Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-10-19
For the Newsdealer,
Our Relations with the Chinese.
SOME FACTS ABOUT CHINA.

In location the Chinese Empire occupies
a commanding position. 1t fronts upon the
Pacific ocean. 1t extends into and includes
some of the most valuable portions Of Asia
1t covers the warmer belt Of the temper
ate zone, which is the part of the earth's
surface most favorable for agriculture. 1t
is traversed by several great rivers, one OF
which-the Yang-tse-kiang-is almost as
long as the Mississippi. Nearly related
to the Chinese are the japanese, Their
empire comprises few islands off the
coast of China.
The population of China proper has
been estimated at 100000, 900. The
Chinese and Japanese empires will then
number at least 500, 900, 000-over one
third of the human family.
The great aatiqr@ts Of the Empire of
China strikes the attention at once. About
2207 years before Christ, the kingdom
was established, and thus its history COW
ers a period of more than forty centuries.
In fact the Whole period Of authentic his
tory, if we except a few chapters in the
book of Genesis.
For domestic 1aborerS and servants the
Chinese are exactly adapted. They are
docile-they know their place and are
willing to keep it-they are faithful and
lndustrious-they associate only with their
own countrymen, and they are quick to
observe and learn.
1t is true that the Monaghan does not
rank so high as the Caucasian. 1t is true
that the Chinaman Of to-day. is not the
equal of the Anglo-Sa1on. But this does
not comprise the whole matter. Wemu
speak Of the capabilities of race with
reference to the future. When the Anglii
and the Saxons were hordes of savages,
the Chnaman had the Oldest civilization
of the world. He has an element in his
character which has enabled him to keep
intact all the advantages-all the cutiva-
ton, to which his race has at any time at
tanned. Not so with the talented Greek
and Roman. They dazzled the world with
the glory of their exploits and accomplish
ments, but that glory has dong since van
ished. Every other nation has seemed to
be a failure. Some fatal defect-or dis
ease---in the body polite, would manifest
itself, and the result would be a decline
and fall. Such has seemed to be the fate
Of mankind, and some philosophers think
that nations have a sort of organized life
like individuals,--th they come to their
natural prime and old age and death by
inevitable law. We have brighter hopes
of humanity and we point to the Chinese
Empire as a'stanHing refutation of such a
theory. To-day they seem to be Just in
their youth having had forty centuries of
infancy
CHINA Asb ritz UNITED STATES.
The progress of civilization has been
uniformly Westward, and we cannot now
trace back its course to the East farther
than to the seat of the Monaghan Empire
Of China. From thence appears to have
passed on Westward an impulse which
developed mighty empires in Assyria, Per-
STA, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and in more
modern times the Latin Empires and Great
Britain. 1t then crossed the Atlantic and
produced our own proud Republican ma
ton, and betting the continent, and cross
ing the Pacific is now beginning to revive
the Chinese. Unless history falsifes her.
self, the Chinese revival will be powerful
and will develop their utmost capabilities.
The United States stand as sponsors to this
baptism of the Empire of China-the i'm
pulse of civilization is transmitted through
us. We are appointed in the order of ma
ture to communicate such light and such
power as we may have received from Eu-
rope and developed by our own efforts.
"There's divinity that shapes our
ends, rough hew them as we will" We
apply this adagc to the history Of nations.
The time has now come for the Law Of the
progress of civilization to vindieate itself
or prove itself failure. If China pre-
serves her old accustomed frown of exclu-
sion, there is little hope for The law. The
world must come to standstill; or the
impulse must take another direction. But,
just at the critical moment, the barrier
falls down of itself, aud makes way for
liberty. The Chinese have experienced a
conversion in their feelings. They are be-
ginning to admit "outside barbarians" to
their society in China, and thousands of
their people are leaving the celestial
crpire" and trying their fortunes in
America.
To sum up this view Of the subject,
there is great destiny for China she is
about to receive from the East the electric