New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-03-20
LONELINESS BY THE CARGO

Francisco that the emigrant may change his
sLy but not his soul. Three hundred and
ninety ladies from the Flowery Land, them
selves the fairest flowers, were met by an ex-
cited mob of fifteen hundred Cinnamon howl
ing for wives These ardent admirers did 30
scream and jabber and beseech and swear, that
there has probably been nothing heard like it
in the world since the early Roman wives were
wooed and rather roughly won. 1t being i'm
possible to assign one wife to every enamored
Celestial, and the law of the State
forbddng joint ownership Of danes, the
whole enchanting invoice was locked up
to be sent back TO China by return
steamer. If We were O John Chinaman in Cali
forna, thus tantalzed and thus bitterly disap-
pointed, we feel that we should DO thrown into
q low and despairing mood, as the sweet vision
of beauty receded from the shore. The exact
policy of sending away these Chinese women
we do not pretend to understand. "The head
mem of the Chinese were very anxious, we
are told. to prevent their countrywomen from
falling into the hands "Of their brethren of
"the lower class :" but we suppose that there
must DO some respectable Cinnamon in Califor-
MIA who would be glad to marry in regular
way and would be none the worse for en-
tering into that honorable condition. There
was time, not great many years ago, In
San Francisco, when genuine native American
settlers besought tho ladies of the Eastern
States to come out and be married; and num-
Der Of highly respectable ladies did go out, and
were married, and are now as happy as posi-
bic In their domestic relations, some of them
being Joined to Governors, and some to Sena-
tors, and some to merchants, and some to cler-
gymen, and some to miners. For more than
hundred years England has been shipping
widows and virgins to India to become the
wives of high civil and military digni-
ties: nor 10 there any lack of English
and American women in some parts of China
itself. The efforts of the Chinese Govsrn-
ment to keep out Europeans resulted in
lamentable failures we gave them to under
stand that we did not relish such narrow
political views; but now, when the Chinese on
their part exhibit an inclination to come to
our shores, we treat them to little of the
same exclusveness. OF course, this Is because
we are o vastly superior race; but 1t is odd
that tho Chinese have always taken precisely
this view of themselves. From their point OF
sight, we are the Barbarans and some of
the philosophers OF Pekin might urge that
it has never been necessary to organize
Vigilance Committees for the suppression |
of Chinese thieves and murderers in San Fran |
cisco. The Celestial emigrants seem to be |
tolerably honest, fairly Industrious and req" |
sonably peaceable ia California. il they are but
let alone but they are not let alone and never |
have been on the contrary, the policy OF Cal
ifornia has been to get rid Of them. But, to |
complcate matters, here comes over Mr. Arson |
Burlingame, who for anything we know to the |
contrary, has been made Mandarin, and if he
has not tent on his own head and many but |
tons of honor, he has at least O large follow |
ing of regular Chinese dipomatists. Our rela- |
tons with that country promise to be serene and
beautiful, lending charm to all the tea-tables
of the Republic, when 1t Is suddenly discov-
cred that Chinese women are not wanted In
one Of the States of this Union, and ii they
voyage thither that they will be sent back
again Is it thus that we put China on an
equality with the most favored nationsY How
could we act otherwise if we had determined
to treat her as ono Of the least favored
The character of the lower classes OF Chi
nese females may not be high one, Dut IL 10
quite as high as that of several cargoes OF
women shipped from this port to San iran
cisco in the early days Of the gold discovery
women who were not sent from the
State by the wrathful authorities OIL Cal
ifornia, although it might have been
better for tho State and the inhabitants
thereof If they had been. The whole object
now seems to BIO to prevent q Chinese immi-
grafton TO California at all, and whether OF
men OF of women. We remember cognate
feeling in this neighborhood against Irishmen
and Germans. 1t is not long since the Junior |
Charles Francis Adams called attention to this |
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