The Irish standard., 1900-03-03
A HIDEOUS MASSACRE In HINDOsTAN
Slaugter of Women and Children
by Oliver Cromwell
AT FOOT OF wExFoRD'S HOLY CROSS
Engaged Indians Against the
American Patriots.

South African affairs appeal to us
more strongly than most people think.
Americas greatest curse came from
Africa; or, in other words, it was
brought from there by this same Eng
land that is now striving to shoot down
and stamp out the only two republics
on that vast continent, writes John ].
McCafferty in the Northwestern Cath
olic. The first negro slaves sold in
America were stolen-kidnapped-in
Africa by Sir John Hawkins about $50
years ago. Stealing negroes from Al
rica and selling them in the American
colonies became very profitable and
respectable; and many English mer-
chants made princcly fortunes in the
business-I might instance the two
Gladstones, the father and grandfather
of the "grand old man." The slave
trade continued both profitable and ere
spectacle" till w. L. Garrison, Wen
dell Phillips and that glorious band OF
fearless and patriotic abolition orators
shook the nation to its very foundation
with their own fervid clpquence and the
sound of the iron shackles falling from
the, limbs of the black chattel, made a
Tree man and sovereign citizen, by the
sword OF brother, and the cmancipa-
ton proclamation Of the martyred pres
ident. See the double crime of tearing
away from home and family the poor,
Ignorant negro and making him the
bond slave OF his white brother; and
that is what England did in the name OF
law and order; and she bequeathed to
us criminal institution which eventu-
ally drencl1cd this nation in the best
blood OF half million OF her bravcst
sons, and left us monument OF ma
tional debt that no living man will ever
see paid. In this, as in all her other
wars, England's chief reliance is in
three potent agents which have never
failed: corruption money, a poisoned
bullet and lying pen, more poisonous
still, to traduce and villify the victim on
whom size is about 10 pouIIrc. Though
claiming the front rank in the upward
and onward march OF progress, Eng
land is the barbarian OF civilization, and
you can easily see her car marks in her
savage acts of wanton cruelty from
the "most excellent pig sticking" OF
Elandslaagte back through hundreds OF
fields of carnage and rapinc to the mas
sacrc OF helpless women and children in
the valley OF Wyoming You may
think it is not fair to judge great ma
tion by the criminal acts OF "fcw
hair Drained officers" who may have
exceeded the scope of their authority;
but if the whole record is composed OF
a repetition and continuation OF the
same story, then the criminal nation
must stand justly convicted by her own
acts.
We will now see what light history
throws on this subjcct-and history,
too, doctored to shield the acts OF the
chief culprit. Let us go back to India
in 1859, when Lord Havelock had hun
dreds Of Scpoy mutinccrs chained to-
gether according to English standard
authors), and accompanied in few in
stances by their wives and children, tied
to stakes near to and in range OF the
cannon's mouth, when they were, on 4
given signal from the officer Of the day,
blown into eternity. Was Havclock a
chair Drained irresponsible"
Now let us review different age and
cline, and take up Prendcrgast's his
tory of the Cromwcllian settlements in
ireland and Froude's Anglo-1risf his
tory, both ultra English, who admit
(first cdition) that the English massa-
cred helpless Irish women and children
at the foot OF Wexford's public cross.
There was all old custom, prevailing at
that time, that if you could enter the
protecting door OF church or knccl at
the foot OF one of those town crosses,
you had reached haven OF safety that
the steel-clad messenger of death and
destruction was even bound to respect
Well, those simple women and children
gathered round that cross and prayed
for mercy, but were shot to death with
cold lead or were cut to pieces with the
sabre. The historian says some OF the
brutes took the babies from their moth
ers' arms and tossed them into the air
in order to show how scientifically they
could catch them, falling, on the points