Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-11-23

A City Of 10000 P9pu'arioa Rpmbarded
i5iTi1 rbe l Cusiamary isSr NJ NSsieo 10 RsmsTs
the Women and ChildFen!
Ever since the rebellion broke out, John
Ball, that greatest Of PeoksniHs, has been
taking The North TO task for imagined
cruelty psaeliced By our officers and SCI
disrs. Ignoring the facts that British gold
was paid to The Indians for the scalps Of our
ancestors during the war OF the RsvOlu-
tiou: that they were employed to massacre
defenoeless American prisoners after the
battle of the River R4isin; That Britiah
army Of vandals burned our National Cap
itol an act sush as Bonspsrte never was
gailsy Of; that sepOy prisoners were mas
ssorsd by thousands, and blown from
eannsns, the English press, from the Lon
don Times down 10 the one-horse country
paper, with few honorable exceptions,
have kept up a constant whine about the
famous but very proper order of General
BdtlsT. and General Gillmors's. Greek fire.
The venerable carcass Of Mr.. Bull fairly
sozsd with the Gil Of bens7Olencer and one
would think from reading HE papers, that
hs monopolizsd sll the spirit Of humanity,
and that the rest OF The world were simply
outside barbaTiaus.
To show the csating hypocrisy Of the
e,ussissd p-ess of Buglsa5, we viii only
refer 10 tas most erasl and barbarous aos
ever ps7o.trated By q nation pretending to
be a; al 5igilizsi-ths recent lombard
meat al ia,nllg OF tho city Of Kagosims
IA Japso ay British fleet, under the
o}mmanl Of Admiral Zuper. This brutal
eEosr, Ei.hoat giving the customary
no,ics to remove lbs women aud children,
bomSardsi and burnt city c9ntainings
population Of I8O,Oo0l The amount Of
misery thas inflicted upon that vast pOpu-
lslfOn san bsimagined by reading the fol-
loving sztrso. from communication pub
lisasd BY Mr.. Charles Buxton in the Lon
den Times
al needs no stretch Of imagination to
e0noeiTe the horrors OF that day in the
t0sn OF Kagosima. Being built Of wood
aud paper, wherever a she'll lighted the
fumes must Instantly have spread far and
wide. 1he town contained 10000 peo-
pie, and in the awful CONSERVATION with
which that vast multitude must have been
seized, with fires blazing forth in ell parts
Of the town, snd shells bursting among
them, it is impossible to hose that there
was not frigbtful loss Of life land that by
the most terrible OF deaths) among the chill
dren, the aged, and the sick; and such her
rors might, Of course, have been foreseeu,
with 3 hurricane blowing at the time,
which could not bat kindle the flames TO
tsnfoid fury.
. "Bul fesr the loss Of life st the mo-
ment vas but small part Of the misery
that must hsVe ensned. Fancy multitude
Of $50, 900 men, women and children, sud
denly driven from their homes, utterly
pennileSs, without food, without shelter
How were these poor wretehes 10 be kept
from starvation even for q single week Z
Where was the charity that could save |
them2 And Whist can become OF the sur !
ViVors during the winter? Let it be re-
nsnbsFed that, IS he Quarterly Reyisw |
says, Wooilen goods had, Of all English |
pro1uets, the fairsst prospect Of meeting |
with q steady demand in Japan on account |
Of the severe cold in tSs winter" And |
how terrible il is 10 reflect that the horrors |
W0re mainly inflicted after the resistance |
even of these batteries had virtually |
ceased, and when the town ley utterly de- |
fsneeless before our gunsl"
The history Of this affair can be summed |
up thus: :-Sometime last summer an Eng |
hshmsn BY the name Of Richardson was
murdered by a Japanese. Admiral Kuper
sailed with his feet to Ksg0sima and de- |
,ardc1 - sho a,gH.-=tf-. g-la-,=F, - 1
the amount Of SI25, 600 Rnd the delivery |
into his hands Of the murderer. The |
Jspaasse Goyernnsnt declined, either
from inability to fad the murderer, or be
cause it thought the demand vas uDjust
Fhersupon the Admiral opened his FIRE up,
on thshspless city.
The cruelty snd Injustice Of the course
pursued by the Admiral can be realized,
when it is borne in mind that thousands Of |
innocent msn, Women and children, in
Gliding thesiok and helpless, were sbolute-
y slaughteId, and population Of 10000
rendered homeless at an inelement season
Of the yesF-eausing ihe death ofimmense
numbers BY stsEvaGon,-an to avenge the
murder Of solitary Eaglishusn, who
perhaps brought on his end By his own in
discretion
To show the absurdiiy Of The demand
usds By the Admiral zA 1ziIl --------a
= Japspese was 4, 1risss4 t'y Eoze English
men IN England, and Japanese feet
should ssil 10 Liverpool aud demsnd
heavy indemnify and the delivery Of the
aardsrsrs. Would the English ascads to The
demand2
The English press SO far has kept dis
greet silence on the matter it being so
much occupied in endesvoring to End cases
Of cruelty in our war. The Times publish. i
ed Mr.. Buxten's communication denounc-
ing the inhuman seL but not one word ed.
itoriaiiy sGe'ast II.
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Blt t--5 d-l Of SAINT Is be. 4
Tss Great ls.5esssh Gun.
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m5nthz n course Of construction for the
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