The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-22 00:00:00

Lied In

_ ..gard this nation as a civilised` nation.
The governments and people of civilised Europe
have looked passively on for years, whilst she has
been luxuriating in a war of extermination in un-
happy Africa, where her conduct has been charac-
terised by atrocities too hideous to contemplate. We
have read the vaunting bulletins, in which her
marshals have gloried over villages burnt, harvests
ruined, and thousands of men, women, and chil-
dren slaughter ed ; and where has been the protest

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which snould have rung throughout Europe against
such an unheard of system of warfare ? Where
has been the boasted philanthropy of England in
,particular, whose sentimental tears have flowed in

s before the overwrought picture of a hard-
d planter and a flogged negro ? Alas, our
I virtue and humanity have miraculously
The criminal here was a great nation,
Dbnoxious class of our fellow subjects ;
and we have therefore remained silent. The echoes
of Exeter-hall have slept; and no Clarkson or Gur-
o Buxton or Brougham—has risen to ask,
name of the unhappy victim of French
savagerie, " Am I not a man and a brother? " We
have accustomed ourselves to regard Algeria as a
kind of safety valve for the escape of the unruly
valour of la jeune France,—a natural drain for her
fierce scoundrelism—and its miserable yet gallant
population as so many insensate effigies of men,
upon which her soldiers could flesh their swords,
without disturbing the serenity and the peace of her
neighbours. We have handed over to her tender
mercies_ the wild followers of Abd-el-Kader, with
the same feeling which would prompt us to give a
savage boy a reptile to torture, that he might not

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employ his leisure in tormenting a human being;
and we have only revolted at last when the cruelty
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Is this state of things, we ask, to continue ? Are
we still to look on unmoved whilst a whole people
are being savagely slaughtered, to feed the vanity of
conquest and the appetite for blood of an unstable
and intractable nation ? We submit, not. If Eng-
land and Europe tamely consent to allow these
butcheries to go on without intervening their indig-
nant voice to stay them, they will become, morally,
participators with France in the enormous guilt
which characterises them. It will not avail that
this particular—this crowning--atrocity should be
visited with national reprobation. It will not excul-
pate us to wreak our execration upon the Colonel—
Pellisier—by whose orders and under whose sur-
veillance it was perpetrated. The policy which dic-
tated it is that of the French Government—a policy
based upon the necessities of the present dynasty
of that country : Colonel Pellisier has[only gone a
little beyond the letter of his instructions and intro- '
duced a little romantic variety into the mode of
carrying out his object. His end was extermina-
tion of the enemy, and the legitimateinstruments
were the musket and the sword. The Colonel has
been able to achieve that object as well, and to gra-
tify the pallid appetites of his ferocious soldiery
at the same time by the novel spectacle of a

The views of this party have been so ably ex-
pressed by the London Times, an authority not to
to be suspected of any leaning to orangeism, that
we do not scruple to extract them here:—
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"The solution- of this painful fact is to he found by
considering the real object of these processions. They
are not so much a triumph as a precaution. Notwith-
standing their historical character, they are prospective.
The operations of genuine war bear a triumphant aspect,
but it is only the fair disguise with which men cover the
gravest and saddest of human intentions. So it is, we

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