oNdonbt, the, amity, lanate. in, all freast when be arrived et Ssigon and as jestials was gratified in Li Hung-chang's
received by the Republican authorities there with royal honours. To my mind there is something revolting in Republicans going out of their way to beslaver a semibarbarian like the Chinese Ambassador, paying him honours they refuse to their President and grudge to foreign potentates. Do they imagine that Li will think any the better of them for it? If so they make a great mistake. He will only think that this is the outcome of the thrashing he claims to have inflicted on the French in Formosa, or else that they have some favour they hope to win from him. There has been too much truckling to the Chinese barbarian of late years, and France is now one of the worst offenders in this respect.
ith April,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.