The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-03-12
THE CELESTIAL CONFLICT.

CSd bless them for their toiling hands
Have wrought the glory OF all lands. s;-l
THE CELESTIAL CONFLICT.
The San Francisco dispatches of
the 23d announced the arrival of the
Pacific Mail steamer China from
Hong Kong with Gil Chinese passen7
gers. 1t was also stated that the
Chinese residents in San Francisco
we're reported to be armed for an at
tempt to take possession of the Chi
nese females who arrived by the
steamer, and that the police had to
guard against this outbreak. This
little Asiatic cloud, which seems no
bigger than mans hand, has in it
possibilities for expanding SO as to
overshadow our whole Pacific coast
In the country from which this emi-
grafton has begun, there is popula-
tion variously estimated at from $50
to 400 millions, crowded in some
portions of the Empire to degree Of
density unknown anywhere else,
where industry is pushed to the
utmost, and the economy oil subsis-
tence reduced TO. the lowest point ;
where men are so cheap that they sell
themselves into slavery for the prom
Use of $40 year, to be transported
to any part Of the world where
female infants are dispatched as sur
plus population. and where conve-
nient places are regularly instituted
for suppressiDg new -bo-n children,
to prevent the advance of population
upon means of subsistence which are
already drawn out TO tenuity.
To this land the news is now
spreading of country of high wages,
cheap lands and bountiful food, which
is open to their occupation. At first
the emigration was timid, as was
natural, and it was so costly that only
those who had some means could
undertake it, and these, of course,
had less inducements to 60 than the
poorer class. 1t was natural that
they should be cautious about sgo;Dg
to strange country whose customs
were so different, and whose people
were of race accustomed to treat
them as interiors. The early emi
grants acted as if they came to stay
only long enough to gather sum
which, though small in this country,
would insure support in ease at
home. But they found the country
altogether too good to be gwen up
in this way, and so the Bews has been
sent back to China, and the emigra-
ton has increased, rajl 1t is esti
mated that there are now 100000
Chinese in the Pacific States. And
they have built their joss houses,
and brought their women, and built
theaters, where they perform their
continued plays, and have set up
generally the customs of their own
country, of which polygamy is one.
We read of the recent arrest of a
Chinese resident of San Francisco
because he had exercised what was
his inherent and inalienable right in
his own country, by dispatchIng a.
female infant.
This is but the beginning of this
migration. What limit to it can we
reasonably expect when we reflect
upon the vast reservoir ofpopulation
to draw from j; upon the effect of the
news of their better condition here,
as it spreads over that teeEing land
upon the facilities which will be af-
forded by steamship lines reducing
the voyage inside of twenty days, and
upon the effect of the assistance that
emigrants will send back to bring
over their relations ? Is it not pos
sible that the great trade between
China and America will be, not in
merchandise, but in persons i? The
number of passengers on the steamer
China is a sign. With their econom-
ical ways of subsistence steerage
passage can be reduced TO a moder-
ate cost to them, and still be very
profitable to the steamer
The notion is common that the
natural migration of population is
Westward, and therefore many have
looked upon this Chinese emigration
as an unnatural and forced movement
which could never become of impor-
tance. But we don't know that there
is any natural migration of people to
the West. Naturally the human race
looks upon the tropical regions and
their spontaneous fruits, as offering
the conditions of ease and comfort
and those are the natural pursuits OF
human kind. If there is any natural
migration Of mankind it is to the
South but the fact is, mankind mi
CRATE where they think they can bet
ter their condition.
There is also the notion of our
ADglo-Saxon vanity that we are bound
to overrun and drive out all inferior
races, and that if any of the inferior
races remain in contact with US thew
must go under. And it must be ad-
mitted that this race has generally
gone where it pleased, and has made
it very unwholesome for the inferior
races that it came in contact with
If left to their natural powers and
disposition this race would conquer
and rule any of the Magnolian races,
as it now rules hundred and seventy
millions in India by small number.
But we have a continuance OF govern
ment which neutralizes the difference
in the natural qualities of races, and
makes one man just as good as an
other, and gives him the same coz
troll in government. And SO we now
have to try the experiment of bring
ing two races together in conditions
which make numbers the superior
power.
1t is new experiment in the his
tory of mankind, and the prospect is
that it is going to be tried on a large
scale. And these Chinese are an
industrious, thrifty and provident
people. They will grow rich yhers
the average American would remain
poor. They are not going to decline
and die because Americans regard
them as inferior Though degraded.
politically and socially, they will
thrive and multiply. The real con
fict OF races is gcing to begin in the
Pacific States. The conflict before
was not between white and black. but
between the non-slaveholding major
lty, who claimed equal political
rights, and the slayeholding minority.
who claimed that for the safety of
their negro property they must rule.