Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-06-23


The great r0bber Bation Q { the Norld, old Eng-
lard, will fli the cup Of bet sbomination IL due
eoutee Of time If ever the record oI her ar0oious
tvrennv and cruelty in Iadia shall zee the light it
viii rsveal series Of surdling horrors unparalleled
in the worlds history. To eallaFey the attention
Of the civilized world from q contemplation Of her
own bar5ariies, her pensioned seribblers have IN
dustriousy invented appalling tales Of he crueldes
and enOrmitiss perpetrated BY the sepoy rebels
AGAINST 3 tyranny which had become unendurable.
Aiftbese teles fabulous or real, il must be remem
bered are narFsted by British writer's partial one
sided, If not pure fiction, many Of them from oe-
ginning TO end.
We have not yet heard the Sepoy side Of thestory'
bat We have % leest q distinguished EDgishman,
the celebrated Mr.. Lsysrd, the exhumer Of ancient
Nineveh who has just returned from visit TO India,
where be remained nine or ten months. He is nov
unfolding 10 the British public the views and con
illusions Of bis voyage, and have them before ns
in lecture he delivered in London on the 18th ult
The 'mutiny' in India he pr0nounoss to be q SIRE
bellion," in which others than mere soldiers were
deeply interested, and in which they have taken
lively part. The rebellion extended, he says, from
the extreme North to the extreme South Of India,
and the whole kingdom Of Dude was dsafecsed.
The rebellion did not arise he adds, from military
causes, and the CREASED cartridges were but pre-
texts. Annexatien, he continues, was the great
moving cause. The masses in India we're bitterly
oppressed torture had been the increase for the
last twenty years, and the persons who enforce It,
in the way Of taxation, are the native Indians,
whom the Company employ in their service,
Mr. Layard mentions another grievance hardly
less ubiquitous, the establishment Of tribunal into
the titles Of mems property in which all property
was vonfsealed 10 the Company where the parties
could not show Q tile for 100 years. IS Mr. lay
ard remarked ia commenting on this nefarioQs pro
oeeding, "the Indian Government we're violating
the very principle Of the Law, which sOid that no
man should be judged in lis own case" He men.
toned the instance Of 3 young man who declared
that he was entitled to promotion, because he had
been the means Of getting $4,000 for the Govern
ment By meaus Of lhese titles. SO great was the
rage of this inquiry into tides that the peasant su
fered equally With the great land owners, and any
process more effective for breeding dsaHeciioa and
revolt could not possibly be eOntriVed." "Another
cause /" remarked MIR. Lsyard, of the outbreak
was the treatment Of the natives There was no
kindness-no sympathy the English aud
the NATIVES. Il vas true that in the great cities
the inhabitants we're protected, but that was not
the case in the provinces Everywhere in India
there was yerfeot fear and dread Of the Euro
pean."
The New York Express Native Americana remsrkr
on Mr. Layard's report;
The reports Of a distinguished Englishman from
the seat Of war, in times like these when the Brit
ish Government sets up to be the great PhilanihTO
pist Of the world, deserve especial attention and
the more, because there is instance in the history
Of the human race Of small country like England
holding in subjeotiOn at the other side of the globe,
a population amounting to nearly two hundred
million souls through the instrumentaliy of q hand
ful Of Europeans; sud heCsuse, FROM the remote
ness of the government from European civilization
and criticism it generally escapes the notice and
apprehension which would be unanimously awarded
if this government acted upon the theatre of Europe
or the United States.
If there be any Of our Southern eountrymen who
have leisure on hand, and who smart a little
under the anti-slavsry denunoiations at Exeter
Hall-We advise them to pack their trunks, and be
of, with a notebook, to British India. According
to Mr.. Lsysrd, they must see sights there, and be
able to unfold many retaliatOry tales"