The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-03
The OHictal Reports. from ChtnR-Our
Policy IN the Swarming East.

Navy is an unfortunate one tor himself and for
Nh ward, the Minister to China and should the
next accounts show that the course they have
followed result in any complications Of our re-
la,ions in that quarter, both the Minister and
the naval commander should be at once SUI
pesseded.
According to his own account, Captain
1atnall proposed to Mr.. Ward to return the po-
Likeness which the British Admiral had ex-
tended to him when his steamer was aground, by
towing he British reserves into the fight. Mr.
Ward agreed with him perfectly, and both thus
abandoned our neutral position and became
participants in the war. 1t yet remains to be
explained why it did not occur to Mr.. Ward and
Captain 1atnall. when the Chinese told them
he day before the fight to go to the northern
entrance of the river, only eight or ten miles
distant, and where the masts of unks could
be seen across the land, to proceed thither
and see if there was any truth in the story.
An hours run would have carried the
Toey.wan there, and it would certainly have
been much better to have taken this trouble
than to risk the good relations which have
tween us and China. Captain Tatnall, in tell
ing us what he has done, has shown that Mr..
Ward has very little mind of his own, and
that the gallant captain is little fitted to be his
conscience keeper. He exhibits a curious APP
probation of the relation of things when he
considers an act of naval courtesy to ship
aground sufficient reason to change the entire
relations between two nations.
Our position towards China is one of the
highest import to ourselves and to the whole
civilized world. For many years we have
sedulously sought to keep aloof from the quar-
rcls of England with her, and our policy had
been fruitful of good results. We had attained
position in the estimation Of the Eastern
people and their governments as different from
that of England as the policy that animates the
two countries towards the Asiatics While
England is setting her foot on the neck of
India, placing her claws upon the peninsula of
Malacca through Singapore, knighting Sir
Raiah Brooke for filibustering Borneo,
forcing opium into the mouths Of the
Chinese, and stealing FIVE Of their ports,
-isting upon re-opening the war because the
Chinese recommend another route to Pekin,
our flag has never been seen there in the act of
aggression and no resisting Asiatic has had his
limbs scattered over Asia's broad plains and
lofty mountains, blown from the muzzles Of
American cannon. That Captain Tatnall
should blend our name and policy with the
domineering acts of England on the shore of
Asia, because, forsooth, British Admiral help
ed him to get off his two-penny chartered
steamboat which he had clumsily run ashore,
proves how utterly unfit he is to be entrusted
with distant command, or made the
dry nurse Of an ignorant politician who
has been unfortunately placed in ministerial
brooches.
Whether England and France will attempt to
conquer the empire Of China, twelve thousand
miles distant from their shores; whether the
laundering gallantry of the British Admiral
may not have left reason on the side of Chi
n--o dipiumuUy; ana whether, II an Anglo
French army is sent to subdue the three hum
dred millions Of people that bow to the sceptre at
Pekin il will succeed, are questions that have yet
to be solved. But whatever result may betide,
our position, attained with so much constancy
on our part and enjoyed through so much abuse
from English diplomatists and writer's, must be
preserved. A conflict between Europe and
China may disturb the commerce and the peace
of the whole world. We hold the high position
of moderator and paciicator to both parties
John Bull may come to recognise it grudgingly,
but he will recognise it eventually, and China
has done so already.
Our geographical position points to material
results as advantageous as the moral ones that
we have achieved on the western shore of the
Pacific That ocean at an early day is to be the
scene of our mightiest commercial achievements
From San Francisco, westerly run of six
thousand miles brings us to Jeddo and Nam
king, to Japan and China. The first of these
closed for two centuries to the enterprise of
Europe, has been opened by American policy
The second is still closed and the mighty com
merce that floats upon the bosom of the Yang
tse-kiang-the Mississippi of China-or drags
through the great Chinese canal from Marking
to Pekin, seeks an uncertain outlet through
swarms Of pirates to the ports of Shanghae
and Hong Kong. American policy may be far
more successful in opening Marking than Bri-
fish force; and, at all events, we owe it to the
highest interests of civilization not to relax our
peaceful efforts because other Powers prefer to
pursue belligerent course.
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