Cobden, Richard.

decrying bloodthirsty calls in the British press for the utter destruction of Delhi during the Indian Mutiny, 4 pages, 8vo, Midhurst, 30 August 1857, small puncture-hole through both leaves

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"...Delhi with its 150,000 inhabitants contains several thousand infants, & as many old men & women who are as helpless as infants ... Are all these to have their houses unroofed & walls razed & themselves flung in the streets because one morning a squadron of our paid troopers galloped from Meerut into Delhi & proclaimed a military terrorism?..."

A call for compassion during the bloodiest period of British rule in India. Hamilton was editor of the radical pro-peace Morning Star newspaper.