The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-14
MAssAOREs THAT ALTERED HIS
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TORY.
(Leslie S Weekly.)


If the murders Of foreigners in Picking
and other places in Empress Ans domain
lead to division of the Chinese empire,
nobody who is familiar with the worlds
annals will be surprised. Massacres
have frequently changed history. The
wholesale murders of the Huguenots in
France on st. Bartholomew Day, in
1872, and the subsequent prescription of
that sect, together with the revocation
of the Edict of Nantes, drove hundreds
of thousands of the most intelligent and
enterprising residents of France to Hol-
land, England and England's American
colonies, from the disastrous political
effects of which acts France still suffers.
Among the American descendants of
this prescribed sect were Faneuil, for
whom Bostons Cradle of Liberty is
named; Bowdoin, whose name is perpet-
uated in Names principal college; Paul
Revere, the Jays, the Delanceys, the
Boudionots, John Sewer, and many other
persons who Tiled a large place in Ameri-
can history.
The September massacres'' (l792) of
the supporters of the Bourbons in the
French Revolution, and the guillotining
of thousands Of the same order afterward
during that upheaval, deprived France,
by death and by emigration, of the SER
vices of many of her ablest statesmen and
soldiers, which was particularly disas-
trous for France in her wars on the water
as the loss of her naval heroes of the
Anne rican Revolutionary period, almost
all of " bnlOnoeod n tho
deprived her of the only men who could
have met Nelson and the rest of Eng
lands sea fighters on even terms, and
was largely responsible for Trafalgar and
the rest OF Frances naval defeats in that
age.
Grecian Independents in the revolution
then under way was fastened by the
massacre of residents of ChiOs by the
Turks in 1922, for even Europe's Mephis-
tOpheles the Austrian Metterntch-Was
unable to restrain the wave of sympathy
for the struggling Greeks which that
crime swept over thu world. The whole
sale murders of the British residents at
Delhi, Lucknow, and many other parts
OF the neighbOrtng territory, impelled
England to abolish the rule of the East
ndla Company, the most powerful cor
pOration known to history, to put India
under the direct control of the history, to
put India under the direct control of the
crown, and to vitality alter that cOlony's
administration and history. The killing
Of "Chinese" Gordon and his followers in
Khartoum by the natives added largely,
by way of realization, to the extent of
the British conquest Of the Soudan.
Massacres have profoundly affected the
history Of the United Sattes, aside from
the way in which 1t was affected by the
influx Of HuguenOts as q consequences of
the ST. Bartholomew and kindred
crimes in France The murders of the
French Protestants, under Ribault, in
Florida, by the Spaniard Menendez in
1865, sent the French to Canada instead
of to the south Atlantic coast of the pres
emit United States, gave the latter to
Spain, and thus made Florida far easier
to win by the United States after this
cOuntry's Independence was gained. The
deVastatlOns along the mort hern border
OF New England by the French and In
dams IN the various intercolonial wars
which ended with 1853 melted the resist
ance on the part of England and its de-
Tendencies which drove France out of
Canada and the Mississippi valley IN that
year. and FASTENED the Revolution,
which, a dozen years later, expelled Eng
land from the thirteen colonies. The
Onslaughts on the French in st. Domingo
by the negroes in 1901 and 1892, that ISL
and being then French colony, prevent
ed Bonaparte from sending an army to
take possession Of New Orleans, which
had been retrOceded to Frauce by Spain,
and was one of the causes Of the cession
OF Louisiana by France to the United
States in 1903, which was the first and
greatest expansion ever made by this
country, and which made all subsequent
expansions-FIOrida Texas, Oregon,
California, New Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii
Porto Rico, and the l1ppines-inevit-
able.
Disraelis assertion in the case of Lin
coin, that ASSASSINATION has never
changed the history of the world needs
In hn NJ ft,I
affect race, or a large element Of peo-
pie, especially when melted by religion