The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-16
Burlinganne-A word More.

It is certainly something new-either
under the sun or to the suns brother--this
mission Of the ingenious BuRL1NGAME. 1t
would be remarkable act at any time Of q
minister plenipo to resign his impor,
tant post and take service under the Go
vernment to which he was accredited it is q
species Of ambassadorial treachery. Butfor
q man who was nurtured by sPuritsnism, as
Mr.. BURLINaAME, to do not only this,
but inthe doing Of it to become the repre-
sentative, the high ambassador, of o pagan
Government, is double streachery. But
catch weazel asleep Mr.. .BuRI.1NeA4E
told all the "selectmen," in his 9peecffH
reply to MIR. CoLrA1, that he .camsto ask
in return for Chinese " scholarship and
"patience," and "high culture of silk,
tea," and temperance" our" develop
ments in modern science and "the holy
doctrine of our Christian faith" A cat
thrown out of three-story window will
most assuredly fall on her feet. She cannot
beat Mr.. BURLINGAME. This puts him erect
on Puritan ground. A captious person
might say that it would have subjected his
religious zeal to less suspicion if he had
accepted his Chinese mission at less COM
penSation than that paid him by his own
Government, instead of sic times as much as
that. A great mistake. To Puritans, the
pecuniary success of the enterprise is the
best proof of the Divine favor! That con-
stitutes BURL1NGAME's strongest claim upon
their respect and admiration.
Wesuspect that, in the translation Of this
speech to the Chinese Government, this idea
that Cinnamon are anxious for our Chris
tan faith u" will be left out. That was a
mere touch of hypocrisy to please pious
Americans. Intrepid missionaries have for
centuries laid the doctrines Of Christianity
before the Chinese, and it is rather late for
Mr.. BURLINGAME to represent them as
thirsting to learn something of Christianity !
Possibly the plenipo means to intimate
that stories of the devout and learned
missionaries are not credited, and that the
Chinese desire an authoritative exposition
from our Radical Government duly certified
underthe seal Of State. In that case tshould
contain the Radical ideas of the higher
law" and the superiority Of the negro, to
the Chinese. -...
1t is strange that the Chinese Govern
ment should send out the great BURL1N-
GAME to propose more familiar intercourse
with the world when the representatives OF
the nations were already at the Chinese
court, through whom anything it desired to
say to the !" occidental " world could have
been communicated as effectually as through
the travelling missionaries headed by BUR-
LINGAME.
It may well be suspected that the astute
and indefatigable son Of New England has
established "ring" in China. In the
active zeal for disseminating "moral ideas :"
which seizes the minds of such men as MIR.
BURL1NGAME when in far-of lands, it can
hardly be possible that they should fail to
propagate the "ring" as ameans to power
and pelf; and in giving specimen of its
operations, naturally they must themselves
occupy the centre to show how atoms, OF
gold and what not, naturally and irresisti-
bly, are driven to that centre by the rotary
motion! 1t is likely that the distinguished
Chinese accompanying Mr.. BURLINeAAAE
are parts of the ring. The young Emperor
of China, now some thirteen years old-at
that tender period Of life when curiosity ID
greatest andswonder most easily excited
will never cease wondering at the ingenuity
of the sAmerican ring" whose achieve
ments, measured by the money it draws
from the treasury of China, must be unex-
anpled