The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-30
From the Richmond Christian Advocat
5hc ASiatic Invasion.

5hC ASIatlc Invasion.
One of the most serious questions now be-
fore us is the threatened invasion Of this
country. and particularly the South, by the
pagan hordcs Of Asia. We are greatly sur
priscd that leading men among us should
hastily rush into this gigantic scheme oil
importing the stcalthy, cruel. and rapaclou>
Monaghan as n laborcr among Us.
The greed of gain will surely drive us tC
ruin if it be not checked by the sober and
rcsolutc spirit of the people of the South
In this case we hope and pray that it may
be put in abcvance, and kcp there.
DAYS of evil rs bad-nay, we fear, iar
worse-than those We have passed through,
await lis if the teaming thousands from the
Asiatic junglcs shall be turned loose upon
us. We had designed to give full express
sion to our views on this question, but We
find the following excellent reflections in
tho Dispatch Of this city, to which VIC asl;
the serious attention Of our readers. Here
followed one Of Our articles
From the Camden Is. c. Star.
F. r. Dixon, secretary of the Anti-Coolic
Association of the Pacific Coast, publishes
the following protest against the further i'm
portation Of these people into California,
which will be read with more than ordinary
interest by those who desire to acqualnt
themselves with Il greet enterprise upon
which, if carried into effect, depends our
veal or woo.
There arc about ID 900 Chinese in Cali
fornia, 10000 of whom are in a state Of
pconage or slavery and arc rented out by
the company owning them to the various
PARTIES by whom they arc employed in
Gangs of from fit. five thousand, as they
NAV be rcquired,-thcir wages being paid
to the agent Of tie company, who is rcspon-
sible for the performance of their labor,
and for the rIurn Of the slaves, dead or
alive, in the Celestial Empire. The bulk
of the fcmalrportion of them are scattered
throughout oIr towns and cities, democrat
izine our yuth and laying the foundation
| of future disease and sorrow to an unlimit-
| ed extent. The importation Of these slaves
| has alrea,y led to scenes of conflict on our
| wharyes1etween the rival companions own
ing theI, and threatens to assume gigantic
proportons. The employment of these
Slaves iisplaces a like portion of white la
Dor, nd more particularly of the rising
geneation.
Tcre arc in San Francisco about $4,000
to 0,000 boys and girls of ten to twenty
vers of age, the majority Of whom are
bought up in idleness, as there is no en-
loymcnt for them, and no opportunity for
hcir learning trades, as all the interior
work in our mills, factories, stores, work
shops, &C., that is elsewhere done by APP
prentices, is here done by Chinese labor.
The consequence is that our boys are but
preparing for the State PRISON, and vast
number of our girls must, alas sink to the
lowest depths of degradation.
BY the general employment Of this slave
labor in every branch of industry immi-
grafton of deserving white people from the
East and from Europe is retarded, and will
ultimately cease, while many now here
must leave. We may instance the cigar
makers, 500 of whom, with their families
who were earning good wages and investing
and spending them here to the advantage OF
the country were compelled two years age
to retire beore the Chinese labor and leave
the State. In this connection it is n notice
able fact t,at the introduction of cheap Ia
Dor has not chcapened the price of a
blanket,A cigar, or any other article OF
home Ulnufacturc one single cent to the
| c0nsumr.
The employment of Chinese labor on the
Contra Pacific railroad may have expcdi-
ted il completion Il few months, but we
conte,l that the injury done our State can
neve, be balanced by the gain in time
Hadvhite labor been employed, hundreds
of aces would even now have been reclaimed
fro, the waste, and become the homcsteads
oflappy families, who would have pur-
cbsed the land and increased the revenue
Of the railroad company, and also of the
etire State while the money paid tC
dinese labor has been drained out of the
,untry for export to Asia, and on the re
iirement of the Chinese slaves from then
held of labor, not a vestige of improvement
will remain-not. even q bone Of them vii
be left in the soil.
For twelve months an epidemic has beer
raging in our midst which for a long time
baffied the skill of our medical men and the
sanitary regulations of our city; and this
smallpox, or black-plague, is generally at
tributed to the Chinese.
From the density of their population an(
their peculiar mode of living, they are sub
ject to many diseases almost unknown t.
the Caucasian race, to which we are render
ed peculiarly liable by the introduction o.
Chinese into our hotels, restaurants, and pri
waite dwellings, as cooks, washers, and do
nestle servants.
1t has been objected to our Association