The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-02-25
THE HEAThhN CHINEE."
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HON. WIN. MUNGEN,
DELIVEREB
II TIE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
ANU AIRY I, 1871.

'r ~ TIE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
: ANUAEY Z, 1871.
u CONTINUED
lie may be faithful u 4 merchant n L;
y contracts, and also AS a workingmau to hi
] aFeement to labor; but this i the resul
! oi coerclve interests or Liabilities. Almos
j universally be is IA gambler he is a poly-
| 5anlst he dlssipateS by Opium-smoking
/ ana from high t. low he INDUCES in tho
nest bestial immortality; he is liticious
'cTsed BY natural aptitude and practice in
chicsncery, and prone to and fitted foI
Z e'ary KIND Of craft and intrigue. The most
1SNte and casuistic Of our lawyers is 10
Sca 10 IuHks and bubbles for even a
v mparanvcly llliterate Chinese and in
'he SubtletleS Of argument with the hterati
and officials, western diplomatists and
! A0lltlclans are almost like clay in tie pot
tsr' hands. Sir Frederick Bruce. late
English minister here, said that Chinese
diplomats were among the shrewdest men
be ever met.
Though cultivated to the extreme in orr
en!ai pOlteness and subservience, the Chi
naman's treatment Of woman is most bar
harlous. She is not help mate as where
monogamy is practiced; nor is she treated
by him az where polygamy elsewhere pre-
walls. If only cherished as an ephemeral
Toy, yet tLerc she is exempted from the toll
or under occupations even in the humber
walks Of lie; but she is made as thorough
y MS drudge as the squaw of the savage
Indian. lie seems diyested, more than any
other race which had ever attained any par
tial degree even Of civilization, Of all sense
OF the beautiful In art, in literature, in
everything, he seems to admire only the
:rotesque, the disproportioned, the hideous
When be attempts to be profound he is
childish when he tries to be solemn and
\ impressive he is ludicrous.
This is in strange contrast with Greece
and Rome even when paganism prevailed
there. Their scul ptors have left embodied
IN stone shapes and forms Of the most per
iect symmetry. Yheir idols we're noble as
works Of art and as expressing the concep-
tons or attributes Of the particular deity.
The antique head Of Jupiter at the Vatican.
that grand, noble, majestic human counte-
nance, is only to be seen to be admired.
Emerson truthfully says:
mol Tom . vain or sha How tIought
H'sa~ful Joye Young Phdias wrought:
Never from lips ot cunning ell
4. TIE thrilling Dciphic oracle"
The boasted Chinese armies are as COW
srdly before and during fight az they are
Feruel afterw4d Vast numbers of item
have been scattered, over and over again,
by forces incredibly dispropOrtionate in
numbers, belonging to a more warlike
race.
!. Mr. Ward, the American, who, after be-
Re- a c--~--I--- -, ...s..il
nandcr OF the Chinese armies, was killed,
once captured vast city of many thous-
ands of men from its military garrison
with only seventy foreigners and seven hrn-
dred Malays to follow him after an entrance
was effected. His own career and the mod
ern history Of China TEEN with many such
adventures. Yet these cowardly Chinese,
like many other Asiatics usually do, meet
even painful death with comparative com
posure, and without venturing to impugn or
seeking to evade the mandate by which they
perish.
Stranger, and to us more inexplcable
still, men of this craven race, infanticides
and sellers of their own otfsprings, are
known to have been found, and can always
be procured in large cities, who are willing |
for a pecunary consideration to suffer death |
by public execution. This has happened |
when the irresistible demand Of foreigners
has required such in expiation Of some san
culinary outrage, or when, for other reasons,
it became necessary while the officials were
desirous of saving the real criminal TIE
KEY to this self-sacri6ce, which an elevated |
motive would make sublime. cannot, of
course, be found in greed Of grain, which
would become useless with the termination
of existence, but only in the peculiar ideas
and supersttions which permeate this peo-
pie and this breed In no part Of the
earth, with all the shocking pictures it pre-
scnts Of human inequality and human mis-
cry, does so many toll and suffer to provide
the luXuries.
u Again, so barbariOus are the laws that in
many cases the whole family Of the cul-
prit suffers with him for bis crime without
distinction Of ago or sex and women are
slowly cut up, piecemeal, with knives, for
the trangression Of father, brother, or hus-
band. The cruel modes OF punishment
and torture practiced rival in helllsh in
genuity those Of the dark ages and of the
horrors attributed to the Spanish inquisi-
ton
After Governor Lin, the imperial COM
missioner, had been captured at Canton and
dragged from bis hldingplace il the palace
:. into which be bad abjectly crawled instead
Of facing his enemy, he narrated with self
compacency to his British captors that il
the course Of three years preceding he had
put to death by the hands If the execution
er eighty thousand human beings Yet
this Paternal Government, these multitudi-
nous laws framed by sages, this minute or
ganlzatlon, this bureaucracy, and these ter
rible seventies have failed to give peace to
! the Chinese empire. Ages before the last
conquest by the Tartars as well as since,
that empire has been Ill a state Of chronic
; anarchy and disturbance.
1t is said by some, | am aware, admit
2 ting all this, let it he the mission Of the
7 Caucasian and Of the Christian to educate
= cultivate, and elevate by intercourse am
: familiarity with our own institutions ans
2 civilization this people, 50 much more prom
y islng intellectually than are many whom ",
are attempting to upraisc people whcl
has made % much progress in the Us fl
arts, and whose vices will doubtless dlSap
pear with the enjoyment Of freedom IN,
equal rights in free country and bcfor
a the purifying agency Of true religion
e This scheme, this proposition, howevc
4 well Il may appear in print or sound to tn
1r ear and SUIT the taste Of our present am