The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-11-18
LATEST FROM INDIA.


We have at length the gratifying intelli-
eence of the taking of Delhi by the British
troops, of the reinforcement of the heroic
Hayelock at Cawnpore, and of the garrison at
Lucknow still holding out against the rebels
whom General Havelock was about to attack
Though all this was expected, yet it is not the
less cheering to the friends of humanity and
civilization; nor win they complain that no
quarter was given to those fends and mon
sters in human shape, the Sepoys, whose
shocking barbarities and unheard of cruelties
TO the English women and children who fell
into their hands have caused the blood to
eurdle in our veins.
But while no quarter was given to these
lemons, the British did not initiate their
example by Staying women and children.
These were saved. gEs.3l ,ss w,k
The fall of Delhi and the dispersion of the
rebels before Lucknow, together with the
various successes which the British troops are
gaining wherever they meet the enemy, can
not fail to have a most dispiriting effect,
Throughout India, upon those who have mutt
MED, as well as upon such as contemplated
Joining the mutineers. 81 hope and think, "
says the Bombay correspondent Of the London
Times, "that when the tidings Of the fall Of
Delhi have well filtered through the country,
many a now formidable looking band Of
marauders will be dissipated even more
rapidly than II was formed " News Is spread
through India from mouth to mouth with a
rapidly that we can scarcely conceive Of and
which throws the most speedy mail quite in
the rear An event. therefore, Of, such impor-
lance as the fall Of Delhi, and the utter ami
hilation Of the hopes and prospects Of its king
will soon be made known in every part Of
India, and those who contemplated joining the
| mutineers, seeing the utter hopelessness Of
| their cause and the certain destruction that
awaits them, will be glad to disguise their
intended purpose by display Of loyal zeal,
and by employing in the British service the
vory arms. they had designed to turn against
II, Such is the .,shunan nature, not Of
Joys and Hindoos only, but Of those who
boast a higher civilization, a more refined
humanity, as well as purer religion, than
they are supposed to possess. s5oa u u z.il a, !
i 1t has been said by some. that 1t would not
be in the power Of Great Britain, with all her
heroism and immense resources, to re-estab-
lish her former power in India We are not
among those who take this view Of her con-
test there; on the contrary, we think her
power will be all the greater, or at least more
directly cxerted IN the government of that
country, for this revolt twill belong to her,
now, to christianize and to humanize the hun
dreds Of millions of pagans and Mahometans
who inhabit that ancient country. II will be.
come her duty to teach them the value Of
|! rational liberty-the liberty of law and order
not the RIGHTEOUSNESS Of anarchy; not the lib.
erty of the bludgeon, the sung-shot, the
| pistol, and the bowie knife This is what
they have never known. With the Easterns
there are but two kinds of men, dcspots and
slaEes-nabobs and paupers. The mass Of
the people have no idea of any government
but that of the lash and the bow string; Of
any liberty but that of using these upon
others. Tho country once more reduced to
/ subsection and order, new form of govern
ment will undoubtedly be instituted, and
among its first duties will be the establishing
of English schools in all the cities, and wher-
ever they can be established, compelling the
people to send their children to them to be
taught the rudiments Of an English education
and the principles Of Christianity. Thus and
thus only can India, with its immense popula-
ticn, become Anglicized and an integral part
Of the British Empire f1a 81
| Our opinion in regard to the rebellion in
India is confirmed by that of an intelligent
American ship master, who has been much in
the Calcutta trade. In recent letter to q
friend he says: .a
II look u'on the mutny as of very short dura.
| ton. IL is onhned wholly TO the company's sol.
! diers, but few Of whom are in fact natives Of
Bengal. They are nearly all emigrants from
Arabia and other parts OF Asia, and are mostly
\ Mahometans and Hindoo Brahmins They were
brought into Bengal by the East India Company
officials as hewers Of wood and drawers of water
for them. The mass Of the Hndoo population,
who are as fifty 10 one Of the sepoys or soldiers.
are deadly enemies to them, ind would be glad
20 see every one Of them put 10 death. The
sepoys have nothing to do with tilling the ground
but are poor miserable race of idle loafers, and
with the force England has on the way there will
not be sepoy left alive when the planting season
arrives next spring. Trade may be interrupted
for short time, but cannot think the interrup.
ton viii last long You may think take wrong
view of the matter, but 1t is my opinion, founded
on much observation in that country, and always
have moro faith in what see myself than In
what hear from others" 'tiT -
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i The Know Nothing leaven Of Black Repub.
licanlsin will show itself when occasion offers Al
ST. Paul, Minnesota, on election day, an armed
band of Black Republican rufians took possession
Of the polls in one of the wards and, with revoI
yers and knives, drove off and kept from voting
some two or three hundred legal voters. - Union.
| The Union has mistaken the kind Of
"leayonp which worked upon the Repub.