Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-09-25
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,orse Of British arms or policy There is much in the
I'D land vet to admire Neither do always sympa-
hize with every revolution, or attempt at reVoutlon'
merely because it makes the specious cry OF liberty the
pretex for the overthrow of order and the etabsheo
relations of society We do not like LOUIS Napoleon
We know him to be foreswOrn, and we believe MN 10
he selfish but we would prefer to live under his despot
ism rather than under such liberty as Ledru Rolln and
other Red Republicans would inaugurae. They do not
1, what liberty means any than they appreciate
order and stability.
We did not think that the wild outburst OF lo40
couId succeed In fact we saw no element of success IN
it. Not that we thought the despots ought to rule or
that the people ought not to rule but simply because
the latter did not know how. They knew no more OF
the practice of Government actual craftsmanship
than the iet citizen would do Of sailing vessel to
Liverpool So the thing failed
For these reasons do not rejoice in the Indian OIL
Gcultics of England But cannot sympathlze win
The East India Company. The wild license and treacn
erv Of the native hordes such that no man with sou
in his body can hear of without horror: From that no
GOOD can come and liberty gain nothing:
But Oh the other hand we must say that If ever
reonc had cause for revol-f forcibe resistance
was justified and demanded by system productive OF
nbearabIe oppression the people OF India was that peo
pIe and the system there pursued, was that system
A hundred years ago or a little over the East India
Company owned not foot OF land on the fenlnsula'
except the little space upon which their trading orts
and establishments stood, The whole land OF INDIA be-
onged to the native propretOfs Now according 10 the
system pursued there is really no private property In
india at least not in the territories OF the Company
comprising the most populOus and wealthy sections
The Company claims to own every foot OF land, which
they gracousy permit the people to cultivate Tor one
half Of all the produce of the earth There is no motive
to improve when the improvement goes to John Com
panv and when the mere tenant may be turned out at
any time But even this shows not all of the difficulties
under which, the great agricultural cass-nlneteen
twcntctls of the population labor-ths land revenue
this rent is mcd out to contractors, mostly cunning
Indoos Of The trading class who subet the land, and
their tenants frequently subc again until the rate is
run M to nearly the whole value of the produce The
acrcnIurst through these cxactions is kept so poor
that lie has actually to go in debt to the contractor or
subIctcr for the seed he sows, and this at rate of in
tcrcst beyond all European or American concePuon
After this system had gone its round through govern
mcnt collectors contractors subcOntracOrs interest and
LEGAL pIace the result was that the actual laboring
IIndoo was sometimes brought IN debt after giving up
his whole crop having it seized; or, he had any
thing for himself it was just sufficient to keep soul and
body together to wear out little longer In the service
Of the taSk1naster
What then has India to lose by revolt or revolution
II is easy to talk about security to life and property u-
der British rule The subject Hindoo ran little risk OF his
ropcrtv for he had none and under the existing sys
tenn could not hope to acquire any and as for life, 1t
was hardly worth holding and that this impression was
felt by the mdoos themselves is plainly evnced by the
notorious fact that in Hmdostan alone of all nations on
the earth you could hire man to die III your place
just give enough money for wild revcl-ong enough
to spend it, and make provision for his family and the
bargain would be made
This government Iandlorlship-this virtual negation
Of private property and check upon individual effort was
and ismoc than any people earth can sustain themselves
under and India is today far poorer and worse cutVa
ted than it two centuries ago we speak OF course
of Observation-Disclosures that is India; traffic and
manufactures are insignificant in comparison
India was fully as quiet and ten times more prosper
GUS under either the Paan or MOgul empires than 1t
ever has been under British rule The great works
built under these dynasties for the Improvement of the
country put to shame the puny efforts of the Company
and under Acbar and his successors man might travel
with treasure from one end of the land to the other,
much safer than he can now traverse the streets of New
, York
We don't think earthquakes or volcanoes are pleasant
phenomena, nor to be generally coveted-neither are
these moral earthquakes like this India outbreak but 1t
did seem as though nothing snort of earthquake would
unseat this Old Man of the Sea- that sat on the shout
er and casped his legs round the necks of the people
of Hindostan If does unseat the COmpany-f it has
the effect of substituting gOUernment for this most
souess corporation it will be well. If England learns
wisdom it will be WE'LL but if motif the system is
to be pursued in future better-far better for every
Englishman to be driven into the ocean.
1t is true the Sepoys said to be brutal and un
+ grateful. They well treated So they were but
they had fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters anG
wives and horrible have been the atrocities perperaeC
upon English females question if the is ever
vet settled or the list of outrages upon HndoO
balanced
IS Be~ The steamship Southerner, from New York tt
> Savannah put into Charleston in distress-almost