New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-29
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 90, 1853
THE CHINESE REV0LUTTON.

over. The last accounts are that Russia i
rather hauling off from her arrogant preten-
sions. The declaration of old Metternich
whom we thought to be dead, politically, al
least, long time ago, seems to be confirmed
and no nation of Europe can afford to 60 to war
Besides the danger from disturbing the balance
of power in Europe, there is the additional peri
of internal commotion and popular revolution
which continually haunts all the monarchs OF
Europe. Weak, comparatively, as Turkey is
she is perhaps the only power of Europe which
can spare large army from the duty of watch
ing her own subjects. Russia, with all her vast
power, has quite as much she can attend to-
to guard Poland and Hungary and look after
the insurgent Circassians. Though gratifying
to the philanthropist and humanitarian, this
is quite distressing state of affairs for the
journalist and itemizer We can find no field in
Europe at least, wherein to exercise our powers
of vaticination and speculation, not cloud to
look upon and magnify into threatening tenn
pest, not a green or rather red speek in the
dreary waste of peaceful quiet to encourage the
hope of coming events of stirring character
Ali is monotony and tame sobriety in the affairs
Of whilom convulsed and agitated Europe.
Fortunately, however, old, long neglected
Asia now comes to our relief and cheers us with
q few crumbs of comfort in the shape of reyo-
luton on a truly grand and oriental scale
Talk no more of your emeutes, pronunciamien-
tos, risings and popular demonstrations in which
few hundreds are killed, a vast amount of
wind and powder is exhausted, streets are bar
ricaded, and few scores of men are shot and
hung. All these are mere slight sensations,
popular throbbings, little connections compared
with what is going on in China between the pig
tails and anti-pigtails of that teeming Empire
There, battle in which ten thousand are slain,
is mere skirmish. Bulletins are issued several
times in one day announcing that nineteen
thousand Tartars have bit the dust, or twenty
thousand of the ong-haired have suffered the
fate of impious rebels Hung, the great leader
Of the rebels, has been hung several times, and
all his Lieutenants daily suffer decapitation
several times
1t is due, no doubt, to their truly Chinese
agility, that they survive these rather painful
operations. Owing to the absence of rival jour
nails on the field of operations of the contestants,
the leaders have monopoly of the news This
is very convenient arrangement They can
founded competitor to come in afterwards and
upset their facts and figures What comfort
it must be to edit newspaper under such cir
cumstances. The editor can do all his own
work, thus dispensing with reporters. telegraph,
mail and exchanges. As to the s'outside bar
barians," they may get along the best way they |
can. Chinese newspapers are intended only for |
home perusal This is certainly very good |
arrangement for China, but it is rather incon- |
venient for those outside barbarians who have to
cater for an insatiate appetite for news, like
ourselves, and who are driven, by stress of in
cidents, into that remote region of the world |
For how can we justify the confidence of our
readers, or satisfactorily perform our duty in
the promises, when our only sources of informa-
tion are these same journals, whenever the re-
spective contestants manufacture the facts them
selves, and which are always in direct conflict
Suppose we follow the Hung journal and say
that Keying and the Emperor are in ahead,
won't we catch Tartar On the other hand
If relying on the Imperial decree, we chronicle
the execution of Hung, won't the friends and
relatives of that respectable and redoubtable
revolutionist have good cause of complaint
Under these embarrassing circumstances, we
deem it most prudent to publish both sides, and
let our readers determine for themselves which
is most reliable. Respecting the merits of the
contest we are equally at fault, as in regard to
the facts But, as the Emperor in all his docu-
ments denounces the insurgents as long haired |
race, we infer that there is some foundation for
the rumor that Christian missionaries and for |
eigners are at the bottom of the movement, and |
that one of its definite aims is to accomplish the |
abolition of the pigtail system, and thus over
throw one of the established institutions of
China. With their pigtails the Imperialists
religiousy believe the independence, the great
ness and grandeur of the central fiowery king
dom will perish Foreigners will then pour
into the kingdom, the gates of the towns will be
opened, the stupid nick nacks and cheateries of
the outside barbarans will flow into the coun
try, to the ruin of their own trade and indus
try, and thousand other evils come unon them
against which for many centuries it has been
their policy to guard and protect the Empire
Now, as an outside barbarian, We hope Hung
may succeed, as the result will, no doubt, open
this vast nation, which has so long been closed
to the balance of the world; but, as a China.
man, pigtail or no pigtail we should cling to
the ancient policy of the Empire We should
have the fear of the interloping Yankees, the
sagacious sons of israel the burly Saxons, and
the audacious Celts before our eyes, and we
would see Hung strung up as high as Hannah,
and all his other soap-locks, before we would
consent to break down Chinese pride, Chinese
independence, Chinese peculiarities, in order to
NIL the pockets of these presumptuous foreign
ers, and satisfy certain specializing politieaI
economists. The moment China throws herself
into the arena of rivalry and contention with
the other nations of the globe, she will begin
rapidly to decline in all the elements of n so.
parate power and people. She will dwindle
just as Turkey has done from the time the Sui.
tan threw away the turban, and put his subjects
in pantaloons.
Our wing brethren, true to their instincts,
are lavishing their calumnies upon Mr. Camp
bell, of Pennsylvania, to whom President Pierce
has conhded the important post of Postmaster
General-and why is Mr.. Campbell honored
with this abuse of our whig brethren Because
he adheres to the Roman Catholic creed-the |
creed of his fathers pravionslv a.