Observations on Our Indian Administration: Civil and Military

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Smith, Elder, 1832 - 118 páginas
 

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Página 5 - This was the golden cup of abominations; this the chalice of the fornications of rapine. usury, and oppression, which was held out by the gorgeous Eastern harlot ; which so many of the people, so many of the nobles, of this land had drained to the very dregs.
Página 51 - To .courts of law, provided for a people, among whom justice had always been distributed in the method of simple and rational inquiry, was prescribed a course of procedure loaded with minute formalities ; rendered unintelligible, tedious, and expensive, by technical devices. Of the intricacy and obscurity thus intentionally created, one effect was immediately seen ; that the candidates for justice could no longer plead their own causes ; that no one could undertake to present a cause to the mind...
Página 61 - An augmentation of the number of European Judges, adequate to the purpose required, would be attended with an augmentation of charge, which the state of the finances is not calculated to bear ; and the same objection occurs- to the appointment of assistant Judges.
Página 82 - Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade— A breath can make them, as a breath hath made — But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 76 - He begs leave to submit it to your consideration, whether or no it can be possible for him to discharge his engagements to Government, with that punctuality which the Regulations require, unless he be armed with powers as prompt to enforce payment from his renters as Government has been pleased to authorize the use of in regard to its claims on him...
Página 58 - They further state, as an admitted fact, that our courts of judicature are in these provinces viewed "as grievances by the higher classes, and not considered as blessings by the lower. To the latter," they observe, "these courts are hardly accessible from their expense, and nearly useless from their delays.
Página 76 - ... it must have proceeded from an oversight, rather than from any just and avowed principle, that there should have been established two modes of judicial process under the same Government ; the one summary, and efficient for the satisfaction of its own claims ; the other tardy and uncertain in regard to the satisfaction of the claims due to its subjects; more especially in...
Página 65 - We should be sorry that, from the accumulation of arrears, there should ever be room to raise a question, whether it were better to leave the Natives to their own arbitrary and precipitate tribunals, than to harass their feelings and injure their property, by an endless procrastination of their suits, under the pretence of more deliberate justice.
Página 49 - The rest are merely fictitious crimes, brought forward to harass an opposing litigant, or revenge a quarrel. The criminal court is the weapon of revenge, to which the natives of this province resort, on all occasions. Men of the first rank in society feel no compunction at mutually accusing each other of the most heinous offences, and supporting the prosecution with the most barefaced perjuries. Nor does the detection of their falsehood create a blush.

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