The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-09-08
COMPLIMENTARY.

COMPLEMENTARY.
The following article which We take from
the New Iberia Times, handles the Chinese
labor question with marked ability, but be.
slows an extravagant compliment on the ed
itor Of this paper. But VIC hope our friend
"Alpha" will not attempt to ruin US By
making us the succ essor of Warmoth, Dunn
etc. That is an unkind cut; We would
rather be editor of the BANNER than Cover
nor:
MEssRs EDrToRs.-I your last issue you
express some regret at finding the PLANTERS
BANNER favorins white labor, rather than
tho species for the acquisition OF which the
American people in every siction Of our
country seem afflicted with d!t1y increasing
mania.
The editor Of that sheet came to Louisiana
from the colder and inhospitable region Of
New England when young u1n, in search
Of = more genial cline, aud eobebly with
marr;..l the wifa of Ills bOsol I'D Is The
years rolled past, during which "a "a unabated
energy he essayed to mount th9 unstable lad.
der Of competence and possiblN Ntortune, there
have grown by his side to cheef him forward
in the laudable efforts he has made to reach
the desired goal, lads and lassies not . few
the former all that . father could look for,
the latter the priceless jewels Of parenta at
lection and solicitude.
Colonel bennett has been, through good
and evil report, the tried and untaltering
friend of the South, and to her oppressed peo-
pie, he hath said, in the words Of Ruth to
Naomi, THY people shall be my people; thy
God my God; where thou goest. thither viii
70, and where thou diest, there will be
buried" He would see the State, to which be
is ~ fondly welded in his affection 40 to the
partner Of his bosom, settled up by race
stamped by Nature and Natures God with
superior qualities in the scale of civiliza-
ti0n-a race with which he aud his descend
ants to the remOtest pOsterity could affiliate
and mix upon tsrms' Of equality. He would
see our country covered with tue tasty resi-
dences Of thrifty farmers, and dotted with
neat and thriving villagese.
"Ah! !" but say the advocates of Chinese
immigration, "We'n soon n:ake Christians
of these Celestials; and when they have
abandoned their pagan superstitiOns, abjured
chop sticks and modern Gods they will make
most desirable citizens.
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the
Leoperd his spots ?" and il these were pos
sible, Almighty wisdom for como wise end has
implanted in the white race an abhorrence
feriOr grades in the great human family.
The Archimedian lever of Niggerphalia has
failed to raise the blacks tho breadth Of a
hair, socially, from the position assigned
them by nature, from lack Of the requisite
fulchrum in the characteristics Of the race.
1t is idle to waste reams of paper and
gallons Of ink in efforts to prove that . vast
accession of labor from China will greatly
add to the wealth of the country. We all
En vvQ
question to be settled is, is it desirable, and
will it benefit the white nee generations
hence to empty China upon tho shores OF
America. N'-
If Immigration was confined to the males,
and when their cupidity was satiated, they
1Rld return hence they came, ruinous as
nd prove to have stady stream Of
Ting from our shores in the direction
those of Us who On eco In this
nothing hopeful fd the future of
e, would he better satil1cd; but
4 u. tasss s 49, = MI @SsSs'so3a o lat"
permanently, wa cannot but roS
we consider the ftlly of people
to be rich in q moment. The bent
Bouthern mind 10 far that kind Of
however, and the PIAJTERs BANNER
your humble correspondent could as
easily stem the torrent Of public opinion in
its favor and dam up the Mississippi with
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crests of the Rocky Mountains, and down the
Pacific slopes.
That the national and State exchequers
can soon be made to Ovorfov-if too many
rOgues do not succeed in tapping them
is beyond . daubt; but how the sum of in.
dividual prosperity and happiness is to be
vastly augmented is not quits % clear.
Some people, in their sim,licity, imagine
the possibility Of pitting theyellows against
the black race, and while thy arc making "a
Kilkenny cat fight" Of it, ttsy can look on
with the sang JFodd Of the woman who wit
messed the combat between ler husband and
the bear, and evinced no material interest in
the result of tho combat. ru.Eaz
When the blacks, in eang@ are driving off
your yellow laborers f0r woiking at reduced
wages, and celestials are making reprisals
tending elements your dwellings are laid in
ashes, your estates wasted and wives and
children fleeing in distress you may chuckle
over the state of affairs it istrue, but with a
heavy heart.
As Judge Pascal, Of Texas vowed long
years before the war "nevor to travel mile
without setting up stone b warn the pe0-
pie Of disunion," 60 those Of us-s feeble mi
nority, it's true-who oPpose it will omit no
the folly of inundating or country with in
ferior oastes to the exclusion Of our own race.
In conclusion, allow me y say that tho cd
itor of the BANNER, like myself, may be .
little old fogyish upon tbs matter, but is
generally "Eght upon the goose" in what
ever relates to the well-beihg of our people.
It Is rather early in the day to talk of candi-
dates, but have no hesitation in saying he
is my choice for the next Governor Of the
State. He msy bring less Greek and Latin
to the Office than some Of his predecessors,
but . deal more good sense and honesty.
Rogues and parasites wou2l find him little to
their taste, and the good al competent alone
would be preferred to pos Of trust,
The Quakers are awak3y to new life.
In Richmond, Indiana4-the seat of the
gTrut rc~i~~a,- ,->se-cf I, rmost remarkable
that has occurred of la$ years-is one of
tue largest settlements o4the Friends. Not
only do they enter as Vigorously as their
Methodist and Presbyterian brethren into
the evangelistic labor, butthe Esprit moves
them to sing hymns, against which they
have born testimony for so many years.
We see accounts Of Friends who are making
pilgrimages to Richmond from Chicago and
elsewhere, to inquiee what this means.
TIE FIVE PoISrs.-Worth street is b.
ing rapidly extSnded from tue Bowery
straight across to Broadway. cutting down
in IT'D march scores Of tenement houses,
crowded like bee hives, aud also many
smaller and more miserable dwellings, which
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