worthy of our national character , and calculated to increase , rather than diminish , the glory which our ancestors have transmitted to us , and which we ourselves have proudly vindicated in our warfare with the cranes . '' The orator was here interrupted by a burst of irrepressible enthusiasm ; every individual Pygmy crying out that the national honor must be preserved at all hazards .
He bowed , and , making a gesture XXXXX silence , wound up his harangue in the following admirable manner : `` It only remains for us , then , to decide whether we shall carry on the war in our national capacity -- one united people against a common enemy -- or whether some champion , famous in former fights , shall be selected to defy the slayer of our brother Antaeus to single combat .
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