Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1858-11-24
From the Glasgow North British Mail, Oct. 2e.l
THE INDIAN REVOLT.

THE INDIAN REVOLT
The truth is beginning to leak out respecting the
causes Of the revolt in India aud the reason why re-
beon still shoulders in that unhappy land The |
truth, too is of such character that we confess we
would gladly shut it out from eyes were it not
necessary condition of future safety that the policy
it reveals should be thoroughly understood and rad
lcallv changed. 1t Is very plain, from the latest
counts, that although the is at an end so far as
seige operations aud pitched battles are concerned
yet disaffection regns throughout and dominion
is no more than a military occupation, maintained
by continual and bloody, though desultory fighting
Maun Singh and Tanta Topee (the latest mail re
pors) occupying the attention of several Brga-
diers and their columns, and Notwithstanding tina,
the enemy are "cut AS the brutally and un
Soldierly phrase goes-by thousands and culbute.
into rivers in all directions, STILL in our most recen
conflicts with one of these Chiefs four officers wer
put horS de combat, and one of them killed; whil
the other nsurgent leader has taken the large ant
wealthy city of Jhelra Patun," fined the bankers o
the place ten laos of rupees and become possessed
of forty pieces of new artillery, ammunition, anG
provisions of war to a considerable amount Ma
piers column and Gen Nichols force are about to
combine for future movements, not against Tantia
Topee only, but against other insurgent chiefs who
continue their independent forays. In the Baudor
district Rummunt Singh and Punab Singh, with
the remains of large force, still lurked and COM
mitted great deal of havoc. Rohilcund has been
disturbed, and in carrying an intrenchment there
300 OF the enemy were killed and all officers i'm
action (five) were wounded Brigader Douglas was
to open the campaign in Bahar during the present
month, with 1000 Europeans and 2OO0 Skhs; sew
eral functions of brigades were planned and, when
they shall be effected Lord Clyde will be at Luck
! now, and columns everywhere in motion" Such
are few OF the items of series of events reported
by the Bombay correspondent of the Times, which
he looks upon with satisfaction, showing that he
Is justified in taking "a more cheerful view of our
circumstances than some, who look upon the rebel
lion as still possessed of much vitality" post
script of the latter sustans the sanguine opinions of
the writer by sketch of the details of the outbreak
Of the disarmed Sepoys at Mooltan in which L" 400
or 1000 unarmed men, rose and attempted to seize
one of our most important fortreSses on the 2d of
last month"; and killed an officer before they were
| driven out, or otherwise accounted for" This is
the present state of British India, which is now
overn by 1000 European troops and host of
native auxlares, which as yet nd man seems to
have accurately numbered This is the condition of
| the Queens new empire at the moment of her SOW
ereisnty being proclaimed; and surely that critical
| change ought to be taken fitting occasion for
inausuratlng new mode of dealing with Indian af-
fairs both in our discussions at home and i'm actual
| government on the spot. There has been enough
OF boasting, in Parliament and the Times of the
justice and mildness of our rule in the East-there
has been more than enough of vacilaton and truck
ling in the Acts and Councils of the Indian Govern
! merit OF "cuttng up" miserable fugitiveS in the
field and OF blowing Sepoys from the mouths OF
| guns in cantonments. 1t is time that we should
consider what all this bloody work has been about
time that we should seriously seek in the expert
ence OF the past for instruction to guide our policy
in the future We glad therefore to find that
the special correspondent of the Times ventured-
though with ialtcrng and tmid hand very differ
cnt from that which welded his Crimean pen-to
point to certain features in AngloIndan society," the
existence of which indicate at the causes of the
late revolt and the prominent difficulties in the way
of future governments Somehow or other (says
Mr.. RusselD even before the mutiny, there was a
rift bottomiess. and apparently causeless, separa
ting the European from the native, and increasing
in breadth every day" Upon this text he hangs ar
exposition of the mutual relations of AngloIndians
and natives, which, regret to say, is according
to our own information, very far from being exag
gerated and which goes a long way towards cx
planning upon human principles those atrocities that
unaccounted for, men shuddered at as utterly ola
bolical. Of late years the accident Of color ha:
formed a complete barrier not only to domestic o
social intercourse between the two races but to the
ordinary courtesics and kindnesses that belong t.
! the relation of master and servant. The old habi
of reciprocating the respectful and friendly ceremo
MES OF Oriental life with men of dark skins has Civ
! cn way before Yankee hatred of black blood en-
tirely alien to the right British nature. "The hab
tofspeaking of all natives niggers has recently be
come quite common. Every man Of the mute tur
baned file, who, with crossed arms, glistening eyes
and quick ears, stand motonlcss along the mess
room table, hears it every time native is named
and knows it is an expression of contempt"