The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-04-12


been enjoying rest and "peacc," with
full five million bayonets at her throat.
To hold her bound there still is, re-
peat it. the second, or, indeed, the
first and main motive Of Brittain's
activity now.
fourM.-England's prctcxt that she
is bound by treaties to maintain the
Independence oETurkey is falsehood,
Of course. She was bound by treaty
to maintain the dominion Of Holland
over Belgium, to resist the swallowing
up of Cracow by Russia, to respect the
neutrality of denmark in 1907.
need not refer to England's deliberate
breach Of the treaty of Amiens-still
less tohcr atroeious breach Of the treaty
of limerick. What I want to know
is, aohat treaty she has ever kept
Once more will otto against hor the
sentence pronounced by her greatest
statesman(whom, as usual, Ireland
gave her,) Edmund Burke. 1t is n
description Of the policy of the English
in India: g engage myself to make
good these three positions. Fi,st |
say that from Mount Imaus, where it
touches us in the latitude of 30, to
Cape Comorin, in the latitude of s.,
there is not O. single Prince, State, or
Potcntate,. great or small, in India,
with whom. they have come into con-
tact whom they have sold. say sold,
though some times ,hoy have not been
able to deliver according to their bar
gain. Secondly, say that there is
nota single treaty they have ever made
which they have not broken. Thirdly,
| say there is not Il single Prince or
State who ever put any truss in the
company who is not utterly ruined;
and ;hat none are in any degree secure
or llourishing, but i'll the exact proper
ton to their settled distrust and IRE.
concilabie enmity to this nation. DE-
Words that burn Words that Ell
gland would erase, if she could, from
the writings Of her greatest statesman,
at the cost Of say half q quarters in
come tax--for they conflict with and
sadly discrcait the system Of phiian-
thropic cant, according tn whick, 1--WE
have conquered India in our own de-
fence"
fyM.-Eou arc to observe that
neither England ner France has
declared any war against Russia.
do not believe they will declare war
and it war take place Russia will
declare and make it first. The En-
glish and French Governments have
armed and sent forth their troops and
ships, not against Russia, but provis-
ionally against each oMer-each being
apprchensivc that the other will get
hold of Constantinople. And those
troops and ships are to be employed
III compelling the Turks to make peace
on lgnpmnious terms, and in gaining
control ofthe Turkish Empire, under
pre.ext of securing the rights Of chris
,tians. The intention of the Western
Powers, in short, is, that Constantine.
pie and.its master shall be swallowed,
not by the East of Europe, but by the
West. Such, and So chivaIrous allies,
:: has the predcstined Turks.
SixM.-Rcaders Of English books
and newspapers have always been
taught to regard the Russians ms n
nation Of abjcct serts, groaning under
despotic rule. Now it, cannot fail to
occur to you that these Russians must
be in bad condition indeed if they are
worse OFT than you under your bcauti-
tul constitutional Government, which
is the envy of surrounding nations.--
But the truth is, Russia is now, in her
social and political condition, very
much as England was when England
was indeed q great nation, under her
Plantagenets and Tudors, when she
created and won all that true national
greatness, on the mere credit Of which
she has been living ever since. Re-
member: too, that Russia is ruled by a
Russian Government, and fer the Rus
sian people. No stranger sits ON her
Judgement seats--no stranger wa. ches
at her gates. Herein, my country
men, how deeply you ought to envy
the Russians The peasants Of Rus.
sa are, it, is true, annexed to and in.
seperable from the land they till. If
the l'ishPeasantry had been so annex
ed for the last six years, they had lived
and not died. In lS47, when famine
threatened all Europe, the Russian
Government'promptly prohibited tho
export of rye, which is the common
food of its people. Where was the
Government that would do as much
for you? 1t was because our poor
countrymen belonged to nobody; be.
cause nobody had any interest in keep
ing them alive; because the foreign ma
ton that holds military occupation of
their country desired their destruction
that they were swept from the face
OF the land, huddled into poor-houses,
starved 10 death by myriads and mil
lions, or hunted from their own island
to the four winds. Oh! believe me,
there is not Russian scrf but has
cause to pity and despisc you.
1t is worth while, just nov, to pom
der all these matters. When newspa-
pcrs and organs Of British opinion
Speech on aIr, To,'s Last India hill.