Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-25

BARBARITIEs OF WAR.-AboIitiOn England
PIRATES oil her philanthropy, but NJ nation under
the sun has sanctioned such barbaritieS az she
has Her hireing indians to scalp the helpless
settlers ON our ironteers during the war OF 1912
was exceeded by her treatment of the rebellious
SepOys in 1851. So late as 1860 she stands by
and gives up prisoners to the most cruel tOrtureS
The following extract from letter written bv an
English soldier, describing an action between the
English and ImperAlists against the Taepings in
China, in 1860, pictures sickening scene of
horror:
went with the crowd to see the execution of
the Tapping prisoners that had been given up for
execution nio the hands o. the Mandarins by the
English end French authorities, or, what is the
same thing they took no measure to prevent the
ruthless butchery of those they lent their aid to
capture; when horror OF horrors! how am to de
scribe the dreadful scene, will it ever leave my
memOryI Among those wretches were young
and old, of both sexes, and of all ages and sizes,
from the infant recently born to the man OF
eighty, lettering on his staff; from the enceinte
woman to the young maiden from ten to eigh
teen. The latter were pushed out by the guards
among the crowd OF ruffans assembled, and
were taken into the sheds and by-placeS aud de-
bauched. and again dragged back by the hair of
the heads to the Chinese guards to await their
turn for execution. Some of them had tainted,
and were pulled along the ground to the execu
their clothes and ripped them from the lower part
OF the abdomen to the breast, which were dashed
with curse into their faces. The bowels, as a
matter OF course, gushed out, but the cut made
in such way and skilfully. and with such
pertness tina. the inteStines were seldom niW Ell.
Alter little time in this state of excessive tor
ture the executioner thrust his hand into the
chest and tore out the reeking heart, his victim
looking him in the face all the while.
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pre- nant, who never uttered groan or sigh at
all the previous cruelties she had endured from
the surrounding mob, had her infant cut out of
her womb. and held up in her sight bv oil its
little hands, bleeding and quivering; when at the
sight she gave one heart-rending, piercing screech
that would have awakened pity in tiger, and
after il had been in that stale dashed against her
breist, she, with IA last superhuman effort, re-
/ leased her arms from those holding her down,
and claspel her infant to her bleeding heart, and
died holding it there with such force that they
! could not be separated and were thus thrown to-
gether on the pile OF other carcaSses Another
young woman among the prisoners awaiting her
| turn TO be uIsembOwled, with fine boy OF ten
months old Growing and jumping in her arms had
him snatched suddenly away from her anu flung
to the executioner, who plunged the ruthless
/ knife into his tender breast before his mothers
eyes. Infants but recently born were torn
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before their faces Young men were d.sembow-
eled. mutiatej, and the parts cut oil thrust into
their own mouths, or flung among the adm'ring
and laughing crowd of Cinnamon. But mo- more:
] can write no more OF these scenes; can now
only regret forever that looked on the Dire ,diul
sight. am no longer fit to be soldier. | have
been in many battles during the last twenty
years, and III the thickest oil the fight in most OF
them, where rage and thirst tor carnage is
dreadful To reflect on afterwards; but nothing
heretofore that / have seen or heard OF, or even
read of. could be compared to the dreadful cruel
~ of the dsemboweling execution. Poor F.,
who came with me to see the execution tell
down in fainting fit, and was in that state
! ried away, and Is now raving maniac from the
effects the dreadful sight had on him. May God
forgive England for the part she is taking in this
war, and may the sin of her enormties she has
assisted in perpetrs'ng on the deienseless women
and innocent aud helpless child be removed from
her door.