The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-17

GeDghiS Khan, the ConqueIol Vi ASIA, Was
succeeded by his late son Ogotai, who not
only consolidated his fathers empire, but cx
tended his conquests into Central Europe.
"Howorth's history of the Mongols, from the
Ninth to the Nineteenth Century," suggests
the following remarks by writer in the Pal
Pal Gazette:
"These Mongol lnvasions are incompara.
BILE either in the multitude OF their hosts, the
area over which their conquests extended, or
the permanence of the rule they established
and the changes they effected Genghis
Khan and Timur each in their turn founded
empires. the last vestiges OF which nave not
vet wholly disappeared. The Great Mogul's
throne at Delh, still survived In the person OF
a descendant Of Timur when the Indian Mu-
tiny attempted to make OF the shadowy scep'
tire q real power and rallying point. Eu'
rope is at this hour held in anxiety by the
necessity of determining what is to be done
with the Turks in Europe-a tribe of Turco-
mans driven by the advance OF Genghls
Khan on Khorassan into Asia Minor, there To
become the nucleus of the Ottoman Turks.
What other enduring results may have fol.
lowed in all the intervening countries of Cen.
trail and Western Asia by the conquests of
these ruthless Mongols, has only yet been
guessed at or vaguely limited. But by such
history as the one before us it is not difficult
to trace to the first cause effects which at
this day perplex the policy OF modern states,
and even now give us deadly war OF the
races and creeds Few English scholars,
however, have thought it worth while to at
tempt a complete history of the Mongols and
kinured races
at was IN Kublai Khan's reign, it will be
bnroJ ot Chin uas finally CONNER.
ed aud Incorporated with the Mongol En-
pIre, and its history forms one of the most
brilliant chapters in the annals OF Asia He
ruled his Chinese subjects latter they had
once been subjugated, IN true Mongol fash
ION, with frightful slaughter well and wisely,
and created tor them the Grand Canal IA a
memorial of the largness Of his views and the
AMPLITUDE of his power OF the Court of his
brother and predecessor, Rubruquis, Fran
ciscan monk, has left us graphic de-
scripiion, performing the same service tor
Mangu Khan that Marco Polo rendered tor
Kublai This dynasty survived tor several
generations IN China before the Mongols in
their decadence were driven out and Chm
csc ruler sat on the throne once more. One
thing is clear throughout the history OF Mon.
gol conquests and domination: that war
among the Turk, Tartar, and Mongol races,
and in regions occupied by them in Asia,
takes very different proportions and imports
quite other conditions to those which attend
European warfare From Genghis Khan to
his latest descendant no Mongol ever held 1t
good policy to spare conquered race. They
held that the 'vanquished can never he the
friends of the victors; the death of the former
is necessary, therefore, for the safety of the
latter
"In accordance with this view the inhablt-
ants of all the cities taken were, as rule,
slaughtered without regard to age or sex
Before attacking country it was usual tor
Genghis to forewarn its ruler to submit In a
few stercotyped words. IF you do not sub
nit he said, who knows what will happen
God only knows Very soon all Asia and
Europe knew only too well what would hap
pen. The author closes his life of Genghis
| Khan with kind of apology which seems
to us almost as grim as the deeds OF the Mon.
| gol conou.ror. We are told His creed
was to sweep away all cities as the haunts OF
slaves and of luxury, that his herds might
| freely feed upon grass whose green was ire 70
! from dusty feet. 1t does make one hide
ones face in terror to read that from A. ID.
1911 to 1925 1S,j700 0D human beings perish
ed in China and Tangat alone at the hands OF
Jengis and his followers, a fearful hecatomb
which haunts the memory until one fOrgets
the other features of the story. Yet, although
tabula rdSa was created, a fresh story was
also writ upon the page. Nor must we for
get, whatever creed we hold to, that, whether
il be by pestilence or famine, or by the hands
of such as Sesosris, Sennacherib, Darius
! Alexander Cesar, Attila, Timur, Bonaparte
and their ill, the scOurges OF God seem in
evitably to rccur at intervals to purge the
world of the diseased and decaying, the weak
aud the false, the WORKOUT and the blasc, the
fool and the knave'"