Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-08-10
Chinese Visitation.

The Richmond Enquirer and Endhainer, in
an article on Chinese emigration says: 1--WE
| are not in favor of encouraging the immigra-
| ton of Chinese. And we are not. in favor of
disconraging it. We believe in Free Trade. Is
We ike everything to be free-,te take its nat
ural course, Asa a general principle welike to
see railroads go where. they please. We like
for trade to go where it pleases. We like for
people to go where they please. Az yepressire
systems are Fundamentally aoroag. We believe
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{ Now these Chinese have foolishly these many
years been trying to keep off the outside world,
and 1t has been our boast that we feared con-
tacs with none; and nowsit is gravely Isugges-.
ted to close our shores against them. q 1t is
very certain they are among the most remark
able people the world has ever seen. Think of
them living people after four thousand
years-as old as Egypt, and Assyria, and Phe-,
nicla but Phenicia, and Assyria, and Egypt,
and Greece, and Rome, are gone; and there
stands this vast Chinese Empire--a busy hive
OF educated, industrious, persistent, order.lov-
ing human beings. They are said to be about
the best educated people in the world. They
are amongst the best business people In the
world. They are the best laborers in the world.
Now they are all this, and they have continued
to survive the shocks OF. time, being Pagans:
what would they have been with Christianity
There Is great work for these people to do
In this country There is all of that vast eoun-
try west Of the Rocky Mountains for them to
subdue. There are thousands of miles of rail-
road to be built. They can cover the arid
plains of Utah. Colorado, Arizona and New
| Mexico, and with their system of irrigation
make them blossom like the rose. There is
the vast Mississippi Valley. There are the
o1 dc coft tho ~
rial domain of Mexico. We have abundance
of room, and abundance of work. We have a
continent-aye, hemisphere to manipulate =
They will cheaper labor; but they will there
by enable us to compete with the factories Of
Europe, and so cheaper the commodities which
we use. --5 =
But there is fear that We shall be over
whelmed We doubt it. In twenty-6v years
We shall have nearly ninety millions of Euro
peans in the United States. In the same pc
riod we shall not have more, perhaps, than FIVE
or ten millions Of Chinese.
Let them come, if they. want to come. We
are not forming here on this continent any ma
tionality after the old-world patterns. We
Americans are the Greeks of this age, and
| more than the Greeks. We are the Cosmopo-
lites of the human family. Patriotism we do
not put forward as our animating principle; We
| belong to the world we embrace all races, and
blend all into world-civilization Here the
Engl,shman, the Scot, the Celt, the Teuton
the Latin, the Jew, the African, rear great
empire and baptize into the communion the
teeming millions of Eastern Asia Here Prov
idence seems to bring together the races of the
earth to develope some new experiment in hui
man sociology. Here we for the first time in
human history make all the world kin Who
knows how far the plan may reach? Who
knows what shall be in century, or two CEN
turies? Perhaps the few ship loads Of almond
eyed Immigrants now wandering across that
| great ocean to San Francisco are the pioneers
in vast scheme which shall extend the bless
ings of Christianity over that mighty pre Of
China-and over other lands in that region
containing millions Of human beings Let
| them come and let us have faith in the fu-
ture. Our business is to go forward. The au-
thor Of the universe will look to the results.
Through the ages one unceasing purpose runs
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