The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-02-07
Englisha versus American Inhumanity
In War.


The reproaches of the London Times
against our" civilization" are we'll answer
ed by the New York World, which says !:
" The dungeons OF the Tower the feshless
grinning skulls which, of old, formed the
appropriate ornaments of Temple Bar the
bloody assizes of Jeffries the ravages OF
Olaverhouse the massacres of Drogheda
and Glencoe the Indian tomahawk and
the scalpipg knife employed in our war Of
the Revolution the victims of the old Jer-
sey ship; the Hindoo rebels, whose living
bodies were rammed into mortars and fired
into the alr-all bear witness to the MUIR
derous revenge with which England visits
rebellion against her authority.
The London Times has ben the most
exercised in mind upon the barbarities of our
war, but the Times, four years since, APP
proved the blowing of mutinous Sepoys
from the mouths of cannon. Suppose, says
the Albany Journal, we summon witness
to testify to the "barbarities of war" ex-
emplifed in the conduct of England in put
ting down rebellion in India "a witness
whose veracity that paper will hardly ques-
ton William Howard Russell, cores
pendent of the London Times. That gen
tleman, in his " Diary in India" gives the
following incident of the treatment of the
rebels during that " bloody uprisiDg:"
A French General, in letter to Sir Colin,
expressed his regret at a certain violence at.
tributed to some of our officers ia cold blood
| presume abiding to HObsOn shooting the
Princes of Delhi, and things of that sort--but
he should know that here there is no cold
blood at the sight of a rebel. y
When Nellie marched from Allabahad, his
executions were so numerous and indscrimi-
nate that some of the officers attached to his
column had to demonstrate with him, on the
ground that if he depopulated the country he
could get no supplies for the men.-Diary; col.
l, page 222.
And again, the same witness deposeth
thus
The officer in command tBenaud) was emu.
lous of nellie, and thought he could show equal
vgor. In those days forty two men were
hange on the roadside, and batch of twelve
men were executed because their faces were
"turned the wrong way" when they were
met on the march. These seventies could not
have been justified by the Cawnpore massacre.
because they took place before that diabOli'
act. An officer demonstrated with Benaud,
on the ground that. if he persisted in this
course, he would empty the villages and rem
der it impossible to supply the army with pro-
visions.
The common mode of the punishment OF
the "rebels" in India was, as our readers
are we'll aware, to place them before the
muzzes of cannon and "blow them away
strewiDg the fields with their mangled and
blackened remains! As many as sixteen
of these horrid executions have occurred at
once. Entire regiments of Sepoys were
thus barbarously annihilated. The country
about Delhi and Lucknow became pestilen.
tial with the unburied carcases of these
wretchss.
And yet the people who applauded these
barbarities, from the press, pulpit and Par
lament House, as " energy in the suppress
sion OF the rebellion, have the impudence to
lecture us on the inhumanities of war!