Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-01

WHITE man would perish. InlS SHOWS
the wisdom of God who has thus or
dained that the human race is to go
forward and develop the whole earth
to its nethermost parts. These are the
lands that the Chinese r wanted to
cultivate. But, / hear the gentleman
say, that "when the uplands r set
tied up the negro viii be forced into
the swamp" And in the meantime
are we to starVe ? Are our lands to lie
idle? The negro will not volun-
tarily 90 to work. From Madagascar
to Canada that country does not exist
where the negroes engage in volun-
tary labor. They had him in the
West Indies, and he converted them
into a garden, but when the negroes
ceased to be guided by the whites the
Islands became a wilderness, and the
inhabitants became savages again.
We want labor to till these swamps,
and we must have it, or let our lands
revert to a wilderness. As to the
mixture of races--have we not a
mixture among us now that cannot
be worse? Have not the most stolid
and ignorant race been made the gov
erning power? Is not the whole social
pyramid inverted? There is q some
thing about the Chinese that re-
cOmmends them especially TO US.
Where is there anything among
us that is stable? If we had an
investment to make, and wished
to find something that is fixed,
stable, and where permanency could
be surely predicted, where would we
seek for it? Look at Spain. Her
power has crumtled away, and she is
no longer anything among nations.
The spirit of revolution and change
has attacked every government in
Europe. Even England, whose flag
has braVed a thousand years the bat
tie and the breeze, now feels ii, and is
seething with political disturbances.
But here IS a form of government that
has existed since before the memory
of man-thatgOeS beyond the lights
of history. We know that nations
are apt to magnify the ancientness of
their chronology, but we know that
for thousands of years the Chinese gov
eminent has existed, and that they are
to-day the most prosperous people
upon whom the sun shines. There
must be something valuable in insti-
tutiOnS that have accomplished such
results. The people are a valuable
acquisition to any country. No Won
der they are patient-a people accus-
toned to mechanical operations
for thousands of years! These are
the very people we want. They don't
come among US to mingle in politics;
they do not seek 10 be naturalized
even. They come here from their
teeming hives, and expect to go back,
] 40 rrvv1,,or Nth Fhnnn tho caonfrv nit
1 lance that they have earned. Why
should that be begrudged to them,
when ii is weighed against the good
ternecine struggle between the Chi
| about, we don't know that that is any
affair of ours. / have a kindly regard
for the negro, but / don't want him to
be hung as a milestone around our
necks. determination is his doom.
The supremacy of the white race must
be vindicated underall circumstances.
Applause. The history of the world
shows that the inferior race must be
eXterminated when it sets itself in an
tagonism to the superior, and unless
the inferior race here, or that may
come here, chooses to recognize that
fact, they must become the victims.
Applause. There viii be no ANAL
%ganatiOn. The superior ace willnOt
come down to the inferior. The his
tory of Mexico shows the disastrous
effects OF m~iscegenatiOn. But there
would be no amalgamatiOn and no
serious collision. The white immi-
grant who comes here will identify
himself with his own race and people.
The antipathy of races is higher and
superior to all other feelings, and
will assert itself. The country needs
the Chinese and must have them"
The speaker concluded by saving
that he endorsed the resolutions to
their full extent. As he was about to
sit down, Capt. Gift handed him a
memorandum showing the criminal
statistics of some portions of Califor-
mia, where One-half the population
were Chinese. Out Of six hundred
prisoners there were but fifteen Chi
nese. eco through this country"
said Mr.. Clapp, land where will YOU
find such a disparity existing in favor
Of any equally numerous class in a
cOmmunity?"
At the close of Mr.. Clapp's remarks,
which were listened to with wrapped
attention, Mr.. Gates got the floor, and
after again asking to discuss, hauled
out a roll of paper about the size Of a
bolster, and the last report of the De-
partment of Agriculture. Some OF
the audience who foresaw what was
coming made their escape, but
the majority kept their seats.
Mr.. Gates made a few pre-
paratOry remarks about not being
blessed with the "gift OF CAB like
Mr.. Clapp, but he had written out his
ideas at length, which he then and
there proceeded to read. We cannot |
undertake to give even a synopsis of
his dissertation, OVoluminous was it,
but it was a protest cOuched in the
most grandelOquent language, against
the sin of importing heathens. After
reading ten closely and cOmpaCtly
written pages of foolscap and consum-
ing tWcnty-SeVen minutes, Mr.. Gates
got into the agricultural report and
started into the improved cultivation
of cotton by the use of fertilizers. He
had read some ten minutes on this
when the Chair called him to order
and informed him that his reading
and whole address were %irrelative and
out of order. Mr.. Gates was offended
at this, and said that if his reading
was d~isagreeable he would discOn-
tinue it. He had not undertaken to
read without permission.
The Chair stated that when permits
sion was granted he did not have a
copy of the call setting forth the OBJ
iect of the meeting at hand, and
thought that the speech or address
concerning these objects.
\ motion was made to allow Mr..
Gates to go on with his reading, which,
a division being called, was carried
by fifteen to seven.
Mr.. Gates then resumed the thread
of his discourse and read some five or
eight minutes longer.
At his conclusion Mr.. W. r.. Moore
took the floor and said that if the
elaborate Grafton or address had
been delivered a hundred years ago it
have had some relevancy.
Now it is very patent that it had
none. LabOrers we want, and labor
ers we must have. This was an indi-
Vidual enterprise, and individuals that
wanted them, like Mr.. Ayres' friend
in Mississippi, would engage them
and bring them here. If Mr.. Gates
did not want them he need not take
any. !
The question on the adoption of the
report was then called and decided in
the affirmative by a unanimous vote.
Cant Gift then renewed his motion