Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-10-15
OUTLINE HISTORY
OF the Chinese Rebellion.

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HrEv FouNo, the present (possibly,
the late) emperor of China, ascended
the throne in the year 1850, when he
was nineteen years age. His family
have ruled the Chinese empire for two
hundred years, and his race gained the
supreme power originally by expelllng
previous dynasty, and conquering the
country. But the conquest was incom-
pletc. Far of, in the southwestern ex-
.rcmity Of tho empire, is tho sterile,
mountainous, inaccessible province of
Konang.si, Inhabited by a poor, but
proud, sober, intrepid andIwarlike race,
whom centuries Of Tartar rule never
quite reduced to subjection. In the
most remote partof this region, still ex.
lists an aboriginal tribe, who wear their
native dress, do not shave their heads,
and have never, in any degree, been
brought under the imperial yoke. These
are tho Miao.tzes, whom the Chinese
name the Wolf.men and who are, to
the rest of The empire, perpetual bug
a.boo. 1t is a firm belief in Pekin,
that they wear tails, and that when a
Miao.tzv is born, the sole Of the child's
foot is cauterized, in order to harden it,
and to render the owner incapable Of
fatigue. The existence of this incom-
pletely conquered region, is ono of the
great facts of the present rebellion.
Bear it in mind.
The Emperor is, in plain English, a
perfect fool; and. in plain American,
an old Fogy of the first order. In Chi
ma, as in all countries, all communities,
all families, aud all companies, there
arc two partics,--the contented and the
discontented, the conservative and the
progressive, ole Ghinasand Young Chi
ma. The warwi'h England had the eff
feet of intensifying and concentrating
party spirit. The rallying cry of Old
China became, "Down with the Barba'
rians," "No intercourse with foreign
na,ions;" while Young China appro'
we'd of the treaty with the English, and
urged the removal of the remaining re-
s.ric,ions upon commerce, and the ad-
mission Of foreigners. Before the ac'
cession of the present emperor. the
court and cabinet were Young Chinese,
bu. when Hien Foung assumed tho i'm
perial yellow, he espoused, with the ut
most yehemence and intolerance, the
party of reaction. He dismissed the
old and tried servants Of the crown, and
appointed in their places the most rabid
devotees of the regular, orthodox, old
fashioned Chinese politics. A party
president, or Louis Napoleon, could
not have done the business more thor
oughly. Young China chokeddown the
outward expression of its rage. and
ramifed itself in secret societies, all over
the empire, nursing its wrath to keep 1t
warm, and spreading discomfort far and
wide. This is fact the second. 1t must
not be overlooked.
Among the secret societies of China
may be reckoned the Protestant MISSIONS
under Gutzla1, Roberts, and others
Protestant missionaries are, generally,
men completely possessed of one idea
that Of propagating the doctrines o1
their sect; and China Offers field fol
their excrtions, at once prodigious and
convenient. 1t is convenient, because
nearly all Chinese read, and read the
same dialect. A tract, therefore, which
makes converts at Canton, is competent
to bring over the courtier of Pekin, OF
the farmers in the most distant province
Among the missionaries in China, there
have CHANGED to be several individuals
Of uncommon zeal, energy, talent, ane
perseverance; and they have been as
siduously, though quietly, laboring fol
a quarter of a century, at the single bu
siness of spreading a knowledge o
Biblical history and Christian doctrine
In their schools, a large number o
Chinese have been not only instructed
bu, brought up and thoroughly imbuet
with Christian ideas; each of whom, OF
entering life, became centre Of Chris
tian influence. By translutions, books
=. and tracts, Of which millions have beer
circulated, some faint outline of Chris
,iaui,y has probably been communica