Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-11
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

The Union again reviews the dolorous pros
poets of the Allies in the Crimea, and treats
its readers to pretty strong pro-Russian ar
tiele, in the course of which the editor says
with equal force and justice:
GAS an offset to this check the British
papers and the Anglo-American press dwell
with peculiar eomplacency on the exploits of
the allied fleets in the sea of Azoff, which
greatly resemble those Ct the British in the
Chesapeake during the late war, when so
many oyster-bOats were captured, and such
havoc made among the hen-rOosts and pig-sties
The lessons of Christianity, civilization, and
refinement, given by the French and the Turks
at kertsch in the late foray, according to ac-
counts, belong to the same school of philan-
thropy with those received by the American
women and children at Hampton, Havrc-de-
Grace, and divers other places.
"These are, however, passed over in silence
by the discreet government telegraph, in order
to horrify John Bull with another "massacre'
almost as bad as that of Sinope, where the
barbarian Russians, it will be remembered,
attacked and destroyed Turkish feet carry
ing military forces and munitions of war to be
employed against them. This massacre Ito
which we alluded yesterday consists in the
killing and wounding some eight or ten of
party of British, who, it is stated, came with a
flag of truce to restore two or three captives
taken in the little town of Hango, and directed
to be returned by Admiral Dundas The only
evidence of the particulars of this transaction,
however, proves to be one Of John Bull $
Proteges, gentleman Of color, the veracity of
whose testimony may be gathered from the fact
that Cuffee states that all the Russians con-
cerned in this second massacre spoke English,
and that the commanding officer swore he
didn't care d-n for flag of truce"
The Union also argues to show that there is
an unconscious acquiescence among the Know
Nothings in the idea entertained among their
opponents that there is something unmanly
and repulsive in their so-calied order
The 6ltelltgencer inclines to the opinion that
the English brought on themselves the treat
ment they received at Hango, and adds, after
explaining the obligations on nation with refer
ence to the sanctity of flags of truce, and how
Britain had disregarded those obligations in
the current war:
1t Is not to throw blame upon the English,
the French, or the Russians, tnat we have adj
yerted to the subject of flags of truce, but that
we might express our sentiments as the sane
tlty which ought to belong to their true char
acter- We do not think they ought ever to be
employed except upon occasions of importance,
where one party has proposition to submit to
the other which may lead to peace, or where
the cause of humanity may be subseryed by
mutual arrangement for the safety and com
Tort OF prisoners of war on either side To
send flag of truce to an enemy upon any
pretence, the result of which does not tend to
lessen the horrors of war, must. in the nature
OF things, lead to abuses, abuses to retalia.
tons, and oscillations to an increase of the
suherlngs already inseparable from a state of
war Lit Is absurd TO suppose that war can be
conducted on the principles of humanity thcy
can by no effort or ingenuity of phiianthrc-
plsts be made to accord but it may be carried
on without an increase Of the miseries which
belong TO its nature, and it is duty of those
nations that profess to bow to the prccepts of
the Christian religion to abolish every practice
which the safety and welfare of their respec
tive armies do not require. Where the snD,-
2iHDt jus cannot be exaeted without leading
to the sHD1mG iHyHria, there can be neither
loss OF honor nor of interest in relaxing the
demand. Already has this Hango Udd affair
been talked of in the British Parliament. and
retaliation has been limited at in more quar-.
tiers than one. If the account which we suh.
join be even an approximation to the truth. it
Is one OF those common incidents Of war not To
DC remedled by resorting to vengeance"