The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-02
The Celestial DcluCc,

Wendell Phillips looks on hopclessly upon
the progress of the Chinese immigration, rs
dc Tocqueville contemplated the rising del
uSc OF Democracy. Indeed, the language
OF the French philosopher on the one SUBJ
Ject may have suggested that employed by
the arch aStator upon one of "The Ques-
"tlons OF Tomorrow" The latter repre-
scnts the Ango-Saxon and the Chinaman,
each rs world power which moves onward
to its purpose as irresistibly rs law of fate.
In his usual metaphorical, hyperbocal and
paradoXical way, he describes either race us a
Dulwark which no deluge can submcrgc and
a dcluSe which no bulwark can withstand.
Every previous conflict in our history will
be forgotten, he prophecies, when these in
uoiniIauls iuces fiiriy meet. II Mr.. rniI-
lips promises are true, his predictions OF
mobs and social earthquakes yield So most
'iame and impotcnt conclusion" The prob
lem is one that can have no solution except
the fate of the Kilkenny cats.
The thoughtful observer of the resources
and needs of the country may, perhaps form
different Judgment Of the result of the
Chinese immigration, now numbering two
hundred thousand, and still pouring III
through the Golden Gate. He will remem-
her that the apprchensions now entertained
in regard TO the Celestials, once sought to
obstruct the way Of the Irish and Germans,
WHO constitute so important and useful an
clement in our population. The five mil
lion immigrants who landed on our shores
Dot yppn thn wanna IQon ,nI IScn o,>.r a..
one million seven hundred thousand nddcI
to their number during the eight subsequent
years, have not interfcrei with any industry,
nor jostlcd any laborcr on the wide field of
our republic; but have added materially to
its prosperity and its power And the OBJ
server, of whom we speak, will reflect upon
the fact that we inhabit an almost virgin
continent-a territory capable OF sustaining
between three and four thousand millions of
souls; that we trample under foot mineral
wealth such rs cannot be exhausted by the
iabors of hundred thousand years; that
the great need OF the land is labor-on and
on Tor countless centuries.
What machines have done for the mann
facturcs of England immigration will do
for the agricultural development OF the
Southern States. 1t will multiply power
and power multiplied is national wealth and
greatness. So OF our mineral treasures;
iron and copper, gold and and silver, marble
and slate and granite, kaolin and mari and
coal, and whatever else Nature garners in
her secret vaults, are idly awaiting the ad-
vent OF labor. Ii Englands coal bed, but
three hundred squire miles In extent, M owes,
as we are told, $4,000, 900 of spindles, what
results may we not anticipate when the vast
coal bed OF tho South, extending from Ma
ryland to Alabama, has been fairly opened
ana the iron fields running continuous with
it even begin TO be worked?
So far as the Chinese laborer is concerned
both Australia and California show that he
can be utilized. He Is frugal and tractable
lie Is pcacen6le, contented and Industrious
He needs direction, like every other subject
OF what is called paternal government;
but he can and will work. We have always
accorded to him certain culture, refined
enough after its sort-a wonderful dcxterity
OF hand and ingenuity Of invention. But
the Pacific Railroad proves what hard, pa-
tient, efficient work those thin children OF
the East can do. We need them among US
and let us remember that they arc entitled,
when they como, to our sympathy and pro-
lection.
LAND COMMISSIONERS and Senator C. P. LOS
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