The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-05-31
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The British An Indta.
The latest Intelligence nom England holds out
the prospect Of summer campaign In climate
81 intolerabss heat and insalubrity. Bat II 10 i'm
uoesIhle 10 doubt the issue OF the contest The
secoys have 90 thoroughly demonstrated their
complete uufitness TO cope with British soldiers
that. n amlllion, instead Of q hundred thousand,
vsrr st,,l In arms, the result would be the came
The same men who, under the British fag per-
formed prodigies II valor, fy from it now like
timid hsres We shall soon hear Of the complete
rsestabiish ment Of British rule. The colored and
serviis races can no more successfully resist their
heaven ordained masters, the whites, than they
can change the hue Of their skins. For the sake
az the cause OF law and ORDER and Of civilization,
ne shai, be glad TO see them thoroughly suhdued,
provided the agents Of Great Britain will learn
beilion, and inaugurate government which shall
no longer sacrifice religion and conscience to Gu
pidity and the lust Of dominion.
We have been led to these remarks by the views
and conclusions OF recent voyage to India by the
celebrated British traveller, Lsyard, set forth 10
lecture delivered In London on the 11th inst. Mr.
IAyard, the exhumer OF ancient Nineven' and
more recently member of Parliament, 10 candid
R.~sx II. hp w
TO see every thing for himself. and whose state
ments may be implicitly relied on. He has lately
returned from trip to India, whore he passed
some nine or ten months From sketch OF MS
lecture before u.s. we learn that he pronouuces the
uprising In India arebeliou," not a mere militia
~ mutiuy. ~ the London Times has so often rep
re.epted it-a rebellion, in which others than sol
diers were deeply interested, and in which they
have taken lively part The rebellion extended,
he saws, from the extreme North to the extreme
South of India--and the whole kingdom OF oude
was disatfscted The rebellion did not arise, he
adds from military causes, and the CREASED cart
ridges were but pretexts AsNsxArIoN, he contin'
ues, was the great moving cause.
am 1856. Lord Dalhousie, he adds. annexed
States containing no less than l0,55s.e43 inhapi'
fapts, and altogether his anHexation inciuueI q
population OF 5000 GOO, or more than &aif the
population of the United Kingdom. Dude could
not, perhaps, now be restored to its native soVe-
reign; but nations never committed great crime
without suffering for IL; and as Poland was mill
stone rouad the neck OF Russia, so Dude would, he
believed, be u milestone round the neck OF Eng
land. Enumeration were
not unjust, it would still, he maintained be impol
itic, inasmuch as it tended to create distrustlin
the entire native population. 1t was, moreover,
impossible to govern such extended territories
eight or nine hundred civil servants could not rule
the enormous population of India. Among other
evils which this extension of territory created was
the employment of military officers in civil ca
pacity. Hence some regiments had, be was tod
been left with single lieutenant, and this was no
doubt one cause Of the outbreak"
The masses in India we're bitterly oppressed;
torture had been on the increase the last twenty
years, aud the persons who enforce it, in the way
Of taxation, are the native Indians whom the Com
pany employs in their service.
Annexing a population of fifteen millions in
one year by a government which is sorely exer-
cised whenever the United States makes purchase
of small territory containing $4,000 souls, is
the most striking illustration of "straining at a
gnat and swallowing q camel" which modern his
tory affords. The "torture," some hideous exam
pies of which We lately gave from the London
Weekly Times, is another illustration Of the phil
anthropy which sheds crockodile tears over the
alleged cruelties of African slavery. Mr.. Layard
adds An0Inef SficrauCe, tue tStduitsuuout Oh u
bunal into the titles of mems property, in which
all property was connseated to the Company where
the parties could not show q title for 100 years
As Mr. Layard remarked in commenting on this
nefarious proceeding, "the Indian Government
were violating the very principle of the law, which
said that no man should be judge in his own
cassn He mentioned the instance OF young man
Who declared that he entitled to promotion,
because he had been the means of getting $4,000
for the Government by means of these inquiries
into titles $50 great was the rage Of this inquiry
into titles that the peasantry suffered equally
with the great land owners, and any process more
effective for breeding disafection and revolt could
not possibly be coutrived." "Another cause" re
marked Mr.. Layard, 'of the outbreak was the
treatment of the natives. There was no kindness,
no sympathy, between the English and the natives.
1t was true that in the great cities the Inhabitants
were protected, but that was not the case in the
provinces Everywhere in India there a per-
feet fear and dread of the European"
Let us hope that when British rule is re-estab.
lished In India justice and mercy will character.
ize their government. The destnes of hundred
and fifty millions of the human family rest upcn
their shoulders and If they prove faithless to the
vast responsibility, IL they continue to this
enormous population as mere beasts of burthen
to aid in building up national power and individ-
nal wealth, day of retribution will come and the
same Hand which has exalted her to the heavens
will cast her to the earth.