New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-13
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE CHINESE IN AMERICA.

THE CHINESE IN AMERICA.
TO the Editor or The tribune
Sir. As n reader of your articles now APP
GEARING in series npon the industry of the country
nv attention has been arrested byyOurremarksu pon
the Chinese" am better pleased with your edito-
rial of to-day than with yOur more philosophical
views of Saturday last. You write like man whose
mind is not "made up upon subject which the
public has hardly begun to consider. And yet the
question is really upon US, and its consideration can
not long be delayed.
Your answer to Mr.. CaSseTly shows that, as poll
tician. You know how to meet the narrow and cir
cumscribed view of the great question Of political
economy. For l may at once say that every argu-
ment against immigration to this country is based
upon the same narrow want of confidence in the
masses TO rule, or else in the selhshness which
would appropriate the present advantages OF a new
country the few, who happen to think that there not
enough "and TO possess
It was my lot whether fortunate unfortunate, TO be
born and in the Southern States, and, ad
yanoed man. have always had TO contend against mar
perhaps say the fearsof people
that any progress would endanger institution which
was unnecessarily at with any enlarged system OF
free labor And that the slave system is no more,
liberal views do not take root rapidly. Possibly this is
the mere force Of habit One thing is noticeable, how
ever There is in the Southern mind, desire 10 promote
immigration 20 the country. This mainly springs 70 be
sure, ont Of principle Of sefinterest but should not
therefore be assumed mat there Is no patoIls ~ 'S
desire 10 invite population. will take my own state OF
Texas for an example You are aware that iortnna1ey
Tor the state the shortslghednes OF Col BehtCn po
vented ceson by the Republic OF our vast public DO
main 70 the United States.
Of land: that 100000 OF tins belong to the ste
that li0oOo0acres areindlydua property ana tnS ,
than 5OG0oOO are what are called improved or
lands leaving l95o0O0oO acres OF Wild u1SoIssH Ue
pasture Take Arkansas, kansas the lnuab eay
New.McXiCo. and Western louisiana and you nave say
the quantity divided in about the same Rrop9.o
You thus have IN the country sloInG Iry and mon
sppi the Culf OF Mexico 500 square miles, anu upon
making less than six inhabitants to the square mile
The Spaniards first commenced the settlement OF Ie1as
the Indians aud invite inhabitants by giving as much
land TO every individual as he desired. some oI te
Western were thus covered with large grants Upon
tie OF the independence OF Mexico inc
Americans and Europeans were invited by land grants
IN quantities from 400 10 4aO acres, according 10 the
tOnSs invited inhabitants by giving league ana labor
or 4C05 acres TO each family This quantity has been
ieccd i IN Gao acres and now 100 acres is gwen
every settler. Of every color. So have adopted the
system OF giving to every mile OF railroad Duit IN tn9
system of donations YOU see that the only result has
been to change domain from State to individual pro
pretOTshp and vast bodies Of the most productive lands
I'm the world still remain uncuvated. am aware that
there are those who believe that the MOlOch OF Slavery
prevented the settlement Of the cOuntry and that now
under a system Of free abcr il will be filed with
''teeming millions" The Spanards had no slaves In
Texas the Mexican laws forbade IT, The coonsts car
red the negroes there against law. There were,
by the census Of 1860, lS2500 slaves against
s 900 free persons, aud Of natiyes fOurfths OF the
whites were slave States, aud the residue in the
free States and in Europe VIII pause 30 argue that
this result grew more OUT OF the instincts OF men ts
their reason II is rule that men live ana die In the
country where they born The first exception to this
rule is that those who enigate 20 westward III he same
latitude and IL they 80 North or Sonth more VIII oe
found seek higher than lower latitude Some proof
OF TINS may be found III onT own slslses, me siane
States furnished the free States three souls against one
words 10000 persons OF slave State natyities
found in 1850 in the free States against $4,000 of free
State natyiues In the slave States Were you to ask an
audience OF very intelligent, but unthnking, peO
pie Of ten would ten you that the OF this
that the that the Of the slave States
chose 10 escape TO free territory where labor was
from instinct men set their faces westward and removed
from the states Of Maryland, virginia North Carolina,
they were unwilling to dverge southwark And here,
did not know how deepseaed IL IS would answer the
great lie" that no white man labored in the slave
States by asserting what the statistics VIII prove, that
there never were eight millions OF Europeans European
descendants in the whole world who performed much
outdoor field agricultural labor as those same eight
millions OF poor white trash and rich Da9obs who
were supposed 10 work none But pass this for the
present to inquire, How IS this vast territory which
have described to be peoped when there no ve IN the
same latitude in Europe or America from which the n-
babitants be drawni have my own views, that a
system OF Southern railroads running from 81 LOUIS
Cairo Memphis VicksburR New Orleans. Galveston, aud
Pacific Ocean, Bias MaZatlan, winch is in direct
dine by che Sandwich Islands to Chna and that OF the
ants into Mexican States and into the valley OF the
Mississippi River and other rivers emptying into the
Gulf Of Mexico have already made this letter TOO long
discuss the probabilities TO 10 answer the objections
20 tins inevitable destiny It enough for the present
tnent until IT was necessary and that half the world IS
be occupied by 000 OF souls and their descend
ants while 10000 occupy the other half is
try fertile than the valley OF the NotO remain
Inhabited because Of the crcumor0ed notions that there
are those now living who have lived than ouethrd
Of the time since the landing OF tho Pilgrims at Plymouth
should leisure permit may hereafter elaborate some
OF the foregoing views; Go W. FAsChAL'
No. tO7 Sirth-St, Washington, June 7, 1862