The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-03-28
Exnnsion Of Elapire.

purpose is toe well and persistently estab.:
lished not to be well known elsewhere as well
as in India, whore Mr.. DrssAsLi ssys 1t is well
known. The crewning of Queen yIcrosIA as
g Empress Of India . Is the figurative placing
OF the. chip on the royal hesd as o tauns to-
She Cslr. The two great kingdoms have
bat 10 persist In their policy Of territorisl
expansion to come In contact al no very dis
taus day and then sst$ i
That the march of conquest has It's end IL
physicsi and moral truth not TO be doubted,
aud both these great kingdoms will fnd 1t
out 10 due time. This policy OF conquest is
tHo-told 10 Its nature. First. The conquer.
ing OF . people who sre In mental and physi.
/ csf force equal TO the conquerors. In that
case the conquered people are necessarily
! admitted to equality and merged with the
copeuerors, and share the advantages
of government equally with them. There
mag be delay in the arrival at this
stage Of equality, but it is sare to come, since
! it is necessary both 10 the eonquerors and
the conquered. Second. The conquering Of
an inferior people by one that is superior.
In this case equality is impossible, and the
superior ~race,-is forced to do one Of two
things Either to hold the conquered people
under military authority, or to remove them
from their lands and occupy these with the
conqueripg race. In the matter OF the Eng.
{ Iish possessions in India the climatic difficult
ties are such that English people can never
take De- session of the territory, and become
the agricultural as well a. professional popu.
Z Iation. Therefore the merchants, preachers,
doctors, &C., will hold their places under
military protection, and England will con-
tinue 10 profit by the cheap labor and abject
seryitude of her Indian subjects. The Eng.
lish cannot really possess and live in India.
1t would become one vast charnel.house
were the English to move upon 1t. It would
soon be depopulated. So the cheap labor OF
Asia mus. be made tributary by England
just by working it where 1t Is, and ruling 1t
by satraps.
II is curious fact that in this case the diff
ficulty would seem to be climatic, and not
distinction of race; for the ethnologists put
the Hindoos In the class of Caucasian
nations. However, from sll history there
certainly appear amongst the people of
India pecularities that make them not only
unlike Europeans, but capable of defying
climatic and miasratic diseases which are
fatal to the English. 30 that while there
might otherwise be possible utilization be-
/. tween the East Indian and the European, the
latter casnot, with favorable results, make a
real home in India as tiller Of the soil-as
childo Of the soil. We will go further, and
raise the question, Is it probable that the East
Indians win ever go to England in any con.
siderable numbers any more than that the
Engllshnan will ever go to India save as a
ruler and master? AS the Hindoos can,
and the English can't, resist the climatic
disadvantages Of India. the English will have
to continue to make the products Of Hindco
labor and the rich resources Of India trlbu.
{ tary to themselves through military rule.
I Russia, on the other hand, finds the great
I body Of the Tar,arian families not very dissim'
liar In disposition, and tastes, and habits of in.
dustry from her own people, and may succeed
in establishing political homogeneity and pro.
ductive energy and social order amongst
them. That would be a better political con-
dition for Russia than will likely ever exist
for England In India.
England is solving problem as to the nd.
vantages OF holding land with whose pee.
pie hers cannot affiliate and whose climate
is destructive TO European life. She thus
controls people whose labor is cheaper than
that Of her own people, who belong if not to
distinct race Of map, certainly to family
Of man which from climatic or other cause is
decidedly more cheap and servile than her
own people. 1t is a problem not exactly
solved yet as to whether the gains OF her do
minion over such land compensate for the
J outlay OF men, money, health, and all that is
required to maintain 1t. 1t is an interesting
question-quite subject for the political
economist.
Apart from all this there can be no doubt
that the expanse of surface to be governed
increases the troubles and difficulties OF gov.
ernment and exposes authority to new dan
gers and unimaglnsble causes Of disaster.
The two powerful Governments in question
have started out, rs 1t were, with an smbi.
ton fred with 2 sense OF rivalry, and they.
/ but open tothemselves new roads to national
complications and difficulties. 's... y !,
The case susgests to gentlemen, of specu..
lative and philosophie dispositions seme in.s
serestipg reflections. The march Of the Eng.
lish win be west from the Indian sceap),
that OF Russia east. The Himmalayah noun:
tains ought to keep them separate, as they
constitute the impassable barrier on the
northern boundary OF Indis. But from the
west BY way OF Toorkistan there may be
way for conflict. 1t is jast there that
the English eye has been attracted. The
advances of Russia by that way and towards
the Pnrjaub has excited much Jealousy, and
probably led to the new step in the way Of
ostentation in expaadipg tho title Of the
Queen. .ss.s!h gr
Imagine that the two Powers should ind
eanse Of, quarrel is no great stretch Of
Imagination 80 to Imagine they onca had
bloody war about proposition from the
Czar.so administer upon the effects Of the
Ottoman Porte -whese will be the battle.
field, and who will be the beiligerents. Will
there be only Two parties 10 jit-Englsnd and