This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...franchise. Don't be drawn into any dogmatic theory about 'complete suffrage'--it is our friend Sturge's bantling, and he has an overwhelming love for it." "April 13, 1857. "The enclosed from my old acquaintance Bowring, which I received last week, seems to have been written with a presentiment of what was coming. Let ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...franchise. Don't be drawn into any dogmatic theory about 'complete suffrage'--it is our friend Sturge's bantling, and he has an overwhelming love for it." "April 13, 1857. "The enclosed from my old acquaintance Bowring, which I received last week, seems to have been written with a presentiment of what was coming. Let me have it again, for I suppose I must answer it. Apropos of this Chinese business, I presume from the preparations making that there will be a bloody reprisal made either at Canton or elsewhere for the imaginary wrongs done us by Yeh. Now the line to take in the Star clearly is to prepare the public for this, and to prevent its appetite for vengeance from being whetted by any speculations about the difficulties of the task, or the probable resistance to be encountered from the Chinese. Let it be again and again assumed, and shown by reference to the former war, that the Chinese with their bows and arrows and matchlocks, and cannon which will not move, and their painted shields and petticoated officers, have no more chance against our Minie rifles, our 13-inch shells of two thousand yards' range, our steamboats and our pivot cannon, than the Peruvians had against Cortez and his men-at-arms. It is not war, it is a battue, a massacre, or slaughter, an execution--call it anything but war--which really means a manly encounter where each side has some chance of success or at least of escape from destruction. Warn the people against being irritated or deluded by fanciful proclamations put forth in the name of the Chinese authorities, threatening the English with extermination. We have lately seen how easily these things are fabricated for electioneering purposes. The question should be steadily asked--What do we propose to gain by.the ...
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