The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-08-06

an instance ola conan who had died underline
nfiictiOn Of this torture. T.
The above methods Of raising money are Ger.
tainly very novel, and creditabls to English ii.
genuity. Wedoubt if the IIely InquiStion ey.
er did better. Again:
Giving TO tree with fire underneath. ii
order to produce partial suffieatOn; forcing
man to whiFl his heal in peculiar annerwith
his hair dlsheyee sitting in the sun, the process
being assisted By scOurging Called in the native
collectors Office Extracting the deyii;'') sus-
pending man by his arms tied behind his back,
plunging into wells and rivers until the victim
was half or sometimes wholly drowned; placing
the carpenter beetle or some other gnawing in.
sect, or some singing reptile, confined withns
cocoa-nut sheel, on the navel orstill more sensi-
tive part Of the body, causing great tofment cud.
ceiling with bludgeons with such severity as to
cause dislocaticn; ;placing the muzzle ofa mus kos
on the great toe, and forcing the party to con
tinue it on for hours in the burning sun; placing
a stick across the chest with man seated OH
each end oft, so as to produce partial suffocaton
the torture being in some cases continued until
the toague protruded from the mouth binding
limb by twisting a rough rope around, so as 10
impede the circulation, the intensity of the ter.
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composition Of red pepper salt and mustard
/ This torture the Court Of Directors had them.
selves described in their letters written in the
! year 1901. Another punishment was the stocks
the victim was placed on his back with bis
heels in the air, his face exposed to the sun by
day, and the damp and cold by night"
| CHE would imagine that Ignatus Loyola, the
great general ofthe Jespits, was governor ofthe
. . ~
Madras District, instead Of some british noble
man. 1t is ho wonder that the British East
India Company Is rich! gold could purchase
an exemption from tortures like the above, no
doubt it was paid by the .wretched pecplc, when
ever they had it to pay. They say mo slave ex.
lists upon the soil Of England but they existin
English colonies, and what is the differenee?--
But the list goes ona
"Then there was lifting up by and tearing out
mustachios--not only a very painful torture, but
a great ndgnity into the bargain placing the
victim on a nest of red ants, also very painful
torture; squeezing the crossed; pnching the fin (
gers between the cleft bamboo; torture by tho
kittae, an instrument by which fingers are grad
ally bent back until the pain is intolerable;
pinching the inside Of the thighs; nipping the
flesh with wooden or iron pihcers; pounding tho
joints with mallets of soft wood ;fagellaton with
every kind ofscourge in every part of the human
body, and with such severity as to occasioally
cause death (at page so would be found the case
mentioned by Mr.. Lushingtoh, of man fcgged
to death for non payment of taxes;) tying rays
round the fingers and setting fire to them;
burning various parts of the body with Il
lighted cheroot; heated packing needles and
soaring irons; wrapping the body inrotton steep
ed in OIL and setting fire to it driving thorns un
der the nails; filling the nostrils, eyes, and other
parts Of the with cayenne pepper; applying the
bamboo pnchers to woman's breasts"
In short, it would seem impossible for ingenu-
: ty to devise means of causing the most intense
and most excrueiating agony which has not
been employed blythe Collectors Of the Indian
Revenue
Let us have no more prating from English
phlanthropists about slavery in the United
States! The above recitals are enough to make
an Englishman hide his head with shame, that
he owes allegiance to 9 government while boast.
ing such barbaric deeds! Have the dark ages
: returned upon earth again?--- Gin. Times.