The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-24
THE CONDITION. OF 3Nh1A.


they occurred, and III Ter the pec9jiar circum-
stances by which h and his s Jartan band
we're surrounded, wer of tie Greatest possible
Importance. If wo and exhausted detach-
ment of English troop can this put to fight
myriads of the enemy what wi be the fate of
the Sepoy rebels, whf the m .gej6cent army
on its way to India T, ,ches tn, disturbed dis
stricts?
The moral effects these carly retributive
victories will be great and advi ntageous to the
English. The Londc Post, If September l,
speaks as follows of :eneral iIaselocks con-
ficts with the insurge is:
gan former advanf ,ges gained in the field
, meant that our outnu Jbered and scattered gar
risons then and there made good their resist
ance that they held heir ground that they
were not overpowered when 1t came to fighting
that the rebels had NJ trappled them under
foot, despite the prod ious 6ispron triton of the
respective material re 1ourceA. In its very ma
ture and essence, Gre /. Have)ocks operation
differs from these her &c exploits; i is an ag
gressive movement is the drst. aggressive
movement since the II 1tiny beEan, and it has
been successful in the highest DEF rec. What
makes it still more satisfactory {, that this
blow-this first offensiSe bow-'haA been struck
against Mana Sshib limself-Ehe eaitiff who,
amidst the atrocities aich have sif usized this
rrevolt, has already con rived to attatn an aborn-
Unable preeminence. Until now, &c may say,
with strict exactness, hat the mUKineers who
succeeded in surprisins and treachS eously MUIR
dering their officers a. Meerut-wh, succeeded
in selling Delhi-in lassacreing women and
children-in surprisin the feeble stations of
Cawnpore, and in SEQ ring the h7rthern dis
tricts OF Dude, have ht all the first moves in
the game to themselve The repulSe Of their
SOrtieS, the .forestGiEil z eUea of their attack
upon Agra, and all Il Othkr exploits of Our
gallant and faithful b 2opS tcere successes only
in this SenSe-ttat the oebelS, on their side, had
not succeeded; that tht had made eertain dis
ttnct attempts, and Met 3 had failed We could
hitherto undertake not sing; what he Sepoys
undertook, whenever Il ey had to come into d.
rect collision with co nplete European force,
however small, broke Z ,wn everywhere. That
was necessarily the SUI: of our various wrestles
with the first violence e this outbreak.
Very different is pbe performance of the
small new force under Major Renaud, Captain
Msude, of the artillery, from Ceylon, and Gen.
Havelock. While still exhausted with the des-
perate forced marches ghich had effected their
junction with each otl err they were assailed
(belng under four tho jsand. strong, eighteen
hundred of that numbe Europeans) by Mana
Sahib, whose numerouSAnd ftrocious battalions
were still reeking with he carnage perpetrated
IN defiance of the sole nm oath that had but
just before passed his cps. But he fell upon
this wearied and CON 2sratively srrall body,
only to meet with Ct lshing overthrow So
complete was it, that h ! was obliged to leave
eleven of the guns viii, n he had brought with
! him in the hands of tn conQuerors, who pur-
sued him to Cawnpore, and out of it, and out
OF the entire province, forcing him twice to
turn to bay, and twice gain routing him upon
the field, with less Of fifteen more Of his guns,
until he was chased b. OK into Bitboor, from
which he had originally issued on his mission
of treachery and murde -
The fate of the insur ents is already sealed.
We may read it in tn tone of the English
press. With few ex options, the English
journals call for tern pie punishment to be
inflicted upon the rebels Even Mr.. Mail, of
the NOncOnt0rmist, a man holding peaceful
sentiments made speet recently upon Indian
affairs, which called fory, praise from the Lon
don Times. To satisfy we public feeling, the
Sepoys must pay teri BILE penalty for their
crneltieS. 1t is not becs ise they have rebelled,
but because they have t, ,ated the u, fortunate
Europeans who have f, len into tn ,ir hands
with hideous, devilish c5uelty, For this they
will, and ought to be, LJnished An English
officer in India writes:
"Were to write yv, an account of the
awful deeds the nutinSsrs have petpetrated, |
you would .not, could not believe it. such hor
rible, indescribable ba.barities we've surely
never perpetrated before
: 7 4" You in England will not hear the worst
for the truth is so swfuS that thA newspapers
dare not publish it. Thy sodier1 are furious.
and, whenever they get Ut the Ilutineers, de-
pend upon 1t the revenge will be Commensurate
with the outrages that .aused it. Very little
sis said among the men officers-the subject
is too maddening but iere is r curious ex.
preston discernible in very faee when it ia
.mentioned-a stern CO OPPRESSION of the lips
and a fierce glance of th eye, which show that.
when the time comes, n. mercy viii be shown
20 those who have show none"
= He then proceeds to describe two cases of
shocking barbarity the letails of viii h are 80
horrible that we cannot uote them. The Eng
Ssh papers are full of th ,se atrocities vet the
worst is not told, and co mot be print ID. Who
can blame the English n making an example
Of such fends-an exam pie to be remembered
a century in India2
One or two of the En-, lish journals and Ger.
lain American newsp pers alFay, writing
against England, talk : conGlatior and. in
advance, censure the Er .lish Govern ment for
the severity of the punt hmens to be inflicted
upon the barbarians OF Indis. It trikes us
that if the relatives of ese writer's lad only
shared the fate of the en- Women, and chill
siren, of England, who b came the Or " of the
revoliing troops, they VIZ aid call IS ,stily for
he punishment of the avishers al, murder
'rs as the English peopl do.
Men who will in this ye ravish an hack to
pieces innocent women, nd butcher tile chill
dren, should be swept from the ia of the
earth. When these emo mites have cen pun.
shed, 1t behooves the Irish Cover ,ment to
snaugurate new polio, for india. The old
<ast India Company she I'D net hive the care
af that great Empire, bu it should c.. ne under
Che direct care of the &c ;ernment an the peo
pie of England. Heret, fore, 3 sc, o. jnoneyed
gentlemen have farmed udia site, IL fashion
<6f broken-down Virgin planter. che Gov
Fnment should treat it' as a gr(JAt province,
ieyelop its resources, Civ just anf equal laws
ID its inhabitants and KEEP at hon e ristocrat-
]; nobodies. 1t is sing liar fact, that in those
rovinces where the Inc ia Cover an mt inter.
fred decisively with tie caste re .ulations,
!. polishing them altogeG .er, there a, no dis
slrbsnces; and from the lower clt IS, of these
: rovinces they now get their tru sti. st native
oops; and in the revolt ng distril ts, ,hey tam
cred with caste or rath r. bowed before It A