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The Lesson OF the India Insurrec-
ton.
Attn time that the vast mutiny In India first de-
vsloped its gigantic proportions, multtudes OF pro-
phets predicted that the kneli OF British suprema-
ex had sounded, and that England Was about to
,Iak To a tenth rate power. The exultation OF
France vas m concealed; and in this country there
were thousands who openly proclaimed their assu-
rance Of the coming humiliation of Great Britain,
and their profound qualification at the prospect
We veptured to express our dissent from these OPT
mons, and our belief that In year England would
put down the formidable rebellion against her au-
thosity. II We were mistaken, Il only in assign
ing too long time to her eventual triumph. Barely
six months had elapsed since the breaking out OF the
India insurrection, before 1t was quenched In an
ocean of blood at Lucknow. The successful relief
Of that post. by Sir Colin Campbell has substantial
ly crushed the mutiBy, and henceforth nothing re-
mains but to cut up the struggling aud fugitive
fragments Of the rebellion, and TO reduce India to
a more complete and thorough subsection to the
British crown than IT has ever experienced.
The odds against which the English government
has commended were tremendous. An immense
army. a hundred and fifty thousand sepoys, all
disciplined soldiers, trained to arms by British
officers, practically exercised In martial science in
the various which have extended the area Of
East India dominion, and supplied with an enor-
nous armament OF British cannon and military
stores unfurled the flag Of defiance to the British
government. To encounter this immense hostile
demonstration, there we're some ten or fifteen thou.
sand British troops scattered over different points
Of vast cosntry. But what has been the result :
Before reinforcements could arrive from England,
the swelling tide Of mutiny was checked, and
when only few thousands of the reinforcemeDts
had appeared, the gallant Highland cheftain, Sir
Colin Campbell, placing himself at their head,
struck death blow at the very heart of the Scpoy
rebellion.
What does all this tesch' One of our New York
contemporaries, with his head full Of the tillbus.
tering subject, says 1t shows most conclusively the
superiority Of government iibustering over that
by individuals. We shall not dispute that import
ant proposition. We do not deny that Great Bri-
tain is great fllibuster, and that her ilibuster
ing In India has been carried on and secured by
government energies. But this is not the only
lesson which the India mutiny has taught. 1t
establishes the uDapproachable superiority of the
Anglo Saxon stock In arms as we'll in every
other department VI human enterprise and energy
over those colored races whom the voice of insp
ration has assigned TO position of interiorty and
dependence. No degree of instruction and prac-
tce has been able to raise the Sepoy to level
with the British soldier. lie Is the equal, if not
the superior, of the Englishman in physical
strength, and, when fighting under the British
flag, the Bengal tiger has proved fierce the
British lion. But the moment that he casts off his
allegiance, sense of his inferiority seems to
paralyse both mind and body, and, no matter what
the odds, the Sepoys are routed and annhilated IN
every contest with their ancient masters. The
Intelligent mind and lofty spirit of the Anglo
Saxon assert their supremacy in every collision,
and the enormous mass Of brute force melts away
before the compact and determined front of a su-
perior race like the fog before the sun.
The incendaries and fanatics of our country
may derive some useful hints from the sIgnt6ssa4
events of India They natter themselves IN vain
with the large numbers In the South of u class
mutiny. If they could be successful 10 their in
fernal designs, what different result could they
expect from that which has been witnessed in In
dia1 The dominant race In the South is the same
which has performed such prodigies of valor and
achieved such glorious triumphs in India. II
there is any difference in martial energy and PROV
ess. II is not to our disadvau tage as was suffl.
GENTLY demonstrated at Yorktown and at New
Orleans. The servle classes not with us as In
India an immense majority, but minority, and
minority entirely unaccustomed to the use of arms
IL We have no regular soldiers to put down a mu-
tiny, we have a population which at New Orleans
defeated twice their number Of the flower of Bri-
fish chivalry. How preposterous, then, in North
ern fanatics to anticipate from their mischeyous
Vaccinations aught but the most awful chastise-
,nent, and possible humiliation of the class whom
they are laboring to excite to revolt and rebel
lion.
We put out of the question all aid which the
South might derive from the federal government
In maintaining order The Southern States are
abundantly able to protect themselves. With such
immense and sacred interests at stake rs those
which abolition incendisrism threatens, there is
every reason to expect from the South, IN any such
contingency as its enemies foolishly anticipate
such display of heroism and constancy as the
world has never seen. In such view of the case
and with the lesson Of the India mutiny Numbered
into their ears, let the Northern agitators give
over their iDcendiary designs. 1t is the destiny of
Canaan to be a servant; he has always filled that
useful position; aud in this country Providence
has placed him In the hands of masters who bold
the rcins Of authority in gentle hands, but who
have the capacity and the will to keep him in sub
lection.