The Delphian Oracle in it's palmiest days could hardly have advised more ambiguous conduct than that pursued the Inst few months by the friendly Viceroys and Governors, While restraining violence 80 far as they were able, and so assisting the allied forces, it is also quite evident that supplies of both men and money hare been going to rescue the Emperor." Still it was doubtless, taken all around, the best thing they could do. A refusal to forward supplies would have resulted in their being superseded, and a further refusal to vacate their offices would have brought on civil war, While in some matters they may have failed to pursue the hest policy, yet, in the main, men like Gorernor Yuan of this province have been called on to fill a difficult position, and thus far have filled it well.
19th September.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.