The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-09-05

frontier life
approached the old man, aud asked him what
he was doing SO far fourteen hundred mies) from
his home. He answered, " I'm in search of liberty
speech, liberty of action, and liberty to call my
self an American without being subject to Judge
Jeffries, (Crawford) or any of his mininos." Says
endorse those sentiments, and will stand by them
till the ship (American) goes down--for our flag is
nailed to the mast never to be struck
On looking around saw also my associate lin
the good cause) VIM A. Fletcher, who was en-
ployed in your navy-yard, and was dismissed for
the same reason.
Such is proscription--you may trample on us
you may take the bread from lis and our children
you may do all the 6 Whore of Babylon" can in
eyent--you may do your worst but tell you that
all your persecution combined, cannot land will
not) drive from the breasts Of all true Americans
those never-dying principles engrayen there.
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE.
What is to be done with India?
The time will certainly arrive when tremendous
inquisition will be held on the unparalleled atroci
ties which darken the pages before us. England
must and win spare no labor, no cost no military
force, no judicial vigor that may be required, to
hunt down the perpetrators and award them the
penalty of their crimes. In this instance, we have
to make examples that shall never die or decay in
Indian memory. But for the present, we must
repress our Indignation and stop to reason on
these narratives. The comments that we make
we feel cannot be disputed by the most captious
| envier of our Indian greatness. In many cases
the native soldiers, even when conspirators, and
only waiting the opportunity, have acknowledged
the kindness of their British officers and protected
them from violence, even at some risk to them
| selves. Our personal relations thus come out
clear We have only been too confding; we
have left even too much to the native officers aud
given them too substantial an independence. They
feel this. Hence we read in one instance of their
giving the British officers and other residents
several hours law, offering them the means of es-
cape, allowing them to carry off their private
property, and even giving them money or mount
ing guard at their houses to protect them from
chance violence. Suth particulars are important
TO the defence of our Indian rule; for that rule
has been a military one, and we only hold the
country as the Romans once held Britain. Whence,
them these hideous atrocities boat loads of fugi-
lives shot down, dragged ashore, and butchered
in heapsg Whence the proportion OF the victims
at most Of the stations? The answer has its con-
ISOLATION. Sometimes few aggrieved sepoys,
against the feeling and resolution of the regiment,
have the opportunity Of the confusion to assassin
ate the objects of their personal dislike. Every
where, as a natural and inevitable consequence,
the prison doors have been thrown OPEN and
thousands of class which is found everywhere,
and nowhere in greater numbers and depravity
than in India, have broken loose, TO follow their
brutal passions and wage natural war with the
maintainers of order. Sometimes pretender on
the Mahommedan law of adoption has carried out
the sanguinary code on every man, woman, aud
child of the nidel race that within his reach
Sometimes a wandering mass Of mutineers have
taken a wanton vengeance on a crowd of British
fagitives happening TO come in its way These
are all incidents of social chaos. Generally the
influence of personal relations has had counter
acting tendency. No doubt the Hindoos have
only those feelings for us altogether that the sub
jugated usually have towards their rulers and no
doubt the Mohammedans have only those more bit
ter feelings that the suppanted naturally have to-
wards their supplanters The religions and races are
against us. This we cannot help. But we sub
NIT that these narratives, heartrending as they
are, throw favorable light our personal rela-
tons with the people.
But we will put question or two suggested by
these details Can anybody deny that India re-
quires a ruler to win the affections of some; TO
suppress the ferocity of Others to control religious
murderers and religious robbers TO arbtrate be-
tween creed of exclusion and creed OF exter-
minatinn; TO harmonic into one political whole
races Of hereditary soldiers hereditary priests he
rcditary manslayers, hereditary plunderers, and
other races as distinct in their character as they
we're in the days of Alexander Is it not for the
interest of civilization and humanity that we who
have this charge, and can show pre-eminent claims
to It, should grasp it and maintain IL with the
whole strength of the empire? Who else is there
that has his foot on Indian soil who can keep down
this volcanic mass of criminal tendenciesp Who
else can ever guard the prisons that have just
vomited out their thousands to the terror of the
community? Who else can keep the highways
open, and prevent the necessity Of resorting to
byways? Even at this crisis we feel sure that If
the whole presidency of Bengal cosld be poed,
the return would be in our favor. Terrible as the
blow has been to us--to those who read Of massa-
ere after massacre Of their countrymen, and have
too much for fearing that their friends are
among the victms--we have no doubt the vista
ton has fallen quite as severely on the civil popu-
lation. They look TO us to re-establish our name
and authority by the most effectual means. 1t is
not, then, only because blood cries from the earth
for vengeance, or because thousand British fam
lilies are plunged into grief distracted with anx
iety but for the more substantial and paramount
reason that we are the Providential governors Of
India that we must now inflict terrible retribu-
ton and purge tho land Of its crimes. We have
done much, il not our utmost, to humanzie the
people, to teach them justice and to give them
liberty; so may we with a safe conscience, and no
fear of evil tongues, take exemplary vengeance on
the authors and abettors of this unmerited insdr-
rection. London Times.
THE LATE FAILURE IN ESeLAND-DIsAsrER TO
THE SHrP HIGHLAND CHIEF.-We learn by the City
Of Washington that the failure of Carr Bros Co,
Of Newcastle, is for sum equal to 100000, but
the investigation of their accounts is said thus far to
have resulted very satisfactorily.
A letter dated Fayal, July Dist, says, the ship
Highland Chief arrived here yesterday from Liver
pool, bound to New York, leaking badly. A sur
yey has been held, and she has been ordered 10
discharge portion of the Goals, and be cauked
from the copper up.
Docs REcoeNrsED AS PRoPERrY.--The steward
OF the ship Sir Robert Peel lately sued the mate Of
that vessel for the value of two dogs--one ter
rier, and the other King Charles spaniel--which