Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-09-13
X CHI M OND WHIG

FRO" n> London Time, Aug Is 1853
Social reforms are advancing IN Ind. IL IL nov ne,rl,
since the Suffice system abolished; but when
"s nn'oo Widow was forbidden burn herself ,esty-
"e "sn under which she placed still left In the
p'ohioton against second marriage This no,~ 4. ~, ~
removed and an attempt also he made to modify ,h
'''em OF poy2smy In India r at least a. only 20 a.
| % another marriage whom the frst xits b.. ,o, -.
e-i her husband With the drst ,skera,,,o os u;, A,
| IA ~ Ai'uoo IN"
An 'h's j. rather in the teeth of some maxims .ud
prophecies of old LeadenhalI street authority II ~.
been always sad,-"Dont meddIe with the .,,.,;,;
%he Hindoos, il is all up With our empire n vo, a.
tna' Is their tender part The whole popnl.too ri
!" man against you the moment you in terfere
VII" 'ne'r rehg'ous Customs No then how cru
T. base or hdeoa- a IL ~as no popular suna,.
'on was to be touched Il Hinoo superstition and
"ereofe P'o fdefo irremedabe unchangesby and e,.,
nal as the world The L.aienhall stree, MaoicLa., H.
ee'rd great deal in evil than he did in good and
"o"ehi the Devil much the being in the uni
ere eyes a> JSggernsut passed aud look ed nv.x
o, ne sduee pile; he thought then disAgreeabe spec
- a. late he esnld no; or years hear
any interference with them His Inner soul bow ed h.
ore the idol and acknowledged him as the god of india
H though public opinion in this country gradually forced
E - noy M creed and suppress the revolving
ne 10 sun out half-persuaded, and i full of annrs
'ehs'ons al the least invasion Of Hndoo custom R,,
'Pne"s IN point Of TACT, 10 be the truth ON th.
Hlndoo widows 50 fond of h.;
F." would seem not; at least they bor. vrr,
quett The prohibition OF ths Suttes system and did no
i'uhois violently at being obliged to live Thev nos ~,
lond .e permission To marry sgain without
M ie'nous'tance 90 Tar, az least NAV Judge op
Tie humber OF petitions for and against this cbsng S
H"iSn ha- been nearly equal--a TACT which tells
-, against the asserted unchangabeness of Hin.
a. , wa SAID before railways were made In In.
mA tnAt they would be useless because those of dssr
"ouu never consent To travel together. but that
nss oeeh iAshei by the fact they all travel To-
ne torfnf fhafr Ill
hindoo policy indeed has been the very
~ anu 'he very fanacsm Of tolerance for hss been more
Hou ,u more tolerant than the Hindoos them.
ewes wanted Even the Hindoo has AZ last nrotes,sJ
gAinsi the super -Hindoo bigory of our Ind;s, gt
come forward to convert LeHdeuhalstreet To Chris
al, ana to remind Englishmen that they need not b.
"ore Ohhodox Aussumans and Hndoos than ,ls N,snI
nans ana Hindoos Themselves W. hail ,his ,r-a;.;a
uhhg OF the tables and though il Is not verv credit,
Us tnat driven from its native region and home The
houoN hindoo creed should find last refuop and sr
'ort IN an English circle we eau still congr,7I., I
efseh upon the change and look hopefully unon tb
lawn common sense and reason now beginning In he,
o'tTon wy should IL, indeed be absolutely impossibe
@ h"uoos should ever rise to the height OF common
sense and reasonr Their nature Is the same a. ,bat ~
e rest o mankind and fso there must sIways be bos
r'er suppressed and sufocated by the weight of dom;
ant superstition, tendency in the Hindoo mid ,oi
auohS view oi things and, though persecution and yio
hSe only wed men, bS law of nature the more strongly
20 those religious ideas which have obtained hold n, ,b
e seh oi Tue results OF another and better system m
''"ptanoh 10 human wants, power OF expansion sndle.
rsourees anu sppliances-the actual view we saw of
ii ii 20 much more natural and obviously expedient
% thtir own cannot We hope. but gradually tell upon
intelligent Hindoos. We know il is difieul, 10 clc,i.,
he power OF vile superstition which IL proporton 10 s
i often the tighter hold and keeps down with
uaoohca force OF pressure the first rise of rational id
,e minus OF It's disciples The miserable poverty th
eurness o. the human mind thrown upon itself for
~ E WIN domnant superstition, has been in all ages
ne pity OF wise end the scorn Of proud pbiosonby
~t the constant presence Of facts on the rational d
e e.s, the perpetual nemento, the unceasng appeal
nun This visible and olid b.s ID, i,s r~h
ahd mnuence. After all there is sometime in bu,. r.
He Shich Witnesses against vile superstition a. AGAIN..
fg which does not harmonize with IT, or bring ont
- resources morbid piety will sustain and 6ebI G
system Of self torture and we do not dopbt tbsf n
N orthodox Hndoo with inerpressble ref ths snd
u the Sutiee system. That widows should 5urp them
ses was part OF the religion false In
uc ne Nss born, and he identified it with every primer
pie OF piety in his mind But though false religion en-
eeoes and Prostates the minds Of its deyotees and
snppesses the hrst rise of covnter.ieas q. 40 mnch
-mPe atheism, it is astonishing bou nucb o. |
greAt effort at sefrelef can achieve One ors.t
ehort has before thrown of With rai;on.I
snSe tne whole pressure OF false system upon the
lhd with Its absurd belief and cruel ordinances its rie
nions prohibitions and empty rites; aud though the mic
Hfe which the Roman poet drew of religion a. the nsrn
Seonr~a Of ,S~ -d afqe Pid acfa,-and the
over Nhieh she certainly lowers terri6cally,-
"QuR caputa coli regionibus ostendebat
hornbh super asPectu nortalibus instansr
-thoughndan religion has shown hitherto all the .ho
""tSn fehkohs OF fAse self sacrifice have |
rom the fact thst they do though in mean and r.
snner' exercise the religious principle in human nature
u no reason apparent why should think evil eter
nal and omnipotent in India as the Ledenhsu s,raa, @
has hitherto incucated.. The present movement among
'he natives IN the direction Of social reform and reform
ultimately connected with the department OF religion
seems 70 SHOW All element of work in the Hin.
100 mind and reads lesson against the excessively
lisous tinidity OF our Indian policy
iHk wings OF LITTLE DELAwARE.-The Old Line
wings OF Delaware are pressing up the front in the
~ork o' re organization meeting held at Odessa
on Friday last which appointed committee ior the pur
pose o concerning measures to organize the Wings Of
W. II Barr, c. T. Polk William Wilson. and ] lone !
-ere appointed sGch committee. This committee made
'nrfng report on Monday the foIowing at Middetown
"hieh was unanimously adopted The meeting also adop
'ed the following resolution
Re'oiref That Wbigs ofSt. Georges Hundred cordially
respond To the Wings OF Baltimore and that they ui send
ten or more Delegates to the Whg National Convention
On the lh inst, and also, that they earnestly enion
upon the Wings in each hundred throughout the STATE IN