The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-08-06
BRITISH HUMANITY.

BRITISH HUMANITY.
The British East India Company is the great
est monopoly'in existence, 1t has controlled
cOnvertly or openly, the affairs of England for
many years. II supports an Army and Navy Of
its own and has conquered and added to the
British dOminions the fairest and richest por-
tions of India There,was probably, never be-
fore more powerful or more relentless corpor-
alton. Its wealth is untold. Hundreds of vii
lagos. Thousands of estates, and many cities
pay annual tribute into the company's Golfers
A system ofslayery far worse than that of our
own South, is established and legalized through
out the conquered provinces. Every few months
we hear offresh conquests. The last project
was the absorption ofoude, a kingdom Of f.
| 100000 inhabitants The whole empire is san
nexed" to the British possessions in India and is
now British territory. The country will be
parceled out by the English government, and
the people reduced to the condition Of serfs.--
This is the fashion after which England acquires.
She never purchsed foot Of land and paid an
honorable price for it. War, plunder and
sncaking diplomacy are the only agents she en-
ploys to extend her dominions. And yet, the
United States purchases and PAYS just price for
a bit of Territory adjoining its own, the English
press belches forth TRADE CT abuse and com.
plant. English statesman are never tired Of
denouncing American 'rapacity' ''sggnndize.
ment' Unsuitable desire for more territory, Sc
as they say These self righteous Johnny
Bulls with their purses full Of plunder, and
their hands red with the blood Of murdered
East Indians have the stolid impudcnte to raise
their voices in holy horror against the honorable
peaceable purchases ofour country! .
But the subject which most exercises the be-
hemoths Of England, is American slavery, The
hypocritical philanthropists who convene in Ex-
eter Hall to mourn over the cruelties exercised
towards the negroes in the United States, are
totally oblivous to the miseries of their own do
minions, and deaf to the groans and shrieks
which come up from the enslayed and tortured
millions of India, whom God in his strange pro-
violence has condemned for q time to suffer un-
der British control worse fate could not have
been portioned out to the miserable natives, foG
death is far preferable to life Of serfdom and
; torment. rys s,s1.b d ..' adI l"t -# 'n
The civilized world has generally believed
that the English government in India, although
severe, as English rule always is over weak
country, was not absolutely cruel! 1t was not
supposed that baYba,Ysm in its most horrid phase
yet existed and received encouragement from a
government that claims all the attributes o.
: civilization and refinement Since the trial O
Warren Hastings before the English parliament
/, great reforms were understood to have been car
: ried out in the government Of India. Few per.
sons dreamed that rapine, torture, and murder
were yet the chief efagents Of British civilization
in the land Of the Ganges. But recent facts
have proved shameful and horrible state o.
: things to exist in that devoted country.
1t appears that q certain Mr. Seymour, ar
English member of Parliament, in travelling
: through the English provinces Of India, witness.
Q ed many instances Of cruelty and extortion OF
the part of the tax collectors employed by tht
f East India Company. His statements beine
: reported to parliament and corroberated by some
+ of the people of Madras, o committee was ap.
$ pointed to investigate the whole matter Tn,
report ofthat Committee has lately been prescn
f ted to Parliament by the Earl of Albemarle, whC
stated that the document did not convey
an adequate idea Of the amount of suffering en-
dured by the inhabitants of Madras District"
= We have read something Of the Spanish In
: QUESTION, its dark and bloody deeds of tortur,
4 and death, which no longer shock humanity saw
:, in the recital. The mighty power of intelli
gence and enlightenment has placed ban upol
0 force, as method by which to extend the Chris
L tian Religion. Those scenes of cruelty hav
: passed away with most of the ignorance and in
tolerance which brought them upon the stake
It But now, in the full blaze of the Nineteentl
century, we behold monstrous corporation
# plundering and torturing helpless, etslaye
people, to heap its already enormous treasury
= By the parliamentary report, it appears that tn
n collectors and agents ofthe East India Compan
in collecting their tithes employed the mos
u dreadful torturcs to force money from the mis-
erable natives. Some extracts from that repo,
we will nov. present, and we invite the Abolitio
press and the Abolition orators generally, wh
J. are so apt at citing England as the great oppc
t. nent Of slavery read these extracts with after
a ton. Gftt
j, We beg them to remember that some Of ii
Of pious and worthy people who welcomed Nj