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Title: Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ... together with the complete history of China down to the present time ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ve in China by Mr.Thomas Wade. In the very first year ofhis holding the post an event occurredwhich cast all the minor aggressive acts thathad preceded it into the shade. It mayperhaps be surmised that this was the Tient-sin massacre—an event which threatened toreopen the whole of the China question, andwhich brought France and China to theverge of war. It was in June, 1870, on theeve of the outbreak of the Franco-Prussianwar, that the foreign settlements were startledby the report of a great popular outbreakagainst foreigners in the important town ofTientsin. At that city there was a large and ener-getic colony of Roman Catholic priests, andtheir success in the task of conversion, smallas it might be held, was still sufficient toexcite the ire and fears of the literary and 138 CHINA: PAST AND PRESENT. official classes. The origin of mob violenceis ever difficult to discover, for a trifle suf- were spread about as to the cruelties and evilpractices of those devoted to the service of
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THE FAMOUS PORCELAIN TOWER. \ fices to set it in motion. But at Tientsinspecific charges of the most horrible and, itneed not be said, the most baseless character religion These rumors were diligently cir-culated, and it need not cause wonder if,when the mere cry of Fanquai—Foreign PRINCE KUNG AND THE REGENCY. 139 Devil—sufficied to raise a disturbance, theseallegations resulted in a vigorous agitationagainst the missionaries, who were alreadythe mark of popular execration. It was well known beforehand that anattack on the missionaries would take placeunless the authorities adopted very efficientmeasures of protection. The foreign resi-dents and the consulates were warned of thecoming outburst, and a very heavy responsi-bility will always rest on those who might,by the display of greater vigor, have pre-vented the unfortunate occurrences thatensued. At the same time, allowing for theprejudices of the Chinese, it must be allowedthat not only must the efforts of all foreignmissionar

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