The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-01

A CGtY OF 10000 Population BON
bard ed aud uFoed By an EngII>h
FLEET without Giving the CasIom-
AIRY Notice 60 Remove the women
and Children.
Ever since the rebellion broke out,
John Bull, the greatest of Pecksniffs, has
taken the North to task for Unsigned
cruelty practiced by our officers and SOL
diers. Ignoring the facts that British
gold was paid to the Indians for the
scalps of our ancestors during the war
of the Revolution that they were en-
ployed TO massacre defenceless American
prisoners after the battle Of the River
Raisin; that British army of yandals
burned our National Capitol, an act such
as Bonsparte never was guilty Of; that
SepOy prisoners were mastered by thou
sands, and blown from cannons, the
English press, from the London Times,
down to the One-horse country pa
per- with q few honorable exeep-
tions, have kept up q constant whine
about the famous but very proper order
of General Butler, and General Gil more's
Greek fire. The venerable carcass Of
Mr.. Bull fairly OOzed with the oil of
benevolence, and one would think from
reading his papers, that he monopolized
all the spirit of humanity, and that the
ress of the werld were simply outside
baTbarians.
To show the eanting hypocrisy of tie
conceited press of England, we will only
refer to the most cruel aud barbarious
act ever perpstrated by q nation pre-
tending to be at ali ciVilized--the recent
bombardment snd burning of the city Of
Kagosima in japan by British Il ct
under the command of Admiral KuDer.
This brutal officer, without giving the
customary notice 10 remove the women
and children, bombarded and burnt a
city containing population of $50 O0O
The amount of misery thus inflicted upon
that vsss population can be imagined By
reading the following extract from a
communication pub ishsd by Mr.. OhaIl s
Buxton in the London Times:
I" Il needs no stretch of imagination to
conceive the horrors Of that CAV in the
town Of Kagosima. Being built Of
wood and paper, wherever q shell lighted
the Smss q nust instantly have sp cad
far and wide. The town contained 49,
900 people, and in the awful constsrna-
tion with which that vast multitude
must have been seized, with fires bl.ziDg
forth in ell parts of the town, and shells
bursting among them, il is impossible to
hope that ihsre was not frightlul loss Of
life (snd that by the most terrible Of
deaths) among the children, the aged,
and the sick; and such horrors might,
of course, have been foreseen, with a
hurricane blowing at the time which
could not but kindle the flames 10 ten :
fold fury.
But fear the loss Of life at the mo-
ment was but small psrtOf the misery
that must have ensued. Fancy a mul
titude Of 10000 men, women and chit
dreD, suddenly driven from their homes,
utterly penniless, without food, wi bout
shelter! How were these poor wTsiches
to be kept from starvation even for sin.
gle Weekp Where was the charity that
could save them? And what can be-
come Of the survivors during the wintert
|
terly Review says, wooden goods bad, Of
all the English products, the iairest pros =
pect Of meeting with 3 steady demand
in japan on account of the severe cold
in winter And how terrible II is TO
reflect that tbs horrors were msinly in
hicted after the resistance even Of these
batteries had virtually ceased, and Whsa
the town lay utterly defenceless before
our guns" .rl
The history Of this affair can be gum :
med up thus; Sometime last summsr an
EBglishman By the name of Richardson
vas murdered by JapanG Sc. Admiral
Kuper sailed with his feet - Ksgosima,
and demanded Of the authorities indsm
nifty 70 the amount Of Sl25,0O0 and the
delivery into his hands OF the murder r.
The Japanese Government declined,
either from inability 10 hnd the murder
er, or becsuse it thought the demand was
unjust. Tbsreupon the Admiral opened
bis FIRE upon the hapless city.
The cruelty and injustice Of the course
pursued By the Admiral can be realized,
when it is borne in mind that thousands
Of innocent men, women and children
including the sick and helpless, were
absolutely Slaughtered, and population
Of 10000 rendered homeless 90 an in
element season Of the year-esusing the
death Of immense numbers by starvation
ALI 70 avenge the murder Of solitary
Englishman, who perhaps brought on bis
end by his own indiseretioD.
To show the absuIdity Of the demand
made By the Admiral We will supPO. {
that japanese Was murdered By some
Englishmen in England, and JapAneB.
feet sh5uld sail 10 Liverpool and demand
heavy indemnity and the delivery o
the murdeTerp. Would the Eaglish &C.
eede to the demand :
The E0glish press 90 far has kept
discrst ailsnce on the matter, Il being o
usuch occupied ia endsasOri1g 70 bn'
eases Of crus Icy in our war. Tn Timei
pnblishes Mr.. BaxtOn's communicates
densuneing the inhuman set, bat Dot OF
word sditoyisllY against it.--g leyslen
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