The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-28
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Gle which has received tina least announcement
such as indigo, linseed, &c. The calculation of
these and other topics, must be deferred to anoth-
er opportunity. | must, however, 90 back to the
points mentioned by our distinguished visitor,
Gen. Briggs. 1t must not be disguised that there
is great work to be done before India can reward
the industry, or obtain the benefit of the capital
and enterprise of this country, and it is to this
work that want you and the country at large to
grid yourselves. | remember the admonition Civ.
en- me by friend to-day, who said =" Pray do
not deal in the stale vague talk about good gov
ernment,' which means any thing or nothing, as
folks please to interpret it, but tell US what India
wants, and how we are to get it," | say then,
that that Government of india which shall de.
serve the name of good, will reduce and forev-
er fix the land-tax, which is now the curse of the
counry-blighting its produce-spreading sterili-
ty over the soil, and reducing the cutvator to the
state of beggar. When India is blessed with
good government her ancient institutions will be
respected, her municipal machinery will be en-
ployed, her native teachers will be sent to their APP
propriate occupation her rivers will be rendered
navigabe, roads and connecting canals will be
made, and the produce of the land will be admit
ted to these ports upon the principle of reciprocal
duties You will ask-how are these things to
be obtained | answer, by agitation, by discus
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Control, but India wants another Board The
board Of control she wants is board consisting of
the whole British people-alive to the claims of
misery-awake 10 their own interests-sensibe of
their responsibility, and determined to do their du-
ty. Let these things be brought to pass, and the
spell which has bound India shall be broken-a
voice shall be heard crying, from the banks the
Indus and the Gauges to the myriad population of
our Eastern empire, Arise, shine, for your light
is come'-the Hindoo shall raise his head and
smie-the earth shall yield her increase-the rich
es Of the East, not barbaric gold and pearl alone
but the bountiful crop of the industrious cutvator
shall find their way to these islands, and all who
have labored to succor and illuminate India shall
rejoice in the reflex influence of their benevoen
Sir, will conclude. | rejoice in the prospects
which are opening for India. Iexult in the results
which will, through India, be wrought out for the
rest of the world. call upon the slave in Ameri-
ca and the children in Africa to rejoice-but espe-
;lally do call upon my country to awake 10 q
sense OF her dread accounlableness to God, for the
use of the mighty power by which she can control
he fortunes and the fate of large proportion Of
he whole human race. cloud cheers.)
Britain! thy voice can bid the dawn ascend,
On thee alone the eyes Of Asia bend.
High Arbitress! to thee her hopes given,
Sole pledge of bliss and delegate of Heaven;
In thy dread mantle all her fates repose,
Or big with blessings o'ercast with woes;
And future ages shall thy mandate keep,
Smile at thy touch, at thy bidding weep.
Oh! to thy god-like destiny arise
Awake and meet the purpose of the skies
Wide as thy sceptre waves, let India learn,
What virtues round the shrine of empire burn.
(Mr. Thompson sat down amid long continued
:heering.)