The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-09
No Evasion or Shutting.

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nese immigration. He says that if the De-
claration Of Independence "be true he
refers of course to that part OF it when ne
clarcs that all men are created Tree ant
equal-the Chinese have the right 10 emf
CRATE 10 this country. He says the SENATE
"has taken n step backwards" lie l.
troubled. but not diSmayed. He seeks tS
find an explanation of the impression winch
has become so common that "this Ch'hcse
cuisines is to be speedily elevated MO Il
"great politica; ISSUE" and h''
conclusion as follows:
"It is an element in another ana nluGn
greater problem, whose beginnings aircau.
arise TO disturb us. We mean the 'so,hIa
uucstion-alrcadv portentolis IN mos % E I
more densely populatcd countries ol 1u,
rome. and only less pressing mere -.
our broad eXpansc OF unoeciipieu ':nu'
sooner or later At will force It's way ulto
Dojitics-if, indeed, It's SOLUTION pe ho. Pie-
Yiousiy obtained"
Ifs solution will neUer be obtained. 80
much may be set down rs certain. MI
GREELEY always has a hobby to ride. lie
is now astridc of "co0peratlon." lie aa-
yiscs the working mento cooperate aho
thinks that they will themselves yet ~
willing 10 employ the Chinese "a' Inc
lowest rates." This proposition impi,es
that even Mr.. GREELEY has lost sight OF the
Declaration of Independence; lor Tue
Chinese are MS much entitled to high wages
"a the Americans, if that document he lite
rally interpreted. And why should not the
Chinese themselves "co0peratcE WI!
should they work for other men! EN-
IDENTIFY. Mr.. GREELEY will have to burhi>i'
I'D his republicaniSm.
The working men Of this country are not
fools. They know that the African negro
can compete with them, and does compete
with them land they cannot be humbugSeo
into the belief that the Chinese are unable
to compete with them in building houses
making shoes. tailoring, painting, or lhaec"
in any occupation requiring deXterous lila,
nipulation or strength of muscle rather
than "book-learning.' Why, we are tolu
that Mr.. SAMPsoN's coolies are going TO be-
come expert shocmakers within Anew weeks
or at most a few months time. lsthcrc any
lack of mechanics in China? Are there mol
skilful bricklaycrs, carpenters, stonc-ma
sons, painters, and shocmakers, among the
negroes of this country? And shall we De
told that the Chinese are inferior to the ne
srocs? This story will not deceive even the
most ignorant. We can tell Mr.. GREELEY
that he will upon thisq question lose the vot,
of every negro in the South. The negroes
arc more bitterly and more universally OF
posed TO the importation of Chinese labor
ers than are the whites for no one would
have the hardihood to say that the Chinese
cannot compete with the negroes as IL
borers.
Why not allow this country to be settled
ND by Caucasians: Why should we import
either Mungolians or negroes? For ON
part, we would greatly prefer to bring oVci
the latter rather than the former. But sup
pose the Legislature Of Virginia were &c
appropriate Il million Of dollars to he en-
pended in importing native Africans Int"
this country or suppose that some Of on:
planters should undertake to import them
on private account. What white man l.
there, North or South, who would not cry
out against such acts: What is to become
of the descendants Of these Chinese: The!
viii ovcrrun the country rs the frogs ;hd
lice did Egypt in the time Of Moses, and
will be a pest and Il nuisance. The labor
question is Il very troublesome one, Mi.
GREELEY says, in the dcnscly-populated
countries of Europe, 4" and only Tess pressing
here because Of or broad erpdnSe Of u"oc-
cupacd land!" Why should we hasten the
day when the same question will torment
our descendants? What would we not
give if we could get rid entirely Of the in-
ierior race now in our midst? Why should
we cause our children to suffer from ::
greater evil!
1t NAV be safely assumed that no man
whose labor could by possibility come into
competition with that of the Chinese will
look with favor upon their emigration TO
this country. AS every man who disparaSes
"the masses Of the people considers him.
self outside of that description, and plumes
himself upon his superiority to such cattle,
so all those who are willing to allow The
Chinese to come TO this country regard
themselves as perched upon an elevated
position where no Monaghan can ever dis
turb the serenity OF their thoughts or the
quietude of their lives. Such men fear no
competition. They are persuaded that
there ought to be Il class of people to work
for less than slaves wages, but 1t never
occurs to them that their descendants may
lie among that despised class. Let all such
Io,rp q lagoon from what thew see around
them ever in Virginia, where many OF the
descendants of wealthy and refined gentle
men are now in such circumstances that II
the Chinese acre brought hither they would
haze to compete with them. "Thinking
asmen," quoth Mr.. GREELEY, "pcrccive
1.-The absurdity of attempting to isolate
yourselves from the world" "Thinkine
men " will decide that as not one man in
ten ever rises above the necessity OF labor.
Ing with his hands, and that rs out Of the
hundreds Of descendants which any father
may have in the course of half q dozen
generations, there are to be only Il few OF
these lucky ones, whilst there must he
scores of the working class, it becomes them
to do nothing which shall DEGRADE theii
own flesh and blood-nothing which shall
cause the pure Caucasian of q hundred
wears hence to be the slave of Il Monaghan,
uor the Chinese will, some of them, accumli-
late fortunes and have servants to minister
TO their wants.
We are amazed that any "thinking
man" can even so much as tolerate the idea
,f ,uinin0 this country by filling il I'm wit