The Placer herald., 1867-06-08
Negroes and Chinese in the North.

The Norfolk Journal says
"A party of colorsd people we're shipped
at Fortress Monroe, last week, for Boston,
by General Armstrong, Superintendent Of
the Freedmen's Bureau. Numbers Of these
people are constantly leaving the Peninsula
by the Boston steamers for the "Hub," and
it is said they experience no difficulty when
they arrive there iu procuring situations a.
walters or servants 10 families"
We published, few weeks since, an ac'
count Of the immigration Of negroes into
the Western States. 1t appears, therefore,
they are going all over the North. Now,
when We cons ider that each one of them
that obtains employment dispossesses =
white person, We can begin to realizes what
the poor whites have gained BY the abolition
of slavery. The latter were warned Of the
consequences, but suffered themselves to be
controlled by their passions and prejudices
which were inAamed by demagogues. The
result is before them. and, as no one pro.
poses to re.establish slavery, they must take
the consequences. The stream Of negroes
to the North will continue as they can OBJ.
tain better wages there than in the South
With the rich whites, who have their pock-
cts full Of untaxed United States bonds. or
who have amasssd wealth through tbieviug
contracts with the Government, the negroes
will be preferable to white servants for two
reasons. They will cost less, and it will
crafty shoddy, aristocratio nabobs to be
driven around and waited upon by the dar'
kies. 1t looks SO stylish!
In the East tho Iaboring whites have the
negroes TO contend with: on the Pacific, the
Chinese. There is a struggle for existence
between the races. If the Chinese and ue'
groes prevail and occupy the field Of labor,
what is to become Of the poor wbites!
How are they to earn living, to say noth
ing Of smassiug competency for their old
age9 What is 10 be the fate Of white wo.
men and cbi!drenl 1t makes US sbudder to
thiok of the consequences. In this war OF
races for the ascsndency we wish it distinct
ly understood we are for the white man.
We earnestly desire that he may preserve
bis ascendency, and keep the field clear for
himself and bis posterity. He can do it, if
he possesses the sagaci,y to see and sppre
ciate the danger, and the honesty and inde-
peudence 10 assert and maintain his rights,
regardless Of the Establishments or threats
Of politicians and capitalists. One thing be
must do. He must not permit these in
feror and autsgouisiic races to exercise the
right Of suffrage, for the moment be places
the ballot in the hands Of the negro and
Chinamen, that moment be loses bis indie
pendencs and sinks into abjsctnsss and mis-
cry. Let these inferior races be allowed
to vote, and they will bold the balance Of
power Immediately between The lsboripg
classes and the capitalists. The Cinnamon
in California under such circumstances
could to-day muster at least forty thousand
votes. With such a reinforcement the
capitaists and railroad contractors would
defy the white mechanics aud laborsrs. and,
in few years, tho Cinnamon reinforced
from the great Asiatic hive would absolutely
control the State. At present the laboripg
whites constitute = large majority Of the
voters in the State. They can, at any
time, by concentration, secure justice If po-
litcal parties refuse to attend TO their Dc.
mands. II they throw away this precious
power, they will deserve to suffer- YAM
0unrd