The Tae-Pings used to drag along with them many little boys whose fathers and mothers they had killed, and whom they meant to bring up as rebels.
Their men followed them, the Tae-Pings fled, and stockade after stockade was taken.
But "The Almost Always Beaten Army" would have been a much truer name for it, and the victorious Tae-Pings scornfully laughed at it.
To establish continuity of the lower horizon it is necessary to run the recorder without interruption, sending pingsonce a second.
If two pingswere being sent out the second echo would always symmetrically underlie the bottom surface.
Their gallantry, however, was unavailing, the deadly Enfield rifles and the showers of grape and canister crashing among the Ti-pings within half pistol-range proved irresistible.
No doubt some war-Christians think these latter proceedings exceedingly worthy and proper; however, the Ti-pings have never yet reached such a state of Christian civilization as to copy them.
Government to cite one act ever committed by the Ti-pings prejudicial to British interests, and they have been quite unable to do so; for none are upon record.
Through fields rich with the ungathered crops, which it was pretended the Ti-pings might devastate, over seven or eight miles of smiling and profusely-cultivated country they wound their way.
Now it can safely be declared that the Ti-pings have never committed similar atrocities to the above.
Through the wicked intervention of England, the former territory of the Ti-pings has been wrested from them, and the bleached bones of the victims mark the country thick and close for hundreds of miles.
The Ti-pings then gave way and escaped, carrying off many of their wounded, with their wives and children, through the gates at the other side of the town.
There the Tai-pings held their ground for ten years; and it is safe to affirm that without the aid of foreign missionaries they never would have been dislodged.
How different would have been [Page 162] the future of China had the allied powers backed up the Tai-pings against the Manchus!
The loose morals of the Tai-pings and their travesty of sacred things horrified the Christian world; and Gordon no doubt felt that he was doing God a service in breaking up a horde of blasphemers and blackguards.
The last attempt the Ti-pings made to enter Shanghae was repulsed on Monday night.
A striking example of the effect of British intervention: the Ti-pings destroy the heathen temples and establish the Holy Scriptures on their sites, but the Manchoos build them up again, and exterminate the worshippers of the True God.
Towards the close of 1854, the detached armies of Ti-pings were gradually compelled to abandon their isolated positions, and retire closer upon their capital.
Gloomy, indeed, were the prospects of the Ti-pings at the opening of the year 1860.
On approaching Nankin, the squadron came into collision with the Ti-pings in a similar, though more serious manner, than on the occasion of the visit of the Hermes.
The testimony of persons who have themselves seen the Ti-pings is unanimous as to their striking superiority over the Imperialists.
Later Savage was killed, and the Tai-Pings quieted down.
Even on this occasion his men were outnumbered one hundred to one, but, such was the desperation of the attacking force, the rebels were driven like sheep to the slaughter, and the defeat of the Tai-Pings was overwhelming.
The Tai-Pings of this city were under the leadership of a renegade Englishman named Savage, and the fighting was fast and furious.
Though the Ti-Pings did not at once lay aside all heathen customs, and could not be expected to do so, they took some remarkable steps in the right direction.
To those who have experienced the ordinary dislike of foreigners by the Chinese, the surprising friendliness of the Ti-Pings was most remarkable.
There's been tremendously heavy firing for the last ten minutes in the direction of the Chinese town, and there can be no doubt but that the Tae-pings are attacking the place.
Even their short halt enabled the Tae-pings to gain on them, and the rebels' voices sounded considerably louder.
Any further search was useless; indeed, the officer was anxious to send back to the town to give notice that the Tae-pings were in the neighbourhood, and that a cavalry force had advanced so far without infantry to support them.
For what they could tell to the contrary, however, the Tae-pings might already have scaled the walls.
They at once pulled up, feeling sure that the Tae-pings would not venture to advance further.
On their way back they met several of the English inhabitants, to whom they reported that a force of Tae-pings was in the neighbourhood.
I am afraid that the Tae-pings must have overtaken them, and too probably, immediately have cut them down, for they certainly were not with the party we got under our fire.
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