Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1879 — The Zulu King. [ARTICLE]

The Zulu King.

King Cetywayc, whatever his natural ability, is a savage —a man of blood, who ruled his people with a rod of iron, taking human life whenever it suited his purpose or his caprice. Not long before the war, a daughter of Dr. Lindley visited the kraal of the Zulu chief, and describes him as a fine specimen of “the noble savage,” havirg a commanding presence and rather a benevolent countenance. But the impression of benignity was marred by certain things which came to her ears, though they were told in whispers. A “cliief man ” had just been strangled, because some witch doctor had pointed a finger at him, an 1 accused him of witchcraft, at which a maid of the court, who had loved him, could not restrain her tears, whereupon she was strangled, too; and still another was made to share her fate, because of of an untimely manifestation of sympathy. It is not long since Cetywayo ordered a massacre of hundreds of the young women of his people, because they refused to marry his old soldiers. The overthrow of such a brutal despot is a greater relief to his own people from the terror which keeps them in bondage than it is to the English colonists who are their neighbors. — Congregationalist.