The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-16

sense, perversely pursuing the Medieval policy
of NON intercourse. and Stacking the enter
prise, and prohibiting the development, Of AGO..
600, 900 Of human beings, anxious to break GU
ef the r prison. aud mingle with the rest Of their
species.
About three years ago, the Southern pro.
vinces OF China " hich, as having most COM
munication with the West. formed the most en-.
lightened portion Of the kingdom, unable to
bear the continued exactions of the imperial
power, determined not TO submit to il any lon
ger. In all probability, had petition or remon.
STRANGE been available resources, there would
have been no rebellion; but besides that these
steps in the removal Of grievances are un-
known to Eastern governments in general, 10
the case Of the Chinese, they were impossible.
The Emperor is sort Of demi god, so Tar re-
moved from the body Of his people that II
would be as difficult to approach his throne, as
to reach the tabernacle of the cloud'compelliug
Jove himself. His ministers dare not report
the truth 10 him even now, when the rebels are
sweeping the entire Southern quarters ef his
empire, and threatening Pehin itself with des
struction. How would one of them ventures,
then, at the fisk of losing his head, 10 tell him
tina, a large number of his subjects were COM
planning of his injustice and rapacity, and had
deputed him to lay their complaints at the foot
of the throne7 The Chinese knew that it
L. ~ N nnrnr1asr aoJ
resorted at once to the last argument, that of
force. For three years they have been uniform.
Iy successful and having, at last, cut to pieces,
or brought over, all that could be brought
against them, they proceed in great force in
two grand divisions to the Yang tse.K ang, the
fines! river in all Asia. They scatter every
thing as they approach, and their left wing
takes possession of Woo-Charg. one of the
largest and richest cities in the world, while
their right is at Rankin. In their march of
lUo0 miles iney have behaved like enlightened
men and patriots, thereby offering the most ia
vorable contrast to their adversaries, and they
have proclaimed, among other things, that they
have taken up arms for the advancement of
education. Every feature of the revolt, in
deed, proves that the movement is national,
that it has enlisted the hearts and the hands of
the Chinese people, and that it is war of AGO.
100000 of natives against handful of ener.
waited barbarians, who have no other title to
Cypress them than such as is derived from the
swords OF forefathers more virtuous and more
courageous than they. Although the insur.
rection has been in progress three years, and
notwithstanding it has been in the very midst
of the largest green and black tea districts, the
expectation OF both species of that herb has
greatly increased every year since it began
This affords another signal proof of the order
that has prevailed among these people, and es.
tablishes, beyond the reach of a doubt, the
fact, that the insunection has been guided by
liberal and enlightened spirit.
Just at this time, when humanity is about to
obtain most signal triumph, when the ener-
gies of 400 100000 of the human lace are
about to be relieved of the membranes with
with which superstition and ignorance have
weighed them TO the earth, when the forces of
the insurrectionists are about to strike stroke
which must bring down the OPP ressive dynas-
ty that has hag.r,dden them and their fathers
for two hundred years, of all other people in
the world, an American steps in to arrest the
blow, and to turn back the clock of the world
twenty generations.
We hope there is some mistake, as we hope,
likewise, most devoutly, for the success Of the
in.urraction