New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-21
"BARBAROUs WARFARE"

From The Abdap Eteais7 JoHraoi
THE BARnAHrrY or .rfs WAR-Tte LnnGoa Times has
beer much exercised IA mind upon tn. barbarian which
Tie war was bringing upon as The on instances which it
dce'thch it considered assault upon humanity although
few thonsand dollars would remedy all the mischief caused
ny n-and The prospect OF decaa.ioH OF ecnancipI,
onte last thing would nay, that an Ensh.msn would
hud faul, with.
And this from Journal which, four years ago, ap-
proved the blowing of mutinous Sepoys from the
mouths Of cannon Suppose Se summon awitness to
testify TO the I" Barbartles of War az exempliied
in the conduct of England in putting down rebellion
in India-a witness whose yeracty that paper will
hardly question-Wam Howard Russell, corre-
spondont Of Tie London Times. That gentleman,
in bis" Diary in India, gives the following incident
OF the treatment of rebels during that bloody up
rising:
"A French General In letter to Sir Colin expressed lis
regret that certain yccnce attributed 10 scue Of our oicers
IN cold bood pre.ume abiding to Hooson shooting tire
that here e-- is no cold blood at the tight Of rebel
Whra Noile marched from Alahabad' his execr-
tons we're and iudiacmn1e, thst Of tho
office attached to hi, colnmn had rrmon,tas with him.
or tho ground that If he dePopuaed tie country he could GET
supple, for thu men" lDisry. vol l. psse1!1
And again, the same witness deposeth thus;
1.-THE officer In command (R.nsud was emulous Of Nee
and thought could show equa vgor In days forytwo
men ~ere hsnsed on the aud batch Of me-
executed because their turned the wrong
way when they met the march. These seventies
could not have been justified bv the Cawupoe massacre be-
they tor place before that dsbocsl act IN ofhcs
demonstrated With kenaud che yound tha, II he persisted
IN this course he would empty the yllgcittd reader I'M
possible to supply the army with PROVISIONS"
In another instance, Mr.. Russoll informs Va, help
less boy leading blind msn, sought the protection
OF an officer of Fusilcers, when the latter drew his
revolver snapped it at the wreched suppliants
heai-but il missed hre-cocked aud snapped IL again
and again, until the fourth time, when it went on
aud the A" boy q life-tood slowed at his feet
The common mode Of the punishment OF the
Rebels in India WIS, az our readers are well
aware 10 place them before the muzzles Of cannon
aud elbow them away" sirewing the fields with
their mangled and blackened remains As many as
sixteen Of these horid executions have occurred nj
once. Entire regiments Of Sepoys were thus bar
barou-ly aunibilated. The country about Delhi and
Lucknow became postileutia with the unburied car
cases Of these wre'ehes.
And yet tho moral sense" Of Englishmen was
not outraged. Tn. Times urged the necessity oil
desfrotiag the Sepoy regiments. The London IHH'-
rafed Ners gave screaming pictorials Of executions
at tic cannon's mouth Tie energy" with which
the Government put down the rebellion WIS sp-
plaudcd by the pulpit aud the press. We conyersed
with several colouis's flesh fom tie scene OF war,
who related stories with the utmost nonchslaree OF
whole villages exterminaed, aud whole Districts de-.
populated, by an eyasrerated soldicry.
And the people who apf'auied these barbarlties
have the impudenco TO lecture us on the inhumanie s
of war