Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-11
EVENING STAR.
RRITAIN AND INDIA

rFnm CampbeII's Pleasures Of Hope.l
Y. ORIENT reslms where Gauges waters run!
How long Your tribes have tremhed and obeyed.
How hong was TimouI's IRON scePtrs swayed
From Scy thIa's northern mountains to the main,
Ragged DER plundered ShrInes and affairs base,
Stunned with the cries Of death each gentle gale,
And bathed IN blood the verduTe of the vale!
when MIR Bram,s Children perished for his name;
The martyr smiled beneath svengIng power,
And braved the tyrant IN his toTtuTIng hour!
When Europe sought your subject realms to gain,
TsnEht her proud 6arks their winding way to shape.
And braved The stormy spirit of the Cape;
To wash The stain of blood eternal dye!
DID Peace descend, TO triumph and to save
All, no ito more than Rome's ambition true,
The Nurse of Freedom gave It not to you.
She the bold route of EurOpe's guilt began,
And IN the march of nations, led the van
Rich is the gems of Indiss gaudy zone.
And plumber pIied from kIngd"ms not their own,
Degenerate Trade! thy minIons could despise
Could lock with Impous hands, their teemng store;
While furnished nations died along the shore;
Could mock the gTOaHs of fellow men and bear
The course of kingdoms peOpled with despair,
Could stamp disgrace on mans polluted name,
And barter, with their gold, eternal shame.
But bark! as bowed to earth the Bramin knsels,
From heavenly chimes PrOpItlOus thunder peals.
OF lDdIa's tate her guardian spirits tell,
Prophetic murmurs breathing on the shell.
Roll on the azure paths of every wind.
Foes of mankind cher guardian spirit saw
Revolving ages bslng the bitter day,
When He Iven' unsrrIns arm shall fall on you,
And blood for blood these Indian aims bedew;
Nine times have Dramas wheels of lightning hurled
HIS awful presence DER the alarmed world
Nlhe ZINES nsth guilt, through all his giant frame,
SonSnlslve trenbied as the Mighty came,
Nine times hath suffering Mercy spared in vain
tie comes! dread Drama shakes the sunless sky
Itl Ihuinurng Wrath and thunders from on high.
heaven merry horse. beneath his warrior form,
laws the hight conds, and gallops on the storm,
VIDE waves his hlckerIng sword, his bright arms
Like summer suns, and hight the world below.
farth, and her trembling Isles In Oceans bed.
Are sRook' and Nature rocks beneath his tread.
To pour redress on India's injured realm,
Il ne 0ppressOr TO dethrone. the proud to whelm;
w lth arts and arms that tIIumpbed once before
Inc tenth AvateT comes at Heavens command
S ma Serlswattee wave her hallOwed wand.
SnalI eiess with JOY their own propItiOus cline,
Come, Heavenly powers prineya peace restore.
Love mercy wisdom. rule for ever more.
-fhe following account OF the British conduct.
anu us consequence, IN Bengal, will afford suff-
cent Idea of the fac, luded 20 In this passage At
ter describing the monopoly Of salt, betel NUT and
TOBACCO, the historian proceeds thus Money IN
thirst of those who waited Inds TO receive IT, An
eXpedlent such rs II was. renamed to quicken II 3
pace; The natives could live with little salt, hut
couic not want IOod. Some of the agents saw them
selves well situated for collecting the rice into
stores; they did So. They knew the Gentoos would
rather die han violate the principles of ther religion
by eating hesn. The alternative would theref,re he
oetween giving what they had or dying. The Inhah
!tants sunk they that cultIyttsd the land and saw
oou0t-scarclty ensued. Then the monopoly wa IS
easier alaged-slckuess ensued. In some d strIcts
dead unburied 'SSioyt HiSto1v Of "a, EsT,
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