Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-05-15


animal and vegetable manurc.-Seneca.
The Rev. ]. PieImout gives the following des-
cripion of the honid tyranny of the British Gov
eminent
The s,nguinary wars by which Great Britain
has subjuga,ed tho hundred millions of India, and
stern despotism with which she rules and s.arvcs
them, that her merchant princes may roll in sp!en.
-or anu lap themselves in voluptousness, have
voice which the whole thickness Of the globe cam
not keep out Of our "A more beautiful coun-
try" says brother clergyman recently Of this city
"than that from Cudjalone TO Tanore (iu Msdras)
cannot possibly he imagined. The dense popula.
ton and rich soil give their energies TO each other
and produce sceno Of surprising oveness. But
the taxes and other causes keep down the laborers
to state below our Southern slaves" Turn your
eyes backward" says speaker of their own, no Ion
ger ago than last September 'turn your eyes back
ward upon the scenes OF last year. Go with me
into the northwest provinces Of the Bengal Presi-
dency, and | will show you the bleaching skee-
tons Of five hundred thousand human beings, who
months Yes; died for hunger in what has been
justly called the gFanary of the world. The air
Tor miles was poisoned with the ef,u,is emitted
from the purifying bodies OF the dead. The rivers
were choked with the corpscs thrown into their
channels. Mothers cast their little oncs beneath
the rolling waves, because they would not see them
draw their last gasp, and feel them stifien in their
arms. Jackals ond vultures approached and fat
tened upon the bodies of men, women, and children
before life was extinct. Madness disease, and des
pair staked abroad no human power present to at
rest their progress, And this occurred in British In
ish, in tho reign of Victoria the First. Nor was
| the event extraordinary unforeseen. Far from IT..
| 1885 witnessed famine in the northern province.
1888 beheld one in the eastern. ls22 saw one in
the Dcccan. They have continued to increase in
| frequency and extent under our sway, for more
| than half century" Under the Administration Of
Lord Give, famine in the Bengal provinces swept
off three millions and a, that time the British spec
ulators in India had their granaries filled to reple-
,ion with corn. Horrid monopoly of the necessa-
ries Of life Three millions died, while there was
food enough, and to spare, locked up in the store
house together. To add to the horror with which
he had been called upon to regard tho last dreadful
famine, Chat of the last year) VIC ore made ac-
quained by the returns of the custon.house, with
the fact ihs, as much grain was exported from the
lower parts Of Bengal, az would have fed the hall
million who peIished, for whole year. Yet this
awful oppression and these desolating famines mus
go on, that England may ex,oS, hundred millions
of dollars every year, from her hundred millions o
Hindoos; and popPies must grow ins'ead of wheat
that, ut her cannon's mouth, she may force her o.
plum upon the three hundred millions OF the Chi
nese, while some one solitary MaTshman, perhaps
is transaiing the Bible Of the Christians, to bring
these countless millions TO accept the religion OF /
nation that stands ready ut this moment % destroy
one bali of them by war. that j. may destroy tn
other half by poison"