The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-02-26
SPEECH OF HON. HENRY 8. LANE,
OF INDIANA,
On the Discharge Of State Prisoners.
DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES, DECEMBER 1s, 1862.
fConcluded.'

DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES, DECEMBER ls, 1867.
[Concluded.l
Iwish now for few moments to show
you that there is no instance in the whole
history of the world where rebellion
has been dealt with with SO much lenien-
cy and so much cemency. shall speak
Grst of the rebellion in India. During
the rebellion of 1857 and 1858, on the
7th of July, two men were shot and one
blown from the mouth Of a cannon. On
the 23d Of July three were hot after
having been tried by drum head court
martial upon tho battle, field. On the
Goth of November seventy six men were
shot at once. On the 23d of November
nineteen prisoners, in charge of a guard,
were slaug ghtcred in cold blood because
the officer said he needed the services Of
the guard in the field. On the 3Oth of
November three prisoners were blown
from the mouths of cannon, and twenty
three were shot by musketry. On the
10Th of December ore hundred and forty
five were shot at one volley On the I'd
May, 1858, FIVE hundred rebels were col
lected in fort at Pounta, and the gates
were blown open and every one killed.
During the Polish rebellion the garri.
son of Modlin and Zan,ose capitulated
with the assurance of full amnesty to
every person within the ramparts, but
all the Volhynians and Podolians, with
shavcn heads and branded with numbers,
were sent to the Siberian mines
allude to the treatment Of the rebels
in India to show the hypocritical cant OF
the statesmen and press of Great Britain
proposing to interfere here in the cause
of humanity for the purpose of ending
this war. | propose to refer to some
other passages in English history to show
how they have attempted to suppress re-
bcllon in Ireland and in Scotland.
Among those executed during the
Irish rebellion Of 1893 wcro Henry and
john Shcares, John McCann, Michael
w. Byrnc, Philip Roach, b. B. Harvey,
Cornelius Groghan, John Henry Col.
clough, Edmund Ryon, John Kelley,
John Redmond, Anthony Perry, Robert
Emmett, and Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
On the 30th of March martial law was
proclaimed throughout all Ireland, and
the Lord Lieutenant issued his proclama
tion that his Majosty's general officers
had orders to punish according to MARTA
law, by death or otherwise, as their judg
ment should approve, all persons acting
or in any manner assisting in the rebel
lion. Under this order military execu.
tions became the order of the day. Thosc
taken prisoners we're hanged without
ceremony At the little town Of Cavan
tiftytour prisoners were shot, and at
Dunlevcn thirty nine were shot. These
were military executions Of persons un
connected with the army-State prison
erS. There was at that time large mum
Der of State prisoners confined at Fort
George for three years until peace was
made between England and France.
| could produce the most shocking de-
tails of the manner in which the rebel
lion of l7t5 in favor Of the Pretender
was put down in Scotland; and it is per-
haps necessary to read a very short ex
tract from Chambers Scottish History or
that subject:
"a period of rapine and massacre nov
ensucd, upon whose details we would viii
lingly shut our eyes, bat which the dut.
of an historian compels US, however re
luctantly, to record. The general outlin
of the devastation as given in the heart
less publications Of the day, was simply
! that strong parties of soldiers, being dis
u patched into the counties of the variou
i insurgent chiefs, burnt all the houses
carried off all the cattle, and shot ever.
male inhabitant who fed at their ap-
proacl. But the filing up of the dread
5 ful picture comprises thousand hor-
!, rors.'
Thus it is that other Government
have dealt with ebeliors-rebellion no
so dangerous, not so serious in thel
character as the rebellion which threatens
the existence of this country. Anothe
fact | learn from history-that IN th
, suppression of rebellions in other coun-
tries, there is no single instance in whicl
the Government has not called to its all
every description of persons and ever,
possibly destructive agent known to civ
ilized warfare for the purpose of putin;
down the rebellion. / use that in an
y swer to the imputation upon the Repub
liean party that they arc willing to u.s.
slaves in the suppression Of this rebel
lion. | have no concealment upon tina
or any other subject. | desire to spcal
out precisely what l as an honest man d.
believe. l believe that as yet there i
h no necessity for the employment of ne
: groes for the purpose of suppressing tn
d rebellion; but if the necessity shall exis
k hereafter, We have perfect right to EN-
d ploy their services; nay, more, it will b
our bounden duty to do SO. | woul
~ rather that a rebel master should fall b
the hand of his slave than that he shoul
q live to overthrow my Government, or t
N N destroy the life of my brother upon tn
VI l..lo GolJ Gentlemnn who ara sn fas