The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-23
ch;nese Immigrants.

,.;,oI or twelve thousand Chinese
=. Gu pr.ncisco last h'riday is subject o
comment. There ;sre air eady some one h."
dred thousand of these people in California
and when we consider the strong tcmpta
tons there are in the great "el. 't"i p'a'''' ..
the silver and gold mines-it WI 0 ~ roo.,
travagant to anticipate that they ". VIZ
a million or two in ten years or SO. ~
shall we do with them? is the great quest,.
One thingis certain, and that is that IN army
of pl,lndering dcmagogues will then de-
mand "tllat they shall have the ballot for
their protection ~
This country ought to be able to take care
of itself; but it has produced more than its
share of dcmagogucs, and these are the de-
structiyes, who, like the white ants of At
RIGA, never fail to destroy everything they
attack. They will eat out the Government
temple so that, while it seems from without
to be intact and strong, a little wind or any
pressure brought against it shows that
throughout it is honeycombed,-a mere
shetland il drops away into dust.
The South American Governments show
the disasters that arc inherent in a country
whose political constituent body is Il motley
of races. Had Spain enjoyed the means OF
transportation that exist now, she might
have translated to her provinces enough of
the Castilian blood to have put check upon
the rayagcs of the inferior and mon9rcl
races. But before she could accomplish that,
the wild anarchy of an incongruous popula-
ton swept away the feeble forces she had
been able to maintain, and erected IN place
of the Spanish authority what has been but
misrule, with all the discomfort, the outrages,
and revolutions, which such sway amongst
such people can be expected to cngender.
This country is boaStful and self-sufliclcnt,
but, great and powerful as it is, it may we'll
he warned against degrading the constituent
body. Let it be remembered that as you
degrade the constituent, you impair the
dignity and honesty Of the representative
body. Should we not be satisfied with the
progress Congress has already made in this
direction? If, with the rule confined to the
white races, crossed and improved, as it is
said, by the immigration of people from all
Tue clNlllLctt udblOilS, VIC td!llOb t)lcSciNt dli
honest and crcumspect national legislature,
what are we to expect when the repreSen-
tativc body is submitted to the influence of
the admiXture of immense masses of the
inferior races?
Two consultations we have, and they are
First-So large is the population of the true
Caucasian race in the United States that the
inferior types will not likely, at any time,
get the control of the country. And Sc
cond-That when demagogues have used
these types of men to the extreme of public
disorder and peril, then the military men
will intervene, and rescue the country from
their miSrule. The military men have always
had that part to perform. They do not APP
pear on the theatre until the scurvy poiti-
clans have made them necessity and paved
the way for them; but upon Il plain, natu-
raj law they are 1T hand when they are
wanted. They come as a mercy sent by Pro-
whence, to relieve suffering peoples from
the selfish and scnseless tyranny of sordid
and brutalizcd partisans.