The Indian Rebellion; Its Causes and Results

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1858 Excerpt: ... merit, literally nowhere. Instead of peace and tranquillity, security of life and property, under its sovereign and benign sway, universal anarchy, turbulence, and ruin! the military stations in possession of armed and blood-thirsty mutineers; the public treasures rifled; the habitations of the British residents plundered and reduced to ashes; numbers of British officers, with judges, magistrates, women and children, butchered with revolting cruelties; the remanent portions of the British that have yet escaped, cooped up in isolated spots, and closely hemmed in by myriads that are thirsting for their blood; while bands of armed ruffians are scouring over the country, bent on ravage, plunder, and murder, striking terror and consternation into the minds of millions of the peacefully disposed!! This, so far from being an exaggerated picture, is, I verily believe, but a feeble, inadequate representation of the terrible reality! Every day still continues to bring us tidings of fresh horrors. Formerly, of all life in India, the safest was British life. Of this I have had ample evidence in my own experience, having travelled, not only through its most civilized parts, but through some of its wildest regions, solitary and alone, unprotected by aught save the guardian care of a gracious Providence, often for days, and sometimes for weeks, not seeing the face of a white man. But now, change, revolution! throughout the NorthWest provinces, the earliest seat of Indian civilization, the most insecure of all life is British life. At this moment, British life, undefended by walls and cannon, is not worth half a second's purchase! the child was soon caught up within the circle of British and Christian sympathy, whose special concern is for the poor, the needy, and the de...