The weekly Minnesotian., 1857-12-05
The War in India..NIen and Friends
taking Sides!

Inc war In luO10ssNAcu unU HAAcAAVs
taking Sides!
Into our issue of Saturday last, the follow
ing paragraph found insertion, through the
Industrious scissors of our news editor -
From the Pi,tsburg Catholic.
How THE IRISH VIEW THE INDIAN REVOLT.
- -'Sweeter than the voice of love, sweeter
than the warm accents of friendship, dearer
than the melowest sunshine of the heart is
the news of English discontinue in India to
the breasts of the Irish people. They are de-
lighted, rejoiced and gladdened beyond meas
ure when they hear of the torture and hui
initiation of their ancient foe. There is not
q vessel of hers which is wrecked, there is not
a general of hers who is slain, there is not
battalion in the service which is routed and
overthrown, that the people of Ireland do
not gloat over with the greatest satisfaction
and delight. From the deepest recesses of
their hearts they wish her defeat and mis-
fortune in whatever enterprise she is engaged.
Loyalists, slaves, sycophants and West Bli-
tons may seem astonished at this, but from
our knowledge of the people we can assure
them what we have stated is fact"
The loathsome extract is now republished
merely to bring it in proper juxta-position
with some other matters upon the subject
In the Pioneer of Sunday occurs this para
graph having reference to the same topic
"THE LIBRARY AssoCIATIoN.-We under
stand the Young Mems Library Association,
are about getting up public debate about
the Justice or injustice of the British war in
India in which Wilbur II. Hayward, Esq,
and Charles +. Mayo, are to be chief disput-
ants. he debate will come off in the Court
House, which will be appropriately furnished
with seats, fire and light,
In the Dubuque Tines few days ago, the
following article appeared, which may afford
some hints to the disputants. We are cori-
Gus to see which is the man who stands with
the Irish, on the side of the human fiends
who nail up little children in bores, and then
toss them into the fire TO be roasted dtiue!
IRISH SYMPATHY WITH THE SEPoYs.-A few
days since call was issued in New York city
for public meeting of the Irish Democrats
of that metropolis, t" sympathize with the
Sepoys that Hindoos of India in their rebel
lion against England The meeting came of,
speeches wele made and resolutions passed
upholding the Indian mutineers in their
course, and glorying over the terrible VEN
geance which they had inflicted upon the Eng
lish nation.
Look for moment at this spectacle.
If the right of the white man to inhabit
and possess America is worth anything. If
the gradual but certain extinction of the for
mer owners of this soil, the red men, is iusti-
fable if the great law of nature, that to
him who hath shall be given, but from him
who hath not shall be taken away even that
which he hath is not repugnant; to justice
then is the right of the British in India a
clear and perfect right.
They have carried to India civilization, re-
hnement and progress.
They have up stop to the barbarities
which have been practised there for centu-
ries.
The widow is no longer burned with the
body of her deceased lord, who in life was
her tyrant and most cruel oppressor the old
man is no longer buried alive by his human
sons, that he may tax them for support no
longer; the infant is no longer placed within
the red hot arms of some internal deity or
thrown into the bloody jaws of the crocodile
of the Ganges.
| The religion of the Natives has been undis-
turbed and unmolested, save being restrained
from those manifestations of cruelty which
shock every human heart.
Life, property, person, the fruits of indus
try, and the success Of trade were made Sc
cure under the British rule, and the general
propensity advanced.
But the rebellion or revolution breaks forth.
The natives, by the suddenness of their up
rising, by the well-matured nature of their
plans and by the unguarded security of the
English, were enabled for while to obtain
and to maintain the advantage.
They have used that advantage to exercise
refinement Of cruelty, q feadishness of heart,
and disregard of all claims of humanity,
hitherto unknown.
The fortune of war placed in their laads
some hundreds Of English women and child
Ien
They exhausted their inventions and beg
CARED their imaginations n devisng the great
est variety and the most horrible intensity of
torture, upon these defenceless and innocent
victims.
Young and beautiful English madens, and
matroniy and virtuous English wives, were
srtipped naked, scourged in the SIGHT Of thou
sands uiolated by hundreds, sometimes in the
presence of their brothers and husbands, cut
to pieces aliUe forced to witness the torture a1el
murder Of their chi'drfn, compelled 10 swallou
flesh cut from the q'iuering limbs of Themselves
or their infants, driven through the streets,
exposed to horrors unmentonable, to which
thousand deaths were pref,rable and final
ly. mlnoled and crushed masses of flesh and
bones. throvn to the dogs.
1t has not been in one or two places that
these scenes have transpired.
Everywhere, where the Sepoys, by treach-
cry and mutny, rose upon the English and
obtained the mastery, were these horrors re.
enacted again and again, until the heart
grows sick with the contemplation of the
scene.
And now in the Metropolis Of the United
States, in the great city Of New York. ap
prs a call for public meeting of Irish Dem
ocrats to sympathize with the Sepoys of In
dia in their rebellion. The meeting takes
place the Irish Democrats assemble {; the
speeches are made; the glowing deeds of the
Indian Patriots are rehearsed their valiant
slaughter of English women and child en-
their torture and their internal degradation
are recounted the resolutions are passed
bloody ouId England is denounced and tht
acts of the fiends in human shape who have
put all the horrors Of history into the shade
are gIorifed and sustained +!
We yield to none in our advocacy and de
fence Of the right of revolution. 1t is righ
, which We consider sacred and indefeasible.
We hold that right all the more dear and
near because that in looking forward to th'
future of our own country, we see impending
troubles from achich 0e may be able to escape on
ly by rerolution.
Abstractly speaking, the Indians of thi
Continent have always possessed the right t.
rebel against the white man, and to drive hin
from this land. So the natives of India hav
the abstract right to rebel against the Eng
lsh r,,la and To fnht for thnir ca w loo md ha