Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1859-01-19
Topics OF the Day.

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> "'"0'eso' o'hefS' WIN philanthropy Tia
p'e,ehds' 10 KNOW no hounds, nnd ny means
w""h ! seeks 10 'hn' enqe the admiration
,oe w",,n' rnc'nhd 'maac'pafed her neeroe
W her W'a ind'an colonies, because she 81"
clearly 'ha' The culiur" oi sugar IN LonS'nna
iexns andso'her slave States. would soonrl
Wes' India possessions and greatly d'precn''
ine'r value ~ the m"rEe'' She saw"'s'' iha'
the cultivation IN the Cardinals Georgia Ala
nama' M,s'ss pp'' Kentucky etc. nnd "l TO
oa c" 'h ''tg'nn' h~h'ucSy' irnnessec' etc
Ieh"r''y superseded me co,'on ana tobacco n
her lnhn" possess'ons' ana mat thr'" s'ape'
were '"'s'o ny S''ve aoor. irr west l"dlnr
colonies were s'hn,' ana insignificant, ~ CON
p,r'sp" WIN her East indi'n poSscss'onS.-
ihry were h'So under 'he immediate eyes oi
the ci',''zed world whereas India is almost
Sea'ea oo"h l" 'he hnfionS II was clear,
lh're'ore' tna' u She c"uld manage, by Sacrl'
h''ns her West Indian dependencies, 10 create
Sei'"e ol ahlipaihy against negro slavery aS
an .os'fnct principle, ana ny that means grad.
u'''y suppress It's existence IN the United
o'ats' her vast East indian empire, where
sM%vefy ens's l" 'art with even more than
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n''''sn oo. .e'"'nen'' w"tn nI' .'o' W.I e'
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d'an servll'"e' 10 wiring from .he "'e'c'eS
their earthly treasures Again, her war Ves'
sells capturing slave ships, instead OF re'u h'h9
the miserable victims to their native county,
to The embraces OF friends and relatives, saw.
age though they be, nave inVarmoly carried
them to the British West ind'es' where thty
have been forced 10 enter In'o contract WIN
the Queen to serve tor sixteen years-an' inns
is called philanthropy but let us examine
INTO the lacts OF the infamous opium ,rahe'
which the British Government mas lorcea up
oo the Chinese, and see WIN "hat grace 'ne
English press can read us lecture on mofa'i-
ty, or accuse us OF AN undue .ove OF m'n'y'
No rational man need be told, that the prac-
tce of eating and smoking Opium is the vlesf,
most dcmoralizing and deadly Of vices. No
uan has occasion to BE- informed that in com.
parison with rum the latter is almost void of
nf4:use. No man need be toId shat the injury
ioAiced on the human race by the use Of OPT.
um is ineffably greater and more destruc i've
momIv, mentally, socially and physically
than African slavery. These facts are patent
to the civilized word, and we may well doubt
the philanthropIy which uses its utmost efforts
to depore the lesser. There was period
when opium was scarcely obtainable in China,
and when its consumption was within the con-
troll OF that Government but phiIanthrcpic
England compelled the Chinese, at the muz-
z!e of their cannon, to accept the deadly drug.
The great Pharisee OF nations increased the
trade from two thousand chests in the year
1900. 10 nearly sixty thousand chest. in the
year 1857 Whence came the earnest solicit
tud- of the British Government to force this
odous death. dealing traffic upon the Chinese !
What was the secre, incentive to her compu-
Iso,y and sinful actiona Money again; the
love of lucre. Nearly the whole of the opium
consumed in the Chimes, Empire is raised in