The New York herald., 1879-09-20
ENGLAND AND CABUL.
London Journals ClamOr for Vengeance
Against the Afghans.
VOICE OF FACTION HUSHED.
How Cavagnari Yielded to the PerilOuS FaSci-
nation Of Frontier Management.

newspaper boys and noisy with shouts Of "Extra!"
alarming news from Cabul!" ATTACK on the British
Residency' advance of the British army!"
change indeed the silly is ended in moment.
and the interest of the British public. which has
been called away from the rst phase of the Afghan
by the struggle in Zuluiand. is now most unex-
pectedly retransferred to Afghanistan. Once more
such familiar names as Peshawur and Shaturgurdan
and Peiwar Kotul are everybody's lips. / do not
think overcoloring when I say that
since tho terrible news received in England on
that quiet Saturday holiday afternoon. deep cry
for vengeance has been going up from the land
1t finds echo in the press. of ''Twice'
says the Standard "has Cabul been the scene of an
unexampled massacre of British troops. And IL we
do not this time teach lesson which tho Afghans
will forget shall deserve the contempt
with which weakness would be regarded, not
only in Afghanistan. but over the whole of India.
The very least that be done is to level the walls
and citadel Of Cabul and to leave it open city;
clear away large portion of the habitations Of the
cutthroat inhabitants as we cleared away portion
OF Delhi; to erect strong fort. with guns. domi-
mating the town and keeping its turbulent and
treacherous people in order. It viii be an act Of
signal and undeserved mercy that we do not wipe
the city. whose people have twice in cold blood
sacred British troops, from the face OF the earth.
NKwsPAPER oUTBURsTs
dubiety. no Difference to partisan clamor must
now be exhibited at sima Westminster. The
diplomatic necessities of the war and the provis.
ions of tho peace only emphasized ana confirmed
by what has happened. This mob and this savage
soldiery who have massacred their British visitants
and disowned their ruler. could scarcely have been
left Cor Russian embassies to work upon will a.
the dullest must now perceive. The authority Of
the British power and the rights Of it's representa-
tives must be enforced sharply overwhelmingly and
in the sight OF all Asia by the occupation Of the
Afghan capital. and by public expiation OF this
insufYerabe outrage. Such q measure Is indispensa
bio, whatever else may be decided upon subse-
quently. and say this without forgetting the
daksnan and Hrrat. II Yakoob Khan be really loyal
and without compiicty in the crime thus fur ap-
pears his authority must be restored for after this
crime half measures quite out OF the question.
The Cabulese. whether instgated or not from with
Afghanistan We must be masters in earnest there,
and, il necessary. must disband and disarm every
ragged battalion in the land" The Dafly NsDs.
making, political capital -, out D Of the disas-
Lytton neglected the warnings of indian officials
aud OF the old Ameer himself against tho turbulent
you do the Ameer had said, "do not insist upon
sending British mission into our midst" Lords
not deferred by previous melancholy experience
in Aighanistan from subjecting our soldiers and
dlplOmAtlatS
men will have their own way When a small body
English troops was left at Cabul forty ago
there was at least the excuse for those who sent
them there that they ignorant of the true
cannot be pleaded for the present government.
They repeated the same blunder i'll defiance Of ex-
perence and in defiance of the solemn and repeated
warnings of the men whose duty it was to make
themselves acquainted with the situation. There is
not in the whole history of our country suoh an
example OF perverse and ignorant selfwill.'
CONSERVATIVE OPINION.
The conservative Journals make strenuous efforts
to discount the propensity to make political capital
out Of the massacre. at is perhaps much to ex-
and cruel for all who love England and welcome only
TO her enemes-that the voice of faction should be
hushed. We dare not hope that those who apoogized
for the cry OF .Perish india! will quite conceal
political consolations which they are able derive
from the slaughter of gallant English gentlemen,
guests OF tho Afghan country and OF its ruler"
Thus the Telegraph; but surely most weak word is
to force Shere ALI to receive an English Resident at
Cabul. Sir Louis Cavagnari and his suite
surely forced upon the Aghans at the point OF tho
bayonet. Tho iau Mall Gasetfe, paper poiiti-
cal articles always command attention. says:-
In catching at an obviously uncertain peace We do
hope they will bo allowed to do the work before
them without the hindrsnce and embarrassment OF
factious opposition. But the hope is a very faint
one, we confess. Moro vehemently than the
cry will be raised that the war was originally unnec-
essary and unjust and its renewal will be described
The truth is that the war was as just
as nine wars out OF ten; circumstances CON-
petcy justified it. II everybody does not
know that it is because the governmont-after their
large map hnraugues and their calling native troops
out India and agreements forced out Of
them by unsupported Russian mnn1uvres ON our
frontier--werc ashamed tell the truth about 1t.
1t was u necessary war; it's repewal Is unavoid-
able; and 1t must be carried to no uncertain
Iinsons So much as this will be plain to the country
| at large But IL a. the time tho country is Of
opinion that ignorant and timid statesmanshp bred
the necessity, and that the renewal of war under
tageous huniiliating and Irritating circun,-
Stances Is the direct OF haste to snatch
at poace for the sake OF an opportuno popular tri
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CONTINENTAL vIKws
Tho Beriiner TdgeodH comments upon the article
in the Times from which have quoted. ''rhese nne
phrases" 1t says. "arc OF use; least OF all
they bring to life again the poor victims Of tins
atrocity. which in some degree recalls the Disgrace
full massacre of ambassadors III Rastadt One can
sincerely lament the fate of these murdered men,
but one ust at the same time regard them the
victims of that aboininable English policy Of extern
sion which, just II wrongiuIly appropriated
India nd has .id rapscloas % m srasP upon
Zululand, Tor this gluttonous lust of conquest"
The De1ats. IN its foreign edition also comments ON
the news. 1t says:--"rhis IN u stern lesson Tor
the policy of Lord Lytton aud the optimism
which Lord Beaconsheid and his colleagues
so pompousy expressed II Is not easy to admit
that re egnents exasperated Mt the keeping back OF
their pay should have claimed 1t from Major Cavag-
mari. IL is equally difficult TO comprehend that the
popuace should have joined them and besicge the
English Embassy. IL all their soldiers aud civilians
were convinced that tho representative OF Eng
land has the exclusive ommand of he purse strings
This is the consequence OF the treaty forced by Lord
Lytton on Yakoob Khan and the barely vas-
salage of the Amcer has speedily brought about the
consequences which might have been anticipated.
The Afghan tribes which have never been wholly
| submissive to the Independent Amecr, are certainly
| more indisposed to obey sovereign whose first
public measure was to accept the suzerainty OF Eng
land 1t IN probably to that feeling that the result
at Cabul IL to be traced. which may imperil the
throne of Yakoob Khan. We inior that the object
prosecuted by the policy OF Lord Beaconsheld has
not been attained, and that the scientific frontier
which materially occupied the moral frontiers OF
British influence. has very palpably been driven
back long way.
SKETCH OF cAvAGNAR1.
Sir Louis Cavagnar says the World, onc.of
those few men created by nature to their mark
| In history; Utterly un.English in his aspect his
manner, his style of thought ana his character OF
action, he recalled the continental diplonatists of
the noyen dye. II has been generally assumed ut
Peshawur TOR years back that IL only question
| OF time when Cavagnari should be assassinated, as
had been Mackeson, Macdonald and so many others
| who had been his predecessors In the perilous