New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-10
wHAT;STAMPMG OUT REBELLION MEANS

WHAT STAMPING OUT REBELLION MANS.
We publish this morning several extracts from the
London press illustrative Of the spirit in which II is
proposed 10 deal with the Fenians in Ireland in the
event Of the apprehended outbreak. We observe that
the Tory portion Of that press is all but unanimous in
urging course of relentless severity toward the Irsh
and even the Liberal journals with or two honor
able exceptions, join in demanding that measures Of
the sternest severity should be employed. The Times
especially seems to anticipate something like
carnival Of blood. 1.-THE rebellion" it
saws, would be stamped out as we stamped
out the cattle plague;' and it indicates pref
ty clearly what would be the character of the
process. Should there be another Irish rebellion,
there will be no false sympathy respect for
those who take part in it, No doubt Government and
the high civil and military authorities, and public
opinion, will all be in favor Of all possible mercy and
tenderness. But no government on earth can tie the
hands and restrain the passions Of subordnates on the
spot in the heat Of the conflict, and half maddened
by the sight and report of recent atrocities"
No one endowed with common understanding can
fail to perceive what is really foreshadowed in
these remarks. If they mean anything, they
mean indiscrimnate butchery. They mean that
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the Irish population, TO take summary and bloody
vengeance. They that the cruel tale of the ia
maica massacre shall be repeated on a wider field and
with more numerous victims than Morant Bay could
furnish. They mean that neither sect age shall
be respected, and that the innocent and guilty
alike are TO fall beneath the same stroke In view Of
such helsh riot Of the passions all this involves
The Times says: "The result would be one that We
shudder 10 think Of" For our part, we shudder 70
think that in the present age of Christian civilization
there can be found journal with the pretensons and
the position of The London Times suggesting-yes
actually suggesting-such a retribuuon as that
at which the remarks We have quoted un.
mistakably point. The Times. we are aware
hssWno sympathy to spare for the African
race It attempted at first to defend, and afterward
when driven from lite original position by the evidence
Of Uncomfortable facts 10 paate the atrocities per-
petrated under martial law in Jamaica But we did
think il had some little fellow feeling for men Of
the Caucasian stock. We are undeceiyed, however;
and If The Times is TO be regarded the exponent Of
English feeling then are forced 10 the conclusion
that under British rule the Cet struggling against in
justice and oppression has no more chance of mercy
than the Sepoy and the negro asserting what they
believe TO be their rights. But we cannot bring
selves to believe that in matter of this kind that
journal speaks the sentiments Of the great bulk Of the
English people. We cannot be persuaded that the
men who are themselves struggling to wrest their
rights from selfish ogarchy would desire TO even
rebels dealt with in the way whifh The Times
suggests.
The remarks Of the great London journal would