Yo the Filiter ut the S1n,—We beg the space in your eminently fair and impart coltwns for the purpose of vindicating the "Reform Party" from the now eft peated charge or inst of complicity in the Hankow plot recent. lumentable incident has given the Reactionints great opportunity (0 do despite to the Reformers and right bravely have they used it, We are by no means prepared Accept the statement that the conspirators in Hankow had formed the intention to de all that has been charged against them and which some of them are said to have cons fessed. Twenty-five hundied blows on the bare back and kindred tortures are cal-confession from the most may still be trae that the conspirator intended tv take possession of Hank: w for the purposes only of ase of operate Is ayainst the rebels in the North, and for the vf the Eny from subjection tu rexetion influence, that they had no intent 1 of bucnins, and contemplated Llondshe sistance might 1 80, however, th of wither policy or right, and is not defended.
But, whatever the intentions of the con-spinaters in Hankow, we wish it to be Known that any insinuation of come: between them and the Reform Paty an ingulf to our objects, and our methods, selves. There nay have been among those apprehended in Hankow a} few who had taken part in deliberations among the Reformers, but it was nut there that they learned or teand any encouragement for the plans they sought to carey vut in Havkow, Had the Te-form Party" proposed any movement in the Yangize Valley, it would nat have been directed from Shanghai, and it is enough to say that the Hankow pli was entirely unknown to the repr tives of theleform movement in this city. In a word, the Reformers of Shanghai disclaim any fore-knowledge of the Hankow plot, ant wish it clearly understood that they do not see in the present contingency an opportunity to make chaos more chaotic, but cherish the hope} that they may bear some part in bringing their great country out of the darkness into the light, by methods which belong, not to the carkness, but to the light Po this end, with no traitorous inten! Dut in the truest patriotism, we hope for the aid of the foreign world. Tr is to your interest to place China upon a line that shall guarantee security to life and Tais em hed only by thorough Tu your own terests, ey indeed ete opportunity. us tone Hyeainnng by using in one interests well as your own, your pres nity, not to wotiate, but to a Free a from bondage by putting her der bend to leave her nent mnmolest sd, ud at the same fa new er, present our-in: without grudge or Ti We stull turn the ers into blessing, ete, A Comurrer or Sev 17th September.
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