Middletown transcript., 1869-07-17
An Important Movement.

- S>-s ". thAS OVutu. n NUOile cOntTac-
tor from California attended. What more
could have been expected, since the ne
groes under the tutclage of northern carpet
baggers, have turned politicians and ar
raycd themselves against their former mas
tcrs and become unreliable as laborers.
1t the South should be filled with Asiatics,
as 1t is now likely to be, from the teeming
millions of that overcrowded part Of the
world, let the Africans all migrate to the
Northern States, particularly to New Eng
land, and quarter themselves among the
people so full Of professions for their we'll
fare. Let them test the sincerity of New
England philanthropy, and of their hon
eyed professions of love for the children Of
Ham, whom they regard, or profess to re-
gard as "brethren." The condition Of
these people is truly to be commiserated.
They stand more in need of the sympathy
and protection of the white man now, than
ever. They need protection from them
selves. from their prevailing vices and de-
moralization, and particularly from the
lures and delusions of political scoundrel-
ism, which will work only their ultimate
ruin. The freedom and enfranchisement
Of the race, here, while to their short sigh
ted vision seeming good, is a positive
evil, as time will demonstrate. Their on
ly place of safety is their native Africa.
Liberia is the only refuge presented to
these people. There, genial climate,
where subsistence for man springs almost
spontaneously from mother earth; where
there are no prejudices of race to encoun-
ter. and where free government and lib
cral institutions, render them free indeed
But, they will not 60 there. A few of the
more intelligent and enterprising will, but
the great mass of them will remain, to
perish, gradually, like the red man of the
forest, before the more hardy active, and
intelligent Caucasian.
This is to be the solution of the negro
question" and we find that this is the
view taken of it, by many thinking and
intelligent Republicans. In speech de-
livered at Chestertown, on the 4th of july,
by Gen. r. Clay Crawford, he said:
"At the close of the present century there will
probably be ninety millions of white Inhabitants
in the United States and only about two million
negroes. In the rapid increase of the white race
and the gradual decrease of the negro, lies the
true and only possible solution of the negro uues-
ton. Let US then trouble ourselves no longer
about the negroes. They are free not by your
acts or mine, not by their own exertions, but by
the unforeseen result of series of great events
The NeW York Herald thinks the At
rican will be supplanted by the Asiatic.
That journal recently gave publicity to
the following, which is extracted from its
columns:
The AsIATIc EXODUS TO THE U. S.
Still they come. Already on the Pacific
slope there are some one hundred thousand
Cinnamon. On Thursday last twelve thou
sand Cinnamon arrived at San Francisco
in sailing vessels. Silver is being found
in large quantities in the White Pine dis
trict. Chinese labor will, in consequence,
be more in demand than ever. 1t is not
too much to say that in ten years we shall
have several millions of Chinese on the
Pacific slope. They are hardy, indus
trious, thrifty people, and, spite of their
religious and social customs, they will
help largely to develop the resources of
those immense regions which lie west of
the Rocky Mountains. The vast immi-
grafton of Chinese into this country is
pregnant with important results. 1t can
not fail to tell in the long run nightly for
good or evil on our destiny. The tide of
immigration has changed its course. From
Asia, the cradle of the race, it has in all
the past moved westward. Now, for the
first time in history, it is taking an cas-
tern direction. The thousands from Chi
ma will soon become millions. Japan will
initiate the example of her neighbor. 1t
will not be otherwise with India. Unless
We greatly mistake, this exodus from Asia
brings with it the settlement of the negro
question it will doubtless also give birth
u OtnerS.-N. [. HefUtU.
As a temporary expedient, to supply
the existing scarcity of labor in the South
tho introduction Of Chinese laborers may
be well enough for the present; but we
apprehend the South will have cause to
regret it. in the long run. The 18th
amendment, when ratified, will admit
these people, as well as the blacks, to ci-
tizenship. They can no more become
incorporated with the white race than the
Africans, but must remain distinct and
separate people in their midst. Here
they will be better fed, better paid, and
receive better treatment generally, than
they receive in their own country, and as
population is so dense there, they will
lock here by tens of thousands, bringing