The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-04-08
Last India.


the far distant Southern Asia, there behold an
empire reared by the Mogul of the Sixteenth cen-
tury, long ofthe most wealthy and magnif-
cent that ever adorned earth, stretching out
its broad and fertile plains from the base of the
towering Himalays far along to the margin of the
Indian Ocean, embracing forty degrees of longi-
tude, expanding from the distant shores of the
China Sea to the green banks of the Indus, includ-
ing than million square miles, inhabited
by two hundred millions Of human beings. Their
cities would rank with the first in the civilized
world their gorgeous palaces dazzling to the
eye of those who had beheld all that was magnif-
cent in Europe. There among them
cient and venerable priesthood, who were not a
little distinguished for their poetry, eloquence and
knowledge of ancient literature. This people had
attained to no mean state of civilization and re-
fnement when the British Islands were yet
wilderness and their inhabitants wild and barbar-
Gus.
Behold noble Indian of giant form and cores
ponding mind, as he wcnds his way up the rocky |
cliffs of the towering Hinlalays. He struggles
until he reaches their loftiest summit and as he !
stands upon this proud eminence, he surveys the
wide expanse of vcrdant fields below, stretching
out far mortal ken view. lie there be
holds expressionless pyramids rearing their
!
on whose columns are inscribed the victories of
hundred battles. lie behoIds that which speaks
in richer tones of eloquence than all these the
verlant and highly cultivated plains, crowded
cities with massive temples whose golden spires
shine like distant meteors these monuments
ofrhe pride, industry and frugality of their noble
sires, whose bones are mouldering beneath their
base. lie beholds free and independent people,
who acknowledge superior; these monu-
mcnts of the heroism and patriotism of his fathers
In fine, the scene spreads out before him as
sublime page of history, which is recorded the
lives, virtues and noble deeds OF hundred gene
rations.
This terrestrial paradise ION account of the diff
fieulty of aecess) was for many years little known
to the European world, except u fable, that often
inspired the ambitious mind with dreams of golden
conquest At length, on the discovery of the
southeastern passage in 1885, the whole conti-
nent set in commotion. Every nation
aroused like den of wild beasts bursting the
bars of their prison-house in pursuit of a common
prey, rushing upon-this innocent and unsuspect-
ing people like a desolatng storm, many
devouripg elements, desolating cities, destroying
the innocent, and bearing away in hcllish trunp phi
their i'll gotten gain, each struggling with the
other for the greater spoil.
The British subjects engaged in this system of
piracy, becane alarmed Il the idea of continuing
so hazardous enterprise individual respon-
sibility applied for charter, which was granted
them in the year 1900, under the reign of Queen
Elizabeth In their infancy, possessing limited
physical power compared with that of their rivals
they had recourse TO stratagem, which was con L.
ductod with the utIn ,st shrewiness they n
abled by their treachcrous schemes to gain very
Tilebn rd
of directory expressed desire to become a
nation IL India. In the meantime, the British
) Government added to their already great power,
the prerogatiye Of levYing troops. holding court
inartials, and coming money, thereby arming this
band of SPECTATORS, with all the available power
of the British Government. On the arrival of
the Eng gsll troops in India. commanded by Col.
Give Notwithstanding the considerable of
the French thereto. they were dissraecfully
, Dictated and driven from the land The
; English arms thcn turned against the ma
tlves, those to whom they had feisued friendship
q aud protection having already bribed their Lead
= CTS, they were made easy prey
In contemplating tie brilliant victories Of
Give, in a mi ghty but dceaying empire, our
: hearts siekea and to weep we beheld
him dTenehin- the earth With tAe innocent blood
: OF murdered millions. whose industrious hands
i hal laborcd to render it beautiful. lie went on
q from conquering to conquest until he ra!el with
;, undis puted sway throughout that igh;y empi e.
. | It was his ndomstab.e courage that realized to
. Great Britain such an amount of cultivated terri
|. TORY, such an amount of revenue, anil such Il
. multitude of subjects, added to the
domnions CT Rome under ;tc a. st successful pro-
consul; such wealthy spols borns
under the arch of triumph, down the sacred way
= and through the crowded Forum.
/ Let us once turn to the lofty IIimalays. AS
= glance along their rugged side, behold ar
aged Indian, enaeiated, careworn, his tattered
garments bespeak poverty; yet the index of
noble mind is stamped upon his brow. lie strug
J. giles on until he plants his feet the summit o
% that same lofty dome of natme upon which hi
noble sire stood century ago. The same serene
sky spreads out its blue arch ab I'VE and arount
# him, and his dim eye rests upon the same land
e scape that inspired his fathers soul with vision
: of ipexprcssable delight eighty years ago. Blu
y he there behoids monuments of his country
l. fame, Of the virtues and noble deeds of his
try. The scene inspires thrilling note of JOY
or feelings of exultation he heaves a loud sigh i,
1t lie bchods the picture of misery. dcsolation
n woe. He discovers in the distance female .
. princely rank and corresponding fortune
l. passing through the English camp, with grou
of children imploring morsel of rice to preserv
them from starvation. Aud before him passes i
= plain review the camp the march, the siege, tn
rs conflict dire, the capture and the sack. He eN
is claims in extreme agony of soul, there, behol
ambitions CORY sons with hearts of adamant an
miasmatic breath, stalking madly the eartf
IN slake their foul, inoarnate lust for power
~ human blood BY whom principalities are hun
= bled and subdued to crafty naughty tyrant
TO will. Cities proud and opulent. fair science
chosen seat, where You now ?'' where, the ver
. elements seemed TO exclaim go, go to the cor
: queror's tomb and enquire
ct Can justice in the sight of heaven or humanit
s. rindicate such brutality? Upon what principl
70 right England shield herself from the jus
~ reproaches of this people? Is it because they al
he barbarous and uneuitivated? We are told tha
is they would richly compare with what the Germa
States were two centuries ago. in government an
civilization. She urges that she has in prove
l. their government, that the serfs were oppresse
IN by the eppuent; but IN truth she ha
crushed all to the level with the serf and PRONE
s' ted She has not only reduced all to tn
- Level with the serf, but bound them in degrade
servitude-taken from them their rich and fsrt
soil allowing them the meagcr remuneration {
IS one-fourth the products of the SOIL as compen
j. sation for the tolls of cultivation restricting thei
70 in many instances to the cultivation of opium an
such other articles are detrimental to them. bu