Excerpt from The Story of the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58
Great bravery, and intelligence of no mean degree, are required to organise such a rising, while there must be considerable force of character in those who can inspire men with confidence in an enterprise which must always end in a cruel demonstration of its hopelessness. The result of nearly every one of the gloomy historical events of this sort has been, and is bound always to be, a crushing overthrow in the meantime, and an ultimate triumph of the principle contended for. The leading mutineer has not unfrequently been the martyr of his order, just as has often been the advanced political agitator. Those were true martyrs who suffered imprisonment and death for the principles of the great Reform Bill, before it was passed in 1832; they sacrificed liberty and dear life for privileges of much narrower range than those we now regard as still in need of large extension. Amid all the tumult to be told in the stories of great mutinies we may descry here and there a martyr mutineer, and many a very dissimilar sort of character.
Wherever men are marshalled there may be a mutiny, and this has been the case in all time, among all tribes and nations. We meet with such insurrections at the very beginning of history. It was a mutinous host which Moses led out of Egypt into the wilderness of northern Arabia. When that great leader and legislator "delayed to come down out of the mount," Sinai, where he was in deep communion with Jehovah about the people and the laws which were to be most beneficial for them, they mutinied, and willingly parted with their "golden earrings," that they night be melted, and moulded into a "golden calf" - a very appropriate object of worship for them.
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