Zt is stated that to the north from Tai yuan fu a petition to the throne purporting to be from Chang Chih-tung has been circulated with a view to stirring up the people to kill all the foreigners and burn their property. One well qualified to pronounce an opinion on the subject says of this document: "tis no low-born placard, Dut a very well written document. It begins with a mention of the Opium War and how several cowardly officials made the appeal to arms " failure by arrant cowarllce, It thu goes on to show how one concession after another has been made to the English barbarians until what with our doctrine and our encroachments we shall at no distant day get entire Herences. to history, how the past. las possession of the land. Then follow re-
Jessons in that the' northern barbarians could not be satisfied by any concessions made to them but still called for more and niore until they were subdued and put in their pi this is the only course to pursue with the foreigners, Extorminate them, burn up their property. Will others come to avenge? We are ready, they have to come from a distance, we are many, they are few; we will eat them up as they Jand and fear not but they will soon lose heart, Tt will cost something to do it but very little to what it will cost if the day be deferred. All people like this plan a swift wud speedy extermination. The
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