The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-11


a. We are that IL Is our interest dsty do Il mere
.bsurd,v aud folly TO sparing nation which never
ANYBODY or OF dean lenienty with those Who In
the OF barbsric pride and besottcd fanatem
ready 20 carry torch and the lance through every
town and village Europe. Russia loves aggressive war
and IL w aye hes Of the taste Il must Ne ~ SATISFY
ing her Is suicidal Never there town 80 htso
entitled mercy Sebss;opo II 10 ancient cii thA
has grown up the influence Of arts and
and is destruction because its evil desnies
have made IL has been built for the purpose OF
menace upon unonending neighbour 4 the
well the ymbo OF aggression To destroy
be signal service TO humsnyone OF those rare
OF which the statesman and philosopher
might equally rejoice
This Is pretty we'll for the phianthfopic Times which
not long since displayed its anxiety for mitigating the
evils Of war by proposing to the United States reln
qush the issuing of letters OF marque Sebastopol must
not only be taken bat pulverized 2 ' is absurdy
and folly spare the Russians who ready TO carry the
torch and the lance through every town andyiage OF
Europe Sebastopol most especially, is entitled to no
mercy, because is ancient city that has grown up
ke Gibraltar and Malta for exampe) under the infu-
Of and manufactures To destroy IL therefore
would be signal service to humanity one of those rare
casssrophes Of at which the statesman and phios
opher might equally rejoice Then "Russia loves agRres
sve war; though it is that by some rare chance she
is acting almost entirely the defensive and Great
Britain and France the aggressors Then too she is
besoed with barbarc pride and fsnaticsm, and Great
Britain and France conessedly the most humble ma
tons under the sum- as meek Moses and everybody
knows that their allies the Turks not in the least f
natical Down, them with the votaries OF "barbaric
pride and besotted fnaticism, give them no quarter
pulverize their bones quoth the phianthropc Times
the great apostle Of universal philanthropy and scourge
Of flbusiers Down with Sebasopol"is evil desnies
have made fortress and what is worse it has hitherto
proved impregnable "Nevcr there town SO little
entitled to mercy Sebastopo quoth the phianthropc
Times the great advocate for mitigating the evils of
war In short never have in the annals Of bar
baric warfare a stirring invocation TO pilage,
boodshed and massacre ndiscriminate and unsparng,
than has thus been addressed the people England and
mos, especially the British and French troops before Sc
basopol the moment they were preparing for an as
saut And this too, from the arrogant pedagogne who
preends school the United States in the principles of
humanity, justice and forbearauce-who processes such
solicitude mitigate the evils of war-and who has
thrust himself in the face of the world the foremost
champion Of Christianity and civilization
Sustained by such high authority, should Sebastopo
be taken may expect to hear of atrocities much
magnificent scale than those of ST. Sebastian and
more recently Finland. Fortunately, perhaps in anti
cpaton Of the triumph of Christianity and civilization
over these bigoted besotted barbarians all the
and children have removed from Sebastopol and
may therefore hope escape being pulycrzed but the
bgoted besoted barbarians who have bethumped the
allies must not one expect escape. They doomed
as sure fa,e-as very sanguine men, like the
editor of the London Times sometimes reckon their chick
ems before they hahed and of the yenson before
they have run down the deer
semi barbarian give lessons Of humanity
icitous to mitigate the evils war intimate
TO the Times that article from which have quoted
is disgrace any Christian, civilized Journal and
outrage on the manners maxims and feelings of all Chris
tian nations 1t is calculated convert into ind
criminate massacres and que forever the small remnant
of chvary which yet, however small, seems in some
ner to ennobc the contests Of rival nations and
them into struggles of wild beasts wild Indians Not
with having violated every rule of generous
fare in sssang the character of the late Gar both
living and dead, the Times stimulates its
trymen what in plain English, amounts to little less
than the ndscrminate massacre of his subjects and
pecally if they happen to occupy place whose evil des
TIMES have made it fortress We must take leave to
tell the Tmes parting, that the in which it has
illuminated the memory of deceased Emperor almost
base and the groveng, interested adulaton
it has spattcred over a living one.