Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-26

diem. This gives US the data for the
following estimate:
Charter Of hip. s15 600
FITTING erths---.-......... ..... IOO0
Wood and water casks .-. ....... 1000
FroYislons.-...-- -.-..---4-...--..- 200
Total --..-.-.- p 900
Allowing this estimate to be made
on a specie basis, we will add fifty per
centum to bring it into currency, and
have S37 500 as the total cost of land
ing one thousand Cinnamon in Sd
vannah, Charleston or New Orleans.
and as we bring one thousand, it will
be seen that the cost per MAJ is S3T 80.
One thousand tons Of rice cannot z
brought from China and laid down on
our Wharves for an equal sum. a
thousand labOrers can; and they will
produce yearly sir thousand tons of
riceNmaking business for the rail-
road and steamboat, the merchant
and the warehOuseman, the cartman
and the porter, putting money in the
pockets Of capitalists and bead in the
mouths o the poor. Is not this a con-
summation devOutly To be wishede
I One hundred thousand Cinnamon cuI-
tivating sugar, rice and cotton, would
add fifty millions a year to u valua-
BILE products. Eight per cent. of that
sum will procure them. If il could
he shown TO any association of capi-
talists that by the expenditure Of
three and three-quarter millions of
dollars in building factories, railroads
or canals, the enormous revenue of
fifty millions annually would be re-
turned, money would be forthcoming
TO ten times the SUN needed. Silver
and gold that has not seen the light of
day these ten years, would be chink-
ing on every bank counter. Here,
/ insist, is a scheme which
viii pay the magnificent dividend
above indicated. Let Us no longer
import East India rice, or West India
sugar; hut let US produce those staples,
not only for home consumption, but
for export abroad. The Chinese know
no lab0R-saving implements; all their
tools are of the rudest and most Drim-
tive description; yet they, by labOri-
Gus toll, force the earth to yield mag
niticent results. With cur advanced
scientific implements and progressive
enterprises, coupled with the labOri-
Gus toll, there would be no picturinp
the mighty destiny Of this fair and
fruitful land. The race who reared
the great wall Of China, ndexcavated
those wonderful canals, would curb
the Father Of Waters within bounds.
and make ~ vast garden from Mem
phis TO New Orleans. capable of SUD-
porting and employing, according To
Lieut.. Maury, a population of n
hundred millions OF souls! The snort
of the steam whistle and thUd of the
paddle wheel would be ever present.
Towns and cities, of which we have
no conception would grow as if bv
magic. Chicago and san Francisco
would fade into insignificance.
The hum of the spindle would be
heard everywhere, the glare of iron
furnaces would light every horizon.
whilst the mines, deep in the bowels
of the earth. would turn up mineral
wealth. Nature has performed well
her part in fabricating this great ma
chine. She has given Us soil. climate
and facilities, and we need but LABOR.
strong and reliable, to set the whole
in motion. This picture MAJ become
reality if we 80 Will it,. The capital
list is the enchanter, his money the
wand. Ii is for him to say whether
he viii use it.
Within the past few years we have
witnessed the spectacle of a country
halfthe year bound up in ice or clad
in snow grow in wealth and power
and population until il is called the
great Northwest. There we have
seen bleak prairies made to TEEN with
golden grain railroads, cOnsid-
cred at first as the emanatiOns
only of visionary brains, have been
made and completed, towns on paper
have become realities. Still further
away, OF the western slope of the ST.
era Nevada, an empire has sprung
from nothing; cities have appeared,
farms have been opened, and mines
worked. What has evoked this
mighty change? LABOR, strong and
reliable. And how has tbs labor been
led to the cold Northwest, or To the
remote shores of the Pacific? Did it
90 by its own motion, or has il been
done by skillful management? How.
in the name of mercy, are we to sit
idle and leave the destiny OF
this splendid country i'm the hands
of the wOOly-headed monStrosity who
is at present running and blighting
everything in his rpach2 Forbid il,
We men of brains and means.
Our purpose is not Mt present to de
lend the civilization of the Chinese.
It Is foreign to the object of this paper
TO show that they We're highly
cultivated and refined when the
Greeks were receiving their first
lessons from the Egyptians; or
that the art of printing was known
to them in the time of Julius Cesar.
that the knowledge OfgunpOwder and
the polarity of the lOadstOne was
first known to them; or that their
proficiency in letters, philosophy, the
arts, and the sciences was great when
our ancestors We're wearing skins and
living in mud-hOvels in Britain or
the North of Europe. This is irrele-
want TO the present issue. Our inuui-
ry concerns not his brain, Does he
possess a quantity of strong willing
enduring muscle2 That Is what we
are looking for. If he il not equal in
war to John Bulls "beef eaters" so
much the better, we viii control him
the more readily. The idea of excIu-
ding him is a very Chinese One,a and
is based upon the same principle that
engines are forbidden in the
"tiOwery Kingdom" We want
to pillow, sow and reap; to make
cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco.
are not looking for editors, poets.
orators, statesmen, painters, sculptOrs,
architects and engineers. We have
on hand more than enough of these
latter to meet the present demand.
Isit to he supposed that when North
arn agents are canvassing for immi-
grants in Europe they carea fig wheth-
their converts are men of high mem
tai attainments or not? They calcu-
late the number of wild acres these
new fellows will reduce to the dOmin-
ion of the pillow, how much the tax
roll is to be swelled by their accumu-
latiOns-n short, how much they will
benefit the country in dollars and
cents. They never stop to think about
lr speculate on the chances of sending
over fathers of CalhOuns, Websters
Or Clays. Nor need we trouble our
as to whether we will be able
20 breed in 0ur midst another COnfu-
,ius or FOhi.
1t Is considered the bOunden duty of
most Christians to make every effort
their power to convert the
heather of every land Fand to that
end a number of missionaries are
sent out TO preach the glory of
Christ and him crucified. In Africa
hey have probably added ONE