Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07
Cruelty Of England.

titled "English Rule in India, in whicl
detailed account is given of the start
ling cruelty of the punishments whicl
English officials inflicted upon the Sepoy
Rebels. What an excitement there woulC
be if General Butler should exhibit any
thing like the stringeney reported in thest
extractsl
Individual seventies were but parts Of
a general system. Prisoners were blown
from the cannon's mouth, or hanged with
scarcely the formality of trial. Il
seemed as though the only system Of
dealing with the natives was that of vii
lage burning and hanging. "The glib
bet is a standing institution among US,
wrote an English resident at Benares.
.aTBere il stands Immediately |ihI front Of
the flag, with three ropes always attached
to it, so that three may always be execu-
ted at one time"
The authorities at Calcutta could not
even procure lists of the numbers and
crimes of the slaughtered multitudes.
Vengeance fell especially upon the Sc
Ipoys as "a class. Whole regiments, which
had not even mutinied, were extermina-
ted. Thus the 26th native infantry ran
away yiH-a panicZat seeing their major
killed by fanatic. The fugitives wero
pursued for forty miles; many were
drowned on coming to a river which they
#Fsretoo much e2b aHstsd by fa6ghel and
hunger to be able to swim. Some hun
dreds surrendered and were hacked to
pieces in squads Of eight or ten forty
FIVE were suf6cated in a bastion, into
which they were thrust without food or
water, and the dead bodies were flung
into a IdryEellE4a fitting pendant, it was
said, to the well at Cawnpoor.
Sir Robert Montgomery, the same wri-
ter, hoped Hobson would bag more o.
he 6aibi S2i5eas.5 5jcis{b S1at,, ,IS+ "a {,iss5b-
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tbousapd men. adding aTbree other
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eipbed Ioudlv against the Rebellion and
onhscatlon acts passed by our Govern {
lent, which are, nevertheless, mid IN {
and guarded IN execution COM !
ared with those passed by the English =
My five years ago. By these, powers
ere conferred upon any one of an indef-
raater than those Which We we have Grant {