Nuhou, Volume II, Number 16, 19 September 1873 — "Humiliating" [ARTICLE]

"Humiliating"

ls a vvord hardly sufficieot to exprcs> our leclhigs on reading the GoverDment aeeouni: of the c£ Mutiny at the Barracks. M It ought tb be painfully humiliating, and disgrticerul to the last degree, to.thc responsib!e authorities. Just" rcad thc Government account. <s After the letter (f'rom Ilīe Majesty) vvas carefuJly read to them (the mutineers), they asked that it becountersigned by the Secretary at War, whieh vvas accordingly done. They then asked that they be allovvcd to have it printed," (whieh vve did, but whieh mark you, the Government papei* has not done) whieh vvas deemed best to accede eo." (And we will eay liere that a Minister of anv "intel'ligence and courage, and who had any sense of honoi' woukl have resigned otßcc ; and even risked life vather t-liau allow his Sover-! eign to be forced into tho.vvriting of such a letter } ' or tolmve eountersigned it Read itin our No. 15.) * * They tlicn demanded that the warrants ol the 9th instaut ; ' (read to them by Marshal; Park) shou!d be torn up, iehkh was done hi thir ■presinct- M (italics oure) £; and finally, the| confeiliatory ■ * (nay t humbly begging and !)eseeeh- ! in<*) 4 4 course whieh had been adopted, though j humiliating in the extreme " (indeed we did not think it was so wretchedly abject and cowardly) u accomplished the object } and they " (the triumphant mutineers) 44 leftthe barracks, taking with them blankets ? caps, overcoats, parts of uniforms, and whatever eame handy, belonging.to the loyal men/' (in fl\ct, earrying off the spoi!s of vvar like an evacuating vietonou> Aimy,) \\e did not think 4 tbat the cireumstanees leading to the quieting of the emeute vvere half so | humiliating as here represented. Anu what must! people abroad think of our autliorities after >ueh j a6tateuient? | Mind you, there vvere on!y 2o soldiers inthe ! barracks, wheii our military voluuteers, villes and! eavalry vvere called out to eocree them iuto obe-! dience, Theee soldiers had comiuitted no overt act of mutiny, beyond theiv refusal to obey the oitler of an obnoxious offieer, They declared all thc time thatthey were not or rebcls agaiust the King. Nay, they actually earried out their routiue of duty, the samc as when the obnoxious ollieer vvas iu couunand ; aud during the vvorst jieriod ol this so-called mutiny, they regulavly sent details of thoir nnmbov outslde tho Bamcks to mount guard over th<* goverunient buUdtugs and especia!!y government ofEees; aud so they mn actuatty $uardins the pusi!lanimous meu, who vvere eajing that foreign help vvould !>e ueedeil if the mutiny was not immediately Mip- ( preN>sed, One ean see ft'oiu the way the MiuU-, try aete,l in t!us mattei\ aftei readiug.she vepori | pre\vuvd »n tnelv that if one '

man »uM get hh bnck ! np, anl interferc in li way with the action .|f the governratT,t. woiiJd be afraM to deal with him s untess th j had an immen&e amouut|oflaw rn their ēidi"-. ' ifthelaw was not clear enougli, and they we: afraia to act f they woi|ld have t > !ook II - Majebty fur protcetioii- | Such men *are enoug!V to vvorry a high-Lnnd-:' and sensitive Prince iri|o a state of indi?po?it: by ! their runuing t j :uj't fro, ani worrying 11/ to interfere ? and to do 'tliīs nnd that, and to r -■ sume responsibilit?es a|id to submlt to hunn' utterly disgracefid to kingly aut!iority. fi< :. whieh His Majesty ougbt to be entlrely &aved ' a thoughtful, aYid faithful roivuftivwho would be ever vvatehful tc> save Him fr pressure and worry, woutd staud as a * wark betvveen the }<ersonof royalty and all ' annoyance. | Hasitbeenso ? ls it k> ? Is thc King : rounded by men who $ustain the throne wit! ! wise and active intelligenee ; or is His Maje>r ! vvorried by offieial boi;es anu aspiring UkhH * who erovvd around in moments of physicol we: r ness and weakness to ctamor for a suceesslor i their interest, or to bid 1 for royal preferment r<: 3 honors, like a crew of| obscene birds together to batten on a nohle but prostrate wa&Qfse. This is not an| ovei*dravvn picture» :t Ttrue. And oh, you !ookers on 4 from lar off lar. where honor and pmali, in the exere*of governmeut, and where nobleste oblij: ' has a meaning, is not alf this humiliating**