The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-02-24

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ryaT,oaus.y fagal.hsi It. and they court
teH-'y Proceeded 10 81. jet /, TO Tie test OF
( : destructive analysis. 10 iake up ali the
pJiHta Gi The controversy would weary your
Feaaer-,tu; me o. tg0 may &c mentioned as
I 81 uhlvtI>a. interest
'Com'n,Iee, SAYS the dispatch, its
Tree 4-yc.ogla. NJ ulI extension was the
tr-t great o. st Il tlt- treaty OF .Ient-
sin
( I.e missionaries rel'y:
I 'L"uu.arca T. .aus par forward IS the
oEe'>9te oil Il Il Great igIt-Iu IA China.
Itl, Impossible to refrain from asking y hat
Is tue nature Vi that commerce which We
have farc-d upon tie Chinese? Has II
. been such a. so heueE, the people or TO do
mortiza hem? Inc main branch Of Bit
i-A commtree ia China l. opium, an article
which the Chinese Ie.iave 10 have boon the
cause q cur first war with China anl
which, however eagerly they seek II, they
regard Il, ujgrou, TO them, mentally. NOR
ally ana ,hysica y. Il cannot, surely. be
a g. jet VI cJu-raiu!atIJn that there Is
Very ilt!e difference annually between tie
to,al value OF the opium imported from
India into China ana thar Of al the tea and
silks exported from China to Englau and
other countries. II S67 the total auount
Of India opium Imported into China was
IS, IS pItu.S, ,che-ts Of l53 pounds each
Of which The value N silver Was ) OIL 251
taejs-$GQ no. GOO The total value Of the
;ea aad Xix imported in the same year
was 4g47S $50 tacls, exceeding the value
al The one article Of opium Imported from
iCdia Chiefly hy British merchants, by only
four and a half millions Of t.el>. Incu
the opening Of iang,.c kiang, thc nat We
s ; Il |, t,.lt
cheaper, AMI the number OF smokers has
been trebiai The cultivation of the
poppy, SAID one Of the cens0rs III a mem
orial recently addressed to the Emperor on
this subject, has been substituted for tina;
OF The cereal grains over vast tracts of lie
N>>tsrn and Nor, hwestern provinces, SO as
in come pan TO occasion 4 rise in The price
OF ODD For this and all other inj lrleS
yu'ai,ed by opium, British commerce Is
responsible; aui yet il i IN tue interest OF
British commerce that Protestant mission
aries ale 10 he restrained from penetrating
Intos the int.Ii0rl Honorable commerce
hls nothing to fear from Protestant miss
ioualia-. tat everything to gain"
The risk Incurred. and the evil consc-
|qpan,es TO he anticipated from presistent
ciIgr,s ln tins d'rcoiuu Z e., in penc-
I.ating 10 The interior OF the country, is
another election a legged IN the dispatch.
II he hostility Of the Chinese the mis-,
slGuaIa> reply, IS pot directed against the
missionaries a such-but as foreigners
The causes Of hat hostility are the hatred
OF other races winch the Chinese have
always bad J.; the rCpea'ed defeats inflicted
Oh the Chinese Gogcrnmcut by Ensian
anG the evils connected With the opium
trade. \ missionary was not long ago
driven ont Of large clty ID HOnon by a
mob led on by The native gentry, the cause
OF whose haired given IN these words,
shouted after him As he left the city: You
burned our places You killed our Emperor
yen sell poison - the people; and now
E2u .of.e protesting 70 teach us virtue
X third point Ii tie dispatch is the iuef-
h.leuyy OF the missionaries, 1 e, that the
human In>rrum. hrp brought so bear upon
.Ao thGc>e Ter t.,elr couve '>a'iHu are seem
. IrS ) Il.~adupted 10 secure the end prop0S-
ra. The missionaries rep,y to this 10y
having jhat al tie Chinese Dictionaries III
tie EnE.l b language are the work Of mi,
-ionaiie- ; and ghal really all he Important
works Oh China l.at have been published
II late years are from the pens Of mission.
az. e. willie ID Other Class ha- done any
thing worth speaking OF in the way Of
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tastes. In an ar.ir.e on .!3oreipn Inter
,ur,c, published last wear in Cl,Ds,s IN
one of the >lcula. Il4v,naners IA Sbanah,n
: lie SAWS. after receiving The character If The
tareigp trade
/ "Ihe avai.t.ra, Of >lrh comm, roe are.
scarcely sufficient To- atone for it. evils, B,r
The benefits derived tre.u IN. Instruction..
of missionaries are more chan W. c.u emu
nerste.
IIo thcn gave 4 long list af works on var
lou, sran.le, OF science that have he. u
r,eparsd by missionaries. both Boo,ar.
! Ialnoj;c and Protestant
Fortunately our American Ministers.
! have 10 occasion ior wi,hinc u exclude
mi s>iunalir> from the interior Of China. in
the interest Of American trade Say, Hon
/ Am. b. Reed. IN explaining th, provisions
OF the treaty which he .eot.atai N 1853
aud relerrin. particularly 70 the mission