infested by numbers of the Kind Society ; the members of which unider shelter of political maxion
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overlun
the Ising ( Tartar Dynasty) and restore the ming ( the Ancient Chinese, muccession) perpetrate the grofast mormilies. I have satisfied myself that most of the burglaries have been planned aris attempted by members of this dangerous association.
and
The populatine of Honghing has ben force of such slements.
Among such people interest alone checks their rarly propensities are rusices obedience to the law. Raised by circumstances from degradation and poverly to wealth and position they profess to reverence the customs of their fathers with a strength of devotion proportioned to their former laxity; but in this particular, they also skidy their
interests.
interests. - That reverential
awe
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of their
again
rulers, so sedulously inculcated by the Chines moral code, blunted by early. Education, has been completely destroyed by foreign intercourse . It is their interest which restrains them: Ilong as the strength of the rulers and the puter is duly proportiones, the latter may remain passive, but pemore our - physical
superiority and it will be only by working upow their interests that we shall,
rule. preserve our
Iventure to assure that a system
of Registration properly inforced will be the 1 powerful and reonomical instrument
most
to work with.
Under such a system Government would be so intimately acquainted with the popular mind, that political combination
could not reist unmarked; organized
resistance