Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-09-24
mo.

What moral plumnset could sound ths
depth Of infamy reached by the Englislf
j plotters of the ruin of that Prince who was
worthy to be held mp as model to Chris
tian rulers--the Raah Of Ssttara? Who
that has read the book written by the late
Major Cunningham on the Sikh war. can
doubt the fact that the acts for which we
first visited with vengeance the inhabitants
ofthe Punjaub in 1915 were studiously pro-
volled by ourselves? Who that has read
only the blue book with annointed eyes can
fail to see that the cause against Moolraj,
the ruler of Moultan, and the subsequent
conieleracy of Sikh Sirdar, was got up as
pretext for the setting aside of the trea-
ty of '45, and the annexation Of the coun-
try? As for Scinde, the history of our
doings in that province, from the moment
we. Judas like, crsved permission to pass
along the Indus. on our way to CaDdahsr.
down to the robbery committed on Ali
Morad, is one of dupIicity, treachery, and
murder.
Add to those the crimes committed by
the setting aside Of the right Of adoption,
and the seizure of Jutpore, Sumbhulpoor,
and Nagpoor, the Burmese war, and the
annexation of Pegu, and finally the last
well known act OF the coroneted land pi
rate, Dalhousic, and you have measured
iniquity, pressed down and running over.
sufficient to consign the nation guilty
such deeds to the dark category Of tbos'
older nations, who, having welded til
sword for purposes of cruelty, ambitio
and destruction, have persisted by I'll
sword of some grim avenger, and have pass
ed from the face Of the earth have CLAN
ced only at the acts of twenty years. TIL
eyes Of millions in the empire are fixed up
on similar acts, extending in one unbroke,.
line through five times twenty years, from.
the forgery committed by Give to tn
the falsehood uttered by a British officia
when standing in the presence Of rulerr
Gently deposed. Let no presumptuou
Englishman dream that the natives Of thi
country-Hindoos and Mussuimans-ar
ignorant of the history of British rule l..
India, or OF the tendencies, motives, AMI
designs of their rulers. Let no one dream
that the slightest progress has been mad.
towards gaining the attachment and heart
allegiance of the people. l question il.
from the gates of Khyber Pass, to Adsm's
Bridge, there are one hundred natives o
the soil, belonging to the conquered races,
upon whose loyalty the government could
at this moment absolutely rely. 1t has
been my study to obtain as accurate
knowledge as possible of the sentiments
of the education classes, and am bound
to say that (could the event be brought
about without direct injury to themselves)
they are prepared, without regret. to see
the British government overthrown. The
reasons for their state of mind are unan-
swerable. To support as is to perpetuate
their own degradation, and to aid in the
work of obliterating every trace Of their
former distinctions, and what to them ap-
pears the noLlest objects of secular ambi-
ton.
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Look at our position! Internally, the
army on which we rested is rotten to the
core. In Burmah our very name is abhor.
red. We are the robbers of Assam. ARA
ran, Tavoy, Ye, Tenasserim, and Pegu.-
In china we are hated with an intensity
hat cannot be exaggerated. In Central
Asia. from Cabul to Constantinople, we are
oathcd as in6del dogs, and detested as un-
orincipled aggressors. BY the millions Of
'ur own subjects on these shores-from tho
aajah and Nswub, down to the palanquin
'earer and khitmutgar-we are regarded
With malignity as deep as our rule has
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