Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-09-03
The Late News from the East.


We are told that with few exceptions, the world has
been at peace since the downfall of Napoleon We are
even told that the present is period of profound peace
Perhaps So but Napoleon the Great never such ar
maments nor did any Of his campaigns present scenes OF
more suffering greater destruction of life than those
which have marked the outbreak in India or the attack
upon China.
During the last few years we have seen reproduced
the old conflict old the tale of Homer. European
energy and skill have been brought face to face with the
numbers and cunning of ASIA and with the same result.
Great Britain had hardly emerged from the Russian war;
when she was called to meet the enrgues OF the same
power in another quarter, and single campaign brought
Persia to terms Then came the Chinese difficulty,
which would have eventuated IN the same manner, but
for the outbreak in India causing diversion of the force
intended for China force superior to that of the Anglo
French alliance to which China has recently succumbed
In 1851 the great fabric of military power which the
East India Company had reared in the East tottered to
its base The native legions which it had trained to
European discipline and armed with the most approved
weapons turned their forces against the authority which
had called them into being. The power of fanaticiSm
the hatred OF race the remembrance Of real or supposed
wrongs all tended to add bitterness and fury to the out
break few bandlus OF brave men, taken ny surprise,
scattered over vast territory and III the midst OF
hostile millions, separated by thousands OF miles from
their native country made desperate stand and succeed
ed in maintaining ground upon which achievements
might rally and concentrate for the salvation OF British
authority. From the extremes of the earth force
despatched and the tide stemmed surely inevitably the
Gordon was drawn closer and closer around the Asatic
mutinccrs and within less than two years the rebellion
has Ecen will be completely crushed for now,
the Scpoys other opposing forces hardly be said
to exist as organized enemy in any part of the PENN
sula. From the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean the
British flag is again supreme, and there remain lit
tie doubt, but that 1859 will open upon HindostOn
more thoroughly annexed to the British than it
has ever been before
Right or wrong, we cannot withhold admira
ton from the stern determnation-the immmense
energy and imperturbable pluck which the Brit
ISL nation has put forth within the last two
or three years The very stubborn pride Or seFsuff
cheney Of the English American character has made
them the only people that know how to deal with nfe
ror In their naughty isolation they lrater
nze with the native races of the East Or the West and
therefore retain their supremacy by maintaining in its pu
ry that superiority of which first conferred that
premacy.
On the contrary the Spanish and French have become
merged in with the natives and therefore have failed in
either retaining colonial dominion or in laying the fou
dations Of future empires. The history of Spanish A
merica cOntradistingushed from that OF the colonies
planted by the British is striking example of this
AngloAmerica, whether independent colonial, is
sentialy white mans country. The dominant race is
pure and unmixed. Mexico Central America, Venezuela
and Eucador differ but little from Hayti. White men
are but small part of the population and the white
blood is being sunk-lOst-merged in with that of the
inferior races The pride Of longer sustained
Spanish authority nor, that being cast off, there
sufficiently educated influential patriotic class
Or race to give consistency to the Not in six
Werepure whites ThehaEbreeds were jealous of these the
Indians of the half breeds the mulattoes of those and
the negroes Of the WHOLE yet all were equal before the
law and each in turn plotting for the overthrow of the
others To this want of homogenity of population and
absence of high dominant race the instability of Span
ish American governments is mainly attributable. The
same result would follow in India, just as soon the
British there pretended to maintain any other relations
to the Hndoos than that of masters. They would be
come lost merged in the teeming millions of a country
containing full OnC-Sixth of the human race.
But what is to be the effect Of the opening of China
to the trade Of the world is another thing Their popu
lation and productive industry immense, and the
proficiency in many of the mechanic arts is by no means
despicabe. Their internal commerce is greater than
that Of any other people. But then what are they tC
buy from the rest of mankind They produce everything
within themselves and their teeming population reduces
the price of labor to point that renders the idea
foreign competition perfectly prepOSterouS. Their
prc extends from the 18th to the 54th degree of latitude
China proper from the 10Th to the forty-frst degree
and this enables them to raise Cotton, To
bacco, Sugar, Rice, Oranges and other Southern
or tropical products, equally with those of the tenn
perate zone. Their Silks, Porcelaing etc. are still
unsurpassed. In 1851 the exports from China to tn
United States were 81 065, IA the imports from tn
United States were $2l55,945, the large balance hav
ing to be paid in silver We cannot see any great pros
pect Of increase under any circumstances. The Chimes
have peculiar dislike to christianity nor indeed to an
other religion. They have too little earnestness OH tn
subject to care way the other. The authorize
have resisted the introduction of any new creed on pc
tica grounds solely, tending to disturb the popua
mind If we might use the expression, Chinese regio
is a sort of ndiferentism.
WHAT WITH THEN.-The .. S. Brig Delphi
has captured SLAYER, and sent her with her cargo
over three hundred Africans to Charleston and th
Echo, the captured vessel, with the negroes aboard
at quarantine.
What is to be done with them? They can't be turne
loose free negroes for Southern State would allo
that and it would be cruelty to the men themselves
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