Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-06
India.

1 ne marcn or the Drttsn trooES tHIouSh iH- dia is like steamship on the ocean; the waves close up behind and oblterate the track. Int ship,
 & Like blind Jove. feeling his way with thunder, forces its way against the wind and cleaves th' 1 waves, yet is eyer surrounded by the food Sir Colin Campbell, cuts his way from post tt post and overcomes all opposition, yet the waves close up behind him and he is in the midst o the sea of rebellion
 The mutiny has grown into revolt,-tht revolt into rebelon,-the rebellion has be- come revolution. Instead of savages fight.
 ing from thirst for blood, it is a people fight
 ing for existence, and for liberty.
 History furnishes no account of slavery SC cruel, sordd and complete as the slavery of the natives to the East India Company. From the tyrant directors in London, down through tho different grades of governors, sub governors inspectors, sub inspectors collectors and sub collectors, the same grasping avarice controlled all. In country where a native has been fore ed to live on rice during the whole year, and il districts where the yearly subsistence of man was estimated to cost only eighteen dollars, the rice raised by the natives taken from them and those who were not killed by torture ac- tualiv starved to death, while the warehouse: and coilers of the company were filled to over flowing. Not only hundreds, but thousand: perished, while the rice that would have SUD- ported them seized by the agents and under the authority of their British misrulers
 All natural ties were disregarded. Females even children, were rudely torn from their pa rents and their homes to gratily the lust of 2 passing Englishman. Taxed to the uttermost verge of human labor tortured, beaten, starved treated like brutes and every feeling of hu- manity outraged, for century the poor East Indian has toiled and died to build up vast for tunes for nabobs and to pay tribute to the British crown. From the day that Lord Give plum dered the treasury of Moorshedabad, down tc the pllage of Delhi, the system has been one of extorton, of oppression and of murderous cruelty. The annual revenue of the East In- dia Company, within a few years, was the enol- nous sum of one hundred and eighty million Ql dollars a sum enormous, that the mind cannot at once form conception of it,
 It is more tax than Arkansas would pay in oue thousand years, at existing rates In gold, its weight at sixteen dollars to the ounce would be upwards of three hundred tous But this is drawn from tiilers of the soil, 1t consists of d land tax, a water tax and among others q tax on the religion of the people. They annex provinces and empires, they pilfcr the rice that has been set apart to feed the llindoo children. They nprioou the native kings and rulers, and llog them to make them discover their treasure, they torture the laborer till he dies, becasse he falls to pay the company an amount equal to our dime. Add to this, that each oi the sub-oticers of the company plunder on thcr OWL account and we begin to form some dea of the vast sums eXtorted. h their avarce, they no. only buy and sell females for revolt ius purposes, but they encourage ldolatry.- Idols are manufactured in England and set up in temples built by the company. These draw 4evotecs and pli5 im>, on whom a tax k levied. | neSe and other atrocities have continued for hundred years.
 Some years ago Parliament appointed com misslohcrs of inquiry into alleged eases of tor t4re in the Madras presidency, and from their report, We get these lacls But this is SaiI To be nild in comparison with the government of other presdenc'cs.
 " lore than one half of the entire revenue of that vast empl.e consists of laUd-taX or reut, which Is eXacted rom the occumers by the government. The system of tenure dilleIs tn the several preSidCucies; Il some of which d superior class, called Zem,udaro or proprotur- uolI drecV from the government aud suD.ul the land tO the agent or occuper; while in others, the intermediate grade of Zemudar is unhAowH. h. thc Madras Presidency, for tAe purpose oi reHt- getting, II $ divided iilo nun Der oi dlsulcts, each cuml ljrlslng some three Or four thousand square miles and containing from ndli d in.tilon ~ d m.iIOn oi inhabitants; anu over eaun Ul these is laced Brltiau head-c,l ectot, who, Decides making DIS own lorDune wIlAn the !m.ted tmr, during winch Il Euio- peai cOlstitutlou can remaIn proo against the -umatc, is pected to supervise the collection of tte cuure revenue Ol the dlstrci, whether from Ind-taN, waterfall, perih4ts to worship dUls, r. celseo tu practice tiddes or calua1s, or other aouices Ol revenue. To asst him in tho duty a larIcstIu 0i tahs.Iddrs, mULigtls carl.onS, dui- iaGa.s, peols, Ldlsar.es, and other nuLdesCfil t native officials ul hlou auu low uegree, Is spread throughout the native villages 0! the di,Irct.'
 These officials selected for their raj Aci. }, are cons!dtrcd thieves, and no Euglishmcn will have an., save official, intercourse wIth them. To enable these wretches to opprcss the people all authority of the police or the masis- tracy is vested in thcm They can arrest, try, condemn and punish aJ discretou. An English journal speaking oI this body of scouuurels says " They are the chosen and salayed ser wants of the great pubilc body winch represents England ill l4dia and for every one of whose dol4.s the good name of Eusan Is pledged to the countless millions whom we have taken under our paternal rule in that unhappy empire For every official deed of theirs, for every act of cruelty, injustice or rapine; for every anna of the wretched ryot's substance wrongtuliy ex- tracted; for every torture or indignity inflicted upon his most miserable carcass, the honorable East India company is responsible" The com mISsioners in their report, say: Personal vo- leuce on the part of the native revenue and police officials prevails throughout the prcSi- dency, and of such a character, that death often follows ulon its inHcton'
 They then go on to give list of the diff ferent kind of tortures nsed, and cover pages with specific instances. This is the conduct of people who condemn, in unmeasured terms, our mild and patriarchcal form of negro servi- tudo. This is specimen of English freedom. To show that this is DO fancy sketch we sub oin all extract
 English Torture in India
 The London Weekly Times publishes an extract from an English work, entitled "The Srpoy Revolt, by Henry Mead," which has lately been published in London.