The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-20

/ Ous VIC NAY pOautOut euhe ~ cAS
Williams charges remain unanswered, and
| that, therefore, the general public, as q
matter of course, are justified in regarding
them as true. Having in general way men.
toned that the Expedition was conducted
in baroarous manner, Mr.. Mcmillan
proceeds to give the fullest details. One
of the first acts of Sir Samuel was to make
| raid on q small tribe, from whom he stole
l"5, 900 head of cattle, and thousands OF
sheep; he also took possession of all their
plantations of grain, leaving the people in
a state of starvation. Orders were issued
near the camp were to be shot dozen ire
spccffCe Of age or SEE. This was strictly
| carried out. The brutal details of these
cold blooded murders I ,could rather not re-
late. Out of the numerous raids made up
| On the uneffending natives near GondokorO
person, and cattle and sheep to the num-
Der of over 81, 000 captured, and their houses
plundered and ,cantonly burnt dozen
The only Bari war that ever existed was
night attack on our cattle enclosures by
the LaQuois tribe, which was net success
fnl. None Of our troops were either killed
or wounded in the alta. After this Sir
Samuel made war on the BELGIAN tribes,
nassacring them in great numbers, and burn
ing up their country. They had taken no
part in the raid made by the Laquois on
our cattle, bnt as they were not so po,cerfut,
and muck more Convenient to be got at, Sir
Samuel preferred to operate on them as an
example to the Laquois tribe" So that we
have it here on record in the Times news
paper-a record that has not been as much
as questioned, much lees disproved-
that there other " Ashantees of
Europe" besides the Carlists, and
that an Englishman can commit "atro-
cities" which completely throw into the
shade even those committed by the cut
throat Communists of Madrid. But Mr..
McWilliam does not stop there. He goes
on to give a motive for Sir Samuel Bakers
attack upon Colonel Gordon's method of
doing the Khedive's dirty work, and we
need hardly say that that motive is cor
rupt one. Sir Samuel wanted that poten-
tate to appoint relation, Mr.. Baker, a
very young man. who served as a midship
man in the Royal Navy, to succeed him as
Governor of Central Africa" and that
failing, ne also unsuccessfully applied to
Colonel Gordon TO place the same mex
perienced officer in q most responsible posi-
ton on his staff. In other words, we have
this man, who Outragecusly assails Catho- |
licity, held up to public execration as not
only barbarian of the worst type, but
also as person who attacks the characters
of innocent people in revenge for baffled
nepotisn ; and, as we further proceed with
MIR. McWilIiam's public charges, we find
an almost exact parallel between the con-
duct of the English Filibuster and that of
the Madrid ruffians, who indulge in every
species of brutality and then lie to conceal
their deeds. The Serranists will allow 10
accounts but their own to be published re
garding their atrocious conduct of the Car
list war. Let US quote again from Mr..
McWilliam as to Sir SamuePs course of
action in the same respect :-"Sir Samuel
stipulated, in the contracts made with DR..
Gedge and Mr.. Higginbottam, that they |
would not acrite anything connected acith
the Expedition to the newspapers during |
their service, or publish any book on the
EXPEDITION for the space of two years after |
its completion. lam under no such restraint,
though Sir Samuel often entreated us not |
sures he had used to,oards the mattress as he
said they would possibly not under
stand them. Sir Samuel has lately written |
to some of my companions in misery re-
questing them to write something about |
the Expedition with view to contra
with confidence, feeling
sured that they will bear me out in the
description of what occurred under our
own eyes In Africa"
As we have said before. these charges
have not even been questioned though
more than st week has elapsed
since they were published in the Times,
aud as Mr.. McWilliam's former allegations
were attempted to be met by Sur Sam uel
Baker, and by Mr.. Julian Baker, in the
columns OF the same journal, We may rea-
sonabiy assume that the present ones have
not been replied to only because they are
unanswerable: And thus we have it es-
that the mercenary who went
down to Liverpool and ferociously attack
I'D Catholics On the score that their reli-
giOn hindered civilization wherever 1T was
preached, is himself q "civilizer" of the
ouccan eering type of old and that blood
shed, rapine, aud the most abomiuable
;ruelties were the Instruments, as alleged,
oy which he was to raise Central Africa
tut of the barbarian in which she lies.
Thank God, Catholics are not civilizers of
hat pattern, and, thank God, they never
will be.