The Irish standard., 1899-07-15

l conclude, greatly exaggerated. From
my own knowledge of military affairs
am sure that very small proportion o
them only could be killed in battle, ane
l am much afraid that any man in T;
brown coat who is found within severa
miles of the field of action is butcheret
without discrimination
Am English ecclesiastic, DR., PERCY
who was pitchforked into an Irish Pro
testant bishopric, wrote as early as Ma
26, 1898, OF the massacre OF the insur
gents, that the rebels were everywher,
dispersed with great slaughter and yer,
little loss. In slaughter OF 800 or 4ot
1t seldom happens that the King.
troops lose more than three or four in
divduals.' AT the battle OF Omdurmar
it has been calculated that the casualties
on the British side amounted to per
cent, while on the side OF the Dervisles
the casualties were over 60 per cent. No
quarter was given to the Dervish .reb-
els in 1898, as no quarter was given to
the Irish rebels in 1898.
The words OF MIR. Gordon, a rector
of the Protestant established church,
whose living was in the county Wex-
ford, and who was in that. county all
during the insurrection-his son being
an officer i'll the Yeomanry corps-are:
1 have reason to think more men than
tell In battle were slain in cold blood.
No quarter was given to persons taken
prisoners with or without arms Here
is the account given by Mrs. Lead
beaten, Quaker lady, quoted by Mr..
Lecky, OF the Carlow massacre: AN
attack in the night which had been
made on Carlow was repulsed with
slaughter almost amounting to mas
sacre. A row of cabins in which num-
bers OF the defeated insurgents had
taken shelter were set on fire and the in
mates burned to death. No quarter was
given; no mercy shown Mr.. Lecky
says that more than 600 persisted in the
fight at Carlow, or in the flames, or by
martial law, without the loss of single
life on the British side.
"Mr. Lecky thus speaks OF the sequel
to the battle Of Ballinahinch: No
prisoners were made during the fight,
tor the troops gave no quarter, but
nine or ten fugitives were captured
almost Immediately after, and at once
hanged. The town OF Ballnahnch was
burned almost TO the ground One OF
the correspondents OF Bishop Percy,
who visited it shortly after the battle,
says that its smoke rose torheaven like
that OF Sodom and Gomorral1, and that
not more than three houses in it were
unscathed.
For examples Of abominabe mas
sacre i'll cold blood OF insurgents by
British troops in 1898 in Ireland | will,
out of multitude OF instances, take in
addition to the massacres at Carlow and
the massacre at Gibbet Rath, in the cur
ragl1 OF Kildare, the burning OF the hos
pital in Enniscortlly, which was FULL OF
wounded men.
After the capture of Enniscorthy
they tell us that all suspected persons
were put to death in Enniscorthv. and
several houses were set on fire, among
the rest that which had been used by the
insurgents as all hospital, which, to-
eether with all the wounded men it it,
was totally consumed Gordon's pal
liation OF the burning OF this hospital
with no fewer than seventy wounded
men, is as thin as ONE OF the defences
raised on behalf of Lord Kitchener of
Khartoum, The burning OF the hos
pital was accidental, the bed clothes be-
ing set on fire by the wadding OF the
soldiers guns, who were shooting the
patients i'll their beds
"The mutlation OF the bodies of the
dead, which so shocked Our scnsbilties
as we read the revelations Of the atroci-
ties in the Soudan, has had its counter
part in the horrors in Ireland of 1893
Hay, the historian OF the rebellion,
passed over the field OF battle outside
OF Enniscorthy the day after the battle
of Vinegar Hill. Captain O'Hea and
were,' he writes, led to the head of
the (BritishD army by general officer,
and we set off with all expedition to
avoid as much as possible the horrid
spectacle OF the dead bodies of men and
women strewed along the roads and
over the adjacent fields, some bearing
the marks OF the most savage and in
decent cruelty, some with their bowels
ripped open, and others with their
brains dashed out, situations which they
did not at all exhibit the day before
when l saw them lying dead on my way
to Enniscorthy'
"The abominable dissertation of the
dead body OF the NIahdi with which
Lord Kitchener will always be asso-
clated in public memory has had, as we
have seen its parallels in the history of
the Irish rebellion. Lord Salisbury,
who so curiously at times fails to gauge
public sentiment, made in the House OF
Lords one OF his amazing errors in taste
by loosely referring to this abolninable
outrage. 1t was very extraordinary
said the prime minister, amid the laugh
ter OF his compeers, how the heads Of
distinguished persons got separated