The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-01-03
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF WAR. y
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i, Not long ago, when the British gov
sfnment was making an attempt to coax
4 the United States into an agreement or
i q fripartite convention, y for abandoning
tss practice ofissuing letters efmarque,
| as sdisgracefnf TO civilized nations, the
London Times--the jaekal which always
i precedes the British lion when about to
set out on a. political hunting match
expressed most commendable anxiety
to g mitigate the evils ofwar, it Is pre-
sumed in order that itimight become an
agreeable, gentle, dmanly recreation for
/ noble lords and elrivalrous knights.A
4 We of the United States had, therefore,
some reason to expect that the present
contest with Russia, in behalf of Chris
tianity and civilization, would be con-
Quoted in strict accordance with this be-
nign aspiration. - - s,is,5-s5' $.
i In this however, we have thus far been
i grieyously Disappointed. One of the ear
1iliest attempts te. :. mitigate the evils of
.iwars was, exhibited in the Baltic on socs
1icasIen of. a most desperate attack on q
dIdefenceless village without entrenchs
i ments or garrison. Here the champions
iof Christianity and civilizations, among
4 other. pastimes, amused themselves in
violating the women in the openstreets,
and other pleasant recrations. sseF Sd
This philanthropicsde desire to mitigate
the evils of war was; again exhibited in
| expelling the inhabitants of the town of
/ Balaklava, men, women, and children,
from their homes, merely on Ia Q faith of
90 a rumor,nr p. we copy the English. state
i ment that the cunning rogues intended
/ to set fire to their own domicils, and, we
1 presume run away by the light of them.
All this, It seems, was done on the faith
i these poor fugitiyes are now wondering
/ over the Crimea at this ,inelement sea-
son without home or shelter bs..b al.
/ But these are mere tribes compared
1 with the4ast and most brilliant attempt
4 al: IS Sebastopolf by the allied powers to
4 mitigateathe evils ofwars .s0nthe faith
Ipfsa rumerso on suspicion st tatsa Russian
| haspitai in that i own. ~ hieh was sdesig4
mated by the flag agreed enatoprotectl it
/ from the the. sfre fof the enemyyw was, in
1 reality, a military magazine. they direc=
ted a bosnbardment of the building, set
I its9a lire, and seoIssuraed two ttIUusand
I wounded Russian soldiers In the flames.
/ In. the first British accounts ef this stu
pendious achieYement it was placed on
the basis ofa mere g s.stspicion, THAT the
+ building thus destroyed was not hospi-
tai, but a military magazine. Since then,
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been corroborated by the report ofa Rus
sian deserter. On these slight and
frivolous grounds and attempt is made
| to justify one of the most revolving out
RACES recorded in the annals of cisiliz-
| ed or savage warfare - -
When the Russians, during period
of actually existing war, attacked and
destroyed a Turkish squadron carrying
men money, and military supplies for suc-'
eoring their epemies, the whole civilized,
world rung.with the denunciations of the
British press at this atroeious violation
| of the. dictates. of humanity and the
usages ofciyilized warfare. = It was chris
tened the massacre of Sinope,n and
will doubtless descend to posterity by
that name in the histories of England
aud France, if net of the. United States
The same, course has been persued
towards the United States in regard to
the breaking up of the little nest of out
laWs-whieh, according to ther own ac-
count, are under British protection-at
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pense ior tnelr oIense was lne : aeslrnc- .s!le
slon OF tnelr woooeh houses sss without tne
loss OF single tenaat. livery Pfecau-
tion was taken 10 prevent the shedding
OF 1eloed, and to AVOID any lnfilction Hll not
aosoiuteiy necessary TO accomplish 1ne
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. Yet this act, Justihed as well by the
INJURIES ana insults s,lt #hich e proyoSea IT,,
as3py the laws ana sne practice oI eivli; owl