१८५७ का स्वातन्त्र्य समर (वीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर - अंग्रेजों द्वारा छपने से पूर्व प्रतिबन्धित महाग्रन्थ)

BENARES AND ALLAHABAD
girls, mothers, and daughters have been burnt alive by
Neill, without even counting their number. We make the
statement in the presence of God and in the presence of
all humanity ! If anyone has the slightest proof against
it, let him come forth boldly and stand for a moment at
least before the world and God !
And what was the crime all these had committed ? The
crime was that they were ready to bear all these for the
sake of their country's freedom !
Still the massacre of Cawnpore has to come ! Neill's
barbarities were not a revenge of Cawnpore, but the
Cawnpore bloodshed was the result of and revenge for
Neill's inhuman brutalities !
Neill has killed as many people in Allahabad alone as
all Englishmen, women and children who had been killed
throughout India in the Revolution, put together ! And
tens of such Neills were conducting such massacres in
hundreds of places ! For every Englishman, a whole vil-
lage has been burnt ! God will not forget this and we
will, also, never forget this !
And what do English historians say about this ? They
generally omit this, and that too, ostentatiously ! If they
do give some of the details, it is to prove how bold and
brave Neill was. What greater mercifulness than such
timely cruelty ? Some say that this cruelty on his part
shows the great love of humanity in Neill's heart ! Kaye,
no doubt, suspects that the Cawnpore massacres were a
result of this barbarous revenge; but, he says, it is natural
that the leonine qualities of the British people should
come out on account of the insolence of the 'natives.'
Kaye does not write a single word against Neill for this
cruelty. But, instead of allowing man to discuss this
question, he leaves it to God ! When talking of
Nana Sahib, his pen puts even Obscenity to shame !
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