The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-11-05
THE TWO TYPES. "A CONrR Asst.

When God said, {" Let there be light, and
there was light" there was hardly u greater
contrast between the brightness and black
ness that preceded it, than between the Asiat-
ic and the Saxon blood, in everything that
appertains to generous manliness. A. heart
rendipg catastrophe has just occurred to il
lustrate this moral difference, in a manner
most striking. We need not particularise
the horrors of Meerut, and Delhi, and Gavin
pore we need but refer TO them, and the re-
collection of the hideous narratives fires the
blood and sckens the sensibilities. Such is
the Asiatic side Of the picture row look Mt
the Saxon, and see how men of Saxon origin
behave to men and women. Elsewhere we
give the account of the loss of the Central
America steamer, which, on its way from
Havana to New York, went down in hurri.
cane, with between four and five hundred
persons on board. Or these, the great ma
jority were rough gold diggcs, American
and English, returning from California with
their hard-won treasures. And how did they
behave in that trying moment, when the ter
rors of imminent death developed the sell
fshness or heroism of human naturel just
bef,,re the steamer went down, the Marine,
Of Boston, hove in sight, and, although her.
self disabled by the gale, came to render such
assistance as she could. $40 the honor OF
human nature," says the narrative Of that
dreadful catastrophe, /" these rough miners
stood peaceably by, while the women and
children were put into the boats and trans
ferred to the Marine. Boat after boat left
and yet they made no effort to fill them. The
captain himself stood by, and superintendent
the lowering Of the women into the boats. l,
is one of the noblest examples of self-sacrifce
on record-that Of these rough men, unused
TO restraint, accustomed to selfishness, per.
| hitting the helpless women and children 10
pass from danger TO safety. When the last
boat had gone with the women, q terrible
sea broke over the steamer. She gave a
plunge dsank-" 9.r.-
Here was sublime spectacle Of the TIL
umph of mind and manliness over matter
u spectacle, we had almost said, for the an
gels to admire. With all the sins, imperfec-
tons, and shortcomings Of the present age,
such incidents as these are enough to stamp
it with the character of heroism /; and, oh,
what contrast with the details OF the Sepoy
atrocities as far as the East is from the West,
so far is the wide interval between the two
types-the men Of Saxon blood giving place,
with o rough, but grand and holy chivalry,
to women and children, as being boat load
J by boat -laad conveyed to safety. not man
attempted 10 step before them and then the
armed fesds of Asiatic blond tossing chill
dren upon their bayonets, and mntilating and
numbering women in q manner one dare not
recite in whispers. What stuff. then, to talk
OF Saxon enterprise and Saxon innovation
suppIanting and snbjngating the dusky
tskins A million times better for the world,
Ecivilization and religion, would it be, If all
the dusky skins, with the cowardly, murder
GUS spirits which they enclose, were to-mor-
frow to disappear from the face of the earth,
and. their places were filed by men of the
| grand Saxon type, such as stood by on. the
deckofth Central America, and, with finer
chivalry than was ever shown in court OF
tourney, acted upon, if they did not expsess,
! the sentiment, "place to women aud the
| the weak, ~ aud carried out this sublimeceur-
tesy at the cost of their own lves.-Bsistol
| Ea6.) Times, Oct. l0tA.