The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-19
eanbaldi, Victor Emsnue, and France you may


n gano for Sardinia, and the eommerctal heces-
siiy OF peaceable alliance between ths country
and France, 1t would not be al all strange u "ieai
Britain joined France against the T. tstefu aila
Southern despots and notwithstanding the Ft l
cess Royal and her babies on ne banks o. VIZ "a
lula. At any rate, q war between hu u.s1,,; nn
Austria on one side, and France ana ital! al, W
the other will be terrific conflict anu os ,-,,
cannot be contemplated without horror. t2.7s.S
And now for one moment, looA ~ a i -
China. In the London 4n,stS o. Se,vaen the
Euccinct history of the affairs netNeeu slo
great Oriental despotism and the western palDa-
Tians for the last fifteen or twenty years 10 y1u
read among you, B9noAi rSoss wbo have not
bsd ha,ter LOOK II over. The ground II
assumes is that in all animal life the
vigorous qualities concentrated 10 individuals
ciSe them lie supremacy, and the weaker of the
"a ne and kindred races go TO the wall. And
Il lit not so among nations! Were not julius
Caesar and the Romans carrying out the natura
instincts Of the race Of man in making an irrup
ZION into Britain, and sweeping away the boar
hunting sayages who lived on nuts and Wild ami
meis and planting a more vigorous people on Their
lands Did not the bastard, William Of Normandy
carry out the same principle and obey the same in
stinets? And what more natural than TO see an
exact parallel-and more powerful one stil-in
the migration of the white Christians OIL Europe to
the red mans wilderness in America, aad there obey
the Injunction made by the Creator-"lnCrease and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and su6due IT,"
And why did the English in India and Australia;
The Spanish in Mexico and Peru; the Portuguese IN
Brazil, and the Yankees in California, override and
crush the natives and residents Of those countries,
except by the same law OF nature that prompts the
hon TO eat up the antelope or the dolphin 70 pursue
the fying-fsh. And can We not see the same
causes at work in crumbhng down the eHete ahd
rotten despotsms and ecclesiastical mummeres OF
Naples and Rome, and planting in Their places
wore vigorous set of actors and more active
ard practical Christianity Aud then see the great
drama that il now being acted ~ the mouth OF the
Peiho and before the walls OF Fekin We need not
ask how IL Is that little island empire OF thirty
mi nj able q
8 vast country that has a reported population OF
400, 900 900. We might as well ask why red hot
sannon ball will go through wooden barn filled
with hay or Why shot OF clst steel viii penetrate
q chip made OF pine planks.. The day has come, in
she ceaseless march of events, when ray OF
light from the West must penetrate the land
Of the almond-eyed, and If it is necessary
70 fasten that spark Of civilization, that copy OF
Abe Bible, or that commercial treaty, to hand
grenade or an artillery projectile, then the juno
Bon must be effected, and the missile sped It's
way. ! am sorry 10 offend the suscepubilities of
those water politicians and Kid glove philan.
thropists who split hairs in logical discussion OF
The right ana wrong Of every step taken by The
EsxoHs IN their rough practice upon CHINA
Could they not work of lttle of their
extra benevoence upon the fate OF the innocent
grazing animals that fail q prey TO the
carniyora! The die is east; the Tartar race have
held their own till they no longer stop tue car
of progress, and now their vast empire u crumb-
ling TO dust BY precisely the same description Of ma
tural law that throws down the trunk of a dead
tree that has lived its allotted time, and comes TO
dissolution because il has fulfilled It's mission.
What sympathy can we have Tor people, and
what opinion of their sagacity or worldly wisdom,
who express sentiments ike the following in their
state papers! They are from 4 statement drawn
mp for the information and guidance OF the Em.
peror By one Of the oldest and wisest statesmen OF
fte empire, Yin Yau Yung:-
The conditions Of peace It ha. been siey reported are
nearly arranged, and among them su,h articles rs
thoee providing .ndeu nifty for expenses Tnst ~
nay, that China the mighty, mighty empire Of t. csiug
constrained by lew thousand ba'oarials; that
they have bat 20 command H. and she shall tsnser them
Der land or Der cies Bat OF csases which are most
pernicicus there ~osfo as those which az
sAorize the establishment; oi rceldence 10 the capital
,de CD the rivers IN the interior sud the preparation OF
,he 6ospel IN the provinces. The hearts o, who
hsve heard u burn win vexAtoa. Svcry Sooss.
aye svc1 70 the women and children, that IL ousnt not
To come 10 he props CATION Of religion without being
versed the religion Of the lord q Heaven
want ia general sln 10 be = dSidro ths world -
ecwder the people, 10 foster ptiyy desire 10. what
stysnse Were others why should toe nations that
have embraced t-vho OF course are free to practise H.
.neTie.ss-.sls % tang or granted their righ!
and savrgxs they do undaunted by a,guef The rebels
The late period have also made profession Of the doirins
OF The Lord or Heaven The poisonous Influence of It's
propagaors exciting and deceviug einc ing themselves
In such alliances, plainly spreading when they snail
anemseves q the Dimensions Of the empire Of the tea
the country and the strength OF ~ positions the
power and weakness Of lie ooes. the ftnoss AMI lean
seee Of n lands they viii contract relations with the
powerful and influential In every place they visit; they
hcAs There are good proofs that these are the means
employed by the Engllsh barbirAns, as, silk worm
IKE they eat their way into little States.
What luminous idea Of the Christian religion
he old rascal las | think he must have taken
Bible lessons from the book Of Joe Smith, And
how sentenhous and graphic are his SMILES and
6gures Of speech! And his advice as to the way to
keep Oh the outer barbarians:-
10 not, says an ancient proyero, sivaotage =
tribe your own for will be certain to force Itself
into Jour place Bow" said The founder q the sung
IN Se3 on snlch seep usyser, The capital 4. ARE
csoue rpot Had the outer barbarisns bfoagni tbdts
prohi5ea them intercourse vi ihcm fordei OF, and
tbo ceremony Of their presentation over they should Ave
returned without being aos wed - osr and delay. How,
hen, WHEN they come with yioleroe aad hostility, with
ccod thai has lasted through generations they 10 be
suffered " station officers here 10 ocie retdenccs 10
have their free say = roam al random Aeou, the centre
cf the empire alirg lie highways and oyways with the
Klang and the (parbaraLs from west and easi) Never
seeo s.srd Of VIVA, extent Of miscsisf
20 ther hearts IN contemplate perpstatns To
In cne balcony supporting rosber In ones house
rney may break out into violence AT any momeni
aos or sheep once chasscd aad subdge he vii not dare
70 svopsen
Probably true: bu; when Tie Cclestlas have "chas.
tised' the fleets aud armies Of France and England
no doubt they viii be quiet. SO long as the IA.
vored nation clause Is in the treaty between China
and the United States. il seems almost pity that
your forces could not cooperate with those Of
France and England. You reply, probably, that
your Minister was permitted TO 60 20 Pckin-in a
horse box,-and exchange the treaty there, aud
consequently you have nothing 70 resent. II = not
now question whether every ming was done with
due dignity and according 10 good usage. The act
is passed. Whatever good may come OF the Anglo
French Chnse war you can share. am sure no
one in his senses viii regret that The shell
Of that great terra incogHfd j. about To be
broken. Let IA hope that the kernel will be both
. marketable commodity, and will be planted and
grow into tree for the benefit q iutureages. With
the vast power Of Russia on the north and west the
great dominion OF British India on the south, the
enlightened Japanese with their American trade
on the east sith the heets and armies OF the tive
greatest naval and military Powers Of the world on
oe seaboard, with their ponderous artillery thun.
derng az the very walls Of Pekin, and with perse.
vering merchantmen Of every nation crowding the
ports OF Canton, Foo chow.foo and Shanshae, DO we