Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-10-28

in India must look for that support which
failed her so miserably when she trust
ed to the twice born, that is the Brah-
Minis. 1t was from her border tribes on
the northwest frontier, with whom in
March, 1857, she was at open war, that
in May of the same year she organized
regiments which stood by her when she
had sent every European to Delhi. If
we are to have a native army, or an arm
ed police, let it be of such of the despised
Pariah, of the native Christian, of the
tough Cole, of the fighting Bozdar, of the
wild Karen.
|. In an independent people like the Kar
ems, between the Sitang and the Salween,
we see the elements of future strength
for our rule, and of glorious gain for Au-
mainly. Tie work-which the late
Court of Directors rebuked the Indian
government for attempting among the
Sontals-has been carried out in the ex-
IRENE east of its empire, by the assistance
of the Commissioner of Pegee. Col.
Phayre, m February last, sent in report
to the government of India on the state
of Karen mountain tribes of the district
of Tounghoo.
On the hill plateau of the country east
of the Sitang, extended over an area of
2000 square miles, dwell the six great
clans of the Karens, who are to be distin-
guished on the one hand fromtheir South
ern brethren of Pegu, and on the other,
from the Independent Red Karens to
their eastward. They are $4,000 num-
Der, scattered over mountains which rise
: to 5000 feet above the sea, and living in
small hamlets, which seldom consist of
more than from thirty to forty houses.
There they maintain hard struggle for
, life, painfully raising their triaing crops
/, from the ashes of the grass of the bills,
1 and the timber of the forests which they
. cut down to afford them a soil, like all
: the Indo-Chinese mountaineers and the
= Jungle tribes of the Western Ghauts.
e One rainy season washes away their soil
= and as for ten or fifteen years no crop car
n be again raised on the same spot, they
e have all the habits, without any Of the pur
suits, Of nomadic people. Their search
:, Cor scanty subsistence, and their other
poverty consequent on its scsntiness, eve
It kept the several clans and the differen
: villages of the same clan at open war witt
II each other, and led them to enrich them
e selves by selling the women taken in bat
l. tie to the Siamese, while they put the mel
to death. Such were the Karens whel
lie we annexed Pegu.
r Within year after the annexation, th
Of American Missionaries in the Tennas
to serim Provinces resolved to visit Toung
E hoo, once the capital of the king of tn
district. There beginning in 1858, wit
lie one Karen, they laid the foundation of
n work which Sau Quala, native, carrie
" on alone with vigor. In january, 1885,
IN was the first baptism. At the close {
1T the year there we're nine churches wit
741 converts; in May, 1856, there wer
us thirty churches and 2124 members an
'd' now, Colonel Pbayre writes in his ofic;'
NC report, there were 10000 protested Chri
tians out ofa population of 10000; built
10 ing their own churches, paying their ow
native ministers, raising their own school
ne and contributing for the Outstanding
ne their heather brethren. Their languag,
ne have been mastered and reduced to WI
'as ting; the Bible has been translated and
no Christian literature created; villa:
ng schools have been established, aud fsna
US and male Normal Institutes erected, Il
ity materials ofwhich the Karens themselv
have given, as well as nearly 1000 rupe
in cash. In those institutes teachers al
preachers are to be trained in theoloq
=, philosophy, mathematics and land st
:. veying, while in addition to the ordina
G., branches, the females learn plain Sc
.ho ing, cooking, washing and general clea
4m illness, together with nursing the sick a
= training children"
And these things an official Comm
sioner of Pegu officially reports to {
head of the British Government in Ind
aco We draw our facts moi from any missit
aid airy report but from official statemen
ard This and such as this would have be
of done for and among the Sontals, had I
a in Court of Directors been able to for,
orts their Evolutionary policy. What
nce American Missionaries have done for
.rve Karens, the Church Missionaries wo
SEQ have done for the Sontals But we wo
laid note that the basis was laid and the W,
and largely carried out in Tounghoo, with