Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-10
"To the South the Chinese are a
timely Gift from Heaven"

v Iu6 OOutu tAlS ChlASSO oAO
timely gift from Heaven"
So says the Selma Times. That
journal is led TO this declaration in
commenting upon the fact that
the Messrs. Stanton have intro.
duCed several hundred of these
people into Alabama as railroad
laborers.
To our judgment, "the Chinese
are a most Watimely gift from
He'll" The lice to Egypt and the
carpet bagger to the oppressed
South, we're not more ruinous than
will the Chinese prove to US. Our
land is already cursed by igno-
rance, and suffers dreadfully under
the goading rule Of a low type of
humanity. With the injury which
has come upon US from the pres
ence of the negro in his present
attitude, we cannot conceive how
asane people can declare the in
PRODUCTION and permanent domi-
clliatioAof yet more brutal and
degraded class of human beings
in this land-which we are labori-
ously striving to restore to its le-
gitimate pNprietors, the whites, a
blessing. This land was not given to
us to transfer in few years to such
creatures as the Chinese. Let
such lands as we have not the labor
necessary to cultivate, lie idle
We have too much land in cultiva.
ton as it is. If much of the land
now cultivated was "turned out to
rest" for q few years, and that
retained better cultivated, our
crop would be equally as great.
The time has come when
our lands must be owned
and cultivated by the "small
planter" big plantations
are now the curse of the
country. Let them be cut up and
sold to the "small planters" The
possession of lands never made q
nation rich yet. 1t is the pres.
enCe Of people who cultivate
from whence comes national
wealth, and power and greatness.
But national wealth and greatness
will never come from the introduc-
ton of such people as the Chinese.
He Is brought here solely in the
interest of the capitalists and the
proprietor Of large bodies of
land and will tend to perpet-
uate the system Of 'big plan
tations." And so long as this
is done will the progress of the
country in the path of prosper
ity be retarded. When the owners
oflarge bodies of land are satisfied
that they can no longer procure a
sufficient supply Of comfortable
labor, then will they be willing to
divide their land and sell, and
when that is once commenced,
then will people, who will be an
ornament and a support to any
nation-white men and worship
pers of the true God.-rush eager
ly to us, purchase homesteads and
become permanent citizens, fully
identified with us in race, senti-
ment and religion. Until that is
done, we will continue to drag
on as we are.
We do not think any greater
curse can befall a people thau to
bring among them such creatures
as the Chinese. IN California,
where they have been for many
years, the strongest cnmity is en-
tertained towards them.
The Selma Times says:
"Sometime since, one of our CO.
temporaries said it was half ready
to forgive Stanton for the means
he used to secure the passage
through the Legislature of his
famous S2,OO0,000 bill, in consid-
Grafton of his introduction of chi
nese labor into the State"
He had better, by far, have
robbed the State of the entire S2,-
100000 than have done what he
has. He cannot possibly do the
people of Alabama, and in fact
of the entire South, a greater and
more deplorable injury than the
one of which he has just been
guilty of in bringing to us the peo-
pie which he has now employed in