To destroy all the Jews — In the East massacres of a people, a race, a class, have at all times been among the incidents of history, and wou…

And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone
That would not be a sufficient gratification of his revenge; he …

Mordecai refused to reverence Haman. The religion of a Jew forbade him to give honors to any mortal man that smacked of idolatry, especially to suc…