Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-25
GBe aailgg SPY.
TUESDAY. APRIL IS, 1854.
sennror cwin and Greal Brl.aIn.

lately. on the Pacific Railroad, and in the
course Of that Grafton he spoke of Great Brit
ain, in the following terms.
"There she stands now says he, " in all
the plenitude Of her power, ruling directly or
indirectly. in the East, one hundred and
twenty-eeven millions ofpeople. The wealth
which she has poured in upon the British
Isles from the East, is beyond estimate. 1t
has made the seat of her power City of Pal
aces. and adorned its inhabitants with pro-
fusion of wealth and luxury, to which there
il no parallel in the history of the world. 1t
has covered the ocean with her fleets, console
dated the national power SO that, while she
de6ed the continent of Europe in arms, 1t has
given that strength by which she has hitherto
been able to keep unbroken the chain that
binds her numerous colonies, dotted round the
great circle Of the earth, and on which the
sun never sets. 1t has given her means by
which representatives Of her strength are plac-
ed upon every sea, to assert her power and de-
fend her interests.
Now Senator Gwin's reference to the "wealth
poured in upon the British Isles from India,
is purely fictitious. There is not particle of
serious truth in it. Individual British subjects
have frequently gone home laden with fortune,
from that sunny empire where wealth is too Of
ten purchased by crime; but India never has
been profitable to the British nation. Like all
the rest of the British Colonies, it is dead
loss. The cost of defending all the colonies of
Great Britain amounts to about SAC, 1000, 900
year, and the Mother Country has to pay $780,
600 600 of this sum out of her own pocket.
Instead of pouring wealth" into her Golfers
the whole value of the trade between Indies,
including China, and Great Britain, does not
amount to one fifth part of the revenue of the
mother country. The imports from India con-
sist Of coffee, hemp, hides, indigo, pepper, rice,
sage, saltpetre, silks, &c, amounting to about
$25, 1000, 900 in value, annually; a sum whose
profits would scarcely enable London to build
one other stately palaces once in 10 years. The
only Indian palace to be seen in London is the
India House, in Threadneedle Street, dingy,
dull-looling edi6ce with none Of those myth
cal briliances about it that haunt the magma
ton of Senator Gwin. The fact of the mat
ter is that Great Britain has never made any
thing by her colonies. Colonizing has been
pscuniarly, "a proftless business to her. Her colo
MES however have been no loss to humanity or
the world They have always had an original
vigor about them that no other colonies ever
had; and they have developed or given promise
of developing, into profitable independence
though they have never paid as dependencies.
The United States, once a colony of Great
Britain, now her most successful rival on the
ocean and in the workshop is at this time, of
more advantage to the mother country than
India ever was. Our trade with Great Brit
ain is immensely more valuable and profitable
than that Of the whole of Asia, so that Sena-
tor OWNS unemployment talk about the adj
vantages derived by Britain from India, only
exposes his unstatesmanly Ignorance. The
British Governor of Ceylon, alone, has sal
airy of $4,000 year, and the whole amount
of trade with that island would not cover the
expense of keeping ships of war and soldiers
about it.
Liberty and independence have developed
the energies of our people, and they have de-
veloped the resources of our country. Wher
we were colony, we were cramped and irri
tated by the restrictive policy of our aristo.
cratic rulers, and we were only profitable tc
the snoble" Adventures who came among ut
to repair the losses of fortune which debauch-
cry had made. When we became free, we
started forward on the race of prosperity and
soon became the most important source of
trade to the mother country.
IfBntain wants to make India profitable to
the nation, she must give it independence !;
and she must employ in trade all the energies
she now exerts in fighting cheating, conspir-
ing, AID conquering new territory in Asia.