The Slave Trade, Domestic & Foreign; Why It Exists & How It May Be Extinguished
The Slave Trade, Domestic & Foreign; Why It Exists & How It May Be Extinguished
Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879
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ii. 194. We have here private rights in land amounting to 160,000 rupees, in a country abounding in coal and iron ore/'' and with a population of half a million of people. Estimating the private interest at ten years' purchase, it is exactly three years' purchase of the land-tax; and it follows of course, that the government takes every year one-fourth of the whole value of the property^ — at which rate the little State of New Jersey, with its half-million' of inhabit- ants, would pay annually ...above thirty millions of dollars for the sup- port of those who were charged with the administration of its affairs I Need we wonder at the poverty of India when thus taxed, while deprived of all power even to manure its land ? " Three-fourths of the recruits for our Bengal native infantry are * See page 140, ante. 168 THE SLAVE TRADE, drawn from the Rajpoot peasantry of the kingdom of Oude, on the left bank of the Ganges, where their affections have been linked to the soil for a long series of generations.
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