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" THE MASSACRE AT HANGO." Btjssxa proves...
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Falmerston On Limited Liability. Iiord P...
« mple . There are small capitals locked Atp has decreedsthat the risk sMIl 'be < . equf iw alL ^ the one an eaeure of t otal rm ^ -- aad mat portioned , to * h capital ^ ested ; - * £ * 2 ° tak would > set those . capitate & ee , to the benefit both of the owners and of the ^ eommumtr ; but capitalists an a grand-scale ^ iesist the joint measure . It as a " contest between the few and theunany " —" a , question of firee ^ -trade against monopoly , " but the oraiid . advocates & £ free-trade iturn jcound to
defeat their own principles . Ta confirm JLord Eaxmekston , the opponentsof theTbills—free-traders—proceeded exactly in the strain of old Protectionist advocates . WithoutTestrictive laws , capitalists will err . argued Mr . Stbutt . The JFrench and American la ws > said Mr . Wiixiam Browne , -will not suit us . Without a liability artificially extended beyond the capital , pleaded Mr . Mxrarrz , Watt "would hare been the victim of a Joint-Stock Company under the control of its directors , ignorant donkeys . " Small capitalists , urged Mr . Spootteb , will entrust
their money to directors who are not trustworthy . " Wild speculation , " cries Mr . Sxbittt j u Buin to thousands , " exclaims Mr . Hastee ; Burnous lit igation , " puts in Mr . Muktz ; " Bankruptcy , " groans Mr . G-itn ; " Xate period of the session , " insinuates Mr . W . Eusseix . In short , if Parliament does not stand over the little capitalists and advise them , the little capitalists will not know how to use their own money . It is the great capitalists who say so ; just as the great landlords said it of the working farmers .
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" The Massacre At Hango." Btjssxa Proves...
" THE MASSACRE AT HANGO . " Btjssxa proves that she is amenable to public opinion by the soreness she displays at the application of the phrase " Massacre at Hango" to the massacre at Hango , and the pains she takes to make out that the predatory attack upon Lieutenant G-enestje and Ids men was an " action" fought' to defeat an " illradvised expedition into the interior , " " perhaps a reconnoissance , " it maybe an
attempt to surprise the telegraph station—with eight or ten -unarmed men ! Moved by the censure of Europe , the Imperial Government has directed the Journal of St . Petersburg to publish a defence of that nefarious transaction , the massacre—we repeat—the massacre at Hango ; and the journal , faithful to its trust , concocts as much composition as , when translated , £ Ub two columns of small type in a morning journal .
The defence set up is curious in the extreme . The glorious action at Hango , henceforth as conspicuous as Sinope in the fasti of . Russia , , was fought by 500 men against 17 . The result was , that five of this great invading army—^ -to use the euphuism of the Journal of St . JPeter 8 burff— + " died in this ill-advised expedition ; " four were -wounded—how it does
not condescend to explain ; and altogether eleven were captured . Xiet us correct the phraseology off the [ Russian journal : ! Fiv © were set upon and murdered outright ; four were wounded with intent to murder ; and Ee \ en including the three officers , were made prisoners—all of whom had come ashore under a flag- of truce .
* The Russian journal writes , on the authority of a letter from lieutenant Gbneste , explaining the occurrence , which letter , by ~ the-by , it does not publish in eortmso , ibut onl y gives , a summarised version of its contents . According to this statement , Xiietenant Obneste ,, taring Ian died his prisoners , antl seeing no one near , proceeded up the country to buy 4 faaih provisions , carrying with him a flag bif > 1 wmde ; At a distance of fifty yards from the iHJat the Buemane suddenly appeared from
iihexr ..-amai'bqsh behind ; i & e cEOcksj ; GfeafrussUB tried Ito sbield ' luaiself "iiudeirithe flag « b £ jt » nce , and bein £ suanrouniled , he . surrendered :. . Not one'ward does the Journal of St . Petersburg say of the firing of the Buaaians upon mnr nrmed men " -, it merely remarks that " -six persons died in this ill-advised expedition . "' JTurther they state , not however on the authority of Gekeste , but of a Captain TcHEaa ? KOFP , aide-de-camp of G-eneral Be Bjer & , that the flag of truce was not seen either on board the Cossack , or on board the boat , " ¦ or in the hand of the officer who landed and advanced into the Eussian
territory . " [ Mark , a few lines before the Journal , in the text of its article , stated that Geksste " tried to shelter himself , " when attacked , " under the white flag "—therefore the Russians must have seen it . ] Tcherxkopf further states that " during the engagement the sailors who remained in the boat had time to throw into the sea a gun of Binall calibre ; " and the ill-informed , duped , or inventive captain , proceeds to describe the armament of the boat as otherwise formidable ; the object of which is to prove that Lieutenant G-eneste had arrived at
Hango , with this redoubtable armada—a cutter and cutter ' s crew—to invade the Bussian Empire and buy eggs and poultry ! The fact is , that there was no gun of small or large calibre in the cutter , no arms , except those which belonged to the boat as part of her regular equipment , lying in the bottom covered with a tarpaulin ; and no " engagement , " but a massacre . Much of this defence consists of a most
exulting refutation of the statement of John Beown , the seaman who barely escaped with his life . Poor John Beown , with three wounds in his body , told us , as we all remember , that the whole of the crew were killed . And no doubt it seemed so to the desperately-wounded man , who escaped death by shamming death . But the Journal of St Petersburg , in the most triumphant manner , proves that John Bbown ' s statement was false—for how could all have been killed
before his eyes when eleven are living to this day in the prisons of Russia ? But the Journal goes on to convict the victim who escaped Tchertkoff ' s brigands of further falsehood . Johk Brown , he says , declared that the boat on its arrival was attacked by five hundred armed men ; while lieutenant Geneste says he " saw no persons on shore except two or three women . " Here , then , is direct proof that Brown is a liar . Will the reader believe that what Bbown did say was , that they saw only one man at first , who ran off towards the telegraph-station , and that the five hundred men did not show
themselves until Geneste and the . Finns had landed ? We can pardon mistakes in tho declaration of Bbown , but not misrepresentations in the Journal of St . Petersburg . We can never believe that the ensign in command did not see the flag of truce nying onboard the boat as it approached the shore . What says the Journal of St . Petersburg in its first announcement of the massacre , which it called a " successful skirmish ? " Why , it said that Ensign Tchehtkoit had been early informed of the " enterprise "—so the ih ¦*¦
to ^ b * v b . * v ' ¦ coming of tho boat is called—and concentrated and . cozysealed his men for the purpose of cutting off their retreat . The ostensible defence made by Russia is , that GimrjesxB did not wait until his flag was acknowledged before he landed j and it is hold that he had no right to land until his flag had been aeknowlodged . But surely an honourable enemy , refusing to acknowledge a flag of truce , would , at leaafc , show himself , and warn oil the coming party , not hide himself and then massacre those he had seduced by etudiowsly
jpreseEsring the aspect of peace . Therefore , if < vre ; adrait / that the ffoumsweiwunot strictly attended to , that only puoves ; that the Englishmen trusted , too much to the honour of their enemy , it tdoes not justify the massacre . But knowing the weakness of this ground , the Russian journal takes up another , and itliis constituted the real defence , that the [ Russians at Hango believed the flag of truce was an artifice—similar to many alleged to have been practised by the English during the war ; yet how are we to reconcile this lame defence with the assertion that the
flag of truce was not seen , for if it were not seen , how could such a bold descent be an artifice ! The fact is , that turn it as they may , the " Massacre at Hango" will stick to the Hussion Crown , and will remain the "Massacre at Hango" to the end of the chapter . No sophistry can explain it away : it stands out alone in this war as a cool , deliberately-planned , atrocious murder .
Whom Shall We Hang?* The Pamphlet Winch ...
WHOM SHALL WE HANG ?* The pamphlet winch has appeared with this title is obviously not a labour of love . It is tho anonymous affidavit of Lord Abekdik ^ 'b colleagues , drawn up by a mercenary pen . Through all its pages runs a quibbling art , which few but lawyers can command . 13 ut the gentlemen whose public characters * are hero defended will do well to disavow all connexion with a writer who has so degraded a
serious discussion , and who defiles with scandalous levity the harrowing records of thcvSebastopol expedition . It is impossible to believe that the * special pleader who has issued this ehnnsy justification has not been retained by some one . But by whom ? "We do not for one moment believe that tbe honest X . on . 1 Aberdeen , or the generous Mr . Sidney Heebebt , or the devoted Duke of Newcastle — for these arc the names most
sedulously washed—can have employed an advocate to sneer at the miseries of the British army , to insult tho public and the press , and to deny tho truth of statements supported by irresistible testimony . If they have friends capable of hiring such an apologist , those friends have done them an evil office . The pamphlet , while it is . supposed to have their countenance , will do them more injury than the worst of libels . It will not disijrove one charge that has been fixed
upon their administration ; but it will give a colour to tho most deadly aspersions that have been wantonly and cruelly cast on their personal honour : that they wcro indifferent as well , as helpless ; that they reduced an army to famine , and ridiculed its forlorn abandonment . This is what we have never believed . But the pamphleteer , who describes his countrymen as a nation of dupes and liars , mocks at every detail of suffering , and jeers at all compassion .
The writer affects a manly scorn of the malignant practice which imputes a private and venal motive to every public net . He then proceeds to discover falsehood ami selfishness in tho conduct of every public man who assailed tho lato administration , — more particularly tho Peclito sectitm . Tho majority of tho House , which voted for ininfluenced b subBervieneo
quiry , was y a mean to popular clamour . Mr . Roebuck , like tho cannibal god of the Mexicans , hungered for a victim . Mr . XjAyard , graceless and mendacious by nature , rushed with savage alacrity to tho prosecution of tho Government . Tho Committee was granted . And then , tho pamphleteer seeks to demonstrate that it vindicatod step b y atcp , tho acts of tho Administration , especially those of Lord Abeb ,-* Whom Shalltoe Jtlang t RIdgwoy .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 28, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28071855/page/10/
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