The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-09-12
Affairs in India.

The atrocities committed by the natives, and the
terrible revenge taken By the English when they
have had an opportunity, is something fearful 10
| contemplate A clergyman at Bingalore gives the
following idea OF the hellish 6endishness Of the
| natives:
| "The cruelties committed by the wretches ex.
coed all belief They took iorty-eight females
most of them girls of from 10 to IA, many deli
cately- nurtured lades--vlolated them, and kept
them for the base purposs of the heads Of the in
| surrection for a whole week. At the end OF that
| time they made them strip themselves, and gave
them up to the lowest of the people, TO abuse in
broad daylight in the streets of Delhi. They then
commenced the work of torturing them to death,
cutting off their breasts fingers, and noses, and
leaving them to die. One lady was three days
dying. They fayed the face of another lady, and
made her walk naked through the street. Poor
Mrs. 1900, the wife of an officer of the regiment
at Meerut, was soon expecting her accouchment
They violated her. then ripped her up, and taking
from her the unborn child cast it and her into the
flames
No European man, woman, or child has had the
slightest mercy shown them. l. do not believe
that the world ever witnessed more hellish tor
| ments than have been inhic ed upon our poor
countrywomen. At Allahabad they have rvalled
| the atrocities of Delhi. | really cannot tell you
the fearful crueltes these demons have been guilty
of-cutting off the fingers and toes of little chill
dren, joint by joint in sight of their parents, who
were reserved for similar treatment afterwards"
| letter from an officer in the army at Alfalfa
bad, of June %, says
/ "You can have no idea of the awful weather
and Of our sufferings from the heat we sit with
wet clothes over our heads, but the deaths from
sunstroke continue large. The dreadful scourge
cholera has also broken out, and we have lost al.
ready seventy fighting men. We buried twenty,
three nights ago at one funeral, and the shrieks
nfth In Ayin
ladies who were living over the hospital died, I
| believe from fright. We have now got about 400
men outside the fort, and the disease is certainly
| on the decline. EE
"Up to to-day we have had little to eat, indeed,
would not have fed dog with my yesterday .
breakfast, but our mess and the headquarters ar
rived yesterday, and our fare was much better
today All the village people ran away, and any
one who had worked for the Europeans these muir
derers killed, SO if the population was to man
against us, We should stand but bad chance. A
poor baker was found with both his hands cut oil
and his nose slit, because he had sent in bread to
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At large meeting held in London to take
measures to relieve those who have suffered from
the ravages of the mutneers in India, Judge Hall
burton, formerly of Nova Scotia, said:
| Sc have no mawkish sensblity in my nature.
don't cry out Shame! against the punishment OF
| those wretches that have surpassed in cruelty all
that history can produce. (Cheers.) am myself
by birth and by education British suhject-a
native of North America, and am conversant with
the history OF that country from it's first discovery
by Columbus to the present day. / have known
the aborigues and have read of their wars with
the white man; but nothing in the whole history
OF British North American has equalled that which
is recorded Of the proceedings in India at this
day.
All the tortures, all the violence of the red
devils, as they may be called, of the American
forest, are merely childish when compared with the
outrages that are committed in India therefore
trust, although there may not be- blood-thirsty
punshments, that the punishments will be adequate
to the enormity Of the crimes committed. CHEERS.
But that is not now the subject with which We
have to deal. There are thousands of our fellow
creatures in Distress and an appeal is made to US
for aid. (Hear, hear) 1t is an appeal which ]
take upon myself as native of British North
America, to say will be heartily responded to il
that country"