The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-08-06
A Fatal DeluSion.

people who advocate the importation OF Cm-
nesc into this country believe that the ne
groes will thus not only be deprived OF en-
plovmcnt but driven out of the country.
The Carolina Times says:
"Hc 1.-THE Mongol] will supplant the ne
gro in the fields and in places OF mental SER
vice, and will crowd him out. In the Ian
euagc Of the Moor, Where should Othello
go?'
'The white wave of emigration will
sweep down from the frozen North and oc-
cupy all the temperate belt, while the Mon
golan, pouring in through California over
the Pacific railroad and through southern
ports, will FIJI the tropical regions and cui-
tivate the rice, sugar, and cotton, to winch
they have always been accustomed. Thus
the dcludcd negro will be crushed between
the upper and neither mll-stoncs of n per-
vertcd destiny. But for leagues and iran
chisc, Chinese laborcrs never would nave
been thought of in these southern states.
The necr0's own pcrvcrsitr, Yankee IN
triguc. and scalawag thirst for Office, brought
this upon his race, and it is doomed beyond
the hope of rescue.
"Th;s is no picture of the probable fu-
turc. but n fact Of the immediate and IN
eyitable present. Already are these Mon
rolians on their way, and before another
planting season, more than thousand VIII
be in Mccklenburg county. When 1t is
known that the Chinese arc faithful to their
contracts, laborious, industrious, and DC
uoted 10 their employers interest, all who
employ labor at all will have them; and
then what will become of ''Afric's haplcss
sons
Those who suppose that either scarcity
of good food or density Of population will
drive out people who arc not able to pay
their way arc very much mistaken. The
Chinese may come, and they may take the
negros place in the cotton States; but they
NAV not drive him out of the country. lie
will become a vagabond, 4 thief, bcggar,
a nuisance, paupcr-what you will-but
he will not quit the country. The writer OF
the above admits that the Chinese Will not
trouble us here in Virginia. lie predicts
that white men will settle upon our unoccu-
pied lands. But he also prophcsles that III
the cotton States the negro is "doomcd
beyond the hope of rescue that he
will be supplantcd in the fields and in
places of mental service, and crowded out
Of the country. Let any one who supposes
that densencss Of population will eXpel
these negroes look to China itself, and he
will sec onc-third of the inhabitants OF the
earth living within the bounds of that
country, and consuming each man so little
that the world wonders that his life is there
by sustained. Look to Ireland, and we
sec to-day thousands and tens OF thousands
of her people in such a condition as that it
is absolutely impossible that the negroes
can ever be reduced to greater straits. A
white man may starve in land OF abund-
ance. \ negro will not. II the people OF the
cotton States have anything to eat them
selves, they can never drive the negroes
away by trying to staryc them. Sambo will
steal, and fill his belly, and then go to jail,
or to the pcnitcntiary, if necessary. lie
has no reputation to lose. 1t is no disgrace
10 him to steal. We doubt whether it would
be considered very grave offence by the
negroes for clcrgymcn of their own race to
steal all they could lay their hands on
IL fact, to talk about starving out ne
grocs in such region as this productive
southern one of ours is to lose sight en-
tircly Of the negro character and the
habits o. the whites. We may degrade the
negroes still more than they are, and may
convert our beautiful land into the desolate
abiding place of paupers, yagabonds, thieves
and outlaws OF every sort-we may transform
men who are lawful voters, and who cannot
be deprived of the right of suffrage, into
enemies of good government, Of law and
order, of the rights Of property and per-
son-we may, in a word, initiate SAMSON, and
pull down the pillars which support the tenn
pie of our domestic institutions, and, like
him, perish in the ruins--we may easily
enough spite our faces il we are willing to bite
off our noses, or ruin our laboring class if we
are willing to ruin ourselves at the same
timc-but We cannot possibly free ourselves
of the negroes. They are here, and here
they will remain until the whites outnum
Der them as far as they now outnumber
them in the northern States. And the
wiscst course for us to pursue will be to try
TO make the negro respect himself. He will
then soon learn to respect not only our per-
sons but our rights of property.
The FoRNEYs.-A Government detective
states in q published circular that ID. Z.