Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-09-10

he terrible atrocities that have SO recently
been perpetrated. But the question arises; is
his policy justihable7 Suppose We admit that
he natives of India, when loused to pitch OF
madness by the excuses Of the rebellion,
men, women and children In
cold blood, was it sound policy on the part OF
the British Authorities, to punish the ringleau-
err with such awful barbarity, us by blowing
away absut forty victims at time, from their
guns! In some cases, We arc told, the limbs oil
the wretched Sepoys were torn into fragments,
and carried bleeding and manged into the air.
The London Times sustails this dreadful system |
OF retributiOn and even threatens something |
still more fearful. But the Paris Constitutional
maintains that the execution from the lannon's |
mouth was the practice OF the Barbary Powers
in the time Of tho Barbarossas, and is altogeth-
er unworthy an enlightened modern nation.
If, moreover, this system OF retrlbution in sane
toned in one case, why not in another We
incline to the opinion, that only half has been
told i'll relation to the appalling scenes on both
sides. The southampton correspondent OF the
London Daily News, says that the passengers
who recently arrived ut that that place from
India, say that the imagination can scarcely
conceive the tiendish barbarities that were per-
petrated by the Sepoys. When the Bengal
mutineers entered the city Of Delhi, there were
English merchants, mercantile, telegraph, and
post Office clerks, officers of the native regi-
ments, and Government funetIonaries, with
English wives and children, living there as nm
conscious OF danger as If they had been in any
English town. As soon us the mptineers en-
tered Delhi, great many Euglishmen and
English women and children escaped, but
| numbers could NOT do SO, aud those who did
| not escape were subjected to outrages worse
| than death. The daughter Of an English cler-
gyman was driven through the streets Ut Delhi,
| naked, then su elected to unspGakable outruges
by an lpiurlated s0idery, and afterwards cut to
pieces with swords. An English lady in the
same city was suspended by the feet naked and
hacked to pieces. The European officers and
soldiers were GAasperated to madness by these
atrocities, and rs II consequence, the most ter
rible punlshnents were indicted upon such Of
the rebels as were captured.
The following extracts from private letters
| give further details OF the massacre OF women
/ and children -
| AT Mhow, for instance, an outbreak occur
| red few day 5 since. Most escaped, but one
| family was caught, that of European SER
geant.s The parents were tortured to death,
and the children stabbed with the bayOnet till
the pain became almost unbearablG; they tn n
squeezed them into box and placed them
over SLOW fire. Thennly remaining child is
in the Bycnlla School, and sic received let
ter two days ago, acqulin,ing her Of the mel
anchoy end of her parents AID brothers. The
poor cilild's grief was most painful to witness,
L am told. An incident have heard, which is
'4An officer with his wife, was endeayorlng to
escapes they had proceeded but short dis
lance, when they were stopped by q party OF
mutineers. The officer was armed. To sell
his own and dear partners life was the first
thought, to execute it was tho next. Seven
rufians fell before his avenging arm and then
they proved too many for him. Slowly re-
treating, while keeping them at bay, the tiends
made rush at his vile but no, Il shot from
| the husbands arm saved her honor, though it
cost her life. Another shot, and by his own
hand, too, and the husband found his rest be-
| side the body OF his wife,"
| Another correspondent says:-tThe repre-
sentative Of the Mahratta has set himself up
| as king-the very man | wrote about when l
was at Cawnpore. This man has committed
the most fearful atrocities. A boat load of
l2b women and children were passing down
from Nynee Tai to Calcutta to be out OF the
way. They We're near Cawnpnre when he got
hold OF them, tied them together one by one,
and mutilated them. An infant Of month
old he took from its mothers breast, pretend
ing to fondle, and then cut it into pieces.
am certain that such man will not pass un
punished"
The following is an extract from a privat,
letter ''Huw to describe al the enormitit
that have taken place throughout British India
know not. The overland papers will be ful
enough of news, but deal that appears i
newspapers will not be found In the overlan
papers, and great deal more than we hear
By private letters, that do not lind publication
as being too hcart-renufng and shocking to p
into print. N o savageS in the Pacific Ocei
could be capable Of 1oirg what these scou
ra drel mutineers have been guilty oil. Wom'
% and children have been slaughtered al
al maBgled in most cruel manner; young gil
Ie of IA, 10 and Ii years outraged by mutineel
nd | exhausted to death, the breasts and limbs C
I'D off, and parish dogs fed with the flesh Of tn,
A. victims. cut from their bunes--theSe acts ~
~ among numerous others that we learn by p
81 yate commandments victims English wOl
,.t en- and young Ladies', some only lately return
90 from England, thus treated before the eyes
on of their parents.
~ The English papers give numerous aceoul
the atrocities perpetrated on Europeans in |
nc dia. letter from Bungaloro says:
90 We have had an awful time OF it, | can
,ot sure you, though We ourselves have been mt
rh cifuly kept from alarm and danger. No wOr
1Il can express the feeling Of horror which pc
st- yadcs society in India, we hear so many pl
for waite accounts OF tie tragedy, which are Il
~, sickenng TO repeat.
A. The cruelties committed BY the wretches g.
,re coed all belief They took i0rty-t light ienal,
Nd. most Of them girls Of from ten to fourteen
n. many delicatety Eurtured ludies--YiUlate
'hS them, and kept them for the base purposes
oil the heads Of the Instruction for whole werB
Ia At the end Of that time they made them stri
il themselves, and gave them up to the lowest {
n the people, to abuse in broad daylight in til
N streets Of Ielhi. They then commenced tn
- work of torturing them to death, cutting o
IN their breasts, fingers and noses, and leaving
an them to die. One lady was three days dying
- They aayed the face of another lady and mad
her walk naked Il rough the street. POor Mrs
=, the wife OF an officer of the-regiment, II
le Meerut, was soon expecting her conlinemen
III al f4I h,4r ri, md ar nnf
N taking the unborn child, Cast it and her int
Z the flames. No European man, woman or CHI
. has had the slightest mercy shown them
y do not believe That the world ever witnessed
u more hellish torments than nave been lhnictt
ON our poor fellow -cuuntrywomen. AT All
)f babad they have rivAled the atrocities OF ID,
10 hi. | really cannot tell you the fearful cruz
Of ties IT, ese demons have been guilty oi-cuttl
d oil the fingers and toes OF little children, 20
~ by Joint, in sight of their par 'nts, who VIZ
s, reserved for similar treatment afterwards.
hd Another letter, speaking OF the outbreak
p at Ailahabad, says:
ep The officers were at mess when the wrctcl
:. sounded the alarm bugu to bring them to I
e's parade, and shot them down right and left
NJ Wretched murderers, may they receive tn
IL reward ! Nine poor little ensigns doing d.
my with the regiment were bayoneted to death
as the nessroom, and three of the officers "
10 escaped heard their cries AS they passed
no Poor boys, who had never given Oiirnse
lSy any native, nor caused dissatisfaction TO
inc Sepoys, Five officers were shot belonging
on, the regiment, besides the nine poor boys
anu Birch and Innes, with the sergeant major,
lou all IL military men, many merchants and 9th
were most cruelty butchered-in all SO Eu
:, peanS fell that night by the hands of murder
DS Sepoys. The treasury was plundered,
Nh ~ prisoners released from Jail, and the worl,
lhe destruction commenced. The whole stat
nee was destroyed, house after house plunde
esS and fired.