The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-08-12

WATER VALLEY. Miss. Aug. 3, 1863.
Editor Clarion. AS Southern man and
| Mississippian oftwenty years, beg the priv
| iiege through your columns of entering my
earnest protest against a certain project
which i agitating the newspaper world II
| not the people. LII the papers represent the
people. we all seem to be going wild over
the Introduction of Chinese laborers into the
South. la the first place. would ask, do
We want population? 1 think we have as
much now as before the war, and as for the
whites. they are more industrious and
thrifty, and if Probate Clerks records are
any Indication. 1t will increase more rapidly
! than anti-bellum times, when we were all
more or less know nothings on this question.
Admitting that we want more population.
l would ask every sober, rejecting man who
originates an idea. and who have observed
! the operations Of our system" il IL Is not
better to bling here intelligent, thrifty, chris
tian Europeans, and make them the owners
of the soil they occupy, than to flood the
country with this Trogan rabblel Would
they not make a better class OF citizens and
be better fitted every way 60 perpetuate our
republic, wher. this perpetuation is now al
most a forlorn hope! Would this not SOON
est develop our various resources, build up
our wasted fortunes, and make the country
really prosperousi Let no man say they
will not come among us, for they will il we
offer them Inducements, as for instance, look
at the w estern States. Cannot our large
land owners divide their farms into small
hosesteads and sell TO these people on terms
to induce them to COME reserving "A portion
that will increase in value by the increase of
population, aud will not the same reason set
up and push forward their other enter
prises? From the revelation of the China
agent at the Memphis Convention, and the
prompt responses to@his requirements, IL
seems that we have little money yet and
cannot we spend AS much money Tor one
European as for cody, and Is he not worth
twice as muchE
Most of our papers have advocated this
very policy since the surrender, and it is
surprising with.what lawyer-like facility
they now change sides to suit the supposed
popular sentiment. The big guns fire, and
the little ones chime in the general cry for
the restoration OF King )tton, and the con-
sequent relapse into the attendant mania.
Does not every one know that cotton was
running our land, aud eneetually checking
the improving our offarms,and the beautify-
ing and making comfortable our .homes
Look at the innumerable instances of our
farmers who counted slaves, mules and cot
ton bales by hundreds, who deprived them
selves of nearly every comfort, lived in huts
and Jared really worse than our humblest
mechanics. l believe we want diversified
agriculture, and immigrants brought here
capable of making intelligent citizens, and
am satisfied that with fair and twoAeided
discussion of the subject, all honest men
would arrive at the same conclusion. There
are two million and a half oflandless labor !
erS in the United States now out OF employ
agement. or one cent of money Is offered, !
but we have plenty To send for the Chinese.
Oh. wonderful oh. patriotic consistency ~ |
Ne inconsiderable portion of this large mum
Der Is here in the South. and can be seen any
daY by Mississippians Many ofthem are eX- |
confederate soldiers, some OF whom gave |
land, mules. niggers, limbs-all but life for |
their protection with the threatened reduc-
ton to pauperism by the merciless compe- |
tition of these myriads of heathens. Is the |
picture oVerdrawn!
Then again, look at the certainty of con- /
tests and riotous disturbances that will in |
evitably follow this unnatural rivalry of the |
vermin-eating idolators, against our white |
men who cannot live SO low. Again will /
not the loyal league emmissaries take adj
vantage of this God-send, ITO them) and /
unite the opium eaters with our present un- |
settled political majority, and the combiDa-
ton vote us all TO perdition! We know /
that the carpet-haggers are fertile in re-
sources, and work Increasingly.
To present a still more odiOus feature -
think of our already diluted and deprecia-
ted christianity, mixing with Buddhist rites \
and Fetch orgies.-Our social demOraliZa- /
ton pushed forward by the depravcd habits /
of these creatures.-the miscegenation of all |
the sons of Adam In one nation, and all these /
things sustained and urged forward by the |
operation of the damning laws that govern |
us. VIII not the consequences be such as |
to make every patriot shudder! VIII we |
not have Babylon over again! Is iJ improb-
able? Ii not, God save US.
The Americans cannot 90 backward, we |
will 90 forward TO veal or raise such pam /
demonium as will make the Chief Of the fall
len gleeful, people his dominions with dem- |
ons, and make angels weep believe this /
question is more Important than the incu-
bus of our national debt, with its concomi-
tant train of blighting evils, and deserves |
the greatest consideration of every patriot.
REBELLIS.