The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-19
The Mutany IN India

we pupleeo ID our wednesdays issue ON edi-
torial article from the London Times in regard to
the mutiDy In India, which contains come re-
markable Developments of the policy tho British
government intends to pursue toward the mighty
empire it holds in the East. If it be true, as
there is reason to suppose it is, that the
Times oftmes draws its inspiration from sources
high in the confidence Of the present government,
there would be no great danger in prophecying
that Exeter Hall is to be let loose in India. For
thus eaith the Times
Now when conquest has ceased COW moi merely
religious slgr but Of morals habits and manners must
Now that have conquered India from the Indus 10
the hontc-s o. SIAM s our interest to establish In It
no nogeney which II has never before possessed. =
10 retain power In India must sweep away every
political establishment and every social usage which
may prevent our influence from being universal and
pleie
To the rejecting mind there is something ter
rible in these utterances One hundred and fifty
millions Of people are to be suddenly remoulded,
not only in religious belief, but in the manners
and habits they have practised from earliest
childhood, and in the morals that have been in
cucated, generation after generation, for period
longer than recorded time has chronnled Long
before Mauetho stood upon the ridge Of time, and
told us what was passing among the nations in
its valleys beyond our ken, society in India was
asst exists at the present day. The song Of veda
bad even then been sung by countless millions
already gone,to eternal rest, and established its
priesthood and its soldiers, its castles and its
pariahs Thousands of years before Europe had
emerged from barbarim into the twilight of CT
viIization, the social forms of India had become
sacred with their hoary antiquity. Yet now the
dread fiat has gone FORTH and Exeter Hall, in its
selfrighteousness, Is to be permitted to immediate
millions under the holy cry, am better than
thou"
Yes, immediate millions A conversion not
merely religious but Of morals, habits and man
ners," can only be carried out through death and
new creation. A homogeneity that had
never before existed since time was, which the
Supreme Creator in his infinite wisdom had not
seen fit to establish, must now be established
by the pbarisees OF Exeter Hall. EVERY politi-
cal ard social usage which may interfere with
their supreme will must be swept away; but in
this sweeping away Of all the social and political
ties under which men have existed for countless
generations, the men must be swept away
with their creeds For half century has this
selfrighteous sect that now sits in some Of Eng
londs high places endeavored to sweep away
these creeds and political aHd social usages by
preaching and persuasion. Hundreds of mission
aries have gone forth, and millions of piousy
gathered treasure have been spent, but the con-
verts are to be counted by tens Now other ar
euments fe to be invoked-the bristling bayo-
nets and flashing cannon Of England's armies are
to carry new social, moral and political creeds to
the crouching Hindooe.
We4lnow what the results will be. Philosophy
teaches them TO us by the examples of history.
II little matters whether there be resistance or
not; the same humiliation must ensue. Tamer-
lane and Bejazet brought new creeds TO the en-
Ughtened communities of Western Asia and elias
sic Greece; and where arc theys Ferdinand the
Catholic brought them to Moorish Spain six Gen.
turies ago, when she held the Arabic torchlight of
learning up to aarkened Europe and what
was the RESULT Wherefore, the philanthropist,
brought them to the rapidly developing commu-
mites Of tropical America; aud what is now
their political, social and religious condition
Everywhere the came dark sea Of barbarism rolls
its ightless waves. Greece, Moorish Spain aud
tropical America differ from each other in their
social. Industrial and intellectual conditions
only as the shattered ruins Of former civilizations
must differ from each other In the different co.,
stituenis Of their dishevelled materials We
have said on o former occasion-and VIC repeat il
now-the boeom of Exeter Hall nurturcs the seeds
Of decay for highlands greatness. She may yet
draw brack from these terrible promisings for
India The voice Of warning has already been
heard within her parliamentary walls but
should the utterances which we have quoted
above be carried out, wo be to India, and We
to the true mission which England seems called
upon TO fulfil in Eastern India