The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-08-10

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The GREYTowE ourRAeE.-In speaking
o fthe destruction of Greytown by the U. s.
ship Cyane, the Cincinnati Gazette justly
remarks that no American can read it with
out feeling thatthe honor of his country has
been furnished instead of indicated by
that most inglorious act. We do not blame
Capt. Hollins, his officers and crew. They
acted, we presume, by authority from
Washington, but we think the Administra-
tion have added another item to their list
Of WEAKNESSES, by imposingupon an homer
able commander duties SO cruelyand cow.
ardly.
Itappears that the damage done to the
nations honor, by tho fuss which Mr.. Dor.
land got into with the authorities at Grey
town, a few months ago, amounted, in the
judgment Of the Pierce administration, tc
the sum of $4,000, and to collect thai
amount, the Cyane was despatched to the
Mosquito coast.
The ship arrived. the demand was made
Ia sort of stand and-deliver demand. Il
was, the money ofyour life. Foot the bill,
or down go your shanties. 1t is probable
that so large a sum Of money was not in the
whole place. The money was not paid,
and there the war broke out. Cannon
balls, bombshells, and other destructive
missiles, were Numbered against the town.
The wretched inhabitants made no resist
ance, and fed. Finally. a detachment oil
officers and marines was sent on shore,
and he torch was applied to the shattered
tenements, and in a short time the village
was a s%meuldering mass of ruins, and al
this was done without resistance. Even q
prize fighter soorns to strike a fallen oil
helpless enemy. Moore, in the Tom Grill
Correspondence. thus utters his indigna'
ton Of such q thing; Tom, in speaking tc
Ben Gaunt, says:
"ethke a man whom he's DOWN and cannst defend
"By Mo nst ofmy fnthor, | blush for you, Ben"
This act ofthe Government will add nc
honor to the pArties concerned in it. w
hold it to DO a national disgrace, an act IN
worthy of great nation, one that would b.
ridiculously laughable, were 1t not for tn,
cruelty, outrage and suffering, which marks
the whole transaction, to say nothing of th,
insignificant cause Of its origin. Only
year or two ago, the Spanish Consul at N
Orleans, had his office broken open ant
sacked, and his person roughly handled
We have not heard that Spain made a de
mand for money Of our Government, t.
heal its bruised honor, or Of her sending
ship of war to burn and destroy New Or
leans. Still later we have accounts of thu
arrest, imprisonment and trial Of the French
Consul at San Francisco. Yet no step o
apiratical or money compromising charac,
ter. has been taken by France, in r~etalia'
ton Of the wrong,
Our minister at Turin writes home let.
ters which are published, in which he com,
plains Of the mobiles at the Court smelling
6fgarlic, and borrowing his Opera tickets
yet no bill Of charges has been presented
"a our Government. as indemnity for III,
insult, nor is u Minister recalled from hi,
POST. No. Upon tho heads and DWELLING,
fthe miserable Greytown settlers, fall
vengeance Of our n%ation's injured plenino
tentiariss. Amiserabie squad Of Neuroe.
Indians, and half breeds, living on tn
Musquito cos.t in bamboo hut. are, in a
hour. rendered houseless, homeless, make
and starving. by the action Of a powerf,
Republic. for a fancied iudipnity oaere
one offs accredited agents, the merits
which are publicly unknown, and the oyi
which we're likely 10 flow from il, the col