The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-09
WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY MORNING. SEPT. 0. 1864.
THE HUMANITY OF ENGLISH WARFARE UPON
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
spontaneous expression of hostile feelings against the
people of the United States their government and their in
shtutons in the late number Of the leading British
presses especially in those identified with the present min
stry has for its motives another beyond the attack
upon San Juan by Captain Hollins That is made the pre-
text but the secret of the venom the violence Of these
denuncations and these malignant recapulatons of the
contemplate ISLANDERS against the President which have
started and died out In this country be sought for
in other Whether il is because the American peo-
pie have not sufficiently applauded the against the
Muscovte and the religious motives of war; they
have been developed by the allies and especially by the
last attitude Of handed Austria whether it is
because the administration of President Pierce has
sumed bold and independent foreign policy; whether
it the contrast furnished by the universal prosperity and
OVERLOOKING revenues of the American people with the
debtridden and axoppcssed and governments of
Europe or whether because there resstess and in
exhaustible Of sympathy this continent with
the down-trodden communities of the Old World e
whether it is any Of these causes all of them
combined, which have resolved the English press to
open their broadsdes with eagerness and bitter
ness upon the United States, showing how much the
task is labor of love to them we do and cannot
assume to decide is enough for present purpose
provoked upon people and government with whom the
English profess be DESTROYS Of cutvatng peaceful
laons made it were to place before the world
wanting in humanity or in taithas false obliga-
lions with other governments and reckless of all the
strains of law and ordert is equally right and
duty to defend ourselves in the way which best II
the Greytown affair another Copenhagen, should
not hesitate to assume It, with all its details of blood and
barbarism and defy the world to whether as
pared with that great destruction of human life the
of England in her with the United States
stained with perseyerng cruelty and Unsuitable
geance much characteristic Of savage tribe than
the event awoke the denuncatons and the excavations
of all the Christian world And ask the attention of the
London Times, which talks of the Greytown affair
heinous offence against the laws of God and man. the
facts which history presents many accusations against
British assumptions of superior humanity and virtue
Lord Chatham, while in the height of his power and
his popularity declared that the employment Of savages
between civilized governments contrary to the
law of nations the law of Nature and mischievous
military discipline; extremely detrimental therefore, to
those who USE and unjust to those who suffer- it 1t is
he added enormty calling aloud for redress and pun
ishmen stain national character violation of the
constitution; against law mpairing the strength and
character Of army injecting with the mercenary
spirit of robbery and rapne famarizng with cruelty
the generous principles which should dignity soldier
God and Nature put such means into mems hands,
shocking every lover of honorable In vain has
the Protestant religion been established if these than
inquisitorial crueltes permitted"
Such was the denunciation of English barbarity in
North America by the greatest and puest statesman
England had. In both between England and
America the fierce aborgines employed against the
Americans by the "genc butchers then the head of
English affairs and Lord Chatham only of large
class that made Parliament ring with rebnkes of the
hideous practice In the revolutionary resorted
to spite Of the vehement exhortaons of General wash
ingon Mr. Ingcrsoll, in his great work the Of
1912 and 1873 and other distinguished authorities have
completely fastened this ignominy upon the British gov
ernment in both the wars between that country and
own that will require Than present abuse and
rbaldry Grail the seal from the bond We copy from the
first volume of ngersos history (pages 274 and 276 27
and 27s) the following startling statements:
English subornation of the Indians their
barbarous brutaes the the chief reliance
eectus of Great Grtain throughout both the
second waged by her for the ubugation
of the United s tates.
"That unnatural inhumanity emcnted evil and incurabe
luminosity between the white and red which have
Indians to be nearly exterminated In both these
England had greater number of Indians in than
Europeans employed
an Indians employed b. the British in the
oluonary war with the number of attached to
each nation as published Philadelphia in August 1885,
by Captain Dalton superintendent of Indian affairs, viz:
Choctaws coo; Chickasaws, 400; Cherokees, 500;
poos 5oO Murseys I5O beawares, 5OO Shawanaws, 800
Mohiakens, CO. uchepeweys, 5000; Ottawas, 800; Mo-
hawks 800; Oneidas, $50 Tuscar0ras 200; OnOndagas
800; Cayugas $50 Jursckaws, (SeDecas 400 Sacs and
Sothuse, 1900; Pottawatomies 400 Tnawin $50; Mus
kuthe, Cor nation of 6re,) 25o Reimes Foxes, 800;
Puyon $50; sokkl $780, Abinokkin Cor the ST. Lawrence
200 Total 1850 warriors.
DAT all timesin war, in peacefrom the commencement
of hostites in l77G to the of l7s3from that time
throughout period of Withholding the western posts in
violation treaty and the reiterated expostuaions of
President Washington throughout the of 1912 to the
of Ghent which nearly frustrated by the English
commissioners insisting Indian reservations ursdiction
and sovereignty at all times ths odious interference and
unworthy reliance have ceased Further proof Of
character disgusting incredible derived from
the English respectable publication in London by Amon
OF authentic State papers, as follows ~
Extract Of letter from, Captain Gerrh. Of TIC Nec England
Militia, dated
fsN 4.s 's "ALBANY, March
The peltry taken in the expedition WILL you sce
good deal of money The possession of this booty at
first gave pleasure, but struck with horror to find
among the packages eight large containing cap of
unfortunate country folks taken in the three last
the Indians inhabitants of the frontiers Of
New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. and
sent by them present to Col Haldimund governor of
Canada, order to be by him transmitted to England They
were accompanied by the following curious letter to that
gentleman
" TIooA, January 8, 1852.
MAY 1T PLEASE youn ExcELIrscv; At the request Of