The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-07-09

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virtually governed by the Company, thro'
puppet native princes, who are allowed
to call themselves allies, but are in real
ity slaves.
This immense empire has been built
up by system which, if perpetrated by
Americans, England would not have he
STATED to call piratical. Nor has there
been that excuse for it, which Young
America finds for similar projects, which
it wages in this hemisphere. Take Gu
ba for an example. If ever that island
is fraudulently annexed to the United
States, no wrong, but on the contrary
benefit, will be done to its citizens, who
will be elevated, from abiect subjects of
an absolute monarch, to Independent vo-
ters in q free republic. Spain, indeed,
will be made the victim of an outrage
and hence the crime of America in stea-
ling Cuba. But in the East lndias an
nexations, while made equally at the ex-
pense Of the despots who had ruled the
countries annexed, have never advanced
the political rights of the people. The
IIindoo has no more voice in the govern,
ment of his native land, now, than he
had under the Mahomedan conquerors,
or even under the more ancient tyrants
OF his own race. The English have, in
fact, done what former masters never
ventured to do; they have introduced
their own laws into India, and thus in
expressibly outraged the llindoos. Ha-
wing taken six hundred thousand square
miles from these Mahomedan princes, on
similar pretexts to those which Young
America urges as justilications for seiz-
ing Cuba, they have omitted to grant
those privileges Of citizenship to the one
hundred and twenty millions of popula-
ton. which alone could palliate the act.
We will not say Justify it, because as we
cannot admit that the forcible appropri-
alton of Cuba would be justitiable, much
the less can We concede that Of these
, lIindoo provinces to have been. And
their seizure was as less defencibe than
: that of Cuba would be, as their distance
from England was greater than that Of
Cuba from the United States.
Even the English reviews, such at least
as are not thoroughly demoralised in re-
gard to national transactions, admit that
India has been acquired in outrage and
is held in defiance Of right. "We re-
tain no hold upon India" says the Ed
inburgh, Except by the sword. OuI
| government is the government Of the
; stranger and nothing more" An emf
nent English statesman, personally fami.
liar with India, Lmd William Bentick
: has publicly said that Hindostan is gov
erned, not for her own sake, but for the
sake of the thousand EngliShmen who
90 there to make their fortunes, As il
Cuba. so in India, natives are shut ou
! from advancement. They may acquire
money by trade, they may build ships
J but they cannot rise in the army or the
state. One hundred and twenty millions
governed with no end but to enrich the
British shareholders in the Company, OIL
the employees who are sent out frcn
England to fill all public stations of trus
was ever such a condition of thing
4 | since the pro-consular days Of Rome 2
e Nor does it appear that this empire il
to stop where it is. On the most frivil
ous of pretexts, a part of Burmah has
= Just been annexed to it, and millions
more added to those who hate conquer
os SO hostile to their race, their laws
{. their religion, and their traditions. -
i What commentary on human consis
: tency to see all England bewailing tht
: fate of Italy, enslaved by the Austrian
} yet permitting English armies to perpe
! trate an outrage even greater than thu
Austrian occupation of the peninsula.
, Meantime this armed occupation ha'
Q not been allcviated by any attempts tt
: improve even the physical condition o
T the people. Had the British, in deny
$ ing political rights to the Hindoos, labo
: red honestly and earnestly to advanc,
their material prospects, something, per
5 haps, might have been urged in extenu
alton of their conquest. But with thu
$ exception of a few public works, ofwhicl
$ the principal are to aid in irrigation, anC
1 which fall below what was done by thu
9 ancient masters of India, the Englisl
t have effected nothing whatever for thei
> East India subjects. The masses still
i remain in the virtual personal bondag'
t in which they were found under the ole
: Mahomedan princes, condition whiel
: some of the worst exils of poverty ant
{ some of the worst evils Of caste united tt