Identifier: aroundworldwith02youn (find matches)
Title: Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General U.S. Grant, ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879. To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Young, John Russell, 1841-1899
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York : The American News Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rs to the pale,thin, puny sovereign. The audience lasted some minutes, andwas confined to the utterance of a few words in Tartar lan-guage to the effect that the credentials would be considered.That is the only time in recent years when barbarian eyes havelooked on sacred majesty. The emperor who then reignedlias, to use courtly speech, ascended on the great dragon to be.i guest on high. The youth of the present sovereign has pre-vented any audience, for, of course, an audience would be a A DIPLOMATIC QUESTION. 403 comedy, with the sovereign a timid unhealthy boy, who hadnever seen a foreigner, and who would probably run off crying.The Chinese, therefore, have postponed the audience questionuntil the Emperor comes of age. At the same time the foreignministers have always made a point of their right to demandit. The fact that General Grant had been the head of a nation,and had corresponded directly with the Emperor, gave him theright to request an audience. There was no reason, even in
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THE AUDIENCE WITH THE EMPEKOK (front a CklttCSC drawing). Chinese logic, why such a request should be refused. Manyof those well informed on Eastern questions were anxious thatthis request should be made ; that it would render things easierin dealing with the Chinese ; that, in fact, the only way ofdealing with the o-overnment was to hammer and hammer, andalways to hammer, until these prejudices were broken down.But the General had not come to China in a hammering mood,and had no curiosity to see a boy seven years old, and thequestion dropped. 404 CHINA—CONVERSATIONS WITH PRINCE KUNG. The day after his arrival in Pekin General Grant saw PrinceKung. The General and party left the Legation at half-pasttwo, the party embracing Mr. Holcombe, the acting Minister ;Colonel Grant, Lieutenant Charles Belknap, C. W. Deering,and A. Ludlow Case, Jr., of the Ashuelot. The way to theYamen was over dirty roads, and through a disagreeable partof the town, the day being unusually warm, the thermomet

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