Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-10-21
Had Poet.

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hartln karQuahar Upper, whose strains, II
Is reported, were too severe on the Atlantic
cable, hss since perpetrated some lines on the
taking Of Delhi, and on what was 10 be done
with 10 after Its capture. Certain editors and
correspondents Of London journals, vsntured
to intimate that The lines and lucubrations Of
the Z" Powerful Philosopher" were not poetry,
although, as they certainly did not constitute
good prose, we are at a loss where to locate
Them. Whereupon Martin Farqushsr Upper
thus responds 10 his critics and censureFs, in
prose, which is certainly INTEL gibls, and 10 so
mnch preferable 10 that peculiar shape and
arrangement Of lines and capital letters, which
be regards as poetry. he writss to the Lon
don NetCs:
&" have been honored b. the abuse, public
and private, Of that bittsrest among mankind,
the Professional humsnitsrians. Their letters
with characteristic coWarlice usually anon
mous) crowd ny waste-paper basket and
their smiabie journals and iractates, olive
bTaHebst and dove-like and. OverloWing with
tie souTest milk Of human kindness, fnd their
pleasure in deVoting your present humble cor
respondent not simply to the scorn Of men, but
I also body and soul to eternal judgment. But
dad not take up my pen to answer these pal
try creatures, who mistake vulgaritv for wit,
spell neekness az if it were written msanness.
and whose morbid spirit Of compassion yeerns
over crime in the exact proportion Of its afro
city. | despise their censure, and denOunce
their doctrine. Mercy to Repentance is the
Christian motto so ike wise is Justice 70 ia
grant and impenitent Guilt.
My object, then, in troubling you with my
handwriting this morning, is merely 70 vindi-
cate in prose the stern sentence which has 50
offended that most feeble part Of our eommu-
nifty ia rhyme, to-Eit, when, please Providencs
We eau accomplish it, the sack Of Delhi.
"in spite Of the drsbbest denunciations, and
without any fear OF the 1ost brosd-5rimmed
dsiiverings-over to Satan in consequence, | wish
deliberately to advocate thar We destroy those
muTdersrs and burn up their city, No doabt,
II It be possible, (and the Just humanity Of our
troops and their commanders Willhave the same
thought iatgitively sslf-suggssted on the spot)
| could desire that a proclamation previously
ran through Delhi, calling upon the innocent to
take advantages OF some set means Of escape
that they be not psrtakers Of the pisgue.' IL
women and children can any how be spared,
who would not prefer it2 But ~unhaDpiiy, as
the rebels Would suppose that we wanted 10 re-
taliste on them the tortures INDICTED on our in-
~nocsnts, fear that the very advertisement Of
their immunity would only sscIre FOR then in
slant m8ssacre at the hands Of M~ussulmans.
Il were wiser to RELY on the average kindness Of
English soldiers towards women and children.
suppose, also, that whenth day of retrihntion
has fully come, the few that are our friends in
Delhi land there ought to be also some still
surviving native Christians thsre) viii have
opportunity at last given them TO leave that
ioomei city, and flee 70 ~ ia safety for their
lives.
With these limitations, let Dslhi be wiped
out let every muiineer in arms against Us, and
every man among the rabbla that helped, even
BY his eountenance,i in those unuttera6le afro
cities, and every sdheEent Of the Little Mogul,
himself included, be utterly destroyed, as soon
as practicable, BY FIRE and sword, or if kept till
next morning, be less honorably hung. Let the
whole property Of the city be given Up as law
ful pii.ege 10 our soldiers; let every house be
Quilted. and the palace made a ruin let tie IA
nous Iron Lath, Of a thousand years Old, that
marks for the Moslsm their centre OF the
earth, be uprooted, and set up as al antiqusri-
an curiosity IN the court yard Of our British
Museum /; and let a plain white marble cross Of
gigantic d.mensions, and inscribed With the
names Of all our men, and children mar
tyred before the shriaes Of Nahomet aud Yishnu
In this most atrociOus instruction, be erected
in the stead Of that sc-cailed Sacred Iron Lsth
az the K1tub MiHar.
And 90 may tie who guards the right bless
England and her children that have behaved so
nobly in this crisiSI May the God OF battle
give to oursvengiDg armies tie sword Of Joshua
and Gidscnlo
We recommend Mr.. TurPsr for the frs: va
eancy il the army before D5ibL-