Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-01-17
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otiof paragraph in which we spoke
q the possibility Of England's COB
bling up Afghanistan, as she had
- many other provinces and
Kingdom, in Asia. and elsewhere
Tor that matter, and having ex-
pressed the belief that even the
African slavery Of the United
States was the bondman's mil
1enIum compared to the serf-
dom TO which England had reduced
the people OF India, q cor
respondent of the Erpress, who
sigus himself "Veritas," INDUCES
In some severe comments on what
was really but q flourish of the pen.
We have again read the express
ions which we then made use Of,
and we are Satisfied that they are
In no whit overstrained.
The "British Policy In India''
oovsrs . much wider field than is
smbrAced In few complimentary
remarks which Gen. Emory Upton
may have made upon scheme of
publici Improvement undertaken by
the British task -masters of India.
There 10 both technical and lib
eral meaning to the word slavery.
A nation is enslaved when it has
no art or part in making its own
laws. tits emphatically enslaved
whom, by cunning refinement OF
it, conqueror, portion of its own
population Is armed and drilled for
the purpose Of keeping the rest
subjugated and helpless. Such q
Mephistopheleau system Of perpet-
uating slavery would have COM
mensied itself to the unscrupulous
mind OF Nicholas Maehiavel him
self. In such u slavery India is
now held and has been 90 held for
nearly two centurica.
Engiish power .iss made its in
sldious advent into India under the
gulss of . trading camkapy, just
about the time when the English
people, in the revolution of 1883,
cOnsecrated their own isle to the
principles Of free constitutional
government. Ono OF the most SAL
lent episodes Of the extension of the
British rule in that unhappy
country-one Of the finest exempli.
Aaations Of the "British Policy in
India''-may be CLEANED from the
career Of Lord Give. So unutter-
able wsre the horrors which he in-
Alcted upon the helot OF India that,
when he returned to England with
his almost illimitable wealth, he
was avoided by all classes. He
found himself so isolated in the
land of his birth and SO preyed
upon by the pangs of remorse, that
he committed suicide.
The next marked light thrown
upon the atrocities of "British Pol
Icy in India" arose from the intro
duction of Charles James Fox's
East India bill, which was sup
ported by Fox himself, by Ed.
mund Burke and other warm
hearted men aud splendid orators,
ia speeches OF unsurpassed power.
Tho pictures they drew of the op-
pressiens which had been heaped
upon the spoliated East Indians
were calculated to enlist the SYM
pathies of any properly constituted
human being. Burke correctly
said that the bill Of his friend Fox
was needed to secure the rice in his
pot to the ryot Of India.
Probably the most terrible sill.
houette ever outlined of British
bad faith and rapacity was that
due to the master hand of Edmund
Burke, in his speech upon the Be-
gum OF Oude's debts. This speech
contains one passage which is the
finest prose effort in the English
language-that in which he de-
scrfbss "Hyder Ali and his still
more ferocious son." Tippoo Saib,
sweeping down upon the Carnatic.
The orator and the finest spirits of
England ascribad this unprece.
dsnted calamity to the unprece-
dentsd rapacity and Mschiavelism
Of the British rulers of India.
But the climax was capped later
by the famous. trial Of the Infamous
Warren Hastings. Mr.. Burke was
the head of the Committee Of the
House OF Commons instructed to
prosecute this monster before the
Lords. Associated with him were
such men as Charles James Fox,
Richard Brinsley Sheridan and all
that was most eloquent In the most
brilliant legislative body that ever
sat In England or In any country.
Their specifications Of the ferocious-
ness and treachery Of the "British
Policy in India" so far overshadows
any narratives Of the dolngs OF Cor
tez aud Pizarro in Mexico ard
Peru that the English catalogue of
crime, like Eclipse, Is first, and the
others are nowhere. These famous
Englishmsn did not scruple to tell
the whole Infamous story and only
the fact that we eau give but lin
ited amount ofattention to the sub