Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-15
Cases Of the India Mutinies and

refined tortures which the the English have
suffered recently, are the reptition of cruel
ties which they themselves have been in
fiicting for many long and bitter years up
on the helpless victims of their oppression
in India, till at last in their feebleness and
and extremity, under the mingled aggrava-
ton of human yindictiveness and religious
fanaticism they have turned dying despera-
ton upon their rulers, to hurl off the yoke
from their necks Or 10 perish, as they will,
in the struggle.
The British Standard SAYS:
"Let it never be forgotten, that, in the
terrible riots which have recently transpired
in the East the English have been the tu-
tors, and the Sepoys their pupils: they
have only been exemplifying the lessons
taught their fathers and themselves. The
difference is simply one of circumstances;
the public eye is intently fixed on their do
ings, while our own carefully concealed
On the strength of history, however We as
sert that nothing has on the present occa-
sion been done by the mutinous troups
that cannot be paralleled, if not exceeded,
from the history of England's career in
Hindoostan its treacherous wickedness, has
found aparallel in England's treatment of
the Rajah of Benton.
The fort was surrounded on express stip-
ulation for the safety, and freedom from
search, of the females; but adds Mills,
"the idea suggested by Mr.. Hastings diffused
itself but too perfectly against the soldiery;
and when the princesses, with their rela-
tives and attendants, to the number of
three hundred women, besides children,
withdrew from the castle, the capitulation
was shamefully violated. They were plum
dered of their effects, and their persons
otherwise rudely and disgracefully treated
by the licentious people, and followers of
the camp"
Again, as to modes Of raising money,
Mr.. Patterson the Company's own Com
missioner, addressed them as follows:
"Those who could not raise the money
were most cruelty tortured. Cords Were
drawn tight round their fingers till the flesh
of the four on each hand was actually in
corporated, and became one solid mass
The fingers were then separated again by
wedges of iron and wood driven in between
them! Others were tied, two and two, by
the feet, and thrown across wooden bar,
upon which they hang with their feet up
permost. They were then burnt on the
soles of their feet till the toe-nails dropped
off! They were afterwards beat about the
head till the blood gushed out at the mouth
nose, and ears. They were also fogged
upon the naked body with bamboo canes,
and prickly ashes, above all, with some
poisonous weeds which were of caustic ma
ture, and burnt at every mouth.
But what of the treatment of females,
as this is the most aggravated feature
in the present instance? Here too Mr..
Patterson shall answer:
"The treatment of the females could not
be described. Dragged from the inmost
recesses Of their houses, which the religion
Of the country had made so many sane
tuaries they were exposed naked to public
view. The Virgins were carried in the
Court of Justice, where they might natu-
rally have looked for protection, but they
now looked for it in vain, for in the face
Of the ministers of justice, in the face of
the spectators, in the face of the sun, these
tender and modest virgins were actually vi
olated. The only difference between their
treatment and that of their mothers was,
that the former were dishonored in the face
of day, the latter in the gloomy recesses of
their dungeon. Other families had the
ripples of their breasts put in cleft bam-
boo, and torn off,"
Mr.. William Hewitt, remarking on these
words, truthfully observes:
"What follows is to shocking and indie
cent 10 transcribe. 1t is almost impossi-
BILE, in reading of these frightful and saw
age enormities, to believe that we are
reading of country under the British
Government, and that these unmanly
deeds were perpetrated by British agents,
and for the purpose of extorting the Brit
ish revenue"
The same paper, from which we have
quoted, in subsequent number returns to
to the subject and says:
"Within the last few days, one of the
Bombay judges, now returned, has issued
a pamphlet, which is entitled to the con-
sideration of every man in England. For
present we shall satisfy ourselves with two
extracts, by no means the worst and the
most affecting the pamphlet contains, but
nc hot o. IL al,
Of Mr.. Martin Upper, the Times, and all
who unite with them in the same furious
md blood thirsty outcry. Judge Luard
'ays:"
1t is not, therefore, creased catrages, at
tempts at conversion, or the assumption of
native states, (although this point requires
lualifcation,) which has caused our down.
fall in India, but long continued, corrupt,
resistless tyrany and if every
man who has been in India has witnessed as
many cases Of murder, judicial robbery and
bribery, deliberately perpetrated and delib-
erately upheld, as l have-and why should
my experience be singular ?-then it was
indeed high time for the natives of India
to take matters into their own hands.
leeply deplore the barbarities which have
lisgraced this mutiny the blood of our
lnofending countrywomen, and of the
helpless babes, murdered in cold blood, will,
doubt not, be fearfully and speedily
lvenged,- perhaps alas repaid in kind
but even in the suferings of these innocent
victims l can trace the vengence we have
been slowly but surely drawing down upon
ourselves for the deliberate brutality native
have received at our hands, with
out ever once creating an emotion in the
hearts of those whose duty it was to nro-