Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-04

mixed cases, to the ngold diggiHgs
where white rowdies, acting as self
appointed collectors, levy the min
ing tax which is never assessed up,
on Americans. Recently, however
various manufacturers, farmers and
others, Drawing theswild beast, the
Irish mob, have begun to employ
Chinese labor, and with such sue
cess that capitalists see in it the
sinew and muscle of the Far West.
A writer in the Overland Month
ly of March, 1869, says of the Chi
namen: slH sr5I .f s4i
"What they want is employment
and such pay as will support them
and leave something over to send
back to father and mother, or to
the wife and children left at home.
So accustomed have they always
been to give a full and honest days
labor to those who have hired
them, that they expect to give
their employer the service of their
muscle and their skill during all
the hours of the day, only asking
reasonable time for meals, together
with the stipulated wages when
their work is DONE" +H
The owners of wooden factories
praise them as the best of work
men. The officers and foremen of
the Central Pacific Railroad. on
which some ten thousand Cinnamon
are said to be at work, speak no
less highly of them. Their work
is full and honest-no tagging and
story telling, no whisky drinking
and few fights. Overseers declare
that they can drill more rock and
move more dirt with Cinnamon
than with an equal number of men
who claim this kind of occupation
as their speciality. What they lack
in bodily vigor is made up in per>
sisteney and steadiness. sr.lr
Indeed, California is just begin
ming to feel how suicidal her course
toward Asiatic labor has been; and
she is finding that her material
prosperity is increasing apace with |
he innovation upon that policy.
The Chinese are found now in |
paper and powder mills |
n the borax works; in the hop |
plantations, fruit orchards and
Vineyards; following the reaping |
on farms, and working |
he salt pits on the coast, doing |
almost universally the cooking, |
md engaged id hundreds Of
branches of industry that would be
impossible without their cheap la
'Or. -..f.....
The sure result of this will be
hat, in few years, the small saw
ngs Of these workmen, will, by
ccumulation, transform the Coolie
I to-day into the capitalist, con-
racting to build railroads, owning
arge farms or factories, and lines OF
hips, and making great commercial
ordinations. This is certain, for
% people on the face Of the earth
dvance so unswervingly in the &C.
Emulation of capital and in its
Investment, from childhood upward,
hey combine the shrewdness ofthe
ew with the many -sidedness Of the
Tankee. What the Jews have been
n banking, the Chinese may easily |
become in general commerce and
industry on the Pacific coast.
The Philadelphia Telegraph of
he 21st, in speculative article on
The coming Asiaties," in which it |
axes ground, that to be consistent |
With the spirit of the age-in this
country at least-the immigration
If the Chinese women should be
encouraged, and the Coolie be in
luced to become a citizen, and |
have accorded him by statute the
opportunity of a freedman as soon |
IS by frugal diligence he can
Ichieve it"-that is as soon as he
las laid by enough money to buy
lin a little farm, he should be en-
tiled to all the rights, immunities
md privileges of citizenship. The
Telegraph presents this picture of
he kind of population our acees-
ions will embrace:
These almond-eyed Asiatics will
,e chiefly brought as coolies, and
hey will remain among US in a
tate of segregation. There will
,e no intermixture of races, no
of the Christian faith,
md no subversion of the aesthetic
md utilitarian civilization by an
,ther, the antiquity of which only
its impOtence-which
AN give for st. Peters but a joss
rouse, for the steam engine a puz-
lie in bone, and for the telegraph
my ingenuity in trifes or roguery,
rom jugglers' sleights and coun-
,erfeit Spanish dollars to a dwarf
rec culture. OF course these la
oorers will not represent even
heir own petrifed and bizarre
caste civilisation. We shall see
aothing of the mandarin classes,
except in the case of squad of
bird or fourth rate officials con-
to the make up of some
Burlingame mission, nothing of the
great Hong merchants, and very |
little of the respectable shopkeep-
ers, who will be content to send US
heir teas and powder crackers,
preserved ginger and Canton Grape |
,hawIs in return for consignments
Of specie in the old fashioned way.
THE POPE's CARRIAGE.
The POpe's coach is splendid struc>
.ure. 1t was begun under the ponti-