Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-10

er. The sanguinary wars by which she has !
subjugated the hundred millions OF India,
and the stern despotism with which she
rules and starves them, that her merchant
princes may roll in splendor and lap them
selves in voluptuousness, have voice
which the whole thickness of the globe
cannot keep out of our ears. "A more
beautiful country, says brother clergy
man recently of this city," than that from
Cuddalore to Tanjore, Tin Madras) can not
possibly be imagined. The dense popu-
lation and rich soil give their energies to
each other, and produce a scene of sur
passing loveliness. But the taxes and 9TH
er causes keep down the laborers to state
below that of our southern slaves Turn
your eyes backward says a speaker of
their own no longer ago than last Septem-
BERT Turn your eyes backward upon the
scenes of the past year. Go with me into
the North West provinces of the Bengal
presidency, and | will show you the
bleaching skeletons of FIVE hundred thou
sand human beings who persisted of hun.
ger In the space Of few short months
Yes-died of hunger in what has been
justly called the granary of the world
The air, for miles, was poisoned with the
ef1uvia emitted from the putrefying bod
les of the dead. The rivers were choked
with the corpses thrown into their chan
nels. Mothers cast their little ones be-
meath the rolling waves, because they
would not see them draw their last gasp
and feel them stiffen in their arms. Jack
ais, and vultures approached and fastened
! upon the bodies of men, women and chill
dren, before life was extinct. Madness,
disease, despair, stalked abroad, and no
human power present to arrest their pro-
gress.' And this occurred in British In
dia, in the reign of Victoria the first. Nor
was this event extraordinary or unfore-
seen. Far from it. Eighteen hundred
thirty-fve witnessed faminein the North
ern provinces. Eighteen hundred thirty
three beheld one in the Eastern Eigh-
teen hundred twenty-five saw one in the
Deccan. They have continued to in
crease in frequency and extend under our
sway, for more than half century. I'm
der the administration of Lord Give,
famine in the Bengal provinces swept off
three millions and, at that time, the Brit
ish spectators in India had their grana-
ries filled to repletion with corn. Horrid
monopoly ofthe necessaries of life Three
millions died, while there was food enough
and to spare locked up in the store house
of the rich. To add to the horror with
which we are now called upon to regard
the last dreadful carnage, THAT of the last
year, we are made acquainted by the re-
turns of the custom house, with the fact
that as much grain was exported from the
lower parts of Bengal as would have fed
the half million who persisted for whole
yearP Yet this awful oppression, and
these desolating famines must go on, that
England may exhort a hundred millions
OF dollars every year from her hundred
millions of Hindoos; and peoples must
Grnur. ;nea-~1 &c --lIOut, that dI hcr can
mons mouth, she may force her opium
upon the three hundred millions of the
Chinese; while some solitary Marshman
perhaps, is translating the Bible of the
Christians, to bring these countless mill
ions to accept the religion of nation that
stands ready, at this moment, to destroy
one half of them by war. that It may de-
stroy the other half by poison
Aud, while the mother nation has been
and is warning thus against the personal,
social and moral well being of the mill
ions of Eastern, the daughter has been,
with her poisons, desolating and democrat
izing Western and Central Asia, and the
multitude of the isles; consuming, with
the hurninU cun onf her intov;cot;on +bo
poor remnants of once powerful tribes
from off the face of her own continent =
and investing, as at this moment, more
capital in producing, and diffusing these
waters of death among her own children
for their destruction, temporal and eternal,
than all that she invests for their defence,
their government, and their education in
science, morals, and religion, and thus for
the salvation of their souls, for time and
for eternity.
In the remainder of the discourse, the
preacher dwells' chiefy~ on American
Slavery, and the bloodhound warfare
with the Indians. Temperance
Gazette.
sRev. H. Malcolm.
I See Thompson's Lectures at Manchester, pp
So, SO.
SLAVES ENIANC1PATEDs
Mr.. Upthegrove, of South Carolina,
passed through this city few days since
on his way to Clinton Co., (whither we
recommended him to go,) with eleven col
ored persons whom he had just emancipat-
ed. His object in bringing them to free
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