The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-12


this place, and that one Of thom should Hll it,
We say it is unfair and indelioate TO corner
any one in this way.
We mourned the defeat of Mr.. Clay in 1914,
but not mainly for his sake. We sorrowed for
our country, not for any one citizen. And
now looking back calmly, after an interval of
a quarter of century, we say that, in our de-
liberate Judgment this country would have
had twenty-five per cent. more wealth, and
some two millions more people, had Mr.. Clay
been declared elected, as he truly was New
York and Louisiana gave him majority oil
their legal votes, but gigantic frauds deprived
him of their electors, as they did General
Grant last fall.
Our correspondent asks, if we would have
the President 'ignore those who have won
and honored high position, and appoint un-
known men to important places. Why, sir,
this is is lust what we would not have and
what your system secures. Those who have
done nothing for the country are always fore
most to do for themselves. They can badger
fifty men into signing their papers where
genuine, modest merit cannot get one.
There have been instances of men who did
not even vote at an election starting brightand
early next morning with begging paper and
getting half the town to sign their petitions
for office. No means were ever better adapted
to an end than is the begging system to level
all distinctions between merit and demerit,
eminence and insignifcance
Our correspondent thinks it a pity if men
who are ''active and aspiring are to be ig-
nored in the bestowal of Office. The ''active"
will not be ignored if you leave Presidents
and Governors to make their selections un-
bored by ''the aspiring, who are often a very
different class. Leave every one free to sign
or speak for those whom he deems most
worthy, and all will go well; but the button
holing abuse puts everything at hap-hazard.
Away with it Ed.
THE PRESIDENTIAL FIELD-BURLIN-
GAME.
From, the ~ Y san.
On tomorrow, the 18th inst, remark
able convocation will be held in Memphis
Tennessee. The representatives of all the
Southern States will then and there deliberate
on the introduction of Chinese labor into the
South. An eloquent call has been published
IN the Southern papers, setting forth the i'm
mediate and imperative necessity for ''ready
and reliable" laborers on the plantations to
save them from desolation, and suggesting
Chinese immigration as the solution of the
problem. Captain Cesare Moreno, the dis
tinguished Asiatic traveller, will possibly re-
ceive special invitation to attend the con-
vention, andwe may, therefore, look for some
practical business.
Should the proper steps be taken, we have
no uOuDJ JuaJ neAJ year Will see snip lOauS OF
Chinese arriving at every Southern port, and
endless columns of the same people moving
| from the Pacific coast, and debouching from
| the eastern terminus of the Pacific Railroad
| across the green plains of the Mississippi
Valley. The South will have peace and
plenty at last. The cotton fields of Georgia
and Alabama, with Celestial laborers in conf
cal hats and howery gowns among the stalks,
will resemble the sunny pictures on tea
OH and x-hi1n fha ,ina
of the Carolinas will furnish interesting liv-
ing illustrations of the Chinese modes of irri-
| cation, 50 dear to boyhood's memory in the
cuts of Peter Parley's Geography. Mr.. Gree
ley's long-cherished dream of growing tea on
our Southern hillsides will doubtless be real
lied without delay, and the Augusta cotton
mills will forthwith begin to turn out silks
instead of jeans.
But we see in this populating of the South
with Cinnamon political move of deep sig
nifcance. We say nothing, for the present,
of the new difficulties it will add to the civil
rights and suffrage questions; nothing of the
fresh labors to be imposed on the Freedmen S
Bureau and Christian Commission in civilizing
and converting these followers of Buddha and
Confucius; nothing of the immense vexation
of the Hon. James Brooks at having to prove
that straight hair and lips are as much the
signs of an inferior race as kinky hair and
thick lips; nothing of the painful quantity of
whipping, shooting, and roasting alive which
the Southerners will be obliged to undertake
in similar philanthropic work of domestica-
ton to that which they have performed for
the Africans.
We regard it as a formidable, possibly re-
sistless movement on the Presidency of the
United States by his Excellency the Hon.
Anson Burlingame, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the Imperial Gov.
ernment of China. The control of some OF
the new States and Territories of the Pacific
coast is already within easy grasp of the
Chinese, should they but reach forth and
take it. The South will be even more COM
pletely theirs by the time Mandarin Burlin.
game completes his tour of the courts OF
Europe. The North is already Burlingame's
We hereby make our claim to be the first to
nominate Anson Burlingame for President in
1876. We would go for him in 1872, but we
are already partially committed to Schuyler
Colfax and John L. Hoffman as candidates fol
that year.
What a glorious picture opens to the
prophetic mind! A mandarin of the highest
possible number of buttons in the Presiden
tial chair, with perhaps the learned and vene
rable Sun-Tajen and Ohih-Tajen, only mex
inferior in buttons, for Secretary of State anC
|, Secretary of the Navy respectively. China
if not Asia, will then be annexed, and the
!, Hon. Horace Greeley will go to England a!
Minister, with a chest of American-grown tel
in each pocket of his old white overcoat
The vision cheers, if not inebriates.
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