Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-13
The Chinese Question
How il Is Viewed from a British
Standpoint.
Will the Children of the Sun Anal
gamate with the Anglo Saxon 2
viii the Anglo Saxon Absorb the
Children of the Sun 2

The following article from the LoT
: don Telegraph will be read with som
interest in this quarter. The words {
[ Mr.. "Crapp" (Clapp) which it quote
are only not precisely understood fron
, their context, as we know well wher
. they were uttered. The words, wit
their context did show, not pro
slavery disposition, but rather tn
aristocratfc tendency, and the dispo
sitiOn to ACCOMPLISHMENT common I,
all enterprising and large mlndet
. men, the world over. The men them
selves, who "would not own siaV,
for all the gold that sinews bought ano
sold have ever earned,' would yet
like Mrs. Stowe, be glad 10 have vas
orange and fruit gardens in Florida, ol
tens Of thousands Of the rich acres o
the Mississippi Valley, with all the Ia
4. b0rers required, and he ''mOnarchs o
all they survey" The Is1egTup!
SAYS: AAn Europe" Napoleon Bo-
napaite once said, "will hy-and-hy be
either Republican or COSsack;" and il
looks as if we might Initiate his
prophecy, and say that all the world
will some day be either AnglO-SaXon
or Chinese. The race for ultimate
| prepOnderanee promises to lie between
ourselves and those innumerable Ce-
lestials, who, but lately liberated
| from the confinement of so many cen
turies, threaten to food the world
with their countless millions. We
Ibid doubtful thing for the interest Of
our own supremacy when We opened
China, with the sword for pick-l0ck,
and let the yellow people loose upon
| the globe. They have sWarmed forth
| from their huge cities and teeming
rice-fields, Ike bees nom a
hive or pismires from an ant-hill. 1t
| is ike the fisherman's caSket in the
Arabian story, from which there
ruled volumes upon volumes OF
smoke till the sky was tilledi" one
is reminded of the Trolls letter in the
Norwegian tale, which, when il was
incautiOusly opened, discharged first
drop, then dribble, and last of ali
mighty flowing stream, which
swamped everything, and made in
land seas of all the fertile plains. The
ancient inroads on civilization by
hordes of barbar0uS marauders are no
lcnaer possible-Science has put stop
to teat great danger which menaced
settled nations, Hut what We lAySt
now consider quite possible Is the
descent of myriad of Cinnamon upon
the fields and industries of the
foreign devils n-as they are good
enough to call uS-with the result OF
considerably embarrassing tnat I labor
question q which almost everywhere
perplexes Anglo-SaXOndOm. The
natives of the FlORery Land have
0ozed out already into great many
places. You see them all over the
Eastern Archipelago, at Singapore, in
India, throughout the Australian
settlements, in NaneouYe--, Victoria, !
California-almost everywhere, In
fact; and, wherever they are met
with, the example is seen Of the aiIe |
end the only rNce which can work |
harder, live cheaper, and take better |
care of its own interests than GEy
known branch 1f the human ismIlI. |
The Chinameu can exist where the |
most industrious of other men atafvei |
he knows how to make saYOry dishes !
of what IL elsewhere held To he |
garbage; he fattens upon birds |
nests and sharks fins, sea-slugs and |
rats, mice, puppy-dOgS and /
the shoots of the bamboo. lie IS the |
of tire human species, turn
ing over the refuse Of industry, and
wealth out Of the dust-heap. !!
He grubs among the deserted gold
diggings of Australia and California,
and picks ont untold afHouats or mug
gets and dust; he puddles about hill
sides and swampy marshes, and
makes fortunes with his garden-stuff
and rice-grounds; he saves everything
which other people throw away, and
IhriVes in spite of taxation, contume-
Iy and persecution. In vain do the
Australians harrass and hate the Chi
aese; in vain do thR San t'raneiseans
stone and prohibit themi they come
where profit Is 10 be got, like lOcusts
Dr crows; and, wherever they come,
4 little "samShee' and opium are the
Dnly luxuries they allow themselves,
ill they have Scraped a pOoke1ful of
iollars together, and can shake the
lust from their pigtails and take their
home. At present, this in
,tinct of returning to the FloweTy
land, dead or alive, is the fact which
makes their ubiquity less prominent:
Jut if eyer they get oyer that sentt-
nent, build permanent jOss-hOuses
abroad, and bring their families, there
ire enough of them 10 overflow the
.arth, until pig tails and thick-soled
,hoes become everywhere predOHi- F.,
lant.
it is partly this feeling, doubtless,
which makes the Journals of New
Y Ork and Boston 50 furious against |
he proposition to import Chlnamen
~ wholesale into the Southern States
# America. The planters there want
heap and manageable labor. The ne
,roes. emancipated by the late war,
ire grown lazy and Independents; the !
white immigrants from the North are
90 high-stOmached to take wages; I
hey like to be their own masters, and {
o have a patch of cotton ground for |
themselves. Koopmanschaap, there :
ore, has become the hope and the he
o of the Southerners. koOpman- !
chaap is pltchman, who settlesi in
Ian Francisco eight years ago, and he l
,as since imported no fewer than
hirty thousand Celestials. The i'm {
migrants have turned Out such good !
aborers, in spite nf all sorts of efforts
nut forth against them, that the spec {
Ilator in pig tails has started afi asSO- {
iatiOn, with a million dollars for cap 7
tai, called 'tThe Southern Immigra- .
ion Company" under which he pro-
oses to import one hundred thousand
'hinese in every year for the South :
rn plantations. \ Convention has
lst been held at Memphis, lin which o
his project has been almost Anani- e
iouslY hailed BY the planters and &
heir journals, One speaker, the T
Ion. ]. w. Crapp, put the matter .
cry plajnly, He said: "The men
f the South wish to hire their own A
lbor, and superintend their own t
md. This cannot be done with Il
auoassian labor, These European :
who come here want to
ct little piece of land and cultivate
themselves; they want to 90 in on :
heir own hook. We do not want 1
his sort of labor, but we want that l
'hich can be controlled and managed !,
,some extent as OF old. Tie men OF Q
le south Wish TO retain their landed
and cultivate those lands
and to be able to feel :
hen they look at their fields thst
icy ape monarehs OF all they survey" 7
iscordingly, K00pmanschaap Is this b
lonth to make tour of the planta. ls
on States, taxing orders far Yellow
Sinped field hands till he gets his lists