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184 ETC. [AUGUST,
in such a manner as that they should prove a henefit rangement, remains to be seen. It could
to the State and the repuhlic. If the Asiatics are per- hardly be expected that the guardians of
secuted because they are economical and frugal in these Cl
their hahits, then, indeed, is it time that the people ~inese pupils would knowingly leave
of your country should return to simple hahits, for if them amid the mephitic vapors of acrimonithere is anything that goes to undermine and destroy ous hate and barren inhospitality, when an
a republic, it is extravagance and luxury; and these, atmosphere of well - bred civility and genial
in their turn, corrupt the virtue of the people; when welcome awaits them just across the contithat is gone, your repuhlican institutions will go with
it,,' Again: the treaty ohligations which hind the nent.
United States and China together, are not ropes of
sand that can be washed away with every popular Our Superior Civilization.
caprice. Their observance is binding upon every cit- The Chinese think it meet
izen on this side of the Pacific, and every Chinese To dwarf their women's feet.
throughout the empire on the other side, and it is a We, with our higher taste,
great mistake for any one to suppose that he could Cramp and contract the waist,
violate these obligations by trampling upon the rights Thus much more wise are we than they,
of another, without reaping a full share of its conse- The foolish people of Cathay.
quences.
"Finally, it should be borne in mind that China Some squaws, as Catlin shows,
had no desire to mingle with the people of the West. Wear rings in ears and nose.
The people of the West forced them, by repeated Our more fastidious dears
wars, to have intercourse; and now that they are Only so deck their ears;
coming out, in the commingling of the nations of the Being thus much advanced in grace
earth, you people of California wish to drive them Itnyond a wild she copper-face.
back to their exclusiveness. What does all this
mean? You have incurred great responsibilities in The Hindoos, it is said,
breaking down the barriers of exclusiveness, and you Give to the fire their dead:
can not escape them, You may persecute, oppress, We ours to stifling clay,
and outrage the Chinese on your shores now, but as To worms, and foul decay.
true as there is a living God, He will avenge their Yes, more humane are we than these
wrongs, as He has ever visited all oppressors, sooner Barbarian Hindostanese.
or later, with His vengeance. Some tribes sleep in the breeze,
"With sentiments of high regard, In hammocks swung in trees.
"I am yours truly, We breathe in air-tight rooms
Foul air and fetid fumes.
It may not be amiss, in this connection, to Such comfort do our arts confer,
state tbat another installment of Chinese Unknown to the poor Islander.
Government students, numbering thirty, is Some tribes, from darkness sprung,
expected to arrive in this city about the mid- Possess no written tongue.
die of the month; some of whom, it was in- Our people fill their nobs
tended, should remain in California to be From Tupper's pen, and Cobb's.
Therein is shown our very great
educated. ~Vhat effect the late movement Advance beyond the savage state.
of our city authorities wfll have upon the ar- 0. W. C.