Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-17
THE CHINESE.

Apparently the Chinese arc ABOUT 10
become as great a subject of discussion
and speculation as the negro was few
since. Tha. a vast population,
eoualing in number oue-,hird OF the in
habi,ants of the globe, should have re-
manned stationary for four thousand
wears, is of itself a phenomenon ; that
i. should suddenly burst its bonds, and
overflow Australia and this country, is
another, and one which vitality concerns
ourselves. Formerly, We might look
on the Chinese with curiosity, but we
did i. with Indifference ; but now that
they have come to u doors, we IRE
compelled to consider them more atten.
lively. One Of the irst questions that
occurs to US naturally is "Are they OF
the same race as ourselves? IN Because,
If they are, We ought to behave towards
them with forbearance and kindness.
A writer, in o recent number of tho
Richmond (ya.) Christian Observer, one
of the organs Of the Presbyterian
Church, undertakes to answer this ques-
ton in q somewhat novel anner He
contends that Adam was neither white
nor black, but red, as his name implies,
but that there is not a man Of the exact
type of Adam now living. The races
descending from him have varied, not
only from him but from each other.
Many Of these races have disappeared,
and some are disappearing. The an-
cient Celts of western Europe, and the
dwarish lake people OF Switzerland,
are cases in point. The Greek and the
Roman types of form and c%ountenance
are no longer found ia nationalities
nor can the descendants Of the ancient
Egyptians, Etruscans and PhGuiciaus
DO traced ; no resemblance is now found
among the present Inhabitants Of Egypt,
Tuscany and Phenicia, to the dsscrip'
tions which have come down to US OIL
their ancestors, nor to the representa-
tions of them which we find on theil
temples and tombs. These three races.
this writer thinks, more clearly re-
sembled Adam in their red color thar
any other race known, and they truly
represented antediluvian civilization
They were small, spare, intellectual
and industrious, and ola deep red color
unlike any other race. Now, if thi'
race had been widely dispersed by som'
sudden catastrophe or quarrel, so tina
one portion of it fed to the mountains
another to sandy deserts, another te
pastoral lands, another to the sea coast
and SO on, the necessities of their re
spective situations would engender Z
variety Of species, precisely on the sam
principles as according to Darwin, diff
fsrent species originate among animals
Thus, n race i~nhabiting q mountainou:
region so cool as to require clothing
might have their red color so diminish
as to approximate to white, as the eau
casian does,, though that race is mo-
really white, but only flesh colored
which is modified red. They would b
compelled to exercise their wits in or
der to provide shelter, clothing ant
food /; hence their intellect wouldbc con
tinually developed, and their number!
would increase with their resources. o.
the other hand, let another branch o
tho same race take up their abode il
the heat of Africa, where clothes ar,
unnecessary, where roots can be eater
without cooking, and there is IN abund
ance of wild beasts for food. Unde
these circumstances the intellect woult
dwindlc for want Of exercise, the ski
would become darker, and the savag'
propensi,ies would predominant. Thu
in the course of ages these two branches
of the same race would present very op
posite characteristics; yet neither
could be taken Is representatives o
the original stock, which was some
thing between white and black. The
lap-dog and the bloodhound are sup
posed to be both descended from
ono pair Of dogs which Noah
had with him in the ark, but it is evi,
dent that neither Of them was the oriei.
nal dog ; that must have been some
thing between the two, from which one
asccuded and the other descended in the
scale Of being. The writer in question
believes that something analogous to
this has occurred in the history Of man,
and that the Caucasian is an improve
ment on Adam, the negro a degenera'
ton from him ; that Adam was neither
white or black that tho original type
of mankind has persisted in the various
transformations which the race has IN.
dergone ; and that in oil probability the
yellow Chinese approaches nearer the
Antediluvian than either the Caucasian
or the African. Without indorsing
these sentiments one may yet ask
whether the influx of Chinese in vast
numbers among both the Caucasian and
negro races on this Continent may moi
be the commencement of a new and ex.
traordinary development Of humanity,
by which the former race win be lowered
and the other raised to the "yellow F."
or antediluvian standard. Even
now the Chinese have begun to inter-
marry with the European settlers in
Australia, aud they are rapidly becom-
ing numerous and influential in that
Continent. They are even contemplate
ing invading England herself. Hither-
to the European traders with the Celes-
tials have carried on their operations
through the medium Of Hongs" or
Chinese firms at Canton and other
parts but o the Chinese merchants