Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-09-17
The Mutiny in India.
A RUSSIAN VIEW OF AFFAIRS.
MADRAS, July 10.

COm0rln TO the loot OF the Hlmalayas, Ii
the theater of the most horrible crimes and
atrocties-officers murdered by their sold
iers, women violated and cut in pieces, and
children roasted alive before their parents
eyes.
Such are the scenes witnessed in India,
that fine country where, nevertheless, for &
century the English have established theil
rules and laws
This state of things has aroused thc
East India Company's government from its
habitual apathy. The public press has Ia
ken hold of the question, and numerous
pamphlets have been published to point
out the evil, its causes and the remedies to
be employed.
AS it was the army which first gave he
example of revolt and crime, it is on its or
ganization that public attention was first
directed, and all the organs of the press
coincide in discovering the evil:
1. In priority admitted as the only claim
to promotion.
9. In the little talent and military tact of
the officers in the Indian army.
3. In the total want Of sympathy be
tween them and their men.
A. In the faulty organization of the mil
itary government placed under the control
Of the civil service.
The native army consisting of seventy
three regiments of 1000 men each, toler-
ates patiently, but also contemptuously,
its English officers, and from the state
ments Of its commanding officers, who re-
ally took an interest in its organization, il
was secret enemy Of the Indian govern
ment.
A great General often observed that he
feared the Scpoys more than an enemy on
the frontier.
The army, which consists exclusively of
Ilindoos and Mussulmen, to whom the use
of pork fat is expressly forbidden by their
religion, made pretextof creased cariridg
es given to them with new description of
musket, and they rose as one man at every
military station. The soldiers first refused
obedience; they then fired on their officers
on parade, and deserted their colors and
professions forever.
The government at first ,rled to persuade
itself that it was onl ly an accidental mutt
ny in two or three Disconnected regiments.
and tie Governor General issued a procla-
nation to re assure the troops that other
cartridges would be given them, and that
Government would never interfere with
their religion. The troops received the
proclamation with bad grace, and a few
hours after it had been officially read. some
regiments fired upon their officers, burned
their stations. and put to death all Euro
peans they met with, without regard to age
or SEX
The so-caled mutiny assumed the pro-
portions of serious revolution, fomentcd
throughout the whole of India by all the
dethroned kings and dcposcd Mussulmen
princes.
What is the cause Of this rcvolution?-
Is it to be attributed to creased cartridg
es, or solely to discomfort among the Sc
poys?
No; ii is to be attributed
1. To the policy of annexation, followed
for many years by the representatives of
the East India Company.
g To the unjust and iliberal treatment
of the women and heirs of the deposed
crowned heads
3. To the breach Of faith on the part of
the Government to the army on two differ
ent occasions.
t. To the humiliation Of the Europeans
in favor of a few privileged classes of ma
tives and Mussulmen, which the Govern
ment wished TO flattcr to obtain loans from
them
s. To the tendency to seize hold of the
fortunes of the Rajahs and millionaire ma
bobs
6. To false application Of what the
Government pleased itself to style philan-
thropy.
7. To the Righteousness of the native
press.
And now let us examine each of these
causes:
I. The Government of the East India
Company has annexed, without any rca-
son. and most unjustly, the Kingdom of
Dude to its territory. This false and clum
~ policy aroused the Indignation of the
whole Of that rich aud populous country,
md the Sepoys, who belong chiefly to Dude
md the ncighboring countries. took up
,rms for the cause Of their king
A rre,t number of other tppnsed prime