New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-12-27
National Robbery.

National Robbery.
The following article from Thc Nation
nuhIn Dee q # less caust;c would probably
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the bottom or IT. as all must leel' Anu '.'
who will heartily hurrah over It's pungeh' eApo-
sure and rebuke of British aggression and rob-
berv inst consider whether they have no hanAcr-
.r,or tho lands to which they have but u ques-
.:s,.h,o ,;,,o-no ,onoing for the ACQUISITION OF
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Canada OF exas' Santa o. o"'i'oi,,'' -
1t is easy to be indignant at o'heF ioihs laPacty
1T is rot so natural to bear IN mind that the
n;,,;ne ,rncton .Thou shalt not coyct,' is ad-
DIT LOT nc co.. how, slash;nol,.
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tue Irish JoofAdhs' i'o"A0' WV
land: ,.,rocu.c
Err-J mnsf eve over tins life and will give it over.
by the Lord. an do not, IN VILLAIN. IL be damned io
eI shall re take purse fcmorrcr Jack
F.lsrArr-U1sre thou III H. tad: II maze one; an
40 ,igl cae 1G snod amSdmsn of life In thee from
r,,r;nc ,o nnrseskinr
FALsraFf-WHr hAL IT'S MY yooAdoS' HAL us NO
go -, : -, King Henry the Fourth
An article lately imprinted IN sangulnoieni
London print properly called the bloody Ole
TmeS0, respecting the meditated secure OF the
Punaub, and the consequent absorption OF Its
territory and revenues into the Anglo Indian EN-.
pire, gives us an opportunity of expressing,
freshmen our national DISGUST and adherence OF
the MINGLED hvpocriticai humbug and desperate
lust of plunder that seems to characterize the
ENGLISH PeopIc, and does certainly stamp with
;nfamv the columns of many of the leading Eng
Itch journals
uWberc shall we take purse tomorrow.
cv7w 20 tho constant ;nouirv of those name
loco c.tererS for hlood s.wbo shall we rob mex, y?
ia tho never ceas;no howl Of those ackalls Of the
British lion. Nor is the sound at all unpleasinp
n all dcvnrinp Rull: he smells :. "swagn in
the eastern breeze: he hears the chink of silver
biob over the desoIated VILLAGES OF Scinde he
secs flames like molten gold rsinr over the plains
of the Pupiaub: the descendant of the sea- kings,
John Bull continues a sea.kinp, and is as ready
70 rob as ever: the instinct of plumber and mas
sacre ;s strong w;,bin him: he IS upe for murder
and robbery IN anv quarter of the gIobc where
murder and robbery ,rill nan:
"p,;a. IN ,h.;r nor, defiance IN ,,e,revs
see the p,igs of human kind pass by
from province TO province. from sea to sea. in
search Of "swagn and glory: thew 90 forth plum.
der;nr oil nations
One ranac;ous ontraoe unon humanity does no,
wait nnon another with this mammon- worship
to them no sooner had thoy evacuated afghan.
istan, because they got no money, then they fell
like tigers upon Scinde, where there was money
to be got Hardly have the bones Of the unburled
dead upon the plains of Hyderabad been picked
by the yulturcs than the British pant to let loose
their blood. hounds upon the territory of Lahore
and its two and half millions OF annual revenue
Let who will blame them for this, plumber Is no.
thing unless 1t is well followed; but what amuses
us is, that EXETER HALL stands where II ana all
this while; that the ANTI. Observation-Disclosures
WALLoPING ASSOCIATION is thriving; that the
QuAKERs' ANrI-CuT-THRoA SOCIETY, and the
METEoDy MISSIONARIES -JoBBiNG AND RAcr
SHOP are gong ahead; that cant, ana CRIME, ana
poverty rule at home while raplne, blood-guii''-
ness, and plunder-lust rage abroad.
Ana TINS is moral Engana-thiS the palladium
OF noefty-'his inc envy OF surrounding ha'lons
anu 'ie auii''i ',io'i -Ps'i'",n"''ious
"ole nus. y. "ioi's III
sao 1872 "nose to.te ~,
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rlohn sarsr ", ,;cr on,rre with snr had ,La t
has auy fb;no that thew can steal-ybose mos.
senoers Of civilization are almost invariably her
aids of war-wbo find or make excuses to cut the
threats Of people who dislike cant and cot,ons and
,e;ect R;shons and b.mbarders-who force Chris
t;sp;tv and hardware upon nations from the
mouths of their cnns-and Introduce printed cal
Gcoes and Bibles at the point of the bayonet
What is the Puniaub to them, or VIVA, the in
testino ouarres, assassinations, and rcprisal nur
ders Of is infamous rulers? Are the poor tiler
of the soil TO be attacked and robbed because the