New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-09
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tivilIred warfare has IL amenities q lighting in
tsrcoulu - pssce ~ IL courtssies and civitses,
II 81 sse ~ The chiyaious which
hcone 4 Christian man who finds himself concerned
ii that melancholy necessity, battle. he spares
IL foeman Who Il unable longer to resist and ex-
tends % him gsnerous protection, and this quarter
and protecsipn ~ come to be right which soldier
cannot relnss, though be Be brute by nature with
cut suRjscting himself to obloquy. In short, mercy
d recognised ~ one Of the controlling rules Of civil
ired warfare. This being 20, it is not surprising
tat TIE French have been not lightly censnred for
putting arms in the hands Of such blood. Thirsty
beasts as the unganly and ferocious Turcos are re-
presented to be- and turning them loose to obey their
savage instincts and work their wills, like 60 many
wild beasts, on the Austrians. The English press
vas quick to find fault with this terrific feature
which the French have introduced into European
warfare this importing Of barbarans, with all their
craft, cruelty and hardihood, rendered tenold more
dangerous BY being combined with regular military
discipline and aided BY weapons which are the me-
cbanical and scientific trinmphs Of enlightened in
reAuity. and the censure would have been more
severe had the Austrian enemy, against which this
extraordinary soldery was arayed. itself practised
equality Il mercy thst would have entitled It to
al the amenities 81 the stricken field The fact is
the Austrian soldier has way Of answering an sp
neal for quarter which relieves the conquered from
I'll further approximations, in too many instances, and
% the French have been let of with less severity Of
blame for bringing the Turco contingent to bear,
though they have been abused not little.
But how the English could have abused them at
IN, with any countenance, i difficult to imagine,
when their warning in the East presents the same
characteristic Of The employment Of savages as sol
dien, though It i true that these are designed to
light against their own Sepoy kind. Still the Eng
llsh cannot forget the general condemnation to which
their Government was subjected by civilized nations,
because Of their hiring Indians to practise their bar
barites upon the American ccloniats in the times
that tried the souls Of our fathers They should re-
member this example, which was among the prece-
dents to suggest the use to which France might put
her Algerian subjects. Furthermore, after blaming
the French, as above, they should have waited .
little while before they proceeded to initiate them in
this Is they do in almost every novelty in the mill
tary way.
England Is going TO have Zouave corps as well as
France and thus be even with her hereditary enemy
in that matter as she strives to be 10 every thing
else, and We must confess that more ridiculous trick
Of imitation was never attempted as it is,
To take from the Frcnchman the feeling ofconddence
and superiority which the possession Of that unri
vailed corps inspires The material Of this new corps
Is to BE- negro, the costume that OF the French
zouaves, precisely, and already three regiments Of
darkies are strutting around in the neighboring
Island Of Jamaica In hugely magnificent turbans,
bagegged breaches and the rest Of the pcturesquey
oriental paraphernela Of the Agerine heroes These
are the Old negro regiments. which have existed for