The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-04-15
The I,nrbar,,.es IN China.

The Crimean Struggle woke large portion
OF the civilized world from the delusion into
which il had fallen, tha, "wars shou'd be no
more" The Chinese contest will shake still
further that faith in the perfection ct the 18Th
century which so many entertain. Cities,
ru,hlessly laid in ashes on one side, aud poi
son admiris,ered in bread Oh tho other, are
significant warnings that revenge, treach'
cry, and other base passions reign yet in the
human heart. From the Chinese, indeed ,
little else could be expected. They are-
from The European point of view, al ieas,--
a semi-barbaric race of people, the believers
in a gross dolalry, cowardly, traitorous, liars,
assassins. That they should seek 10 destroy,
by arsenic, an enemy whose prowess they
fear, and from whose exirpation, in this way,
no Christian teachings withhold them, is
hardly surprising, especially when we re-
member that tie Saaniards, civilized, high
spirited people, during the French invasion,
poisoned the wells, in or6er TO destroy the
soldiers of Napoleon. But that the British
should wan,only waste the suburbs OF Can.
ton, seems, TO US nj least, altogether inexeu'
sable and aex2licable.
Aud in this destruction, in fact, is Ia be
found the solution TO the rosonngs nj Hong
Kong, Thousands Of innocehi families saw
their houses harmed over theit heads by the
bombs aud shells OF the British saw them
burned in quarrel in which they had per
soually taken no part, and Tor which indvid-
ually they were not responsible: aud their
transportation may be imagined. IL there is
anything which rouses the tiger in man, it
is TO have his vile aud children driven forth
homeless into the world, The people OF our
own rural districts remember 10 this day, tho
three generations have elapsed, the altocu'es
of the uessians in tive Revolution, aud exc
craze Grea, Brnain sccotdnsiy. 1t is aln,os,
impossible Tor Christian and a civilized
population will so. in tcveNge iot the burn.
ius ot their homes and household goods, aud
their consequent tmn-cspecially roputa.
ton in whom the tamib ties ate held 80 sa-
cred as with the Chinese,
The comug Parliamentary election will
decide whether the Brush nation defends or
tepudia,es this harbafitv. THE indications
aapear to Ne tha. il will defend it. Ohe OF
The most sasacious of English statesmen once
said thai his ccuu,rymen "hked the taste o'
elood;" aud ceusio)y the people have al
ways sustained war ministry, however un'
iusu6ahle the origin OF the war fslmetst'n
Is pie eminent for tact, and finding himself
,ouer,nl TO his fail, has shrewdlv awaited him
self Of the coujemnaoty vote oi the Com
;uous ~ dissolve ra,liameot aud appeal 10
The constituencies, ceu6ieu' OF being sus'
famed on the cry OF "uc concessions 10 the
lreachernus Chiues"." Thus the Bt;ush, alter
having virtually provoked hosiihues, aud alter
having profoundly emSMeted those hoSnh'"S
bv ,hejt own earhariiies, will seek 10 justly
themselves 10 ,hcit cruel conseiencss aod 10
history tat continuing a ctuel and metti'sss
cou,cs, on the plea Of the Atrocities oi the
Chioese Thus a cunning aud unscTupnlou'
minister, in osdcr to ptoleng his term of pow
st. iaus the revcugetnl passions OF his nation
and stimulates their hetednary waste fN
blood" Where is the Universal Peace So
cieN i-lN3StT.