Too "Civil" By Half The Governor-General Defending the Poor
Sepoy. Punch 33 (7 November 1857): 191 This cartoon opposing
merciful British rule treatment of native insurgents, like "The
Clemency of Canning," shows the degree to which Punch and the
popular press wanted vengeance. The British public, still
incensed by the atrocities committed against women and children,
obviously wanted bloody justice, an attitude conveyed by some of
Punch's allegorical treatments of the subject, such as "The
British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger" and "Justice."
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