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TO CHATEEGAON. 17
the few, would not also govern the many ? that
our own countrymen would not, on emergen-
cies, be the first to stand in our foremost ranks ?
that their talents, industry and skill would not
draw wealth from the country—which would
at the same time be enriched and rendered
susceptible of making splendid returns in re-
venue to the state, and in commerce to the
world ? that they would not form a cheap and
efficient Magistracy, subordinate to the officers
of Government, and put an effectual stop to
the system of fraud, bribery, and corruption,
which now pervade departments committed to
native agency ? The Moosulmans without any
pretensions to our refined, but futile policy,
in attempting to regulate the events of futurity
and turn the tide of nature, settled wherever
they conquered, as also did the Romans, and
became like trees rooted to the soil. The des-
potism, bigotry, and intolerance of the Moo-
sulmans, often drove their Hindoo subjects to
rebellion ; but they could not shake off then-
yoke, because their Government was founded on
a rock ;—and that rock was colonization ! What
then have we, with our boasted justice, mild, to-
lerant and efficient sway, to fear ? Fear ! I hard-
ly supposed such a feeling to be an inmate of a
British bosom,unless it were of that nature which
recoils from wrong, injustice, and oppression.
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the few, would not also govern the many ? that
our own countrymen would not, on emergen-
cies, be the first to stand in our foremost ranks ?
that their talents, industry and skill would not
draw wealth from the country—which would
at the same time be enriched and rendered
susceptible of making splendid returns in re-
venue to the state, and in commerce to the
world ? that they would not form a cheap and
efficient Magistracy, subordinate to the officers
of Government, and put an effectual stop to
the system of fraud, bribery, and corruption,
which now pervade departments committed to
native agency ? The Moosulmans without any
pretensions to our refined, but futile policy,
in attempting to regulate the events of futurity
and turn the tide of nature, settled wherever
they conquered, as also did the Romans, and
became like trees rooted to the soil. The des-
potism, bigotry, and intolerance of the Moo-
sulmans, often drove their Hindoo subjects to
rebellion ; but they could not shake off then-
yoke, because their Government was founded on
a rock ;—and that rock was colonization ! What
then have we, with our boasted justice, mild, to-
lerant and efficient sway, to fear ? Fear ! I hard-
ly supposed such a feeling to be an inmate of a
British bosom,unless it were of that nature which
recoils from wrong, injustice, and oppression.
c