Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-10-01
WHOLE NO. 1889.

mat, Niehput iecliIB Indt, however, the pres
a ent struggle may finally result, the goveinmen
OF British India for the next fifty years will b,
| far more terrible thing than it has been fo
the last fifty. IL will taie an ocean Of blood
10 wash out all that has now occurred There
WIN bo war of races for three hundred years
II British dominion should survive so long in
India. All the haughtness of the old ormau
conquerors on one side, and hatred fur more
treaeherous, willy and horrible foe in its atroci.
tles than that of the old Saxons ON the other,
VIII last for generations. The horrors of the
ilrSt French revolution are nothing to this. The
massacre of st. Bartholomew did not equal it
IN airocliy. 1t will bewar of races, the sergile
race against their rulers. 1t may and does
snow us what might arise in the South should
ever Northern or Southern fanatics stir up a
strife between the white or black races. 1t
VIII, 100, be war of religions, of Dagon, and
Baalim and Astaroth against the God OF the
christians, in which the side which commands
tue greatest physical force on the field of bat
lie, the most successful armies, the biggest
guns, and the most potent elements of de-
struction, will receive the homage of the
masses. The whole affair OF Missions has been
oy an inevitable necessity brought to this ar.
Dltrament, and ii has got now seemingly to
abide by it.
Ana II, which is not now impossible, Moham-
medans aud Hindoos, by combining, could
succeed in numbering every European in India
or driving them from the interior of the coun-
try,yet the government that conld alone es-
tabhsh itself over people brutalized SO as to
| commit the outrages and atrocities that have
recently been perpetrated on men, women and
| children, must itself be one of horror and ty-
ranny as great and greater than in the very
worst days Of the Mogul Empire. Either that
or anarchy would be Just SO much worse than
the most tyrannical even of tyrannical govern
mohts, as these passions unrestraned in mil
lions are more terrible than when exercised
only by the few.
As to religion, should the rebels succeed, we
Will not say that the whole missionary work
lnula would be undone, that is perhaps impos-
slDle, but it would be such blow to the laDors
of every missionary in Asia, as has not been
experienced in the Christian world since the
days Of Constantine. The Hindoo tanaticism
would be raised to frenzy. All the peisecn- |
tons oil native Christians in Madagascar would |
be worse than repeated here. The priests and |
people would exu't in the downfall Of the giant |
power of Britain in India, and regard it as a
clear interposition of Buddha and Brahma and /
Hlshnn, Just as the Philistines made merry and |
praised Dagon, ,whent they caught the giant Sam
son, ana put out his eyes. They would re-
member and feel that this was emphaticall Sc |
religious war, undertaken avowedly bacau
the cartridges of the Sepovs were creased with |
the fat of the sacred bullock, and really be- |
cause II became evident either that Christianity !
must extirpate Chr stiaDity. And they would
ieel that their god was the strongest, that he
mad beaten. And so would the Chinese, and
SO would the Burmese, aud the Karens. There
would be vsry little further missionary work
done in India for the next fifty years, should
TINS emeute succeed.
If it is put down, crushed and ground under
inc heel Of the conqueror, Brahma and Vishnu
ana buddha may as we'll give the matter up, |
hia I'm -sal a.
gle. The God of the people that use rifles |
ana reYolyers and flying artillery, and hang
up conspirators, alter drum-head court-mar-
tial under the first banyan tree, will supcrcede
tnose oil wood and stone, whose followers fay
their prisoners alive and outrage and murder
women and children in cold blood.
British rule in India, ii re. established. will |
be very different thing from what it has vet
oeen' So far, England left the immediate |
suNssShsa9n of the Nhages aud the pe,,ule in
tne hands OF their own head men, only inter-
ierlng to remove one native and put I'm ano-
ther IN cases of gross injustice or failure to
secure the Government tax. Bnt now it is he
yohd question that this class of men must have
Deen deep in the conspiracy, and British ma
gistrates VIII supercede natives. The people
VIII ieel the hoof of the conuueror treadinp
more directly upon their necks. If they enioy
oetter justice, 1t will be performed in less |
popular way, and the people will fret and rebel |
anu the magistrate will be little better than a |
inangman, and India will become like Peru or
like Mexico. -
But will England succeed in subduing this
reDeiiionf Every days delay in taking Delhi,
every retreat like that from the field Of Agra,
mperiis the whole country, gives the natives
confidence in them and evaporation against
me Europeans. No such feelings ever before
manifested themselves. And it is no longer
me army, but the whole native population,
rom the lowest to the highest, who seem in a
renzy Of hatred increasing daily the retalia.
oFy vengeance of hanging dozen men under
tree Will not reduce this and were it not for
ne command OF the ocean, the coast, the river !
steamboats,, ana two or three rallying points,
IKE Calcutta and Bombay, Northern India
would be gone. But with these preserved, the
nSurrection must give way as soon as the ma !
ives have fired away their powder and worn !
'ut their guns, if not before.-Ledge
DISTRESSING CALAMITY-FIvE LIVES Losr.
"A letter in tile Boston Journal states that on y
'aesday morning, the 10Th inst, Capt Jere-
man hurlow started in an open boa; from N. .
'. Haroor OF Deer Island, Me-, accompanied |
y Captain Edward Beal, of Ellsworth, Me-,
ogether with the daughter, cher name not re- I
hemDered,) and two grand daughters, Sarah
hd Ellen Jordan, of Capt I. The daughter g.,
hu Sarah We're young ladies' and Helen about q
we've years of age. Subsequently they took T.
two strange gentlemen, but the boat had !
ot proceeded far before flaw of wilma cap !
lzed her. The letter continues: :
Captain Beal was sitting forward with Helen r
fhom no caught as they went under the fore. j
all. when Captain Beal came to the surface i
he boat was lying on her beam ends, and no ,
,erSon except himself and Helen in sight He 3
lrSt saw Capt. ThurlOw and daughter rise, he /
Importing her, and next the elder of the 5
trangers, who sat amdships supporting Sar- i
n. The younger of the strangers was new +
n seen after the boat capszed. They 3
ncceeded IN getting TO the boat, to which
zach OF tho men clung Jas besthe, could ,
Zach supporting one of the girls. The wind
vas now almost blowing a hurricane, and
u course there could be but little conversa-
ion between them. The first word was spolyen
~ Captain Thurlow. He said, Beal don't
get scaredi save that grl!'' |" / am not scared; {
am bound to save her, or we Will both go /
Town together," was the reply of Beal. {
Half an hour after the disaster the boat
armed bottom up, when all were washed off I
md sunk. Captain B. came to the windward
he stranger to the leeward, and Captain I. I
stern, each still supporting his precious bur-
len. After once more reaching the boat,
japtaln Thurlow repeated his entrGaties to the ,
thers not to be frightened and to save the
urls; The stranger made no reply, but indi-
ateu by ms actions that, although much ex ,
austed, ne had not thought of abandoning
rs charge. During the next half hour theS
'ere repeatedly washed oil from the boat. and :
often got back again. Then heavy sea ,
'ashed them oil and all sunk. Captain Beal
anne up to lecward and Captain Thurlow To y
no wihdward, but the stranger and Sarah new a
rose again. This time Captain Thurlow was
na6le to speak, but waved his hand TO Capt. /
Zeal to persevere. About an hour and a half +
tier the boat capsizcd, Captain Thurlow be- n
anne utterly exhausted, and the last Captain 6
'eai saw of him his fingers gradually slid off
he ooat, ana, with his daughter still clinging I
round his neck, he sunk to rise no more. \