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186 stituency lashed from the stump to hector the "American Chinaman" and the "Pigtail heretic."

True enough, a howling mob jammed the docks, but not in anger. With pure delight they crowded to herald the big show. An ovation equal to the triumphant return of a victorious Cæsar accompanied him across the continent. His Oriental embassy was received in great state by President Johnson, and Burlingame opened the big guns of the campaign.

He drew a picture of a peaceful, ancient and honourable kingdom, of a civilization already grown old while the Vandals were still scouring Europe; to which were due the courtesy and consideration observed by all gentle people to the venerable, and in a thousand different keys reiterated the one great principle he had determined to establish—that the world should cease to bully and coerce the Ancient Kingdom.

The immediate political effect he was working for was not new treaties. It was a moder-