Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-02

" iron the New Yors E,cning Post.
THE LAST OF A GREAT INSTITUTION.

rast possessions passed nOninHIIy. as well as real
y, into the hands Of the Crown. When a company
IF traders not only maintains itself in existence for
, ceutury, bat during that period manages to con
auor two hundred millions Of people by force OF
nrms, and rule them by sheer weight of prestige,
rs demisc is something over which the world may
welt pause aud wonder. No modern history Will
ever now be written 10 which these tea and spice
will not 6ll a larger space than any Other
couqueror or poteutato save one, and if, as has
Leen remarked, greatness lies mainly in the con-
trass between the'smallness of means and the gram
dcur of results, there has never been a conquetor
half so deserving Of renown.
One is astounded, in glancing over the histo.
ry of this marvellous corporation, much less by
the magnitude of its achievements in its brief and
lifetime, than by the multitude of great
names which, either derived most Of their lustre
from their connection with it, and laid the founda'
ton for future greatness in its service. In this
fact lies half the romance uf this most Romantic
story. As that awful t~radgedy, the catastrophe Of
which we Witnessed last year. is played out before
us. heroes aud statesmen either in the first flush OF
their glory or in the maturity ct their greatness,
crowd the stage in every act. TIE ~mightiest ora
in modern days have defended or assailed it
with an eloouence which no other theme could
inspired aud soldiers have in its service out
done Roland 81 Rlncesvnles. There was hardly a
great man Of that nge Of great men, "when George
the Third was king" who has not done something
20 illustrate its annals. The first patch of land
which might foirly We called territory, D." was &C.
onired for il IL hundred years ago by the boldest
and most brilliant OF adventures, in n series OF com
ficts 20 which even an oriental imagination can
hardly do Justice to. 1t was in the service OF these
groeers and traders that Give won Plassy. lie en-
tered it n friendless boy, and he left it in a blaze Of
glory. Sir Phillip Fancis was for many years one
OF their civilians, ana Francis is now proved he
vond any reasonable doubt to have been the very
Junius who showed as no man will ever show
again, what terrible facilities for fierce invecilve
L -.l. a.-o aA--l,oa . uA. -, tho,- ~
ice that Hastings passed the long and brilliant
career which. supplied materials for the famous trial
ia which Burke and Sheridan and Fox prosecuted,
at which the wits and beauties of the age looked on
and which Nacauiny has described. Every incl
dent Of it vas grand. The pro.consul was another
Verres, and. one, at least of the managers might
have met Cicero, and have felt himself worthy of
his foe. Ii was in their service that Colonel Ar.
thur Wellesley first showed signs of the happy sa-
gacity which in after years won the bloody field OF
VittOria, and stood its ground at Waterloo. Sir
Charles Nlp.sr-"Oid Charley"-fooght for the
Company in MS very prime, annexed a whole King
dom to It's emrire--rivalled Give at Meannee, then
fought with his employers, and finally in his old
age was caiied on To save 1t trOuI the tulwars of
the Sikh=. Lord 6 ugh and Lord Hardinge both
won their honors under its banners. Lord Ellen
borough became tamOus-us famous as any OF his
age-as its eiceroy. Macauley has served it, and
veuerated 1t. Tbackerv passed years of his youth
in it's dhminions. llavelock fought for it for forty
wears, ana at last uItu u III. Wills mas Wrltt6n l5
history as histories are rarely written.
and then its death has been worthy of its life.
Few sove:eigns have ever SO grandly finished so
grand a career. Nothing has been wanting to
make it's story the most sublime of dramas. Far
from sinking into inanity or obscurity by the slow
process of decay, it has disappeared
-"Mid smoke and thunder,
Sho. and steel and scorching fame"
Two hundred thousand traitors rose upon it, and
with q handful of the faithful, it turned and crush
ed them, and then disappears from the scene, while
the applause of the world is still ringing in its
ears.
There is one circumstance connected with this
company which, probably more than all others,
endeAred it to the English people. The company
vas essentially a middle class power. Its con.
quests were the conquests OF the bourgeoiSie. Its
officers we're the sons of traders, of lawyers and OF
clorgymen. Even the Queens regiments, when
they went to India, assumed a democratic charac'
ter. The sprigs Of aristocracy did not relish the
prospect of fighting in an atmosphere of 1902, of
painting on a led all day and marching all night,
of jungle fever and enlarged spleen. As soon as
the turn OF their regiment came to serve in India,
they exchanged into others. remaining nearer home,
and hundreds of poorer and more lowly born as
pirants, greedy Of high pay, prize money, and
glory, marched eagerly into their places. Indian
victories and Indian calamities therefore made
themselves felt in English homes, in q way no 9th.
or iriumphs or reverses ever did. The upper
classos', revenced themselves NV sneerioo NJ the
Comnanv. and consirnine its oAcers to a nosition
of inferior;tv but thew did not sneer when il came
TO hard lighting, and Old Indians" were found to
be the only men who thoroughly understood their
work.
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~nlun gsso '" al.ie 'lne 10 0rgahl~e: anu prooaO'
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