Year: 1865

When the dramatiSt, Bourcicault, the author
Of - London (and his OWN Assurance seized
upon the mythical story of the Scotch woman at
the siege of Lucknow, who had such keen ear
for the " slogan of the Macgregors, as she called
it. he likewise culled from the ranks of the
swarthv ilindoos a hero of such revolving mien
that half the Eastern world hears his dread name
-Nena Sahib-wth shudder. But this man
native of the land Of the palm, above
which waved the St. George of England
and fred by dread impulses to avenge the wrongs
of ages under which his people had toiled, he
emulated retaliation by perpetrating the very
same style of outragcs perpetrated by the civil


lied savage, Hastings, nearly century ago. He
had plant servants who took delight in obeying
their master hehests, and at his command the
wl;itc men and women of the Lahore were del
uged by fire. murder robbery. and violence of
every description.


On our own continent we had. in former years,
Brandt and Tecumseh, Indian chiefs whose motto
steel to the bosom and flame to the roof.
They ravShcd and slew the beautiful and the
brave they made many lovely village to be-
come smouldering heap of ashes. The stern
leaders of our nation army, who finally suhdued
these blood-thirstv wretches, were horritied at
the atrocities perpetrated by them. But they
have one ray Of light lin the darkness of their
record. and has the Sepor chieftain, whose
cleaning yataehan grew rusty with the blood of
European women. They never starved prisoner
to death In the day when all the wicked deeds
of a crime -burdened world shall be brought to
light, the great Father of Right shall discriminate
between the sayages of Wyoming and Cawnpore,
on the one hand, and the civilized brutes of An
dcrsonvle on the other


Writ, of Andcrsonyle, the keeper of the
horrible Golgotha that sickens the grossest
butcher and causes the midnight murderer to
shudder the very mention of its name. is now
trial at Washington. He is charged with vio-
latng the laws of civilized, if not barbarous
warfare, in shooting down or causing to be shot
down helpless prisoners soldiers of the National
army of America. and also with starving to
death other prisoners who had not the good for
to be shot, but we're left to die OF the awful
thirst, fever and insanity. that charactcrizes
starvation The details OF TIE evidence are dis
gusting and sickening in the extreme and almost
forbid republication. Brutality became sublime
under the regency of this monster, and horror
ruled alike the long arid day and the bitter frosty
nj ght Human beings obliged to dig holes
in the ground to keep from freezing and were
fed on food 10 better than carrion.


If Wrtz We're on trial in California, or in any
place where line of this paper might prejudice
human Justice against him. should forbcar
mention Of the matter. But removed aS we are
from the scene of his trial. We say that if he is
acquitted and let loose then, in the name Of
crime that ovcrrides virtue. let there be general
iail deliver from the 81 Crox to the Rio Grande.
and from the Columbia to the Colorado. If
crime is heroism. exalt him far above all other
criminals that ever have lived since God made
the universe Exalt him. We are in favor Of
r3ising him-with 4 rope