The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-02-01


Governor Geary's suggestions without further
delay.
War Between the United States and China.
The news by the Arabia abundantly confirms
the apprehensions We expressed when we first
heard that trouble had broken out in China
Our countTymep are in the thick of the fight ;
the three heads which we were given to under
stand adorned the walls of Canton on the morn
ing of the I'd November were not Englishmen
but Americans We cannot regret that this init
nation is accompanied by an announcement that
the Americans are co operating vigorously with
Sir Michael Seymour against the Cantonese.
At the close of the opium war; Mr.. High Com
missioner Lin, who is understood to have been
the best informed of the Imperial councillors on
foreign affairs, drew up report on the ma
tions of the West" which fell into the hands Of
Sir John Davis, and saw the light in an English
dress. In that report, which may be found al
the close Of Sir John Davis work on China, after
reviewing the English and other European ma
tons, Lin goes on to speak well of the Americans.
They have always" he says, been obedient to
our mandates; and when in the course Of the
war, we mistook their people for English, and
killed some of them, they took no notice and
made no complaint
We are glad to hear that DR.. Parker is
not going to earn compliments of this
kind Killed by intention or killed by
mistake, il must be pretty much the same thing
10 the party killed; and before We promise to
take no notice and make no complaint" this
ime We ought, at all events TO make sure that
the killing is ended forever.
1t is in evidence that our trade and that Of the
world with China has doubled since the conclu-
sion Of the opium treaty. In few years, when
the Pacific States have begun to develope in
earnest, that trade will necessarily assume pro-
portions which the mind can scarcely grasp, if
China be thrown open, and her four hundred
millions of industrious people allowed to buy
and cell freely with u.s. And these considera-
lions are independent of the emigration from
China, which, in a few years, must become one
of the serious problems Of the day, and probably
the most embarrassing Of questions for the Pacific
countries and Australia.
We present these points for the calm conside-
ration OF those who, at this juacture, desire TO
stir up spirit of opposition to Great Britain and
of sympathy for China in the present trouble.
Suppose we do get over the feelings which the
news of our slaughtered countrymen can.
not but awaken; suppose we do earn
once more the commentator Of a Com
missioner Lin by our long suffering and meek
boxr Ia ~ az mt
ahead for the next ten years without some new
arrangement with China? And with what face
can we step in and avail ourselves of any
treaty privileges which Great Britain will obtain
If, during the war, Our sympathies have been with
her enemys Once in a generation is quite often
enough to perform that tour de force.
1t has been remarked by the London TIns tha,
the outbreak between Parkes and Yeh nullifed
the treaty of ls46. The Times is hot posted
That treaty was nullifed ten Gears ago; II never
went into existence at all, in fact. Foreigner
have nssver been safe TO trade TO the five ports, a.
th treaty guaranteed them. In the first place
:. ingenious customs regulations, and secondly ar
| autfully prepared public antipatby shut them on
| from three Of the five ports long ago: at Shang
haze. they are obliged 10 fight periodically; q
| Canton. the treaty has never bee fulfilled Of al
| Foreigners have never enjoyed any higher priv
leQes there than they had before the opium wal
II is absurd therefore to say that the treaty Ia
only now been broken. IL never existed, practi
cally: and we find ourselves now doing bis
ness of fifty millions year with people vhC
though highly intelligent, well educated, an
polished. cut our peoples heads off, won't on an
account let us into their towns, and will have D
treaty siipulations at all with u.s.
when the Legislature Of California propos,
TO expel the Chinese immigrants into that Stat
or AT least TO tax them 30 as to check their i
aur. this journal opposed the scheme rs unfai
illiberal and anti-American. And what polio
we Law down for ourselves, VIC think very got
for others. We think that morally and abstraC
" speaking. the Chinese have no right TO shut
ont of The Yang tee Keang and HoaDgbo, If '
psy cur way, and behave in an orderly mann,
In view of commerce and civilization, we deem
our bounden duty TO 90 what we can to bret
down the barrier that is raised round these ma
nifccnt regions We have much to get and mu
TO ltan from The Chinese; they no less from
we cannot reconcile ourselves TO the want Of
lair excbenge il fair words or few stout bio,
will secure it.
Ii need hardly be said that the outgoing
well as the incoming ADMINISTRATION will be G