Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-04-21
THE FRENCH POLICY IN MEXICO.

la recent discourse on " Cinnamon Abroad" Dr. Mac
gowan after giving description of the Chinese population
OF Australia India Maayan Archipelago, and California
and stating that he had always regarded with davor the
Introduction OF proetares from China into the United
States referred to that part of the French
for the Regeneration of Mexico which proposes to Sc
cure large immigration Of Chinese laborers into that
subugated country. DIR Mcgowan supposes that al
though this most feasible scheme advocated in France
on economic and industrial grounds political and military
considerations will chiefly commend to the new con-
querors of Mexico Chinese coonsts would soon be found
in anagonm with the natives and become the faithful
adherents of their French masters Franco Chinese
contingent could be speedily disciplined aud cheapy main
tanned and is the case in China prove an effective
agency in consolidating French power. Among other
proofs that this is seriously contemplated Dr.
Mcgowan read extract from work lately pub
ished by M Michel Chevalier Senator and member of
the Institute, entitled Mexico, Ancient and Modern
The quotation is of sufficient interest to be transferred
into columns without abridgment:
1.-The Chinese in day make their escape in every
direction they OPEN mpeed they are by the des
of flying from the arbitrary and yrannical regime under
which they groan Ia their land and attracted into
countries where Western Christian civilization holds
sway, by the relative mdness of its laws aud by the pro
lection almost every where ensured there to the
and person of the industrious man. civiznQ Govern
ment that desired to attract TO Mexico large quantity Of
Vel
little effort IL would be sufficient in fact to make Dis
play OF justice towards them and them sgaDst
the insults and hard wronguy heaped them by
the ADgloSaxon coonsts OF California and Australia In
both those countries the Chinese have been subjected
exactious and i'll treatment Threats of expulsion are
continually hanging their heads and yet they remain
there in toerabe numbers II the Chinese kne region
where they would be protected equally with the whites
there would be no need Of going TO any locking
for them they would hasten thither of them selves In
crowds. Few countries situated so favoraby as Mex
co for becoming the goal of Chinese emigration From
their application to labor and their lgence in COM
mercal matters they would be valuable acquisition to
the Mexican nation Up to this day China not been
looked upon to the extent il ought to have been as an in
exhsustibe reservoir of population whence might be
drawn not only clever, sober, frugal and able
workers. but also traders Of ability Up to certain
epoch was the fashion to apply to the do
serts Of Scandinavia the pompous title of ocna geufu
That appelaton may at day not far Off belong to China
IN the sense Of belief being permissible that the course
oil events VIII cause numerous and countless hordes to
Issue from thence, who will direct themselves to far dis
tant countries Thanks to the prompt and economical
means Of communication afforded By modern alton
large mgrations are becoming easy We have Just seen
that hundreds oil thousands OF persons annually con
veyed to the United States before they bv
civil Ii would be more difficult to people Mexico
with Chinese than the valley of the
or the upper basin OF the st Lawrence with the sons of
Ireland the cuvaors OF the banks of the Rhine or the
Oder III ia admitted s hands that Industrious DO.
puation is the foundation .of wealth Nothing more /.
needed than that the Governments of those States whittier
it would be easy to bring Chinese should beso pains ON
such immigration and be willing to encourage it The
alleged in California and Australia the abettors
OF prescription against the Chinese is that they ara too
clever workmen that they labor too that
they too much inclined to live on little and that
thence they are injurious competitors to the whites But
the defects with which the Chinese are arc
qualities 10 the taste Of men and are
make them sought for In such lands Mexico where the
people 100 often present contrary dispositions"