Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-17
ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, JULY H. 1858.

The end of the long-continued exodus
from Europe can not be far off; TO think
otherwise Is to believe unjustifabIy in a
rapidly-approaching decay Of the nations
beyond the Atlantic. Social and politi.
cal reforms raising the condition Of the
lowest classes, the increase in industrial
prosperity, and the continued drain of
killed labor to-. foreign countries, seem
TO be silently working throughout Eu-
rope toward the establishment Of proper
balance between population and means
of support. L-sEs.I H.H
The Cinnamon in this country was for
years excluded from all participation in
the development of the national prosper.
ity, and was grudgingly allowed to work
only in those gold diggings which were
considered worthless by the American :
but when n pressing necessity arose for
labor on the public works of California
and Nevada, the Chinaman was found TO
answer every need; and now, having
become identified with our internal i'm.
provcments, he has obtained recognition
as necessary element OF population
the execution of great enterprises is
based on his cooperation. For veal or
woe, the Pacific Railroad is uniting more
distant extremes than the two shores Of
our continent. -au.slb Iertr-l
The facilities for crossing the Pacific
arc yearly Increasing and SO is also the
knowledge Of America in China. Tn
less obstacles be placed in the way, emf.
grafton will increase rapidly; with addi-
tional encouragement, it will soon be-
coine enormous. rrrr- re.lHs 10
q Having no rights, exposed to contin.
ued extortion, treated with contempt and
indignity, branded as an idolator, and
charged with every vice by his scrup,i-
lously just, religious, and virtuous neigh
bors, the Chinaman, feeling that he has
no position here, seeks California, as the
pearl-driver does tho bottom of the sea,
and returns as soon as possible to the
free air of his native soil. Place these
Cinnamon ON the same footing with other
emigrants, and the result will be that,
while many will return to the home Of
their fathers, large portion will make
this the home Of their desce ndants.
This was and is the case in the Dutch
East Indies, where they were less op-
pressed than in California. i1tHa
Under these circumstances, if this i'm
migration should be proportionate to the
necessity tor relief that exists in China
or to the capacity for receiving it here !;
or, again if it should bear the same rela-
tion TO the parent population that the
emigration from ireland and Germany
bears to the home population of those
countries, the male adults of Mongolia
origin on this continent would soon out
number those OF the European race.
When we consider that the prejudice
of race is, with US, q part of the founda-
tion of politics; that the moral charac-
teristics of variour nationslities become
important parts of the frame work on
which parties are constructed; that the
opposing armies which fight with the
ballot, aud at times threatened the sword,
are, to a large extent massed by races,
when we consider this, and then turn to
the prospect of o homogeneous mass of
people among us, their male adults out
numbering largely those of all other
component parts of the population, and
having no sympathetic bond with us in
their language, traditions, or, so far as it
goes for anything, their religion, then
the social and political importance of this
great problem dawns on the mind.
To the thinker who has come to look
upon the American as the birth right of
the European under the tutelage of the
Auglo Saxon, as presenting the prospect
of hemisphere poepled with new race
built up from the best elements of the
European numbering moro than twice
the present population of the globe, a
race which will be homogeneous, enjoying
the most complete means of interconi-
munication by steam and electricity,
having one language one form of gov
ernment and one idea OF God; to him
the startling possibilities involved in the
problem before us come as the discovery
of neglected data, which may invalidate
the result of years of calculation.
If the probabilities Of the case bear
any proximate relation to the possibili
ties, the teeming population of our hemis-
phere two or three centuries hence may
have more Chings and Changs in their
genealogical trees than Smiths and
Browns for, other things being equal,
the predominant blood will be that of
the race best able to maintain an undi-
minished rate of increase; and the vital
ity OF the Chinese nation during con-
slant struggle for life seems to bespeak
for it least equally favorable prospects in
less crowded homes. n. e
With an emigration from China stand
ing in the same ratio to the home popu-a
lation that the drain from Germany holds
to the population of that country, we
shonld have an influx OF more than one
million Chinese yearly. Ten years Of
this rate would place upon our soil o
preponderance of male adults OF Mongo- ]
liah blood over those of all the other
families OF man among us.
The perception of this possibility can
not but awaken in the mind of the tree
American the gravest thoughts. /, The
social, political, and chronological ques-
tions involved are of trauscendent i'm
portance. -.------
4 The dasstiol of the prohiBilipnfp or the
heavy ta5ation Of Chinese Immigration
is almost sure toshs one of the earliest |
and most bitterly fought political issues
Of the far west. The hostility Of Che
Chinese I'd the, white laborers, especilly