The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-26

EditorIei Opinions Of the Leading Journals
upon Current 7 opics-c Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
rHE oHINEsE MAssAoREs.

II would be wholly unbecoming, in the
"a presence of the horrible details from China,
to claim any credit for a resolute persistence
in the distrust of the misohievous nonsense
generated, it would seem, throughout the
world by the Burlingame imposture. We
dismiss all thoughts of the kind now that we
are convinced there is end to it, at once
and forever. Let Mr.. Frank Moore, who,
gossip tells us, is writing Mr.. Burlingame's
> biography, give over his work, or put to it
concluding chapter to tell that all the
quackery of which poor Mr.. Burlingame was
the hero, and the gullible people of America
the victims, has coRe to bloody fruition, in
murder and mutilation and outrage, which
the pen refuses to chronicle or the tongue
to utter.
Even Boston will not buy the book unless
il tells this ghastly truth. If one 1.-THE of the
reported outrages be true, then all that is left
of the Embassy, wherever it is-Mr. McOleary
Brown and Ohih Kang and Sun CHA Ku-had
better 90 homeward through some by-ways
for fear of summary justice; and Mrs. Bur-
lingame would do well to refund her pension,
and Mr. Sumner pause before he returns the
Chinese surplus We are not sure that even
the cordwaining pulse of the North Adams
capitalist will not quicken when he reads of
the ''six boxes of the charred bones of the
Sisters of Mercy" being sent down the Pei-ho
like 80 much freight; or this, which, as
touching specimen, we select from mass of
horrors:-
zone OF the sisters, named Louiza ian English
girl, well known in Shanghai devoted and faith
ful friend OF the Chinese, and for years a patient
toiler In Anglo China hospitals and schoos escaped
from the Mission when it was attacked clad In Chi
neBe garments. She obtained refuge In the house of
a rice merchant, where she remained four hours;
but upon attempting to escape to the settlement she
was betrayed by her european shoes and set upon
by crowd which in few minutes numbered hun
dreds. She was most shOckingy abused and suf
make the heart sick. All and more chan her "Tn com.
p8ni0ns had suffered was she compelled to undergo
before death released her. Her body fioated down
the river on Wednesday bruised and sckening
witness OF her cruel death"
This is in 1870 and yet it was but yester-
day pretentious jurist and eminently un-
successful soldier, General Halleck, at the
San Francisco banquet, sneered at Mr.. John
Quincy Adams doctrine (the only sound one,
and which was reiterated with emphasis by
Lord Palmerston years afterwards) that the
rules of Christian and civilized diplomacy are
not always applicable to intercourse with
heathen and barbarous people; and poor,
credulous MIR. Martin fancied China was
socially revolutionized by virtue of bad
translation of ''Wheaton's International
Law" made more morally efficacious
by Dana's stolen notes. and ex-Consul
Kiernan raved in the Herald; and
Mr.. Burlingame, with all the flourish of
postprandial eloquenoe, told us here, there,
and everywhere, and foolish people believed
him, that China meant and was fit to come
into tho brotherhood of nations 'sShe
meant peace and goodwill and unifcation
with the whole human race" This was less
than two years ago; and now we find the Off
cial authorities of this new civilization assert
ing, and the gentle-hearted race believing,
that foreigners come to China and reside
there for the purpose of kidnapping young
<x,xI ILL, ~
their eyes, mutilating their persons, stewing
portions of their body in huge cauldron,
and packing in tin cans; after which they
shipped them to Europe and America for
medicinal purposes the preparation being
pure panacea for battling Diseases"
But We are drifting with a current of
thought which, for the present, it would be
better to avoid. What we and the whole
world have to do is to measure and face the
awful actuality as it presents itself.
The first impulse is sort of dim hope that
the narrative which comes to us may be ex-
aggerated; but there is transient consola-
ton In this when we read the address of the
Protestant missionaries and foreign residents
at Shanghai to the French Consul General,
attested by responsible signatures of great
weight. Putting aside the English signers,
who that knows anything of China,
be he believer or a doubter as to mis-
PRISE, Will ueSltdJ6 TO place
Implicit confidence in such men as Robert
Nelson and Edward w. Syle--gentlemen not
merely devoted to the cause to which they
have oonsecrated their lives, but fond of the
Chinese, and ultra-P Protestant in their theo-
logical views? The other American sipners
are not SO we'll known to us, but all, no
doubt, are trustworthy; and when they ask
'full reparation for the past" they mean
what they say. We do not know precisely
the extent of outrages upon Americans; nor
is it very material as their escape from a
general crusade against foreigners was
purely accidental; and we rejoice to see that
the nearest place of refuge to the surviving
fugitives from TENTS was an armed mer-
chant vessel with an American commander,
though probably flying the English flag. BY
this complicated outrage every treaty with
the Western powers has been violated, in
Guiding Mr.. Burlingame's supplementary arti-
cles, for protection to this very class of
victims is in all specifically stipulated The
attitude of the Western plenipotentiares at
the capital il, to say the least of it, very
awkward, AMI news from them will be
anxiously expected The last intelligence
we had Of our Mr. Low was of his giving
Prince Kung patent-lever watch, and re.
ceiving in return piece of trumpery silk.
He is now sort of hostage at Pekin, look
ing, We imagine, at his own timepiece with
some solicitude.
Russia and France are the nations most
directly involved, and though European com
plications may hold their hand for time, the
blow which justice demands on these brutal
barbarians win fall heavily. There is dis
engaged French squadron in the Eastern seas
and military force quite adequate in Cochin
China Petropaulovski is not far off, and
Russia need not and will not pause. England
will of course guard her commercial inta-