The Devil Soldier by Caleb Carr

Author:Caleb Carr [Carr, Caleb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76552-9
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

Thus by year’s end the Taipings were being charged with treachery for having violated the yearlong truce Admiral Hope had negotiated with them in March 1861, and before long Taiping methods of government were being decried by loud voices throughout the Western settlements. One missionary wrote from Ningpo to say that “[i]t is impossible to particularize one-tenth part of the cruelties that are daily and hourly witnessed by us in this place, where no doubt the Taipingites are on their best behavior.” And before long the British consul in Ningpo, a man known for harboring anti-Taiping sentiments even before the occupation of the port, was writing to inform Frederick Bruce that

not one single step in the direction of “good government” has been taken by the Taipings; not any attempt made to organize a political body or commercial institutions; not a vestige, not a trace of anything approaching to order, or regularity of action or consistency of purpose, can be found in any of their public acts; the words “government machinery” as applied to Taiping rule, have no possible meaning here; and in short, Desolation is the only end obtained, as it has always been wherever the sway of the marauders has had its full scope, and their power the liberty of unchecked excess.

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