The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1870-07-20

of the world; which was extensive
as Rome when Rome was most ex-
tensive, and built the vastest work
OF human architecture--its Great
Wall--for its protection against
northern barbarians two thousand
one hundred years ago. The one
is o country where the utmost ad:
yances Of scientific knowledge are
continually made practical for tile
development Of its wondrons ,ag-
ricultural and mineral wealth the
other exhibits the arts which are
necessary to the increase and COM
fort OF man carried to the farthest.
limit which it is possible for them
to reach until the principles of
true science, founded on the Chris.
tian religion, shall have been infns-
ed into them. In the one, labor is
scarce, more difficult to obtain and
dearer-in the other, it is more
abundant and cheaper-than in
any other part of the world. A
man in China receives but six
cents for days work, while one
in America gets from two to five
dollars; and many good work.
man in the former country keeps
his family for a month, or even tor
a summer, upon what the family
OF q workman here would spend
in a day. The one is settled only
here and there, in the localities
most favorable to agriculture, to
trade, to manufactures or to health:
the other is denseiy inhabited by a
population whose numbers be.
wilder the mind a province of it's
eighteen may contain as many peo.
pie as the United States, or Great
Britain, or France and the whole
Of them sustain one fourth of the
human race. Into the immense
solitudes of the one, whose ONLY
previous occupants were a few
scanty. rowing, barbarous Indian
tribes, immigrants have pressed
from all the nations 0: the world :
out of the other are flowing, and
have for two centuries flowed,
lnultitudes, which, after they have
peopled and renovated, or render
ed great benefits to, many coun.
tries of Northern and Central
Asia, and the numerous great and
rich islands within two or three
thousand miles of them, have re
Gently begun to cross to the New
World, and already number in the
United States one.third as many
as the total remains of the alb oriS
inal tribes. Tho knowledge Of
modern ages in the West, and the
introduction of labor.saving ma
chimes, will expel myriads from
Chino, as the bees swarm and hive
in the spring; and any reasonable
man who will consider no more
than the statements of this para.
graph must conclude that attempts
to prevent their coming to tho New
World are as ridiculous and futile
asit would be to endeavor to change
the laws Of Nature, which cause the
soil OF the mountains to descend
into the valleys, or the. floods If
the rain to force the channel to
the sea- The day is coming when
many millions of Chinese viii! be
dispersed over the Pacific coast.
the Mississippi Valley, the wastes
in the northern portion of the con.
tinent, the provinces of Mexico and
Central America, the whole CONT.
nent of South America, where al
ready there are several thousands
of them, and over all the islands
groups or island continents Of the
Pacific Ocean, whose indolent races
arc departing, having accomplish.
ed their mission to make room for
them. To find q place and use for
o handful of African slaves, who
were brought here In q condition
little above the brntes, in the plan
OF the great temple Of civil and
religious freedom which the Su-
preme Governor of the world is
rearing upon this continent to be
a blessing to all its nations, has cost
US an indescribable amount of dis,
cussion and trouble, endingin a stu
pendons and calamitens civil war.
An hundred.fold more important
is tito understand fully, and TO treat
with wisdom and justice from the
beginning, the race whom He is
now bringing to our shores-one 90
incomparably greater than the ne
gro in numbers, in civilization, in
capacity to bestow immense benefits
on our land or to infiict upon il evils
which may end in it's ruin. Our
faith in that God and in his word
leads Us to hope that their coming
shall be for good to MS and to them.
To present with satisfaction TO the
reader the new world Of interests
opened up around the Pacific ocean,
it will be also necessary to look: be.
yond the two nations represented
in our title, "The Oldest and
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