The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-01-02
CHINA AND ENGLAND.


! Well, the opium has terminated the Empe
ror will no doubt sign the treaty, pay the indemnify
transfer strong island 10 John Bull within his terri
tories, and after the Tower guns have been fired
lew Chinese banners hung up IN Westminster Abbey
few officers made Knights and BaIonets the peopl,
will ask themselves how much glory they have
achieved In this peace-how much honor and profit
has been made by this wyr
II has been the beseting sin in England, and is al
ways recorded 20 her shame, time out Of mind, that
they know nothing Of what is called just war,
righteous war. The cause Of war never troubles
ber-only cross her path, interfere with her interest
protest against her claims and she gives you a SLAP
with her fore paw, the lion does through the bars
OF his cage and then the begins, and the weakest
is compelled TO look out.
| All kinds of moral glory have been found wanting
in this war-t had no honest, no just origin China
has always had settled poliey-be il ignorant-pre-
JUDGED illiberal, still II her policy, and she
said come trade with me, observing all my usages
and customs.p China excluded the trade in opium
aud for good and sufficient ressons-yet Great Fri
tain, in order to sustain the trading interests of her
possessions in India, encouraged the smuggling of
opium into China and yet when China in sustain
ing her policy, seized the opium and threw il INTO
the sea, England made war upon her. sent her fleets
TO burn her towns, and killed an immense number of
poorly disciplined yet brave people, and after a
few years Of war peace is made and China com
PEELED TO pay the expense of not Of her choice
and declaring, and TO transfer certain possessions as
hostages
1t will take some years, however, to settle and ad-
Just the principle of the Commercial intercourse be-
tween the two nations--her non-ntercoufse policy
has been deranged by this treaty, and above all not
I'D has been said in relation To the very of
the No reference being made to the opium
trade, China is left 10 prohibit the traffic usual
the dealers in British India cut off from its sale
and profits, and on this great and cardinal point
China has triumphed. Her towns have been captur-
ed her people killed. her treasury despoled but still
the Chinese have succeeded in shutting out the opium
trade the score Of honor, the .efore, nothing has
been gained by England in this war.
Now as to the future-England has taught China
how to fight; their machlocks and antiquated arms
will be thrown aside for modern improvements Her
ports will be better fortified her armies more eff
cionty organized; and the whole empire and its vast
population will be placed in better position for de-
fence hereafter second war " i'll be more hazard
Gus, and promise less in its results
As TO trade. In the present condition Of the trade
of the world in state OF peace, when each nation
is thrown on its resources, and where exchange
of commodities supercedes regular commercial en-
terprse, England has nothing TO gain beyond what
she enoyed before the What can she get from
China Teas, only because England does not re-
qure her cottons, her silks or her porceains they
manufacture those articles at cheaper rate than
they can he procured a long and costly voyage
One of the great and cardinal points of advantage
which England calculates upon as tne great OBJECT
gained by the peace, is the admission Of her manu-
features into Chinese ports.
Now what articles Of British manufacture does
China require For her own consumption should
say little or nothing for exchanges of commodities
with other powers few goods only required.
China with population of three hundred millions,
where labor Of course can be had almost for nothing
every species OF manufacture can be more cheap y
made than in England Let the United States proclaim
FREE TRADE, unrestricted, untrammelled free
trade and allow Great Britain to pile our wharyes
and warehouses with her goods, and close thereby
every manufacturing establishment in this country
and England will have derived ten times more benefit
from this privilege than from her war and treaty with
China.
Another view Of this question presents ITSELF
Will not France, the United States, Russia, and other
powers claim the same privileges Of trading with
China, that Great Britain has secured by this war
Assuredly and ina will cheerfully concede them.
We cannot, therefore, in looking at this war with
China and its termination, discover that Eng and has
gained at least for the present. either honor profit
by the contest
" it'll respect TO the humane results Of this uncall-
ed for and unnecessary war upon poor and unofend-
ing creatures, the following from officer at Ching
keang-foo bears ample evidence
81 never saw such loss of life and property as
took place here We lost officers and men enough,
but it is impossible even to compute the loss of the
longer against u.s. they cut the threats of their wives
and children, or drove them into wells and ponds,
and then destroyed themselves in many houses there
were from eight to twelve dead bodies, and myself
have seen dozen women and children drowning
themselves in a small pond the day after the fight
The who's Of the city and suburbs are a mass of
ruins-whole streets have been burnt down"