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ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND'S THREE BOOKS THAT "LINK EAST AND WEST"
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Mohammedans and the aborigines had commenced to make trouble.
There were many disturbances along the seacoast. The people were
destitute. Ulcers and sores met the eye on every side.
Cooperating with the Empress Dowager Hsiao Chen-hsien, I
supported and taught the Emperor and toiled day and night.
According to the instructions contained in the testamentary
counsels of the Emperor Wen Tsung-hsien (Hsien Feng) I urged on
the officials of Peking and the provinces and all the military
commanders, determining the policy to be followed, diligently
searching the right way of governing, choosing the upright for
official positions, rescuing from calamity and pitying the
people, and so obtained the protection of Heaven, gaining peace
and tranquillity instead of distress and danger. Then the Emperor
Mu Tsung I (Tung Chih) departed this life and the late Emperor
succeeded to the throne. The times became still harder and the
people in still greater straits, sorrow within and calamity
without, confusion and noise; I had no recourse but to give
instruction in government once more.
" 'The year before last the preparatory measures for the
institution of constitutional government were published. This
year the time limits for the measures preparatory to
constitutional government have been promulgated. Attending to
these myriad affairs the strength of my heart has been exhausted.
Fortunately my constitution was originally strong and up to the
present I have stood the strain
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