Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-08

stream of life, while he treads [. soil aimds,
 human, the ashes of the unnumbered mill
 Lions of the past; tine. very dust which he ! breathes and swallows is that of charnel
 house. The water of wells Is every where impregnated with the products of organic 1 decay. and the rivers are the sewers aoi i countless cities. . .44;..r. .. ;. /. On the densely- -peopled plain all the or. 1 gan1c and much of the mineral ingredients
 of the soil must have made many times the circnit of plant and animal life: in other words. every thing that goes to make and
 maintain the human body has formed parts
 of human bodies which have passed away. l Few foreigners have tbs courage to en- ! ter the larger southern towns in summer, so horrible is the air. h the neighbor- hood of great cities on the delta plain, where water is fonnd just below the sur. face. one may ride for miles, always in sight of collins bursting in the scorching heat of the sun, and breeding the pesti-
 lencs that yearly sweeps off the surplus population. aas.s .s-.t-,1 f..,.. ...s4..',s. What I have attempted to make conspic-
 uous Is the fact that the spirit of the Chi
 nese, as shown in their enterprise and en srgy as colonizers, in their commercial l character and faculty of organization, in , the democratic idea of the political equal lty of man, in the practical decentraliza-
 ton of their government, and in the uni. versatility of education and the making of education necessary qualification for of- flee, is in harmony with the spirit of the
 present age This is the strong armor aof
 the race, its safeguard in the future strug-
 gle for existence, by waioh it is clearly dis
 tinguished from those inferior races whose
 ai.al l,n11
 rlods long past, and differ so much from our own that they fall at the very first con-
 tact with us.
 CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
 We have seen that there exists in China 8 boundless source of emigration, and the necessity for emigration; that the capacity of America for receiving this emigration is comparatively unlimited; that the emigra- tion will be at least proportionate to the encouragement offered; that the encour- ragementi is springing iato existence through the recognition of the Chinese as neces- sary element for the development of the resources of the Far West; that the i'm mense influx of these people will consti- tute possible political power which can not remain latent, and that the attainment of the privileges of citizenship will make of them fixed, instead of floating pop ulation, which, so far as anything we know to the contrary, may at no distant date largely outnumber the European element. The first question which naturally rises, is, in what can this people contribute to our material prosperity? It is not difficult to answer to this that by reason of their ma. ny sidedness, their adaptability to all branches of industry, they can contribute nm &hnp ;~. generation. They can supply labor for the Rouse and field, for building railroads, for working in mines and factories, for every need on sea and land. Within the really impossible limits set by nature, they alone can render productive vast tracts of land, the cultivation of which is essential to the prosperity of our mountain territories. They can contribute largely to our wealth and that of the world by their saving of material and by forcing us, through com petition, to become more economical in this respect. They can advance greatly our material prosperity, not only by the product of their labor in working for Amer jeans. but by their independent enterprise as capitalists. Indeed, the lowering of the price of labor in America, through Chinese immigration, taken in connection with the almost certain rise in price in E;s..ope, ap pears to offer the tsooss solution of the vex- ed 1sstlon of free trade, by placing us on an equal or superior footing with Europe, In the manufacture of those things which now require protection. It should seem that Chinese immigration, organized on the most liberal plan, in conformity with the emigration laws of China and under the responsible guidance of Chinese con- tractors, would rapidly raise our Southern States to a height of prosperity never yet reached by them, and render possible the completion and maintenance of great works necessary to control the overflow of the Mississippi, and to drain unproductive and malarious regions. ''}
 Will the price, at which these benefits shall be gained, be too high? Every one will answer this according to his own way of measuring the future by the past. But hs who sees in events the resultants of so. cial and physical forces, the operation of great laws, progressive in their action and tending toward that millennium when evs cry part of the earth, according to it's nat. ural endowment, shall justify it's existence, by contributing it's full share, as part. to the welfare of the whole; toward the unif- cation of mankind by the assimilation of the best parts of its different races into 8 new type-who believe that
 Through the ages one increasing purpose runs, will feel the least anxiety in contemplating the future. To,the charge that they will largely outnumber the Americans, absorb, ing many branches of industry and com peting in all. he will answer that they can do so only by being able to compete with the European element; in other words, by being really equally efficient, and thus jus-' tifying their right to citizenship. To the assertion that their use of opium threatens the addition of another national vice to those we have already, he will reply that the rapid spread of the use of this drug, g use of only some sixty years standing in China, was induced by natural causes, act ing in a country which had reached an ab-- normal condition, and that it can exist as 2 national habit only where it is natural necessity. The long-continued generations of temperance of this people show their normal condition, and we have little reason to fear that half century of opium smo- king can destroy the deep-seated, inherent vitality of the race. or have fixed it as 2 constitutional vice upon those who will emigrate hither.
 !. The political aspect of the question is that of the most immediate importance, for many obvious reasons. Nothing IS more certain than the impossibihty of 3 foreign race continuing to live and increase in