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But we do not so much complain of boyish as of adult cruelties; though, according to the above showing, such atrocities will be less rare in the next than in the present generation. To conclude, we hope that the present notice may awaken the sympathy of the reader towards the laudable objects of the Society, under whose guidance the Voice of Humanity is published.
They killed and ate everybody on board, except one man, who was tattooed and kept for a slave during twelve years. The Missionaries.# In spite of all these atrocities a band of missionaries had the courage to settle in New Zealand and begin the work of civilising these Maori tribes.
It is that during war we should do everything possible to weaken and worry the adversary, in order that he may be the sooner ready for peace; but this argument proves too much, since it would oblige us, if logically carried out, to go back to the marauding and atrocities of the Thirty Years' War. June 20.
Miracle and ordeal proof introduced. The papacy resorts to auricular confession and the Inquisition. It perpetrates frightful atrocities for the suppression of differences of opinion. Effect of the discovery of the Pandects of Justinian and development of the canon law on the nature of evidence. It becomes more scientific. The Reformation establishes the rights of individual reason.
A general massacre took place; the cathedral was fired and partially destroyed, the bells, thirteen in number one of these called the 'Nonpareil, and reputed the most sonorous in Christendom being melted down for cannon. All that fiendish cruelty and the demon of destruction could do was done. In vain Henry of Navarre tried to put down atrocities committed in his name.
A worm, however, will turn, and the atrocities which were perpetrated against these unoffending creatures may well palliate the indiscriminate, though heart-rending slaughter they entailed. Visited by me in 1842, that is, after the interval of seven years, they mustered only fifty-four individuals." STRZELECKI'S NEW SOUTH WALES, p. 352
But the people of Haarlem were now strung up, both by their own peril and the knowledge of the atrocities committed by the Spaniards in other cities, to a point of hatred and fury equal to that of the foes, and they retorted by chopping off the heads of eleven prisoners and throwing them into the Spanish camp.
The Bulgarian atrocities had at least brought this much of good: they rendered a Turco-British alliance absolutely impossible. Lord Derby had written to this effect on August 29 to Sir Henry Elliott: "The impression produced here by events in Bulgaria has completely destroyed sympathy with Turkey.
If the reader will be at the pains to review the testimony recorded on the foregoing pages he will find that a very large proportion of the atrocities detailed were committed, not by the most ignorant and lowest classes of society, but by persons 'of property and standing, by masters and mistresses belonging to the 'upper classes, by persons in the learned professions, by civil, judicial, and military officers, by the literati, by the fashionable elite and persons of more than ordinary 'respectability' and external morality large numbers of whom are professors of religion.
Posterity will decide how far he was justified in pledging himself for the safety of the Royal Family, while he was heading a riotous mob, whose atrocities were guaranteed from punishment or check by the sanction of his presence and the faith reposed in his assurance.
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