The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1856-04-03
English Philanthropy, and American
brutality.

contemporaries IN It's slsy mistei resehta''"'is
Of tbe United States, aud its yauutngs Of what
j Ohm Bull can and will do Witness The fo'-
lowing from leading article in it' columns u
the goth Of February =
We are afraid tha, there is bat one way TO
sct,le this dispute. and that Is, at the point OF
the bayoDet The aggressive spirit Of the Peo-
pie Of the United States requires an humbhng.
and il Is for US TO perform the task England
mission is TO complete the great work com.
meuced by her IN 1884, when she liberated her
slaves There are now over three million u
human beings held 10 cruel bondage in the Uni
ted States fellow creatures who are prepared
to 20 through FIRE and water, even TO the very
gates Of death itself. TO escape from their Re
publican taskmssters mothers who destroy
their children to save them from bondage
fathers who would risk the funeral pyre, like
the martyrs OF old, u save their little ones IRON
the ruifian planters lash And 10 that Repub-
lican country men are burned IN the public
streets children torn from the mothers bo-
som. and sold TO vice and bondage and women
with white skins dashed 10 death.
There the laws OF God and civilized men are
Iespised and fellow beings are bound US brutss
and sold as chatteIs. H. therefore, the United
States Government deny, and is resolved to
question, the right Of Great Britain TO her
Central American possessions, We, the people
Of the British Empire. are resolved TO strike on
the shackles from the feet Of her three million
slaves. And there are those amongst US who
will sanctify such glorious cause the people
Of England will deny themselves every luxury
TO assist their country in a contest, more sacred
and more glorious than ever formed the watch
word Of the Crusaders OF old, when combating
the infldei hosts OF Saiadiu. II we have not
8 Richard CGur de Leon We have one name
which will carry liberty to millions, and the
emancipation by |" fore Of arms OF the slaves
Of the American States will he connected To
the end Of all time with that rallying word Of
freedom Victoria.
We find lengthy article in the last number
of the Edinburgh Rsp,eu. on I" Uses of Torture
in India" an abstrec It of which will possess a
peculiar interest, when placed alongside OF the
above, which treats Of British philanthropy
and American brutality.
!. IL Is IN he P.s-dspcs e Msdrss ig !B..ish
India in.which the system OF torture is carried
on. to which the lengthy article in the Rev,err
refers. In this portion Of India, the land sys-
TEN is peculiar, the government owns the soil,
and it is parcelle,l out to the peasantry as mere
tenants at will The cutivator is at the mcr
cy OF the government for the amount Of his rent
and the permanency Of his tenure The collec-
tor. whom the government employs, virtually
holds the peasant at his mercy. He is gene
rally q native, aud sit TO manage affairs as he
chooses and 1t is this indifference, on the part
OF the government, which has led TO the use OF
torture The torture is employed to collect
rents, extort money unjustly, and compel the
peasantry to submit to every tyranical or'er of
their superiors.
Ia the collection OF revenue particularly, the
use oi torture has long been common, Men
and even women have been whipped have
been hung up by the arms TO tree have had
their hands, their ears their thighs, and other
still more sensitive parts Of the body squeezed
between boards till blood came or the sufferer
tainted Some have been tied in the most
painful pastures, and compelled to remain thus
| for hours, 10 broiling sun, tormented by thirst
and ,enoinous insects Others have been sub,
jected 10 modes Of torture which decency for.
bids us to name Not few have been main.
cd Tor life Death has even sometimes been
the result. Nor have these things been done
in corner. or visited only on deiaulters of the
deepest dye They have taken place with the
knowledge, if not the connvance OF English
officials. and the victims have often been mise
rablc. halistarved peasants who were but u
few shillings in arrears.
Tina, the English officials are responsible for
the use Of the torture is placed beyond doubt
by the paper in the Reviac which gives OH
cial authority for every statement made,
The Repse describes the two modes Of fortunes
most common We quote as follows;
The k,aee corresponds with the thumb screw
Of the European torturer II is wooden in
strument somewhat like n iemon.squss:er. be-
tween the plates Of which the hands the thighs.
lin women also the breasts the ears and other
more sensitive parts Of the body are squeezed
to the last point Of endurance, oftT 10 faint
ing, and even TO permanent disabement In
many places the kittee has been superseded BY
the more simple plan Of violently COMPRISING
the hands under fiat board, on which a heavy
pressure is laid, sometimes eren By me pens
Standing upon II or Of compelling the sufferer
to interlace his fingers and delivering him over
TO the iron gripe Of the poems Tor policemen,
who sometimes rub their hands with sand in
order to give them frmcr gripe In other
cases the fngers are bent hack until the pain
becomes uncomfortable.
The dauAddl is more purely eastern torture
1t consists in tying the victim in STOPPING or
otherwise painful and unnatural position gen
orally with the head forcibly bent down TO tue
feet, by rope or cloth passed round the neck
aud under the toes. The posture, however, il
varied at the caprice OF the executiouer Some
times the poor wretch is made 10 stand on Vne
leg, the other being forcibly tied up to his neck
Sometimes the arms aud legs are curiously in
terlaced, and the frame, thus violently distorted
ia kept bound up for hours, in a condition little
short Of dislocation. Sometimes heavy stone
is laid upon the back, while thus ben, and it
often happens that the poems amuse themselves
by sitting sstride upon the unhappy sufferer
who Is undergoing anuudal. More than one OF
the witnesses deposes 10 TIE infection Of this
torture under the fierce Indian sun. upon a
number Of deiaulters placed together in rows.
for two three, four, and even six hours and
this in the immediate vicinity Of the cutcherry,
or revenue Office, and in the presence OF tthe
tahsildar, or native collector. and Of the assem-
bled villagers"
"Occsionally man is held aoft from the