Year: 1868

stitution with the ratifications of the recon
structed Southern States and thus the suffrage
question will be settled on the basis that suf-
frage and representation shall go together. as
each State for itself may elect, whether uni-
versal or restricted policy; and SO this question
will be ont ofthe way


1t would appear. then, that there is really
nothing In the antecedents or fixed principles
OF Chase to prevent his nomination as The demo-
cratic candidate; for with this article fourteen
(the distinguishing features Of his whole greedy
will be the constitution, and 80 beyond dispute,
question. The late democratic Legislatures of
Ohio and New Jersey repealed the ratfcatons
of said amendment made by those States the
year before; but with the notifications made
and soon to be made in the South that amend
ment will still have the endorsements Of three
fourths Of all the States, and will 80 be pro-
claimed part of the constitution. II may be
80 considered now. Unless, therefore, the
Western democrats intend to fight this amend
ment, which swept the country from Maine to



and if they make hostility to this amendment
sine q~d non they will be swsmped as they
were in 1866. The Pendleton men, however
claim to hold the majority Of the Democratic
Convention, and they evidently intend first, to
demand their platform. If they succeed in
this, as they calculate to do, they will doubt
less secure their candidate and they will go
before the people for another defeat, more dis
astrous than that of Mcclellan, saddled with
PendletOn, in 1864.


The Reception Of the Chinese Embassy bv


Congress.


The House ofRepresentatives showed marked
consideration to the Chinese Embassy in for
mally receiving Mr.. Burlingame and his asso-
ciates on Tuesday. Whatever we or the Chi
nese may think about the members individually,
they are in their official position the repre-
sentatives of the people and Of q great nation,
and their unanimous vote to honor the Embassy
by formal reception on the floor of the House
shows the Importance attached to the mission
and the wish to distinguish it in the highest
manner possible. Though any embassy from
China would have been well received by our
government and people, the reception in this
case doubtless, has been more cordial because
the chief ambassador is one of our own cti-
zens, and gentleman who had in former years
distinguished himself as q representative in
that very House where he appeared on Tues
day as the Minister for China. The repre-
~c XI,a Il, thn
people themselves feel proud of the honor con-
ferred upon Mr.. Burlingame and the cOmpli-
ment paid to this country by the i'm
perial government Of China. This brilliant
appointment gives the fullest assurance
that tho Chinese government has revolution
lied its former exclusive policy as regards
foreigners; that it desires to enter into the
family of nations; that the mission means--as
Mr.. Buringame says-progress, good will,
broader trade and more intimate relations with
the Western World, and that the United States
is regarded as the first ally among the great
Powers to aid China in carrying out this new,
liberal and progressive policy. The Chinese
government, doubt, will fully appreciate
the cordial reception given to the Embassy by
Congress, the Executive and The whole people
of the United States.


The address of the Speaker (Mr. Colfax) to
Mr.. Burlingame and his associates was well
conceived, though, as might have been
expected from him. it was clothed in very
horid language. Still this natural exube-
rance Of fancy in Mr.. Colfax was not alto
gether out Of place for the arrival of such an
embassy was q great event. and the occasion
Of its reception was worthy Of some extra
eloquence. Mr. Burlingame's response to the
Speakers address of welcome was in his pecu-
liarly felicitous style. 1t opens more fully to
our view the general objects of the mission
than anything he had said before publicly. ''It
is, he remarked, ga mighty revolution" ''It is
the Occidcnt and the Orient for the first
time in that electric contact whose touch
makes the world kin; it is the meeting of two
civilizations which have hitherto revolved in
separate spheres" He tells us that the En-
bassy is the herald of good will, that by it
China seeks friendship and equality with other
nations and the good Of all, and, what is more
direct and practical still, that China invites US
and the rest Of the world to broader trade.
All he asks from the West is a fair response to
these liberal aspirations on the part of the
Chinese fair and open policy, instead of
one founded on prejudice and on that assump-
ton of superiority which is justified neither by
physical ability nor by moral elevation" This
he will get, undoubtedly, from the United
States, and, we believe, from the Powers of
Europe as well. From the success OF the
mission here the Embassy will cross the
Atlantic with prestige and strength that will
make it successful everywhere; for It holds out
the same hand Of friendship and offers the
same advantages to all the Western nations.
Looking at the mission in every point Of view
It must be regarded as one of the most remark
able events of modern times and we ahall