The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1869-10-16
Manifest Destiny.

The following common-sense
views relative to Chinese labor,
! we find in the Louisville Courier
journal:
] The coming of the Chinese
among us in large numbers we
consider, as we have said, an un-
avoidable destiny, unless some
thing shall occur to destroy the
inducements which our country
now offers to labor. Of course
our Government and our individ-
ual citizens might refuse either
to sell lands to the Chinese or to
employ them in any capacity, but
it is certain that our Government
and our individual citizens will
not do this. The Chinese may be
rightfully allowed the elective
franchise or rightfully excluded
from it accordingly as they shall
be found fit or unfit for it., but, as
working men, they must and will
be permitted to take their chances
among the rest of the people, and
we anticipate beneficent results
from their advent. Come In what
multitudes they may, there is and
will long be work enough for
them to do. The South can en-
ploy many millions and increase
boundlessly in prosperity and
greatness by employing them
She may not only multiply ten
fold the productions Of her mag
niticent soil, but, by the establish
ment of manufactures, make each
of her hundreds of streams a
source of greater wealth than if,
like the tabled Pactolus, it ran
over sands of gold. And the la
Dor Of the Chinese can be used
throughout all the rest of the
United States to vast advantage.
It can be made available every
where for the development of
myriad fountains of wealth that
might otherwise remain sealed
for ages. Let us indulge no weak
dream of an over-crowded coun-
try. Let immigration from all
quarters of the world civilized and
uncivilized be what it may, our
country's tremendous area will
not be populated to the extent of
its capacity for hundreds of years,
and, no matter how wise and far
seeing we may be or may think
ourselves, it would be absurd for
us to attempt, by the adoption or
rejection of any policy or system
of policies at this time, to fix or
influence the condition of our con-
tinent as it shall exist after so
vast period. Doubtless all that |
we do will be felt through all
time, but we cannot know how or
to what end. We cannot discern
what at the present time would |
be best or worst for the far-off
coming generations. Every great
cause must have ilnumerable
effects, and these infinite others,
not one of which we can follow
out by any process Of intellect or
fancy to it's results in the remote
centuries. 1t is not for us to- 5un-
dertake now to govern the world
or even our hemisphere for the
year of Grace two thousand two
hundred. We must leave that to |
time, posterity, the sunspiritual !
god'' of circumstance, and the
spiritual God of the universe.
A strong effort will be made /
this coming session to induce
Congress to undertake the corr
pletion of the James river and |
Kanawha canal, in Virginia, by
which a water line of inland trans
portation between an. Atlantic I
port and the Mississippi river and |
it's branches would be secured.
1t is claimed that such a work
would increase the value of West
ern produce a hundred millions a
year, while cheapening bread in
the East, because, as estimated, |
Western grain would save full |
two-thirds of the freight now paid !
by the consumer and the producer
to the carrier. -..-
An experienced cotton planter,
who has been looking at the crops
IN houston county Ga, says he
has never seen a more perfect
failure in that county. He will