of the west, eastward;
and yet they both came from the same region. Their common starting-point
was Peking. This change is typical of that transcendent revolution under
whose influence the Orient will become the Occident. Journeying
westward, the first welcome is from the nations of Europe. Journeying
eastward, the first welcome is from our Republic. It only remains that
this welcome should be extended until it opens a pathway for the
mightiest commerce of the world, and embraces within the sphere of
American activity that ancient ancestral empire, where population,
industry and education, on an unprecedented scale, create resources and
necessities on an unprecedented scale also. See to it, merchants of the
United States, and you, merchants of Boston, that this opportunity is
not lost.

And this brings me, Mr. Mayor, to the treaty, which you invited me to
discuss. But I will not now enter upon this topic. If you did not call
me to order for speaking too long, I fear I should be called to order in
another place for undertaking to speak of a treaty which has not yet
been proclaimed by the President. One remark I will make and take the
consequences. The treaty does not propose much; but it is an excellent
beginning, and, I trust, through the good offices of our fellow-citizen,
the honored plenipotentiary, will unlock those great Chinese gates which
have been bolted and barred for long centuries. The embassy is more
than the treaty, because it will prepare the way for further intercourse
and will help that new order of things which is among the promises of
the future.

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THE QUALITIES THAT WIN

[Speech of Charles Sumner at the sixty-eighth annual dinner of the
New England Society in the City of New York, December 22, 1873. The
President, Isaac H. Bailey, in proposing the toast, "The Senate of
the United States," said: "We are happy to greet on this occasion
the senior in consecutive service, and the most eminent member of
the Senate, whose early, varied, and distinguished services in the
cause of freedom have made his name a household word throughout the
world--the Honorable Charles Sumner." On rising to respond, Mr.
Sumner was received with loud applause. The members of the Society
rose to their feet, applauded and waved handkerchiefs.]

MR. PRESIDENT AND BROTHERS OF NEW ENGLAND:--For the first time
in my life I have the