The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-10-10
ENGLISH REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE IN A
NEW FORM

The influence of Exeter Hall is rapidly on the
wane in England. The following significant article
appears in a late number of the Liverpool Times:
when the outbreaks in India have been queled as
queled they must be- the question will arise what shall
do with the mutineers2 The massacres there have
been horrible and accompanied with atrocities on
and children revolving to all our notions of
warfare that terrible punishment is certain to overake
lvge numbers of the offenders Public opinion will JUS
ty fearful rerbution and the example which will be
made will human blood to flow like water. Strong
this feeling is at home it must be still stronger and
fecer in India for there females maddened at the
scenes which they have witnessed and of those of which
they have heard have lost the characteristic sofness and
clemency of their SEX and become warriors in feeling if
in reality The muset and the gibbet will take
pie revenge the wrong doers and the sacrifice of hui
life cannot fail under the most favorable circum-
stances to be prodgous Everything that transpres
calculated to whet the appetite for vengeance and order
will not reign again In Bengal until the wretched natives
have felt the strength Of England's power.
But we cannot shoot, hang, or cut down 100, 900
men. We may make an example which will be
membered in all future time, but cannot degrade
ourselves to the level Of the savages whose horrible
atrocities countrymen and countrywomen have
appalled, the nation through its length and breadth JUS
tce will be indicated by the destruction of the leaders
of those who proved to have been more forward than
their followers in the butchees of which India has been
the scene With need of retributon which will amply
satisfy the stoutest sckers for blood of thousands
of offenders will still remain, and the next best punish
ment would be to deport these men from India forever
10 transport them term it here, for the term of
their natural lives to far distant land, where the
nembrance of their crimes would haunt them forever
and where they would be compelled by enforced labor,
to make fitting atonement for the evil they had CON-
mitted
We want labor in the West Indies and the scarcity
Of labor compes the planters of the West to send to the
East for ito hire Asiatcs free laborers and give
guarantees that they shall be sent home if they desire it,
at the end of given number of years. Punish the mu-
tneers by transporting them in thousands during their
existence TO this part of possessions The island Of
Jamaica and the mainland of British Guiana would alb
scrb mainly the Indian and the British government
could deport within reasonable time after the suppress
sion Of the Y revolt We cannot what objection
be urged To tn proposal
"our pb;Iantbr fists, dreadng revival of the slave
trade will NOT allow an -portaton of free blacks into the
West Indies but here are avcrtheless criminals guilty
OF the highest crimes known to "iiAeu ooicy, Mnose
hVes by their base and bloody treacho. are 70
the State punishment like this wou.r she nerfor
into the Mohammedans and Hndoos Of British uos ior
generations yet unborn and itseems to us the mos. '
oe and at the time the most lcnien mode Of pun
Shment which can be imagined