Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-09-09

ATRoCiTY, ENGLISH AND INDIAN.-Thc English
press attempts /" excite the Indignation of the world
against the rebcliious Seoys by accounts Of The bar
bariteS which have been committed by the mntin-
Ii all that they report were true and hun
dred fold more it still would fall short of the horr
bic atrocities with which for hundred wears the
English have tortured the people of nda-atrocitieS
continued our dav and which, in all proba-
bity constituted the main excitement to the revolt
atrocities, may add. not committed in freak
Of passion or under the fierce excitement of sudden
release from control, but the cool brutality Of cal
culating avarice, planned by governmental councils,
decided after full discussion, and executed in mo-
ments of profound peace.
Nor have the English much for reproach
against the natives in the present instruction lar
Engshmen and are of course colored to suit preju-
dces of writers and readers. The poor Indian has
no counsel to represent him before the bar of the
world, and witnesses examined on his behalf,
yet there appears occasionally in the partial testmo-
ny of his foes some CLEAN of light showing tina. all
the cruelties not on one side The following is
an extract from a letter published in the London
Times from British officer in India:
"A force of Europeans with guns were sent round
the fort one of which, Meerdan was held by the
55th native infantry in open mutiny; they tried to
escape when force appeared, and some got off to
Swat, the others were made prisoners; $50
killed on the spot, nine tried by drum head court
martial and instantly shot, including native officer
Of regiment not in mutny who would not do as he
was ordered. Others driven into the hills and
killed by the hillsmen price of rupees being set
on their heads. The colonel of this regiment blew
out his brains in disgust at the mutiny. The villains
kept their officers II. confinement, and tod them if
they would try to escape they would roast them
alive. They did, however, manage to escape. The
force then went and dlsarmcd a'the other regiments
in the forts and quoted the district.
Some of the 900 prisoners of the 18Th have been
tried, and 6leeo forty Of them asoay from our
guns in the presence of the whole force three days
struck terror into their souls. Three sides of
square formed ten guns pointing outwards, the
sentence of the court read, prisoner bound to
each gun, the signal given, and the salvo fred
Such scene hope never again to witness-human
trunk, heads, legs, arms, &C., flying about in all d.
rections. All met their fate with frmness but two
who would not be tied up to save time they
were dropped to the ground and their brains blown
out by musketIy."
hate massacre at the fort, the bounding of the mu
tneers through the hills with price set on each
head the binding of human beings to the mouths of
loaded cannons, and blowing their quivering bodies
into fragments, the " dropping"-signifcant phrase
and Draining Of those refractory ingraes who did
not appreciate the kindness Of being blown to pieces
! from the lannon's mouth-we will, say match
this bloody against any of those instances of Sc
| poy brutality which have been communicated with
such heart-rending minuteness of detail, and such
| dramatic colonring to the British press.
TO be sure the villains merited all they got for the
hardened and savage wretches in the fury of passion
| revenged themselves for outrages running through
three generations of misery by keeping heir ctic-
in confinement and threatening (apt scholars IN
brutality to roast them If they attempted to escape"
Horrible wretchesi Pet. Dem.