Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-11-03
From Cor. Of the Richmond Enquirer
The East Indla RsTOintiaa. md lis 81
feets mon American INTEREST,".

fMb GaAb HUH AACNvtubluNs NN4 ia III
fcets Hpon lmeriean lattfssts.
Messrs. EDrroRs: The following extract
III copied from ~aleading paper III New
York, TO show how Iittle tks East India
question II nnderstoodf
Aspieadid eountry, ore Of the most
fertile on the earth, would become desert
Ia SECOND Nicaragua, England sends
forty to Fifty millions dollars worth OF
goods to IHdia--for the TAN material 81
which sbsBis mostly indebted To us. II
sic loses her market for tho goods we
shall lose hers fol the material.
Did England find lndia 4 desert-a
second Nicaragua-when she took posses
sion Of it BY iire and sword Was II
Enot the very richest country ii tile world?
Has not England enriched herself BY The
riches she found there !? il is d NON ser
quiur, therefore, to assumeItlat the over.
throw OF British power in IadiaEw will re.
dnce it toa desert, u conyeFti it into q sec.
ond Nicaragua IL is the military des.
potism England has established there
whichis reducing India % 4 desert-a
second Nicaragua. According 10 all the
best authorities. the whole Of India has
been rapidly declining il wealth and pop.
~ulation ever since Great Britain and hor
East India Company ca company com
tposed. not of merchants, excepta few
prineely ones. but mostly pf the wealthy
~arislocracy Or governing classes ofEng-
land reduced Il 10 sabjection under the
hypocritical pretence pEopening It to com
merce, civilization and Christianity. As
far as Christianity is concerned. the AM
glo-Indian Government now stands con
lyie.ed before tie world on rs osa eonfes-
siosss, that II never did anything, directly
Tor indirectly. 10 spread Christiatity in
India. The missionaries that the Ameri-
can, British and some other European
Churches sent out tol India, found TINT
missionary labors in india, aftef the Brit.
fsh conquest, boie little or no fruit at all;
whereas, previously 70 the conquest. the
German Protestant. As well as The Catho-
lie missionaries. had been smi1ently sue
cessful III converting Vie heather to Chris
tiamty. 50 much 50. tiat tile success Ola
German Baptist was used as An argi,-
ment against baptism immersion. as. il
was alleged that lie was physically una
BILE to immense the converts fast enough.
After the British took possession Of Tie
country, the American Baptist mission
aries labored seven years III India and only
made h convert. rbe people became
prejudiced against tlje missionaries and
the Gospel they preached as they suspec-
ted them Of being Tie ayailt -csonrriers 81
those armies which snbdued and pillag-
led their country.
AS far as commerce is concerned, in
GLIDING agriculture arts and manufacturs
England has monopeliEed the whole to
Eherself, and has sedulpusly excluded other
nations therefrom, except under the most
odious restrictions.
AS to civilization, England found ex-
cessiyc LUXURY and abundance. instead III
poverty and starvation. when sword III
| hand SHE entered India. Even the com
mon people were dressed III long flowing
robes, whose 4~asmplelfolds greatly mode.
rated the heat Of the climate. After she
had held possession bf the country for
nearly IN hundred years That celebrated,
good, pious and truthful Baptist clergy
man. the Rev. MI. Mafcome. Jfthe Amer
lean Baptist. Church., visited India, RI
manned two years and published the result
Fog his observations Oh his return. From
him, it appears, that British civilization
i has reduced three fonrths pf Tie inhabi.
Itants, say one hundred million o fpeoplc,
to absolute n~akedhess. except i piece 81
cotton cloth, three inches wide. fastened
lto 4 string around tlie waist; to subserye
1.-THE purpose or father Adm 3 fig leaf
We found. likewise. that under British
| eisilizationsin India. at least two millions
Of human beings die annually from absot
lutte starvation. The cause was. that The
exorbitant taxes and high rents imposed
by the AHgo-Indiaa government, so Grip
pIed the means Of the farmers, planters
and manufacturers, that they were oblig,
ed ID reduce the wages Of tile laborers u
so low i pittance that the latter were ut.
terly unable to buy dlothiug-heir entift
wages being consumed in Purchasing sui,
feient food to keep themselves and their
families from starvation. Hi some dis,
~tsicts the Rev. Mi. MalcomS found the III.
borers reduced to tl,e hard necessity d
subsisting on cotton seed. No Ameri-
can planter Will let his cd, eat cotton
seed, because il Is q species food unI
II ct for beasts.
II Great Britain were ma&e let go hel
hiron grasp oh India, what Eor be tbs
efect. The wages Of an hurdred mil
lions Of the labofing classes would rib
sufficiepay high 20 enable them 70 pur-
ohase clothing, instead Of going naked 4;
Ithey row d.. 5Halfgthe gToss products
Of Tie soil are claimed by The Anglo7In-
dian government. If Indialhad noiongel
ID ray that enormous tax. she could
we'll afford TO dress her labpfers at leas
half as we'll as American negro slaves
are dressed: A negro slave consumes
annually, as much cotton goods as tei
pounds Of raw cotton will make. AM
i. these cotton goods. furnished him. a.
not cost halfa much AS Ills other cloth
inc, Suppose the hundred millions =
naked laborers in India we're conyertet
into as good customers to the cotton man
ufacturers as the American negroes NOV
are. how much raw cotton would II TAX
ID clothe them-say each. big and little
consumed only 5 Bs., instead Of 10 h
I nar .1num4 II wot1ld feotirh a Mills,