The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-07-03
The chinese peace Society.

liberal and enlightened district, who
claims the prerogative of selecting his
own rulers and exercises the immuni-
ties of free citizen, who does not
amase himself occasionally with read
ing. Ii there be any who cannot
read, then the stigma of shame and
disgrace is written too deep upon
them, for even gold itself to gloss over.
We talk not to such, and cannot be
heard to such, any more than we can,
to the degenerate progeny Of that re
markable animal, who in ancient times.
prlcked his ears back and refused pos
lively to take nuncle Baaam. out Of
the path Of rectitude. We speak now,
to men who read liberal men deep
thinking men; profound men; IL point
Of fact philosophers" Such, know
something Of the national pecuIiarities
Of our Celestial cousins; although
their history has been a sealed book
until recently. They know that they
have ever been The most intractabIe
Know Nothings;' = unwilling to let a
stranger take a birds eve view of Pc
kin, or the Celestial city; proferring
rather to follow their own spirits than
the spirits of others and clinging to
the old junk.tub of their forefathers,
with religious tenacity, rather than
adopt any new tangled notions. Bis
full people these! Up to the present
moment, they are in ignorance of all
those Great questions about which
Christian people have been cutting
each others Threats, for the last eigh-
teen hundred years. Tell a Chinese
that you are Methodist churchman
South; an old school Presbyterian; a
high church Episcopalian; a Catho-
lie; hilo, or philo Baptist; it is
all the same with him. Your Celes-
tial Cousin-the tallow faced minion
of the moon, takes yon by the hand
and says, God is great VIC are his
ignorant children; let us not quarrel
about these things They are op-
posed to any other war, than such as
may be settled with bamboo stick,
and if rebellion gets foot in the land,
they lay violent hands on the rebel
lious; kneel them down, with their
hands tied behind them; the public
executioner with q chop stick, knocks
off their heads, and here, they find is
an end Of them, as far as the Celestial
Empire is concerned Is not such
people cminently qualified te originate
universal peace Society, with plat
form to encompass the whole earth ?
We think SO. Confucius, the great
Chinese Theologian, was q contempo-
rary Of Pisistratus, Tarquin the Proud,
NIiltiades, Themistocles, PericIes, Her.
odotus and Socrates. OF course he
lived before Christ and for this rea-
son was not Christian, but a very
good man nevertheless. That he ICON.
fucius) was in possession of mental
light, too brilliant for the age in which
be lived, is quite evident, from history.
therefore, like true philanthropist
and benefacto- of the race, as he was
he thought proper to engrave on parch
ment, certain important truths, to be
handed down sacredy in a casket
from age to age, until the Chinese eye
and this organ Of the visible world,
should be prepared to receive it
Confucius told his people, that
man would come from the West, with
authority to open this casket and read
aloud the sacred parchment. More
than this; he gave his name that
man now lives, whose eve beheld the