The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1846-01-03
DEMOCRATIC REVIEW.

DEMOCRATIC REVIEW
The December number of this excellent Period
cal reached too late for notice in our last paper
The contents are, English Potico Compercial
Companies-Songs of Labor No. 3. ByJ. G.
Whitier--The Wandering Jew--A Legend OF
Westchester County, N. Y. By John Quod-
Spanish Ballads. BY Edward Maturin--The NAL
thusian Theory-Discussed in a correspondence
between Alex. HEverett and Prof Geo. Tucker,
OF the University ofvirgina, Concluded. )--Son.
net. (From the Italian)-K Kaufmann's Mackeldey
on Modern Civil Law-Chalk-Mark BY Lin
coin Ramble, Esq.-F Festus-The Game nj North
America; its nomenclature, habits, hauns, and sea-
sons; with hints on the science of woodcraft No.
BY Frank Eorester-Lif Life-Monthly Financial
and Commercial Artcle-New Books Of the
Monh-Monthy Literary Bulletin.
From the first article in the December number
Of the above work, we take the following extract: :
England, therefore, elected to adopt and to
hold all the conquests made by her people in India,
and in SO doing sanctioned all the means by which
those conquests were made, and were to be main
tanned From having few commercial coun ters
only the scattered parts OF the coast of India,
she came to be. first, the steward Of the populous
provinces OF Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, under the
great Mogul, the legitimate sovereign of the Pen
insula; then the absolute mistress Of Arcot, the
Carnatic, and Mysore; next Of the Maharata states
of the Deacon and Concan; and finally by at length
deposng the great Mogul himself. and reducing
+ al, Il, ,hn
the ruler, in one form another, of the whole of
the vast Empire of Hindustan, excepting only
Sindh and the Punjab. OF these last remaining
independent States of the Peninsula, she has re-
Gently invaded and conquered Sindh, and is now
preparing for the conquest of the Punjab. Thus,
in the space of one hundred years, she has gradu-
ally extended her power by conquests in India at
the average rate OF about one million fue hundred
thousand souls per annum. And what has been
the annual cost in bloodshed and IN mistry, of this
annual forced addition to the members of the SUBJ
ects Of the British empre' Let the self-righteous
declaimers of Exeter Hall figure up this sum in
the intervals OF some of their trades against the
United States.
" Meantime. whilst maintsing in India stand
ing army of some two hund red and fifty thousand
men, with camp-follovers innumersble. and every
year fighting battles on the broadest scale of STRAIT
egy, OF carnage, and of devastation, England pro-
fesses. TN Ewope,) to be at peace with all the
world; and whilst decaiming, in the loudest terms
Of indignant innocence and virtue, against the
spirit of conquest. the cupdy, the rapacity. and
the imperial ambition. now OF Napoleon and the
French, now OF Russia. and now of the United
States, she has, at the time, been engaged in
wars of invasion, in conquests, and in territorial
acquisitions. in the East alone. Ito say nothing of
The West.) exceeding those of Napoleon. of Rus.
'ia, and of the United States, combined
"And how are these contradictions of peace in |
Europe and war in Asia; of pretended regard for |
The laws Of nations on one side of the globe, and of
deliberate and open violation of all those laws ON
he other; Of professions OF the largest liberty here
and of practice Of the largest slavery there; of
crusade in favor Of human rights IN the Atlsntic
seas, and trampng them under foot in the Indian |
seas; Of an attempted moral prescription Of the |
United States, because two millions of our people
ges, when she herself holds as subjects some one
hundred millions Of black men. and fifty millions
Of white who are equally without political and
social privileges. How, we ask, are all these ex-
contradictions reconciled! Why. for
sooth, we are to accept the patry fiction, ridicu
lous if il were not monstrous, that all these wars
of ambition, all these acts of oppression. are the
deeds, not of England-oh no she is moderate, un-
ambitious, seli.denyng, without rspacity or cupid.
ity she violates no laws. she is the pattern of re-
serve, and the champion Of liberty all these
wars Of ambition in Asia, and acts Of oppression,
are the deeds Of the East India Company
"'The United Company of Merchants, trading
to the East Indies have, indeed. much to answer
for in the face of God and Of men, il they alone are
for all the blood shed, and all the
wrongs committed. by the English in India; and II
all the wars waged there, have been waged for no
ofhey p~posr, than that the blood and tears Of SO