The Promised Land (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... PEKING THE GOAL-THE SOLE HOPE OF PEACE. A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE CANTON COMMUNITY ON THE EVENING OF APRIL 14th, 1873. by Mb. NYE: --IN CONTINUATION OF THAT OF JANUARY 81st. HONORABLE R. G. W. JEWELL, CONSUL OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THE CHAIR.--JUDGE JEWELL: --LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: --Following my tracing of the course of events, as you honored me by doing on a former occasion, --with an indulgent attention that claims all my gratitude, --you had not failed to perceive that we had reached the point when, for the first time in History, the Sovereigns of Britain and China were brought face to face in political relations;--the point where plain "yes" and "no" was to expound the text of the future between them, without the intervention of Chiefs of Company or Co-Hong.--And the immediate steps by which the cause of the West had been brought to this desiderated point; and attained, as it were by one bound, to 'the height of this high argument, ' had not escaped your notice.--You observed that at the most critical moment, --when, as Dr. Bridgman afterward wrote, --"had there been only a little more "excitement, Canton might have become an"other Black Hole or the scene of indiscriminate slaughter,"--Sir Charles Elliot suddenly appeared upon the scene of our imprisonment and wrought an immediate change in the whole character of the attitude in which the community stood toward the Chinese.--Rarely have a community so narrowly escaped a great disaster; and, rescued as we all felt we were from a sad fate, by his gallantry and consummate tact, no one failed to admire, also, the brilliant address by which he irrevocably fixed the responsibility of the Imperial Government; and thus made the high-handed acts of the renowned "queller of the barbarian...