The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-06-13
VOL. 6.-NO. 80.
The East India Company.


This mammoth corporation, which may
be said to rule the commercial destinies
| OF England, IS thus spoken of by the
Christian Enquirer.
'The stockholders OF this compay have
never much exceeded two thousand, and
| the capital stock, on which dividends have
been paid, at the largest has been put al
! .g6,000,0O0. 1t has been subject, in Eng
| land, 10 the unwIse management which
! must always attend d company whose
! stockholders and directors are constantly
changing, and whose agents and field OF
operations are distant by halfthe circum
ference of the G lobe from the centre where
measures original, and besides this, il has
had TO encounter the hostility ofthe whole
commercial class of England formerly
shut up by its monopoly from the Indian
trade, while in India it has contcnded for
existence on 4 hundred bloody battle fields
with Dutch and French, and th e native
monarchies Of the East. But, notwith-
standing all obstacles. it has expelled the
Dutch; 1t has ami hilated the power ofthe
French in India-has subdued one ma
tive kingdom after another; its factories
have rown into S tates, and these States
into vast and CO nsolIdatcd Empire; it has
of any European power except Russia and
varying, at different times, from l50 900
10 290,0 men: it has conducted sieoes
not less dreadful han those which
drenched the cities of Spain in blood, in
the PENN sular war; 1t has stormed
imperial cities md fortresses almost
beyond number. SO iucessant has
been It's wars, that FOR hundred year
scarcely day has passed IN which the
wild beasts OF t he jungleS, or the ala rmed
inhabitants of the hills, have net fled be
fore the thunder Of the British cannoL.
It's bayonets have broken the great power
of the wild Mahraita cavalry, OF the well
disciplined squadrons OF Mysore, and oil
the fanatic courage ofthe Sikhs; 1t has
subdued great and warlike kingdoms, and
not only subdaed them, but has deposcd
their sovengns, appropriated their rev
enues, subyerted Institutions old as India
/ herself, reconstructed It's laws and uuS
prudence, and over vast regions changed
the very tenures by which the soil IL
held; lis history is full of vast schemes
to-day OF conquest, tom orrow of social
regeneration and improyement-of skill
ful diplomacy, Of heroic &C hievement, ot
desperate valor, making good all defcien
cles OF numbers and resources. and OF
names world-renownedi in craftsmanship.
and war, and literature, and rel gion.
This company in England, has been com
| posed of merchants and others, who have
lived quietly as good subjects and citizens,
unknown and unheard of; yet they have
| appointed, and, al their pleasure, recalled
Governors General, who have exercised
in India a desportic authority over the
| fortunes of more than one hundred mil
lion of ofpeople, (which the monarch OF Eng
land dares not exercise in his island do
main. Before It's charter expired in 1888.
! it had subdued nearly the whole peninsula,
! fir ON Cape COmorin 10 the impossible
! SHOWS ofthe Himalaya mountains. And
| since then, the career of conquest has not
| paused. The cannon of England have
/ burst open the mysterious gates of China;
! she is trying new experiments in civiliza-
! tion among the savages of Borneo; she ad
ded the Punjaub TO her empire, and
/ thousand miles west of the Indus, reyer
sing the course of Alexander's conquests.
penetrating among the wild and warllIe
tribes of Affghaniston, where she met the
! fiercest resistance; her unwearied battal-
ions have reached the confines of Prus-
sia, and the echoes of her advancing
drums have startled the scntlnelS who at
night kept watch al the outpost of Russian
mower ,;