LankaWeb – An American Journal (1851) highlights massacres of the Sinhalese and horrors perpetrated in 1848 under the administration of Lord Torrington lankaweb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lankaweb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
BRITISH policy, or that system which the British Government has
for ages systematically pursued, and by which it has acquired its vast colonial
empire, is hut very imperfectly understood by the mass of the American people.
Deriving our knowledge of English affairs, for the most part, from English
sources, we are too apt to he dazzled by the contemplation of an empire upon
which the sun never sets, and to ascribe to Divine destiny, that which, in
reality, is the result of a
system, more fiendish, and more
detestable, because more extending and more extended in its operation, than
that of Machiavelli. The conquests of old Rome were attended, at least, with