The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-11-01

said no fears need be entertained for the present
the balance is against the United States-be-
sides there stores of metals in the country
and the immediate effect of flow OF specie rom
China is to change the relative value OF commodl-
ties in that land.
Mr. Gushing next proceeded to treat the topic
OF the hostility of the Chinese towards Ioreisn
ers. He said it was originally simply ulsTeSPec''
and did not degenerate into hate until the con-
duct of foreiqners had become so outrageous as
to forfeit the good esteem of the people. ne
Chinese saw themselves surrounded by other
Asiatic nations vastly their interiors IN every re-
spect-thev naturally looked upon them with as
respect also upon foreigners who visited their
land. The early trading voyages OF the Portu-
guese, were rather piratical expeditions than
commercial speculatons. The expulsion OF the
Christians from China, is also connected with the
subject of the hostility OF the Chinese towards
foreigners. We are naturally led to ask how
monarchs as wise and liberal as many OF the Chi
nese monarchs have been, have prohibited the
practice of the Christian religion in China, when
all other religions are tolerated. At first foreign
ers were well received in China. Marco Paulo
and others had high employment under govern
ment-there was no objection to their penetrating
to the interior of the country. Great numbers
of converts were made by the early Christian
missionaries What has effected change in all
these things The missionaries INDUCED in Bit
ter contests among themselves, on articles OF faith
furious controversies were carried on, and vio-
lent pamphlets published. From the teachers OF
religion the contests spread among the converts,
and excitements and agitation were the conse-
quence.
To prevent domestic commissions, the Emperor
interfered his authority, and it is the belief OF Mr.
Cushing that to prevent internal troubles, was the
only motive operating upon the Emperor to ex-
clude Christians from China Mr. Cushing urged
the missionaries to take warning from the past,
to cease their quarrels upon minor articles OF be-
lief and to uiite in the one great work OF the re-
demption of the heather.
Mr. Cushing said although this vast empire
was open TO commerce, literature and religion,
too sanguine expectations must not be entertained
the progress of the Chinese is slow, and vast
multitudes are to be affected.
If the effects of the change of commerce are
pacific, the benefits to the world will be great
if not so, and civil convulsions ensue, the spirit
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT will again take hold OF the
Chinese, and foreign invasion will be the conse
quence. The Tartars have several times overrun
Asia, and carried their conquests even to Europe.
The present Emperor OF Chnais lineal descend
ant of Tartar Emperor who once sat upon the
throne of Moscow. We are second only to the
English in point of commercial intercourse with
the Chinese, and second only to the French in
missionary and intellectual intercourse. We
shall surpass both nations in intercourse.
Mr. Cushing, in closing his address, spoke of
there being as yet no commerce on the Pacific
Ocean, and that ultimately there must be some
powerful Anglo Saxon power settled on the shores
OF the Pacific. Should America plant it, the
trade of China would be invaluable to her, and it
would naturally flow to the western shores of this
continent.