The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-09-01
View OF the Canadian Press on the Havana
Massaere.

tFrou. the Montreal Herald. August "a
We are 10 friends 10 unjust ;nyasions: but there
should be limits 20 the wrath or the vengeance Of
man. The recent wholesale butchery, at Havana,
Of all the fifty foreigners taken prisoners, without
arms, and inhumanly shot like beasts, without
trial, appears 10 be M atrocity which. not merely
the mar es and ma ion OF the dead, but the safety
and honor Of al living required to be justified
expiated
These und;stinguishiDg massacres in cold blood,
in the nineteenth century, on the part Of govern
ments which ptttend to legitimate authority
whose acts 81 Guild corsequently be- not the impulse
OF blind or sangunlry passion, but the result OF hui
ing 10 the feelings, and stamped with morc mex.
piable guilt. than any crimes which simple indiyi-
drals, liHble 10 the continual influence Of c3rrup-
ton, enthusiasm, or Illusion, can commit.
The ferociy Of the Austrian hatcher, Haynau,
appears 20 have becL brought 20 America by me
spanish Generals and Governors. The pa,riarch's
maIiedieton may possibly yet reach thea all
Cursed be their AZ ger, for II was fcrce ami their
wrath, ioT il was cruel will divide them in Jacob
and scatter them IN israel" But tie end Z yet
90 come, both for a ustfis AID Cuba. NOrta Amc.
RIGA. Mt al! events, IL not country in witch alb
sou,e governments can venture With safety on
such System C hostility against the people ne
was Only prsciiscd boyre ciyil1lti IN was Known.
If government, and rulers seek O. extern mate IL
will happen. IN America az least, that such govern
mebts AID rulers are more likely to suffer ,hla in.
Gct determination.
Nan d. stroys, Of right, his enemies uho are or.
faytd against him ia the battlefield % Is the
right CT ell dcfcne9. But When these e1cmi,s are
prisoner, 6isaslcl aud defenceess, the III ht 10
destroy them cts5c.-this right being founded
solely on the right % self defence. But let Il b,
asserted that these Captyas sge criminals
50, let them be tried and convicted But. ia the
case before ~, 70 crime could have been com.
milt,d, c;sn r any Lad been intended The pri-
Eorsts were taken out Of their own boat5 without
rcsistance ana for the Governor Of Cuba 90 nfict
de 9Th on Foreigners, imputed intentions t. do
C,il, is What no Independent government can per.
nit CT submit 10, without the sacrifice Of Is honor
ard duty.
IL is singular that Santa Anna began hi, career
against tbe Texans By shooting. ia cold blood, a
large number Of prisoners promising yeu1g men,
few Ct whom had attained their twenty fourth
year. YVES there any one enduel with the feel.
irgs OF q human being, who could restrain indig.
nation at sueh brutal determination OF uuthei
ard deitncciess osptiytsl Was there any oac who
did not desire to see some adequate infection upon
such ruler ard such a government J The day Of
fetrbutiOn came-Ssnta Anna was himself taken
prisoner, bgt not shot Yet IL would not have been
more pgai7pt the law c nature and nations for his
captcrs 10 have shot Santa Aana In cold blood,
than for Santa Anna to have shot his prisoners
(smourtirg to several hundred young mem in cold
bleed. The crimes and cruelties OF governments
and rulers arc Of Deeper guilt, and call for decpOr
atorenent than those Of individuals. However,
the reiibution appropriated, at least 10 expia,ion
santa Annals Tower, by the divine viii, wrcstcd
from him, and his country was vanquished aud par
celled out oy The fellow cizSns Of the youthful pr
soneis whom he shot In cold blood.