Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-03-19
LETTER FROM LONDON,
THE WAR IN ZUZULAND AND EN-
CLIsH HUMILIATION.
WHAT Is THOUGHT OF THE NEW coMpLI-
CArIoS--NATIoNAz PRESTIGE AT A
DIscouNT-soMETHI ABOUT
THE ZuLUs = ENGLAND
LACKING IN GENERALS.
EFFECT or FREE
TRADE IN ARMS.

Special corrs,pOnasaes Of The BaiiimOre 0asens.
LONDON, Feb. 15.--The humiliation
of this people at the defeat suffered in
Africa is such as no words can express.
| could not before have imagined that
a nation could visibly blush with shame.
Had all the enemies Of England-and
their number has now become formid-
able-conspircd they could not lave
planned n catastrophe more fraught
and framed with every fact and cir
OF disaster and disgrace.
The war with Zuzuland is one OF ter
ritorial greed and race-pride on the
part OF the colonies and a bureaucratic
one on the part of this government,
with result thus far that the colonies
are in danger Of losing what they
have and the officers who demanded
the opportunity of gaining fame and
sport by man.hunting in Africa arc
now lying dead. 1t is war under
taken against theconscience ofEngland,
so much so that II was necessary for
the whole thing to begin with lies, and
q more shameful tissue Of falsehoods
never ended in disaster than Sir Bartle
Frere's manifesto against King Ketsh-
wayo. | write these things with much
sorrow, but it must not be thought
that the English people generally are
now chiefly animated by those feelings
of anger and vindictiveness which
make the noisy clamor Of the Army
and Navy clubs and offices and the
journals they control. You will not,
of course, find in tho English papers
direct expression OF the shame and re.
morse which the nation feels. They
have been dragooned almost into
silence. The Daily 'Neics, however,
exposed Sir Bartle Frere's falsehoods
under the mild term " "inexact." The
papers most servile to the army bu-
reaLcrats made haste TO say, before
any comments of this kind could be
uttered "We trust no whisper of dis
guised complacency at this heavy
check to the policy ofthe High Commits
sioner will be heard TO affront the feel
ings of the nation or disgrace the CON-
mon patriotism of Englishmen. That
manifesto in government organ was
meant for people in every one Of
whom is deep consciousness that the
blow was thoroughly merited. Itneed
not be "heard !" it can be read on every
face along the streets. The admoni-
tion is confession Of the general feel
ing. Another ominous phrase occurs
IN nearly all the government sheets
they all say, with a significant coinci'
dence Of fphraseology, that this defeat
must be avenged and English prestige
in Africa restored at any COST This
means that we are TO pay tbreepepce
more in tho pound from our incomes
to wage fresh war against King
and people who never did this coun
try any wrong and for whom at this
moment every Enplishmar, has as zen
uine an admiration as Sir Thcophilus
Shepstone, who installed him King N
1873 and declared him the best of ma
tive chiefs. The money will be silently
paid by heavily.taxcd and financially
depressed country but neither the
silence nor the endurance will last very
long. The English people do not love
murder in and for itself I'm fact they
have inst executed one or two men fo,
that crime and on the 2sth inst. they
intend to strangle the celebrated Chas
Peace for dogging the footsteps and
finally killing man who had once
warned him off his promises. If this
people really admired this work Of
numbering Zulus for similar care O,
their premises they would send Chas
Peace out as a Major General to Africa
No filter man could be found. But
however it may look, that is not the
spirit of this country. And the fact
that such wars can be waged unde,
their flag. and protest against them
silenced in the name of apatriotism /,
NAV he studied as striking contain
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ment Il ia nv nreservino The war
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ministry in ,,s irresnon.ihlo nrsrooo
,;ve> ,bs, ,ho most lim;,sd monsrcb, /,
can n, anv moment be turnod into |,
dosno,ism Tho novor of Tho Hons,
of rommons ovor tbe na,;ona, nrrss
s,rincs becomes an emntv sound will
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tr;otism y i The sesame that onsns N,
ovchoor.r.door who,svor ,ho hsr.
corseausntlv !, NAV hs I.;d down =,
a rrlo ,h., tbs olec,;on of . Torv MN
istrv il equivalent 10 a proclamation
Of war with .omebodv or other
rrusorooy or rur zurus
One of the most remarkable thing,