The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-09

thrust Its false and malignant philanthropy
aio internal affairs OF the United States The follow
ing extracts would furnish the Review with good text
for their next elaborate dissertation on slavery;
Except chief cities, provinces IN inaA are
thniy inhabited tracts Of country lie ancuusaed anu
deAose fertile regions where two on three crops might DC
annually are peoped only By struggling villages ana
the population something less than oneeighth Of what s
within the square mile In Britain Their habta
tons are wretched than be conceived by tngsh
men, that have often passed through Agricultural WI
lagos found the people prefring the side as their
place of midnight their food Of the coasest fare and
insufficient sustain animal strength while even OF this
their supply less than appetite required The state OF
their rural mendcant heggArs description whenever
Of them becomes sick he has no resting place Dat Is ex
posed 10 deserton to be oueas hurried from village
village his death should entail burden on ms poor
neghbo The clothing Of the iaborng poor Is not 50 much
as will be veil the shame OF nakedness rag
not worth pence often the only garment for tender
and feminine delieacy the aged parent and the Of
gray hairs Few if any OF this class IN districts ever
what is enjoy the warmth and shelter Of midnight
when the blanket would be valued and its
protection blessing. Native iaborers work for native
masters sometimes low wages penny pence
per day and they deemed wen paid If they receive
ants to Europeans four pence daily
alt Is however, in the otrecurrng of famine,
dry and partial crops physical Indebtedness
of Iindoos Is fully developed None but those who have
been eyewnesses Of the horrors then realized imagine
PROSTATE and ruined is their condition under such
visitation"
al have among them when the dead lying
feet and when the dying fell by my side when the eprou
in hands feet, exhibited their oathsome extremi
when old and childhood covered by the ulcers
pustule of the smalpox when haggard famine sat
upon the unken cheek and the hollow OF thou
sands; when il to mee out the charity OF
generous foreign community under the protection Of
police peons and when the wangs and feeble Of
hungry and exhausted pierced and agonzed the heart
The spectacle likely to fade from the
the inquiry To prevent the tens OF thou
sands pershng in country from passing into neghbor
ing districts deemed expedient BARRIERS and
place armed force lest they should paraze the local be-
nevoence which struggling to mitigate the suierngs
of the surrounding poor. have the miserable and
emaciated victims Of famine searching among the
cae elephants and cattle for particles Of
grain which had passed undgested Such scenes if they
only in the history of nation enough
to excite the commeraton of mankind, and bring suspi
con upon OF the by whom the people
governed Unhappy, however, they have been of frequent
In British India periodically have they been
perienced three times within fifteen years Private letters
Official accounts and other Of information unite with
my evidence in representing that people subject to such
alarming and consuming destituton furnishing myrads de-
pending scanty supplies of charity hundreds and
thousands pcrhing from want and attendant Diseases vii
lagos districts depopulated by migration DEATH
and choked poisoned by the putrd
of people dying in too great numbers to be buried
surviving eatvesdeath not only arrayed in its most
gasty forms, but also serving to generate diseases at
which trembling mortality shudders, and which hu-
| man courage and science exercise control
Cholera, with oil its errors, has been rendered de-
sirable with the fearful and resstess
ges drophoba Gaunt and squad wretchedness
cated and skeleton FORMS endued with vgor which de-
spair and rabd disease mpar have peoped the and
lowered round the dwellings Of European residents to nd
the misery and suffering which Hndoo subjects of
British Crown endure
elm 1888 famine prevailed in the Bombay and pres
during which the destruction awful More than
miserable fed from their country seek
the neghborhood Of the capitals the Of sustaining life
Myiads persisted at home and the roads and the
who did abandon the country parts and yet
tinued to sustain life reduced to state Of cancellation
which defes description. Their personal appearance
scarcely human their anatomy nearly much de-
veloped as that actual skeletons the articulation
each joint but for the skim might have been traced their
bellies unnaturally swollen and their color Of
the deepest jet These British subjects who had been
taken under control and made tributaries to the support
governments whose land taxed highly that
than xteenths Of the produce the husband
and whose rns of industry could be sold other
merchant than their irresponsible while they
had been able purchase goods market but what
rulers furnished. 1t is country where the and
ecto where the judges and arbters in all dis
putes the armed conqueror and rulers Of the region
The scenes too Of misery and desoation which accom-
panied European conquests which attended the
between the English and French and which
by the Mysore the Pindarrie the Mahata
civil histories of British India how extensive
have been the suffering and how disastrous the condition
the wretched peasanry Confagraton rapne, carnage,
and sangunary battles military executions and protracted
and wasting sieges served to desoae the country de-
stroy the commerce. interrupt manufactures prevent
agrcuure exhaust the and the people
India How large the price which has been paid for Brit
sh conquest and Indian subugaon how the hui
sacrifices how fearful the criminaly and cruelty, it
would not be easy imagine describe But it has been
affirmed that all India yet groans while her teeming popua
tion rapidly consuming the midst of famine and poverty
The British power has been stretched Hndosan by the
employment Of native armies nation has been march
ed against another, and class has helped to sub
due the other While the British conqnerors have
employed larger force than hityseven thousand OF
European troops the Hndoo ranks sometimes
numbered than 900 fighting soldiers accoutrcd and
upheld by British pay. 1t may therefore, be supposed
the that the policy Of the conqucror has been
elevate the few and depress the multtude cherish
tive arstocracy, landed gentry and dominant interest
few in every province will be recognised large propre
tors wealthy baboos powerful zemindas and prosperous
adventurous And although the ancient raahs chiefs Of
euda dynastes have passed away have been raised
who occupy their places and Not few among the
ndoos have acquired property and influence by their sub
servency TO English employers and their consequent ac
ties for traffic and lucrative speculation. Such have
retired their country and secured to themselves dis
inction and influence among their countrymen. These,
however, be regarded exceptions to the
don OF the people rather than any exempcaton of the
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