Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-05-23
From the Pennsylvania.

am, gentlemen, very respectfully your ob't servant,
WALTER GWYNN, Civil Engineer.
From the Pennsylvania.
British Government PolIcy.-Thc East Indies and
South America.
'Put money thy purse follow these wars defeat thy IA
With usurped beard say put money in thy purse **@
1t was violent commencement, and thou shalt see an
Iago.
We have frequently reminded our readers OF the
steadfast policy of the British Government to oend
all its energies and it's power, whether civil or mill
tary to purposes of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and to putting
money in her purse, into the pockets OF certain
individual classes of her citizens g Money IS her
god and her king. In the acquisition OF that the
scone Of her ken is as large the world. To that
end her appliances are multifarious, and are used
nnsnarinriy recklessy to the rights Of nations
or Of the common of humanity to man, just as
the occasion may present itself. Her means are d.
plomacy warfare conquest, wholesale murder, spec
uIation affectation of philanthropy and trickery
Where of these is not applicable at one place. to
accomplish the grand object, it is held to be justly
so at another, verifying the DID, but immoral saying
that the justify the end" without regard to
any principle, except that of gain, at whatever cost
to those with whom she deals. She forces her trade
and commerce wherever she can, under the mask of
friendship and by diplomacy assumes a protector
ship, and naturally, as in the case OF the East In
dies upon the most fiimsy pretext openly assumes
the absolute ownership. If this policy is not favor
force is resorted to, in the case OF Ceylon where
a thousand people mastered in order that her
steam vessels might have coal depot She pursued
this game successfully in the Punjaub against the
Sikhs, and is at it again in reference to Japan We
are speaking of the British Government not the peo
pie. The pretended philanthropy of the former in
regard to slavery, but political hobby, hand
led successfully by Pitt, Fox Wilberforce, and
Brougham, in which they have humble imitators in
this country. Finally, Great Britain set ali her
slaves free in her West India Islands, and the result
has been ruin to them and the degradation and NOR
al retrogresson of both the white and black races.
And then, her hypocrisy in respect to this is her
ownership of millions upon millions of slaves in her
East India possessions, towards whom she makes no
effort save that of increasing their oppression and
tightening their chains. These are of the Atri-
can race, but intermediate between that and the
white, and perhaps she acts upon the reason
many of our abotionists do that negro slave
should exist but there may be many achhe slaves
the world pleases. Her whole continuous resis-
lance and opposition to the European plans and dy
nasties Of the times of Napoleon constituteda mere
fight to enable the nation of shopkeepers' to force
their trade over q quarter of the globe. In Asia
her attack upon the Chinese had for its object the
selling of the deleterious drug, opium. Her inter
ference with all the nations of the American CONT
nent, south of the United States, beg inning with
Texas before her annexation, is well known, and
had and has the same general purpose in view. II
is question, now, whether the great World
ErhlbIOn had not its real origin in speculation tt
abstract from all the other nations of the earth, by
sort of Barnum philosophy large scale,
countless amount of wealth to be left in the hands
Of the English.
We have been led to these remarks by an article
in the last Westminister Reueuv (Aprl), on the re
cent campaigns in India ending in the conquest O
the Sikhs exhibiting the same policy as pursued
the American Continent in reference to Nicara
qua. One of the works reviewed says -
In February, 1886 Lord Cough encamped his besiegin
army under the walls OF Lahore Dueep Sing the boy SOW
Lord Hardinge raised him from the ground, and
insated him the Sikh throne, sorm it of its for
mer splendor.'
That is, shorn by the British power The Review
er, however, goes on to say -
s This may sound we'll, but Duleep Sing a cy
pher 1t reH kotcn to all that he not
Runjeet, but merely the offspring of low between
common waercarrie and girl of Runjeets harem Lore
the boy king with throne generously left British force
keep him there"
This is exquisite ironical truth. The result was
that in short time, under Il fimsy pretext. the
British slaughtered thousands of the Sikhs, who ar
by no means Pagans, reduced them to slavery, ant
giving them the protection which the wolf does t.
the lamb, Subverted their government and conquer
ed their immense fine country, and all for the sake
OF the money to be made the principle we hav
stated. How analogous is the aseof Nicaragua ant
the Mosquito King! They picked up and crowned
breechless boy, the offspring of accident, from
vastly inferior to the Skhs graciously took hin
under their protection attempt to manage all thei
business in his and unless resisted by sterl
American policy, will assert absolute ownership
These facts which afford useful subject for re
fection bearing upon the questions of the day, a
home we'll as abroad