The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-05
English SensIbfIItie..

Both Houses of the British Parliament s....
10 nave resolved themselves into indipnat;nn
meetings on the 18th inst. on Gen. Buffers ~.
DER relative to the confinement of disorderl,
women. In the House of Lords the Earl Of a..
narVon called attention to the order, describino
" as relative to the ladies of New Orlean. z
and wanted to know if the Government had nro.
tested against it. Earl Russell replied that tho
government believed the order authentic but
mere was no official information that the United
states Government had approved of it, Ia
hoped this Government would disavow il. a.
regarded it IS important to the whole world y
The usages of war should not be aggravated bv
proclamations Of this character" he tboucbt
there was no defense for this proclamation.
In the House Mr.. Gregory, the Secession al.
Vocate, thought "a proclamation had been made
by General of the United States, repuppant to
decency, civilization aud humanity, which vas
TO be put In force against a people to whom va
were connected by every tie OF family, language
and religion. 1t was the duty of the Govern.
ment to protest, and to appeal to the moral
sense OF the world against an outrage so vict.
ed, so inexcusable and so useless" The yener.
able and lively Palmerston went in to helm fire
the English heart. He thought no man eould
read the order without the deepest indignation.
1t was Infamous. An Englishman must blush to
think such an act has been committed by a msn
belonging to the Anglo-Saxon race. With re-
gard to the course the Government might think
NJ 10 take, that was matter for their discre.
ton, but he was persuaded there was no man
IN England who would not share the feeling 80
well expressed by the persons who had spoken.
All this because women who behave disorder.
ly in the streets of New Orleans, are ordered tn
or Los II I'll
depressed the misconduct, and women now be-
have themselves in the street. That woman
IS not allowed to brawl on the streets of citv
conquered by our armies is q novel subject for
a foreign nation to take up. John Bull would
tain persuade the world that butter would never
melt in his mouth; but the worlds recollection
ot his ways in war cannot be slurred over by
his bovine sentimentality The remembrance
8 yet fresh in the American mind of British al
les IN war to suppress rebellion, who settled
III questions about the treatment OF women by
pairing neither woman nor child.
The English once tried to take New Orleans.
nd their ideas of the Anglo.Saxon treatment of
1omen were expressed in the watchword on
heir banner, Beauty and Booty" Perhaps we
light learn little of the Anglo Saxon human
ties IN suppressing rebellion by the British
ractice in India, which almost depopulated
arge and densely inhabited districts by slaugh.
er, after resistance had ceased. No nation IN
ne world has so much innocent blood on its
ands as the English. Its ideas of civilized war
re the general pilage and slaughter of any peo-
lie whom it may call uncivilized. The Anglo
axon nature, as represented by England, is the
loodiest in the world
When British expedition, during the Crime
n war, took the town of Kertch, without oppo.
tion, and pillaged it, destroying its valuable
'useum of antiquities, and INDUCING n other
ractices which the English regard as rights of
ar in captured towns, the London Times was
cry funny over the affected coyness of the
omen of Kertch in submitting to the embraces
the British tars. 1t lis certainly queer to see
Ohm Bull, the most brutal animal in war, put
ng on sheep skin and affecting to blush for
le Anglo Saxon race, and to lecture US about
'e barbarity of our acts in war which, on our
de, is the most merciful, humane and forbear-
g the world ever saw.