The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-05

more signifcant--a secret revelation of the
policy of the imperial court in the shape OF a
report from one of the provincial viceroys TO
Prince Kung on the foreign policy of China
and especially the revision of these very COM
mercial treaties Its genuineness we don't
for moment doubt There is not Sino-
logue who will not from internal evidence,
pronounce it genuine. 1t explodes utterly
aud absolutely the theory of Chinese liberal
ism. It confirms every notion and suspicion
of Chinese perfidy-and when we use 80
strong q word we mean to apply it solely to
officials. In it's ''protectionist intolerance il
is worthy of our neighbor Of the Tribune or
Mr.. Carey, or Judge Kelley, or any other
champion of homemade pigs.
CHIvALRY AND CARPET-BAGS.
From the NJ Y. Tribune.
Few scenes are more painful and suggestive
than that which occurred the other day in the
Virginia court over which Judge Underwood
presides, and in which Ex-Governor Wise has
lately been admitted to practice. The Judge,
who, be it remembered, is full-blooded
Yankee, and was the Jealous and toughest
spoken pioneer of Northern innovators before
the war, took advantage of some lucky open
ing to review succinctly his first advent into
Virginia, his opposition to slavery, and the
hospitality of the people shown to him. 1t
was, in fact, q gracious holding out of both
his hands in the name of Yankee settlers to
the ancien regime, a premeditated peace
offering, ending with an especial tribute of
personal compliment to Governor Wise. The
Governor, whose deafness prevented his
catching more than q word or two, fancied
taunts where there was only kindness, and
supposing the red rag of slavery" was
flaunted in his face with wilful malice, rushed
to the conflict with o heat of invective, an
outcry of defiance and woe, pitiable beyond
description. The Judge and spectators, we
are told, sat dumb with astonishment and
pain. II is the first time that the class to
which Governor Wise belongs, the old repre-
sentative men of Virginia. have given any
expression to their sense of real or fancied
wrongs since the war. We find nothing to
laugh at in the spectacle of the white-headed,
deaf old man, who lost sons, property, and
rank in society in the conflict, giving vent,
like Esau, to this loud and exceedingly bitter
cry.
1t was natural to him to utter lamentations
in the streets over griefs which his brethren
bore in silence. Wise is a man whose blood
was poured at birth into his veins at fever
heat, and who has never since given it time
to cool. man who would give q homo and
patient, genial welcome by his hearth for life
to an irritable, underbred old woman, because
she had showed him some kindness when
boy; man who, hated as he loved, in the
EXTREMIST mood ard always to the bitter end,
and who was so loyal to his State that he knew
no higher appellation for his Maker than the
God of Virginia Yet, faulty as they may
have been, he and the class in Virginia for
whom he spoke the other day deserve some
thing better at our hands than ridicule.
The war was a savage necessity to answer q
certain end 1t ID over; it's work is done.
Let us, in the name of God and his Justice,
bury it out of sight, and not perpetually drag
its decayed carcaso to the light by social,
puerile squabbling and unmanly ioerS. Now
that Virginia has returned. let us meet her
with open hands, not afraid to look with Just
eyes at her and eur position The social
feeling against the North is exceptionally
bitter there, we are told. 1t is natural it
should be so. 1t is, we fear, in some measure
due to the conduct of Northern settlers since
the war. They have gone in too many in
| stances into Virginia rs into a conquered
| province, seeing no good in any but the
! blacks, and burning to avenge the old wrongs
of the negro by their actions and words. The
result has been a want of fusion between the
two clements of society as absolute as be-
| tween oil and water. General Grant the
other day, III effect assured the Virginia dele
| cation that manufactures were better worth
cultivating than chivalry.' But while it is
worth their while to remember this, it is
worth ours to consider that there was some
| thi9g inherently good and worth saving
in that much laughed at chivalry. The North
ern new comers may bring capital, intelli-
| gence, and enterprise into Virginia, but they
should beware lest they ignore and destroy
something which is there as valuable as any
| of these. Civilization is not more a matter
of railroads and factories than of honorable
instincts, of pure domestic life, of sincere
| hospitality aad of gentle manners. The
Northern people have suffered themselves toe
much to judge Of Virginia by her slave
breeders, her blatant politicians, and would
be duellists. But behind these was the great
lsndhOlding population, a people simple
hammered, bearing the traces of generations
of ease and culture; kindly, hospitable,
| genial. Our crude and chaotic American
social life can lily spare so sincere and good 8
| type 1t is these people whom we should
| welcome back again, overlooking any tempo
rary bitterness among them. Judge Under
woods words we're e1ninently sensible and
ftly spoken. We commend his example tC
all new settlers in the South Let them couch
their eyes in the beginning, and be willing tC
recognize among their foes men who bear
without abuse the grand old name of gentle
men, friendly and pure social life is
worth as much as q stable government; ant
the man who went with the heartiest, highes
motives into the war, will be the most jealous
now in establishing with his old enemies The
basis Of real and Christian brotherhood.
DANfNATION DISTRIBUTED
Prom the N Y. Fatisn-
We cannot imagine more cheerful reading
| on orfbodox Catholic than fha raoan