Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-09-25
The Unparalleled Horrors
/. OF THE WAR IN INDIA.
Startling Atrocities by The MutineGrs.
THE sarrrsH LION RoARs FOR VENGEANCE


THE BRrTrsH LION RoARs FOR VENGEANCE
Tho London Times, of August
Goth, says:
y y We trust that nothing short
Of necessity will be allowed to limit
our scale of armaments for the East.
We have not merely to re-conquer
strong positions and extensive dis
tricts-not merely to destroy some
fifty regiments of treacherous and
cowardly mutineers-not merely ~
chastiso and terriiy inIo Submission
independent princes, numerous con-
tingonts, crowds OF irregulnrs, whole
trlbes OF robbers aud murderers, and
u population naturally apt ~ side
with the strong-but, more than all,
we have 10 perform III tho eyes OF the
world, and Tor tho boncnt OF the
human race, tremendous act OF ven
goance. England, religion and civil.
cation, have received the most in
lolerable insult that Mohammedan ~.
natlcism could deviso la systematle
series OF deliberato brutssiitios OH
European women aud children. -
Throughout ali tho Enst this is the
particular modo OF expressing thc
utmost nutlOnul seorn aud defiance
A people, IL Is there iolt, that cannon
or dvvs not ehvOso 70 protect anu
avonge It's women, Is no people ut all
"A In Al. a
Ihr MUhulnlnvdans 0l every ulnss dU
not allow thor women to pc scvn by
the eye oE man, and hvwhoro ~ tue
surupue 10 strong ~ In lllndoostun,
where even Iurhs and Pvrsluns ar.
thought eee runned, However dlssO'
iuts MI OLD Begun may be--and som.
vi them are something extraordinary
IA this way-Mheruvur she gOos cur
tains aud drapvries must protect hei
from the prvlanation of male eyes
In various less settled districts vi
Hindoostan-kajpoonta for instanc,
--whero the state of society makes II
difficult ~ protect women from insult,
II is customary 10 destroy most female
infants, Ia order W prevent what
would DO u Disgrace ~ tho tribo, bu.
which fee would always, ior that
reason, bo read y " perpetrato. Now,
we Ia India stand III this respect OH
tender ground. They cannot under
stand, th, ugh to certain extent,
they envy tilo freedom OF Onr female
society. But this IL the particular
point ON which they hold US most
accessible " insult, and accordingly
tho native Journals have always beeii
tull OF the most scandalOus llbels
upon English ladies. Balls, picnies,
morning calls, and every OCCASION Oh
which English genllemen aud ladies
sec ono another, arc continually
recorded with malicious additions,
There can be no doubt oil n design ia
the horrors committed OH our women
and girls; and, II there were any
doubt II would be removed by the
manner aud method which has been
deliberately adopted. II ought To be
known, reluctant as we arc 10 tell II,
that the women and unmarried girls
who fell into tho hands of the mutt
neers and popnlace OF Delhi were
carried in procession for hours through
the chief thoroughiares OF the city,
with every horror that could degrade
them in the eyes OF tho people, previ.
GUS TO the last brutalitics and cruel.
ties that then, in tho sight OF thous,
ands, were perpetrated upon them.
IL was done OF settled purpose, %
degrade England, TO degrade Europe
10 degrade a Christian Empire, and
II Christian Queen. Now We say II
after full dollDeration, and with due
regard 10 tho objections always forth.
coming against any real aud ettectual
policy, that not ono stone OF that city
should be left upon another. Delhl
should tor tho future DO known only
IN history rs Soddom and Gomorrba
so that It's place shall not be known
Hero il moro Of the samo sort
isl fFrom the London Post Aug ssl
We have this morning received
from our Marseilcs correspondent
ample details confirmatory OF the in.
teillgence already published by th,
government. There can now be no
doubt respecting the melancholy fat,
of tho gallant SIR Hugh Wheeler anu
tho garrison OF Cawnpore. We ARE
oven furnished with tho names oi
many killed thero in u massacre
which stands out in horrible and
bloody relief even amongst the trago.
dies which each mail now records
The blood thirsty Nina Sahib has
murdered tho whole oil that uniortu.
nate garrison, amongst whom were
two hundred aud forty helpless
women and children. 1t Is hardly
possible on roceiptof such intelligence
10 write or thinx OF IL with any dcgre,
of patience or calmncss. Ii makes
the blood run cold, and burn agaiu
with the hottest desire for vengeance
that u nation ever felt. There II
hardly u family IN Great Britain that
has not a relation in India. Already
thousands are plunged into mourning
Tor their deaa--kllled with torture
Apart from ties oil blood, their is moi
an Englishman who would not will
ingly volunteer his liie In what has
become a sacred cause. Gladly we
paid our taxes for the honor OF Eng.
Iand in the Russian war; but what
IN this case is money. Ii IL wore
wanted II would DO forthcoming in
ready millions, At any sacrifice, W,
must have OF these demons blood foi
blood, and we will teach the trcach
crous Asiatic n lesson so fearful thai
he shall cover and tremble at IL u
long as history LASTS In the mean
time, time, space and seasons tetter US
We are yet doomed TO read many
mails OF horror before we can learn o
the arrival ofour troops and oftheil
/ - IL.