Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-03-04

20 the Tartar goverment-one that is more
tyrannical than you have any idea of-yet the
superiority of their intellect is evident Per-
hapS l am harsh with the japanese, and know
That many think me wrong, yet there are
others who have had the same opportunity as
myself to see them, that think as / do so it
is not all owing to an unconquerable dislike
No people, or beings, except the japanese,
would submit TO such a debasing, arbitrary,
tyrannical, and immoral system of government
customs, and laws. Its very form is what
ruins the people as social beings; they become
deceitful, blood thirsty, treacherous, and vii
famous, yet they are all honest. as far as ap.
propriating property not their own goes. That
fact has misled many who have been there to
believe that it was chara teristic of the people,
l might leave a thousand dollars or one dollar,
or anything else, on either the most public or
the most secluded place / could find, yet it
never would be touched, except by officials, who
would return it to me on board ship. Yet it
was not honesty, but the most perfect fear that
ever filled human being that caused them
to return it.
/ say Jedr-it is fear now, but it originated
in Jealousy. A citizen would walk ten miles
rather than see it; he knows that their system
of spies is such that the very woods and stones
have eyes and ears; and that, were he to
touch it, his head would come off before the
sun set One official never goes alone in
fact, never is alone at least five others are set
IN
them, and so on, until every one is a spy
against his neighbor. From the moment we
landed in Japan, we were each one surround
ed with five or six armed officials who never
left us night or day. A constant body guard
surrounded us, ostensibly for the purpose of
protection, but really that we might have no
intercourse with the people, or with some one
of the officials, and make him the present of a
brass button. Every day they were changed
and new set took their places Perhaps
they were afraid ofour corrupting the heather.
If our people at home have not been fooled
sold, gulled, and everything else that indicates
Sucked in. then l am much mistaken. They
did homage to and tawned around lot OF beasts
half or one quarter civilized. Those "ambas.
sailors" came from people where the women
are prostitutes, and belong to the government,
which makes them source Of revenue Ii.
centiousness with the japanese is a virtue.
Every pains is taken to promote it. Images
and books, which excel in obscenity anything
/ ever saw, are freely circulated. Bah what
disgusting people and these same loathsome
vile, and uncivilized beasts, were fawned up,n
followed, caressed, and sought after by crowds
of our own women in the cities through which
they passed, young ladies who would scarcely
look upon respectable young M an at home,
followed after them, and felt happy in obtain
in a kiss. Could they only see, as it is, the
filth they came in contact with, they would
die of disgust and shame. But have already
said too much in regard to them, though there
are no words in the English language that will
express, or ronvey nm idea of my supreme
contempt. disgust and loatbing for them.
Christmas day, lS60.-In the Straits of Ma
lace'. 1t is now four O'Clock in the evening.
with you-it is about Is minutes past in the
mornmg-of Christmas day. Here we are roast.
ing anu sweating, the thermometer standing
li6 degrees in the fireroon,. and 90 deg. on