THE BULGARIAN ATROCITIES OUTDONE IN SCOTLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 207, 23 March 1877, Page 12

THE BULGARIAN ATROCITIES OUTDONE IN SCOTLAND.

wh k * he .f ato « n S l«8rl «8r baseness no less than the cold-blooded, heartless barbarity of the "massacre of Glencoe/' it must lb« admitted that some of Mr. Macandrew's countryman hav^Sen a shadeworsethanevenTurkishmiscreantsoftheworstSe Trae a S^S 0 *^ 80 ? 6 X f° yeilrs has since that base, brutal * n^S deed under William HI. of blessed memoryXk p££ But no length of fame can ever remove those feelings of horror pity, and indignation with which the massacre of Glencoe mustW associated It has stomped on the character of the Orange uZpe? who ordered "the mihtary execution" of Macdonald and his dES ?w?i? IT 1 baseness of Lord Stair, Captaii Campbell, and Lieutenant Lindsay, shown by the part they took m it, is such as ba«e Scotchmen only could be guilty of, for when I Scotchman is bad he is bad wdeed-Corruptio optimi pesnma. Th! prSoflhi? 0 "Reformation/ so-called, abounds with «i '? e n? 1?r1 ?r. ing .« CCO^ n « of the ma ssacre of Macdonald and bis clan by Christian IBashi-Bazouks is from the < Encyclopedia Br£ tanmca':-«The warrant (for the military execution of the Macdonalds) was signed and counter-signed by the King's own hand? The Secretary, Lord Staar, urged the officers who commanded Si the Highlands to execute their orders with the utmost rigor. Captain Campbell, being uncle to young Macdonald's wife ln£ received by the father with all manner of friendship and hospitalS! Till the first of the month the troops lived in the utmost harmonr with the people, and on the very night of the massacre the officer! passed the evening at cards in Macdonald's house. In the nieht Lieutenant Lindsay with a party of soldiers called in a friendly manner at Macdonald's door, and was instantly admitted. Macdonald. while rising to receive his guest, was shot dead through the back with two bullets. His wife had already dressed, but the was stnpt naked by the soldiers, who tore the ring* off her fingert with their teeth. The slaughter now became general ; neither age nor infirmity was spared." * I need not go on with the description of the horrors of the> scene. They are too revolting and degrading to human nature aDd too closely resemble the recent Bulgarian atrocities to require me to do so. The next time Mr. Macandrew or any of the Scotch humanitarians in Dunedin make a speech about Bulgarian atrocities, it is to be hoped they will not speak of them as " unparalleled " but think of the massacre of Glencoe and Cromwell's butcheries in. Ireland. Cromwell and William of Orange were celebrated men, and possessed of great talents. They did some commendable acts from questionable or evil motives, and greatly added to the fame and material prosperity of England. Great in a proper sense of the word they cannot be called. They were bold, bad men They were traitors and tyrants, or usurpers and the leaders of traitor* and fanatics. They converted the chivalrous army of England into> a band of sanguinary and sordid executioners. They sanctified the un-Christian principle of revolt against authority like their great predecessor, Lucifer, and thereby paved the way for endless wars Yet the good Macandrew, and such as he regard the two characters with feelings of admiration a little "on this side idolatry." We judge of men's principles by the company they frequent, or the characters they admire. Judge Mr. Macandrew and his adherents by this standard and it is not much the Catholics of Otago have to expect from their I sense of justice or liberality. But happily all Protestants are not alike, and some, perhaps a majority of them, now repudiate in their hearts those principles which Cromwell and William of Orange shed so much blood to uphold. It is high time they did. Trace to their source those wars which have deluded England and the continent of Europe with blood for the past three centaries, and you will find they spring from that " sacred right of insurrection, which " reformers," falsely so-called, teach so constantly. The subjects of the Sultan are now putting that right into practise and England may suffer by their doing so. She taught them the* fatal lesson. True Catholics alone can reconcile obedience, with a zeal for liberty and political progress. Moral and not brute force is their grand weapon. England and Russia, the leaders of the two great "revolted" churches in modern Christendom, cannot well hope to promote permanent peace in the world, because without obedience no peace can exist; obedience enforced not by pike and »un but by a spiritual authority. Until a Catholic spirit tnter into the Governments of England and Russia, and the other leading governments S. Ur ?S? '* U * tU they submifc obediently to the spiritual authority m the vwar of Christ.no permanent peace can be expected to arise out of the present Eastern policy, but rather further and more bitter animosities, leading to other wars sooner or later. Auckland. obs»ev«b.