THE MASSACRE OF BARLETTA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 144, 21 August 1866, Page 3

THE MASSACRE OF BARLETTA.

A correspondent for wards the following extract from the Tablet, to which insertion is.giveh,:on.the principle of Mr play: — "The Times' own correspondent wrote — In the minds of those benighted fanatics there appears tu have been a strange confusion as to the reasons <jrf their violence, judging at least from the cries they are reported to hare uttered. They exclaimed, in. one breath, Victor Emmanuel, the Italian nati'on.the Catholic religion, Garibaldi, and Jesus Christ ; addiuy to this strange and irreverent medley cries of Down with the Protestants — d^ath to them! What made the Times afterwards, in its leading article, suppress this fact that the Earletta miscreants were -Victor Emmanuelites, Italian Nationalists, and Garibaldians? What made the Times substitute the cry of Viva the Pope, for the cry of Viva Garibaldi, though its own correspondent told that the outrages were committed, not in the name of the Pope, but in the name of Garibaldi? Since this article appeared in the Times of April 6, a letter has appeared in it from the Protestant Minister of Religion-. He is a journeyman joiner. He says ' that he doesn't know that the mol> came from the cathedral after the sermon, "but that Postiglione ofion preached a crusade against the Protestants, and that on the 19th,- with the cross were cries ' ot Viva Garibaldi, Viva 3a Fe&e, and death to theProtestants? Of the Evangelicals three were killed, aiirother young man was taken for a Protestant, and'liis corpse was dragged on the ground. Of those who cried Viva la Sante Fede, nine were killed, and maiiy" wounded. ...... ;■-.•. "If a mob sallies forth to kill psacefulpeople, anel to burn houses, whether the mob be Catholics or Protestants, or Orangemen, or Garibaldia'ns, or Papists, ana whether the peaceful people be Protestant's, or Catholics, or Jews, no matter' how rnan^ of the mob get killed, they- deserve a verdictof " serve therii right." But we are glad to see that in this miserable business the friends of the Pope neither, appear ia t!;e character of victims nor assailants. The feast of St. Joseph, March 19, was celebrated over Italy by the revolutionary party as the festival of Joseph Gavib-ldi and Joseph Mazzini. And the true version of the Marietta riots, according to the joiner and'.the Minister of Religion, appears to 'be that a mob of Liberals, or Revolutionists, and Garibaldians attacked' and- burnt two houses, shouting for Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi, and killed three Protestants, for which, the rioters were severely, but not undeservedly, punished, nine of them being kill&d and many wounded.