The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-07-09
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Marietta. Georgia,
Friday SEorni'ag .yuiy 8, 1869.
TAR PAsT--THE PRESENT AND TIE
So FUTURE.

that noble fabric of liberty, shattered
by the war to its very foundations
complete. The record is finished AID
will serve only in future to excite the
admiration or the censuro of rejecting
minds. 1t is a work of the PAST the
PRESENT inaugurates a new era--iounds
a new systcm-erects different super
structure of social economy, tho effects
of which upon the people who arc to sue
coed us can only be partially conjec ur-
ed.
The foundation of the Government no
longer rest upon the consent of the gov
erned-but upon the power of coersion--
upon the principle of force in subor-
dinating all things to the control of the
central head. This head may for a
time preserve popular form, as that Of
Rome did, but the spirit which sustain
cd the old Republic is gone forever and
its form will soon be cast aside for one
more expressive of the spirit of the new
government.
This is the result, as it has been in
other lands, of carrying democracy to
the extremes Of universal "fratcrnity
and equality )" stages in social economy
which have never been reached, and
probably never can be, without bringing
into view a sceptrc for the restoration of
order. Not content with subjocting. the
"experimcnt" to tho domination of the
surplus population of Europe it has been
subjected to the manipplations of the
negro, and if there were no other Gle
mcnts to "pour fierce ambition in
Caesars mind" these arc enough. But
these only indicate the beginning of the
mighty social revolution the future must
work out. One decade, perhaps, will
witness an increase of our population
which may cause the most ardent Re-
publican to doubt if "thc voice of the
people is tho voice of God" Europe is
pouring her masses upon us in an aug
mentcd stream and it is believed that, III
that time, millions of Chinese will find
homes i'll the United States. Just think
of it. observation-disclosures ongol-
ians- three races under the same gov
ernmcnt and occupying vast common
territory. Do you believe that each one
will vote bis neighbor peace and security
under his own vine and fig tree and that
none shall make him afraid ? Do you
think these races can carry a govern
ment founded on "fraternity and equali-
ty" and the consent of the governed p
Or do you not rather believe that liber-
ty must be narrowly restricted as the
price Of order?
Two of the races above mentioned
will not object to that-the African and
Chinese. The former knows nothing
else, but to be governed and since the
tide of Chinese immigration has set in
we have looked little into tho manners
and customs of the Chinese to find that
they too are ready Internationally
fashioned--to the despot's will. Politi-
cally, they are educated slaves and ar
IDENTIFY believe that theirs is "the best
government the world ever saw"
In looking over an old work-Mon-
tesquieu's Spirit of Llaws--we were
struck with several characteristic fea-
lures of the Chinese now interesting to
our readers and with which we will
close this article. The author compares
them with the Spaniards noted for their
fidelity and Incidence, and says
'The character of the Chinese is formedOf another
mixture, directly opposite that of the Spaniards
The precarSusness of their subsistence inspires then
with prOdigous activity, and such excessive de
sire for gain, that no trading nation can comide il
them.R
The following paragraphs afford q
very clear view of the political and So
cial education of the Chinese, while they
will not fail to excite some degree of ad.
miration or respect for their socia
polity-
THE principle object of government which thu
Chinese Legislators had in view, was the peace auC
tranquility of the empire: and subordinatou appear
ed TO them the most proper means to maintain it
Filled with this idea they believed it their duty t,
inspire respect for fathers and therefore assembled
all their power to effect it. They established an in
finite number Of rites and ceremonies to do then
honour when living, and after DEATH 1t was i'm
possible for them to pay such honoars decease,
parents, without being led to honour the living
The ceremonies at the death Of father NOR
nearly related to religion those for living fathe
had greater relation TO the laws, manners ant
customs; however these were only parts Of the sam
CODE but this code was very extensive.
A veneratOn for fathers was necessarily connect
ed with suitable respect for all who represented
fathers, snch old men, masters magistrates, ano
the empePOnr. This respect for fathers supposed
return of leye toward children, and consequently tlo
game return from old men 10 the young from mag
isfrates to those who under their jurisdiction
and from the emperour 10 his subjects, This formed
the rites, and these rites the general spirit Of the