It is, indeed, a most horrible desecration of the sacred name of liberty, to apply it either to the butcheries and brutalities of the French Revolution, or to the more diabolical massacres of St. Domingo.
It is true that no blood was spilt, and no revenge taken for the repeatedbutcheries of unoffending and defenceless settlers.
Once, it is true, they pillaged Beaubassin; but they killed nobody, though countless butcheries in settlements yet more defenceless were fresh in their memory.
On this ensued one of the most horrible judicial butcheries on record.
These cold blooded butcheries would have done credit to the most cruel and blood thirsty of the primeval savages of the forest.
Howard charged upon the savages the butcheries and plunderings which they had committed seven years previous in Virginia and Maryland, “belonging to the great king of England.
Not one of the thousands engaged in these horrible outrages andbutcheries has, so far as we can learn, been indicted.
Without some powerful and certain remedy, our streets will become butcheries overflowing with the blood of our citizens.
It was towards these butcheries that the streams of action and passionate faith had been hastening!
Goethe, Byron, Voltaire, and Rousseau, were at one in their contempt for the purposeless butcheries of war.
The stories of these butcheries were told to me by Englishmen and Americans who could look from their verandas over miles of fields that belonged to them, but who could not venture with safety two hundred yards from their doorsteps.
Of the alternate butcheries the last and the worst is that which is inseparably associated with the names of James and Jeffreys.
It was in vain, however, that Scott spoke, as Sharp had already spoken, of the hideous butcheries of Dorchester and Taunton.
The massacre of Jews began in Great and Little Poland, without yielding in point of barbarism to the butcheries which, eight years previously, had been perpetrated in the Ukraina.
The butcheries that signalized the act were such as to make the event infamous in history; and, in the language of a native historian, "the fires of the burning huts were slaked in the blood of the inhabitants.
We love our country, and have been proud of our countrymen; but, if they have fallen so low as to applaud the Paris Commune and its horrid butcheries and profanations, we can only say, Alas for them!
Would not the inhuman butcheries which were witnessed at Berwick be again renewed in all our cities?
The day of retribution had arrived;--the butcheries of Berwick, the carnage of Dunbar, with a long list of national indignities and personal sufferings had now to be atoned for.
It was a crimson prelude to the streams of blood that were to follow, in the long series of butcheries which were afterwards to disgrace the Roman name.
Thiers would not leave to any of his Ministers the glory of announcing the first butcheries in Paris.
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