Whitelaw Reid: “The shrewd Oriental no longer regards us as a second- or third-class Power.”

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.