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188 The battle raged about Burlingame's presentation of the case at a banquet given him in New York, presided over by the Governor.

"You have given a broad and generous welcome," he said, "to a movement made in the interests of all mankind. * * * That East, which men have sought since the days of Alexander, now seeks the West. China, emerging from the mists of time, but yesterday suddenly entered your Western gates, and confronts you by its representatives here to-night. * * * She comes with the great doctrine of Confucius, uttered two thousand three hundred years ago: 'Do not unto others what you would not have others do unto you.' Will you not respond, with the more positive doctrine of Christianity: 'We will do unto others what we would have others do unto us'? * * *

"She asks you to forget your ancient prejudices, to abandon your assumption of superiority, and to submit your questions to her, as she proposes to submit hers to you—to the arbitrament of reason. She wishes no war: she asks