The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-03-15

who in several places we're mastered. |
The instruction bsgaa ia Rungpore, !
and 5000 spread its FIRE 20 the. neie hbor- |
ing provinces, which had been harrassed |
by the same person with the same op
preston. The Eaglish chief in that
province had been The silent witness and
probably the sccOmplics aud abettor in !
all these horrors. He called 10 first il
reular, and then regular troops. who by
dreadful and universal military executions
got the better Of unarmed and undisci'
pinned despair. l am tired Of the de-
tails Of the cruelties Of peace. spare
you those OF cruel and iuhuman var,
and of ~ executions which, without law
or process, or even the shadow Of author
ity, were ordered. by the E lglish revenue
chief in that province"
These words were not spoken hastily or
in anger. They are but a single item.
among the vast series of charges brou ght
against Warren Hastings. Governor Gen
eral of Ipdia. by the British House Of
Commons, ,and substanfi4ted By the N ost
overwhelming evidence, including the re
port of the East India Company's own
commission of inquiry. Yet strange as
it may seem, alter a trial protracted
through the space of seven years, this
gigantic criminal was acquitted by the
British House of Peers, an restored to
position Of high responsibility 10 India.
Since then the work of spolaliOn and
national murder has gone on without
kindranee or rebuke.a For a hundred
years, the British lion has hung upon The
Hindoo elephant, and the very life blood
of India has been coined into a river of
British goli. An appointment under
the East India Company has constantly
been lookedto by the impoverished youn
ger scions of aristocracy, as certain
road TO fortune. .--.
Where. in all the history of christen-
1 dom, can we find another such specta-
Gle as this? O,her nations have acquired
territory by conquest. and incorporated it
with their existing dominious, without
continuing toward it any policy of sps~
cial disabilities or exletious but what
other nominally Christian nation has ever
conquered and held such an empire, for
the sOlea avoged, uuquestioned purpose
of robbery and extoTtion IA long con-
tinuancs of dominion has brought no re
lief. Very, recent developments before
tie British parliament prove that the
| same Internal system of torlures is still
; in vogue among the sub-solIectors. Year
= by year, new provinces have come under
: the yoke. The treasure which has
8 h5wed into Eqglish Golfers. cannot be es'
:. timated. The great colossus of British
: wealth and power is built upon the star
, walton and degradation Of India. The:5
r Is no redeeming fact, no brigi.t side to !h'
: picture no silver lining to the blacl
Tophet cloud Of horror. It is one long
g titanic, internal crime, to describe which
g such epithets as murder and piracy arr
: feeble and powerless; for it is beyonC
the reach of human language. How die
] England ever dare 10 sneer at American
! slavery {? She has murdered, starved
! and tortured to death more Hihdoos thar
: FtKe whole number of slaves that ever ex
, listed in America. =, g. lena .a9 or ~
/: = The facts of.reeenl history are familiar
to US all. Tbs late SspOy insurrectiOu
was but a natural and inevitable result oil
the policy we have described. That ex,
cesses we're committed-that garrisons
were massacted, and tinnocent women and
ischildren outraged and murdered, canu6l
be denied but these acts of the mutt
! neers bear little comparison 70 the afro
J, cities their race had endowed, CT to the
brutal barbaFism of thesBriiish authori.
ties, which destroyed ia the bodies Of these
:; wretched captives all ssmblance Of hu.
manity, by blowing them from the mouths
Of cannon, by hundreds 7ags1 &c -ba
Snre'y, if this history we're fairly befor,
) the world, from the heart Of universe
/ humanity would arise one united prayer
ssfd sGpd bless and prosper the next Sc
poy. insurrecLion2? s5 FL
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