think that there never was such wickedness in the world; and the incessant efforts of a gang forgers and utterly base scoundrels have surrounded with horrors that have been vainly nvented in the hope of adding to the indignation and burnıng desire for vengeance which hatred failed to arouse. surrendering without condition have been massacred ere now. The history of Medeaval Europe affords many instances of orimes as great as those of Cawnpore. The history of the more civiliısed periods could afford some parallel to them in more modern times and amid most civilised nations. In fact, the peouliar aggravation of the Cawnpore massacre was this-that the deed was done by the subject race, by black men who dared to shed the blood of their masters and that of poor help- less ladies and children. Servile War and a sort of Jacquerie combined, but we had a war of relhgion, revenge, of hope, of national determınation to shake off the yoke of a stranger and to reestablish the full power of natıve ^chiefs and the full sway of natıve religions."Russell's Diary, Page 164. Helpless garrisons- Here we had not only a a war of race and a war of सं. ३८ पू. २६८ "Revolt had, in consequence swept before it, in many cases all regard to personal interest and all at- tachment to the former master remainıng faithful to Government n such cırcumstances have been intolerable. It is well-known that the few Sepoys who have remained in qur services are deemed out-castes, not only by their oomrades but their cáste people in general. These even say they can not ven- ture to go to their home: for, not only would they be reproached and denied brotherly office, but their very hves would be ın danger. "--Rev. Kennedy The imputations. of सं. ३९ पू. २८९ It is related that, in the absence of tangible ene- mies, some-lof our soldiery, who turned out on this
