Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-07-20
AN OLD NEWSPAPER RELIC.

AN OLD NEWSPAPER RELiU.
Mr.. Frank Fairbanks handed us for in
spcction a few days ago n newspaper
relic that cost him more than years
subscription for paper of current date
Its title is, New York Baptist Register,
Bennett & Bright, Publishers, Alexander
NJ. Beebee, Editor-motto "Dcclart
His glory among the heather, His Won
ders among all people, xcvi. 3.
1t bears date Utica, N. ", March 8
1888" with the name of s. johnson leg
IDLY written on margin as subscriber
1t is so well and ably edited that we
would bu pleased to reproduce its entire
contents, but will have to bn content
with the reproduction Of the following
article this week, with promise of mo; G
as space and time will admit The arti-
clc was copied by the Register, without
comment, with the suppusilun, no, ,luutl
that the intelligent reader would see and
comprehend the brutal methods of SET
tling national questions, and often q,lcs--
tiOus Of little moment, by resort TO war
in which the innocent suffer, when the
nrbti airy despot who alone was rcspon-
sible and should be made to suffer. We
reproduce the article to more fully illus
trate the quotation from Gen. Sherman,
that "war is hell" also to remind the
young student of history, if he has nci-
ther read wisely nor well, that it was
not the work of the brainless and heart.
less despot nor that of the dude nor the
politician who teaches every petty oflic
ial how to disregard his oath of office
and thus make n paying business out of
politics, who established this Republic
as an asylum for those oppressed by des-
potic governments and put it on Il pay
ing basis but on the contrary ii was the
stern, inileXible patriot who did not drift
with wind or tide, but pressed on over
mountains of difficulty and darkness and
through lhorny thickets until the OPEN
ings were reached where the declaration
of principles were made public creating
this asylum for the oppressed, and by a
firm determined purpose and endurance
turned it over to their successors VIII o
have made equal sacrifices to maintain
the honor and integrity of their auces-
try. These men had no price for their
influence to do wrong act, They were
not built that way" Have we The in.
telligence and integrity to conduct bust
ntt 1,o ,1I ~, hn
There appears to be grave doubts of this
ahead.
The article below was evidently writ
ten by subordinate officer in the Eng
lish navy during the war 1Sl2-13, and
written twenty years after the the close
of that war, the same as sketches are
now appearing of the unwrltten history
of the war of lSG1-65. 1t wildly re
freshes the memory, also, as to how
thorough the ravages of the several wars
have been upon the soil of the IF. F
VS." of Old Virginia. False Pride al
ways catches fall" was among the
first lessons received by us,
The article reads as follows:
A SCENE IN THE LAST WAR.
From the London Metropolitan 1888 u
The war with France being over, Sil
Peter Parker took leave of his wife al Bpr-
deHuX, and we, with large convoy, with
troops, made sail to the coast of America
We arrived in the Chesapeake at the time
that the detesiable war OF conilagratior
was at its height. When we entered the
Potomac, large river which empties itsell
into the Chesapeake, The fertile shores oI
this beautiful abode presented the sad
elects of the war: on each side houses
were burning with fearful rapidly, anC
when night came on, they resembled the
signal fires of the Indians, blazing in all
the horrors Of destruction. The next day
our marines accompanied the marines at
tatched TO the rest of the squadron in one
| of these expeditions. We were command
ed by Sir q. Cuckburn. in person, and with
him rs an amateur, was the late gallant
Gen. Ross, who WAS afterwards killed at
Baltimore. Our destination was up riv-
er which runs at the back Of 81. Georges
Island and the object was to destroy a
factory, which was not only the abode of
innocent labor, but likewise the resort OF
some few miliIia-men, guilty of the un-
natural SIN of protecting their country.
We started in The morning, having landed
about five miles up the river, proceeded
along pretty fair road, flhnked on each
side by large woods which led TO the fac
tory. Gen. Ross directed the movements
OF our skirmishers, and instructed our sen
general in some of the Safeguards OF a
land army. When we arrived within two
the word for his division TO charge aud
at lull trot we arrived at the factory. Our
approach had been long known; every
one but the women and children had d =
serted the town, and taken with them
most OF the implements of their labor; we
must therefore most valiantly set fire to
the unprotected property, notwithstanding
the tears and cries Of the women; and
like parcel OF savages, as we were, we
danced around the wreck OF ruins.
1t is now no Use TO dive into the reason
why his savage mode of warfare was re-
sorted to (; II WAS generally asserted TO be
merely retaliation in the South for ag-
gression in the North; in short, us the
Americans burnt right and left in Canada
we did them the same compliment in tie
Chesapeake, thereby following nm example
which greater barbarians than ours,!v,s 3
have sluddered 20 commit. Be 1t as u
may, every house which we could by in
gennlty vote into the residence OF militia
man, was burnt; and as almost every maj
in America did belong TO the militia, W,