The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-01
Tho Trouble OF this Nation.

From Europe theVe ia s' Ss'h1e " 49,
erv the highest type Of man. by MIN I'M,
rich and magnificent continent was proush'
into the area Of civilization, and became
contributor to the subsistence and comior'
Of society in Its international relations
With the energy, sagacity, wisdom 'or'l
sude, and constancy of this superior 'yP'
of man, such advancement OF oil hu'i''i
pursuits, such development OF natio'ia
mower, have taken place on this cohIihei
as have no parallel in the histor! 0, 'h'
world. The same mental and phys,cai Gil
dowments which secured such grana ~
suits promised to continue TO eieVa'e I'll,
nation In all that is great until 1t reacheo
the highest possible degree of exaitatioh o,
which society, 10 the present condi'ioh u
mankind, Is capable. ,.;or
But Just at the epoch when III. ~.
has reached the position from WHICH 'ie
grand future might be antlcil"'eu d Z. W.
tainty, new evil is presented 10 Inc young
Repubiic which has veXed It's counchs ana
threatens to impair the forces which nave
an rsnidly carried il forward to distinction
among the nations. An inferior tyne oil
men, who had been held as slaves, were
freed and immediately elevated to on equal
ity of political rights with the white race,
that highest order of men on the earth'
Thus the door was opened to all inferior
races; and our position on the globe, Win
the facilities of transportation now afford
ed, makes us liable to the incursion of vast
numbers of the Asiatic people, who are
also inferior to the men who settled this
country and have ruled it with such uneS'
ampled thrift and growth Of power. They
cannot be excluded from political equality
while it is accorded to the negro; for in
many respects they are his superior. They
may come in more rapidly than it is posi-
Bile to bring in the Caucasian types from
Europe, and may settle the vast plains OF
the West and become great power in the
nation.
Thus we have the great evil Of the nation
presented to us in manner so threatening
as to occasion uneasiness in the mind oil
every rejecting man.
The homogcnity of nations" is the
grand principle of the modern political
economists. Incompatible types and iaml-
hes of men cannot live happily under the
same Government or in the same country.
After four hundred years the Moors were
driven out of Spain. The Greeks and
Turks can never harmonize, though centu-
ries have held them in political association.
The Irish will never be content with Eng
lsh rule. And national antipathieS and in
compatibilities the world over are undylng
and immortal.
But the worst condition of society in this
world is that composed of superior and In
ferior types and different colors of men, and
where the numbers of the inferior lnhabl-
tants are so great as to make a serious i'm
preston upon the public character and the
public policy. Profigacy and vice take the
place of industry and virtue. Disorder and
and outlawry supplant order and security.
Corruption gets into every department OF
the Government. The country is torn by
the rivalries of ambitious men, who take
the field with armed retainers to seize by
force what they cannot obtain by law. The
roads are neglected the highways are beset
with bandits; agriculture languishes, and
there is no advancement in art, no improve
ment in industry. Indeed, the nation be-
comes prey to an innumerablc and vicious
brood of evils of hybridised humanity, and
the obstructive and ruinOus consequences
of a mingling of inconguous types of men
as equals in the body polite.
1t is impossible that we can shut our eyes
to the consequences Of having as political
equals families of men living in the bosom
of this country who must ever remain sepa-
rated from our people, and whose charac.
tiers, tastes, and afinities arc so distinct
from ours as to render community of feel
ing and sympathy impossible. 1t threatens
us politically, socially, and morally.
Take the Chinese. They are accus-
toned to lives that are SO different
from ours that their employment amongst
us must produce the most disturbing
influences. They live so poorly and work
so cheaply that their competition would
be ruinous to our own laboring classes.
We cannot expect new mode of life to be
adopted by the white laborer any more than
by other classes Of society, and if those
other classes subject him to the necessity of
such change of habits as is next to i'm
possible, it will produce disorder and
bloodshed. (This is now threatened in
California; A writer in a western journal
styles the introduction of Chinese as ga
conspiracy against the free, manly, honest,
"and remunerative labor of American
citizens, for the turpitude of which the
Language has no fitting words"
But the first step has been taken which
opens the door wide. We cannot admit
one inferior race and keep out another. And
we are threatened with the degradation of
labor, the nursery Of a nations power and
greatness with the degradation of the Co.
Vernment in all its departments with the
depreciation Of the public character and the
extreme deprayity Of the public morals.
In the consideration of this great national
evil, party is nothing. tits only ephemeral,
while the-eyil, unchecked, must be endu-
ring, and must inevitably seriously obstruet
the progress of this nation and defeat its
attainment Of that high destiny which it
would under the exclusive rule Of the true
Caucasian undoubtedly reach.
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