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execution, and not trial, as murderer
white
allegiance was demanded, at
the same since that the equal
protection of
I was
one of
the laws was
refused,
the foremost to expose
the absurdity of any
talk about
international law: When even the
worthless
signature of a
(and that general term well expresses
the ritual equality among
the Slaves
of a despot) was obtained by
were,
Settlement.
as,
Chr
that side
far
cd ever
From
his
for
fears
02...
would soon
make him evade
discovered what his person
had extorted.
The s
But when the uninterrupted
progress of our
arms had reached the
vitals
vitals of the Empire, in involving
the subsistence of the Capital and
upper provinces - when misrepresentation no
longer
will
of
misled the Sovereign
Chinese, the assent
Emperor confirmed
the treaty
Sovereign.
the
which
the power of the Queen dictated. Having
thus been admitted, as
other compelled, for the first time
in the history of the world, into
the family of civilized nations, the
Chinese are
rights,
and
fully long
obligations of
as
entitled to all the
they fulfil the
the connection.
It will scarcely
have
escaped your Lordship's observation that our arms, however unmatched,