Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-03-12
The Chinese.
The Cincinnati Conamerctak says.

The Cincinnati Commercial says;
What objection the Gazette has TO in
cooperating the Chinese, as we incor-
porate the Irish, the German, aud peo-
pie of other European nHtionalities, in
10 the body politic, it does not clearly
state. They are the representatives of
Government that has existed longer,
and with feWerreYolntions than any0th-
er ever devised by man. This, by itself,
ought to be conclusive as to their abil-
ity to govern. They are the represen-
tsttVes of n Jeopfe whose literature is a 8
full and abundant as our own. No
statesman or philosopher ever surpassed
CONFUCIUs in the wisdom Of his utter
ances or the beauty and bsnignity of
his sentiments. The Chinese abound
in books, newspapers and gazettes.
They are great producing and COM
mercial people, Their civilization goes
back to a period where the traditions of
other European nations begin. Whoever
reads HUGS testimony land no better in
formed writer has ever travelled in that
country will discover that the Chinese
have passed through most of our ex-
periments in social and political econo-
nv; have had their banks and bank
paper, their corporations and assocla-
lions, commercial, political and chart-
table, their systems of roads, canals
aud other means OF inter-communica-
tion, all analogous to our own have, in
all respects, exhibited the same kind of
capacity in the arts and Industries, in
politics and religion, in trade and COM
merce, that distinguish the American
people, and are now represented at the
Courts of Europe as they have been at
our own CapiGOI by an American, who
feels and understands the. importance
OF his mission and the necessity of
maintaining the highest International
relations with a power whose resources
and productions will now compare
favorably with those of more modern
nationalities.
The twaddle about an american
raceo has the flavor of the old Know
Nothing nonsense. There is no such
thing as a distinctive American race.
/ unless we seek for it among the van
ishing tribes of Indians. We are a peo-
pie made up of various nationalities.
and very few families are to be found
in which the blood IS not a mixture of
English, German, Scotch, Irish, French,
or Holland. Brought under the inf1u-
ence of our institutions, nodded by
then7,a these distinctive national feat
ures are lost in generation or two and
the same absorbing and transmitting
influence will operate in the same way
with the Asatie. There is. no danger OF
a conquest of the Pacific States by them.
They will find their uses as well as
abuses here, and will form very inl-
portaut element, doubtless, in the
future of the country.
This nation has been at a vast ex-
pense of blood and treasure to destroy
one caste system, the outgrowth of
which was the extremes of aristocraeY
and brutalized poor class, without
rights, political or civil; and it is not /
likely that it viii encourage the estab@
lishment of another system having the |
same tendencies, to crafty few politi- /
clans and newspaPerSj whose narrow
and selfish pride or race survives the |
days of -Nothingism, and whoA
do not hesitate 10 talk about inalien- |
able and God-given rights with no |
higher purpose than the accomplish /
ment of q political end,