THE “REMOVAL OF INFORMERS.”

Shortly after the murder of Shams-ul-Alam, the following “Appeal” was printed and issued in Calcutta with reference to the “removal of informers”: 

HATYA NOY JAGNA.  (Not Murder but Sacrifice.) Cash price:  the head of a European or the heads of two Informers. 50th issue Calcutta, Sunday, 6th Chaitra, 1316.

Tempted by gold, some native devils in form of men, the disgrace of India—­the police—­arrested those great men Barendra Ghose and others who worked for the freedom of their country by sacrificing their interests and dedicating their lives in the performance of the sacred ceremony of Jagna, preparing bombs.  The greatest of these devils in human form, Ashitosh Biswas, began to pave for these heroes the way to the gallows.  Bravo, Charu! [the murderer of Biswas] all honour to your parents.  To glorify them, to show the highest degree of courage, disregarding the paltry short span of life, you removed the figure of that monster from the world.  Not long ago, the Whites by force and trick, filched India from the Mahomedans.  That mean wretch Shams-ul-Alam, who espoused the cause of the enemies of Alamghir Padshah, who put a stain on the name of his forefathers for the sake of gold—­to-day you have removed that fiend from the sacred soil of India.  From Nuren Gossain to Talit Chakravarti, all turned approvers through the machinations of that fiendish wizard Shams-ul-Alam and by his torture.  Had you not removed that ally of the monsters, could there be any hope for India?

Many have raised the cry that to rebel is a great sin.  But what is rebellion?  Is there anything in India to rebel against?  Can a Feringhee be recognized as the King of India, whose very touch, whose mere shadow compels Hindus to purify themselves?

These are merely Western Robbers looting India....  Extirpate them, ye good sons of India, wherever you find them, without mercy, and with them their spies and secret agents.  Last year 19 lakhs of men died of fever, smallpox, cholera, plague, and other diseases in Bengal alone.  Think yourselves fortunate that you were not counted amongst those, but remember that plague and cholera may attack you to-morrow, and is it not better for you to die like heroes?

When God has so ordained, think ye not that at this auspicious moment it is the duty of every good son of India to slay these white enemies?  Do not allow yourselves to die of plague and cholera, thus polluting the sacred soil of Mother-India.  Our Shastras are our guide for discriminating between virtue and vice.  Our Shastras repeatedly tell us that the killing of these white fiends and of their aiders and abettors is equal to a great ceremonial sacrifice (Asyamedh Jagna.) Come, one and all.  Let us offer our sacrifice before the altar in chorus, and pray that in this ceremony all white serpents may perish in its flames as the vipers perished in the serpent slaying ceremony of Janmajob.  Keep in mind that it is not murder but Jagna—­a sacrificial rite.