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TWO EMPERORS;
_OR, THE CHRISTIAN CZAR AND THE HEATHEN CHINEE._
[A decree issued by the Emperor of CHINA (in connection with
the recent anti-foreign agitation in that country) points
out that the relations between the Chinese and the foreign
missionaries have been those of peace and goodwill, and that
the Christians are protected by treaty and by Imperial edicts,
and commands the Governors and Lieutenant-Governors to protect
the Christians and put down the leaders in the riots.]
Many writers remark,--
And their language is plain,
That for cruelty dark,
And for jealousy vain,
The Heathen Chinee is _peculiar_,--
In future perhaps they'll refrain.
AH-SIN has his faults,
Which one cannot deny;
And some recent assaults
On the mis-sion-a-ry,
Have been worthy of--say Christian Russia,
When dealing with small Hebrew fry.
But the EMPEROR seems stirred
Persecution to bar,
Which it might be inferred
That I mean the White CZAR;
But I don't. On the Muscovite CAESAR
Such charity clearly would jar.
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