Show THE tiie BRITISH IN w INDIA INDZA mr charles buxton al P in an address to his constituents at newport jele isle of wight said allow me to say a word or two on our treatment of the indian rebels because my speech on that subject vexed is as I 1 feared it would some of my friends gentlemen I 1 refrained from telling all I 1 knew on that subject I 1 blushed for forona or r national fame as a and christian people but bu down here in this corner I 1 ma may I 1 mention one or two things that I 1 d did i not ilie lite like ilke to relate in the hoube house how many persons do xou you think we executed in the one city of Ala Ald habad babad lust just realize the aa fu horror borror of but orle one exe execution eption the fearful mental agony of the man mail who mho feels the rope tied round his bis neck aid the drop fall in that one city we executed in n cold blood thirteen hur bur hundred dred persons shamel ih ili the where abere no out outrage rageL whatever was committed we execl executed t fue thousand persons I 1 read that myself in a letter froin sir sie john lawrence Is it not awful aw ful fui to think of hall hail stinging gilig and shooting five thousand human bliman beings and if i this was done in the aub hat what bat must haye baye been I 1 ione lone done in bengal where rebellion really raged why we seem to have put pat to death without mercy percy an any man who tork side against us for instance a rajah had saved the lives ilves of ir tr mitchell mit Mif chell cheli and other Europe europeans aris atis but under compulsion as be he said be aided the rebels he was caught and hadged I 1 knew the family of an officer of the oe bhopal bhogal contingent they told me that when the contingent muth led two hundred of them with great difficult saed saved the life of this gentleman and his brother officers and also refused to marc march marck off and take arms with the mutineers muti well genera arri veil veit and what did he do but put to death these very two hundred men on the ground that they haa bad not fought against their and 1 I heard mr layard give an accost of their execution ec ution which was heartrending heart rending to hear hearp fahame shame shar shat bhame shame fie A friend of my own wrote home with glee how he had bad destroyed eighty villages I 1 read a letter from a soi sol soldier sollier ller iler lier who said that tha after kafter a wholesale massacre of their prisoners they flung their bodies into a pit and covered them over one of them recovered his senses and andi came wandering into camp camil he was again shot the next morning all alt about head bead men of every village rethe telegraph had bad been broken were hanged banged though they had no more adre to do with it than I 1 had I 1 said in the house and I 1 say here again that the men who did that did murder i f |