Mr. Charles Buxton wrote an admirable letter to the Times
of Thursday, giving the bare facts of the outbreak and its suppres- sion, and specially calling attention to the fact that Mr. Eyre had officially declared all cause for serious alarm removed before the bloody process began which has ended in the slaughter of from 50 negroes (the minimum estimate) to 150 (the maximum) for every white life taken. Mr. Buxton appears to have made a slip in stating that "except a Custom-house officer, who was killed directly after, and a mulatto book-keeper, not one single act of violence towards any white man, woman, or child is related as having occurred after the attack on the Court House." Mr. Bux- ton has been triumphantly told by many other correspondents that he has forgotten the murder of Mr. Hire, at Amity Hall, and we believe a Mr. Crichton also, by one of the plundering parties which started from Morant Bay, the story of which is related by Mr. A. Southby Crowdy, a surgeon, who was also nearly a vic- tim to their violence, but saved by his nurses, two brown women. The omission makes little difference. All the letters that have- been written leave the fact unchanged, that for the murder of eighteen persons in all, and the violence of one or two marauding parties, negroes to the number of from 1,000 to 3,000, according to the different accounts, have been shot down and hanged at random by troops unopposed, and not in fear of their lives. The question is whether any Englishman would have justified a similar massacre against the operative rioters of 1842, or even Irish Fenians ?
