Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10

TIE GRErrouN WAEs-We publish
in another column the destruction of
Greytowh by the q. s. ship-cf-wsr
Cyane. Our readers probably have a
general recollection of the origin OF this
business. A short time since murder
was committed at Gfeytown, and the
authorities undertaking to arrest the
murderer, Mr.. Borland. the o. s. Min
lister, endeavored to protect him from
arrest. and succeeded. we believe. Mr..
lBorland was on board a q. S. merchant
vessel at the time, but be subsequently
went ashore, and the Greytown folks, as
he thought, maltreated him, keeping
him cooped up in house all night. He
was released the next morning. and he
hastened right off to Washington to call
upon the United States to avenge him.
The Government, with all possible des-
patch, ordered the Cyane to Greytown
to demand an apology aad $4,000.
The apology and $4,000 were de-
manded of the population, consisting of
about FIVE hundred miserable natives
and Jamaica negroes, who no doubt
were ready enough to give the apology,
but couldn't or wouldn't pay the s24.-
600. The Cyane opened her fire and
demolished the place, destroying proper
ty of every description, and, at the
latest dates, the inhabitants were living
in the open air without protection from
the weather, men, women, and children
being in state of absolute starvation.
The Louisville Journal, speaking of
this disgraceful affair, says:
And here is glory to be sure. The
measure of our country's glory is un-
doubtedly full. We had previously
fought successfully in two wars with
Great Britain and had conquered Mexi-
co, and now our great republic, flushed
with all her past honors, has demolished
Greytown. This war between the U.
States and Greytown will be long re-
membered by the world for the vigor
with which it was prosecuted and the
extraordinary celerity with which it
was brought to close. Troy held out
for ten years, but Greytown fell before
our country's proves in single day
We hope that Mr.. Borland is consoled,
and, if he isn't, he had better go back
to Greytown and enjoy the music of the
cries and groans of the houseless and
starving population. But let him make
haste or they will all be dead before he
gets there, and then he will only have
the pleasure of looking upon their flesh
less skeletons.
There were twenty-five Englishmen
and twelve Frenchmen and Germans in
Greytown, engaged in bookkeeping and
trade. Most Of them sought protection
on board British war schooner lying
in the harbor, but nearly their whole
property, like that of the natives, was
DESTROYED. We shouldn't be at all sur
prised if Great Britain or France or
both we're to demand indemnity for the
destruction of the property of their
citizens. The Cyane, that made such
quick work with Greytown, may have
to be sent up the Thames and the Seine
to demolish London and Paris.
The following additional information
relative to this miserable Greytown bust
ness we find in the Cincinnati Gazette of
yesterday:
1t appears that the $4,000 was for
some alleged injury done several years
| ago to the interests of the Trust Compa
ny by a quarantine regulator. The
property destroyed amounts in all to
nearly million Of dollars. two-thirds
of which was owned by American citi-
gems residing at Greytown engaged in
ltrade. When the demand for the money
and the apology was made by Conimo-
dore HoHins, most of the chief citizens
and magistrates were absent on visit
to the interior. consequently there were
no persons to pay the money or to make
the apology if there had been DISPOSE
ton to do either. The absent parties
returned to find their dwellings blasted
heap of ashes, their property destroyed,
and themselves ruined. Altogether it
is most barbarous proceeding.
OF course the American citizens of
Greytown will come upon the U. S.
Government for the two-thirds of a
million of dollars, the value of their
property destroyed. So the avenging
of Mr. Borland's honor seems likely to
be pretty serious business to the United
States as well as Greytown.
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