The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-04-09


Ger asssQ - Ass been called teshe truth
shat each nation 10 = close observer aad
earn critic Of the evils o! others, but utter
b Mind to its own ~ickedaessss, BY reading
n he Mesth British Rsvew in dose Proxi-
mtg, able articles % the subjects OF the
opism Trads, aad Slavery in the United
States. In he ferner article, We have {
sa.sad presentation BY an Engiisa writer
10 lesling BritisA periodical. Of the alsnsss
tacfedib.e evils .. tbs opium trade
spsnly psrnistsd If not sctasi.y tSsiersa ay
de b,itisA Gsveramsnt. TIE seeons srtl-
ele is devoted more 10 ths Kansss usae!es
end poaisiesl divisions in the uaised States
% - slsssry sussusn, than 70 consider.
esion of he subject OF slavery itself - .
srsss moral evil. D., .hile fiSturias -
e,esaous On evil. - nonsuoSs crsme, -
aAis epian tssds, ws caaaot but tank Brit
N horror At A1sr.esn slavery, Or sves .
sAe African slave trade, 10 Gu, q place. saa
psthsps ,oaaaed more upon saasn isnsf-
ance than British virtue, Ih.s nal'sa
should bs shocked at slavery % 4 sass' ~
- Uaited States. ye; slieaiiy approve o.
40 N icA ssdsr her ssn authority and 10
hss can ksowis dse u rapidly destroying =
whole people. ssas .sa body. illustrates .Ass
che he's only moral seasibii,ies Tor ssiis
.Aro.d. And cannot OF will no, observe
~r.aser crimes 1t home. We want cur
readers 10 understand precisely what this
eeium trade 10, that they may esas.dsr Tor
thensslyss whether Great Britain had not
: srsat deal better take q certain beam
from her ssn eye, before she !. proper ~
psspared . detect and remove aotss from
he eyes Of otAers.
WisAia The msmory OF nsa aae living
sAs spian pipe in China VAS an stherai
hxsry Only known 70 ths epaient' The
opium ussa in ChisA 10 received IRON lads.
ID l7Os tAsse were only 400 saes'. afoPiun
cent froa India to China. Nos not less
sAsa oo,ooc chests are annually ksSs 70
chiaa, drawing srs. China nany millions
sssslas every year, vith proat TO The Ia
dian, or Bri,ish Government, 81 not less
tAaa Ava niIlions VI pounds OF ssen,y i've
millions Of dollars per annam. Smoking
shops Asve sssa opened everywhere 10 Chi.
- where this oPiun smoking hssi, has sx-
sssdsl, bringing il si,hin the reach Of the
pesssst. II 10 estimated that 10000 chests
wiIl sSpply one million people. Tnus the
annual export vii supply beat six mil
hoa people ~isA drug which makes the
HE Of even indaiser utterly uselsss to him
sslf, 10 bic family end 10 bic country. Every
pear the demand Is increasing. proving thai
ns sss Of opium 10 rapidly extending
throughout Chiss. Yet thousands aPoE
thousands are dying every year from 1hs
80 u opium The Chinese government
sseans that this evil must eventually para.
Ice the whsle pecpis - nstioa, have USED
every neAas 10 stop the trade, cut ia rain
The India opium tr.de has prOvsn loo
strong. backed by The British government
q !, -, fer the BILE efforts q he Chinese
Emperor to avail, and now tie vsde is ear.
RED OF rigaI 10 the fsse Of shs .u,horises.
The Chinese Emperor had 10 pay ne Brit.
isk for ali The opium he destroyed. The
ua&e in opium Yields one-slxth par, Of the
revenDs Of the Indian EmpFe, TIE trade
10 thus 80 i'm ponant thar no n sFal influence
can perbsps ever Affect il l. il literally
sxhaasting China u her resources, and she
sAnns, help herself Aires / by the IN
nenss sans paid by aer people for opium,
the monetary affairs Of Chlaa nave been
SersnSed, her incassE. crippled, and her
people become % dissontea'se ~ TO De ripe
for the revolution which nos threaten, to
overturn the Empire. Bus we wish to only
consider this subject as . moral evil
Opium smoking is destroying rot merely
thousands. bst millions Of l6ges every year
in China. II kias probably twenty time.
more people every yesr thar there are
slaves in he United States, snd 10 destroy
Ing iLhuenee is rapidly ex,ehding. These
are the victims Of q British trade, of mora
evil { thoussnd.foId, a millian.iold worse
than the African slave trade ever was o.
can be. The Review save " hi. evil
The evil, as a source Of national miserY, i
comparatively new; and !, Is swelling ever
moment ~ aood; and II Is nov in fol
course 70 cover the surfsce OF this vas, re
zion, from seaboard OF thousand niles
end inward . thousand miles deep" Opiun
smoking, !, 10 sstin sted iases rom the mas
Of smokers in Chins, two-ihirds Of their d.i
~ earnings. What is thi. % an smoking
That !, should be 50 great ea egili 4 chprct
missionary in speaking Q The smokin,
shops in China ssys, "Bessr perhsps, MI
there 3 nearer sppro.eh 10 bell upon earl
than within ibe preeiIeis u theEe vii
hsvelr In Annoy tAers are ssm mary a
one tbssssnd Of these earthly hel!s Esci
shop has every facility tV- smoking. sn,
adapted 10 the capacities ot The Pa7rpst.--
Open smoking destroys ts victim &c abou
Ten years. The drunksrd can sometime
Escape the grasp 81 his enemy. but n,
opium smoker never. A ~rite, Gays -
.Thsss Is 40 slavery On esrth to be com
pared With The bondage iale which oPlur
casts lis victim. There i- scarcely Ga
knevG instance Of ssesPs rom Il. tgiIs
wlsn oscs they have fsifiy developed
man. The practice qwekls oss.roys the az
petite and tbs digestion, s;.s;es The bico5
sesksas the eonnsnd o. SIC misd og~E ID,
voluntary muscles, % vel! a. It's eoumsns
ever itself. and ends in bapsless inss MI,
and death" When the ka5ii ls fxed, mel
cannot live without the PossJn. Deprived O
il. they die A Chinese writer ssys:-''I
10 fearful deso.sting psssitsues, pervsdin;
I'll eIsssss Of .hs people. " sling ,hsr prop
cry, snfssbiina their iasatal faculties
running their bodies, sBa shortening ,h.i
lives The hospitals are fllsd with th.
victims Tiss-six.hs u lie patients ara
opium smokers. Tbs Upiua smoker may B.
ksewn by "his laiaasd efes and hsgstf:
ceuntsnaaes-ty bis isEs ard sLdveiee
limbs, tottering gait. ssllow yi.sss, feeble
voice, and death. bodisg g rncs Of HE eve
Il