The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-08-03

"THE, TROUBLE OF THIS NATION
We take from the Richmond dispatch
the following thoughtful article on hard
problem:
From Europe, there first came to this
country the highest type of man. BY
him, this rich and magnificent continent
was brought into the area of civilization,
and became O contributor to the subsist-
ence and comfort of society in its inter-
national relations. With the energy,
sagacity, wisdom, fortitude and CON
stancy of this superior type of man, such
advancement of all human pursuits,
such development of national power,
have taken place on this continent MS
have no parallel in the history of the
world. The same mental and physical
endowments which secured such grand
results, promised to continue to elevate
the nation in oil that is great, until it
reached the highest possible degree of
exaltation of which society, in the pre-
sent condition of mankind, is capable.
But just ut the epoch when the nation
hos reached the position from which the
grand future MIGHT he anticipated as n
certainty, new evil is presented to the
young republic, which has vexed it's
councils and threatens to impair the
forces which have so rapidly carried it
forward to distinction among the na-
tions. An inferior type Of men, who
had been held as slaves, were freed and
immediately elevated to m equality 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, with the
facilities of transportation now afforded,
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numbers Of the Asiatic people, who are
also inferior to the men who settled this
country and have ruled it with such un-
exampled thrift and growth of power.
They cannot be excluded from political
equality while it is accorded to the ne
gro; for in many respects they are his
superior. They may come in more ra-
pidly than it is possible to bring in the
Caucasian types from Europe, aud 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 aY to occasion uneasiness in
the mind of every rejecting man.
The "homogenity of nations" is the
grand principle of the modern political
families of men cannot 1.-Two happily under
the same Government or in the same
country: After 400yea the Moors were
driven out of Spain. The Greeks and
Turks can never har,nonize, though
centuries have held them in political
association. The Irish will never be
content with English rule. And national
antlpath1es and incompatibilities tho
world over are undying and immortal.
But the worst condition of society in
this world is that composed of superior
and inferior types and different colors of
men, and where the numbers of the in
ferior inhabitants are SO great ns to make
q serious impression upon the public
character and the public policy. Pro-
hlgacy and Woe take the place of in
dustry and virtue. Disorder and out
lawry supplant order and security. Cor
ruptlon gets into every department of
the Government. The country is torn
by the rivalries of ambitious men, who
take the field with armed retsiners to
seize by force what they cannot obtain
by law. The roads are neglected; the
highways are beset with bandits; agri-
culture languishes, and there is no adj
vancement IN art, no improvement in
industry. Indeed, the nation becomes
prey to on innumerable and vicious
brood of evils of hybridized humanity,
and the obstructive and ruinous consc-
quences of mingling of incongruous
types of men rs equals in the body
polite.
1t is impossible that we car shut our
eyes to the consequences of having as
political equals families of men living
i'll the bosom of this country who must
ever remain separated from our people,
and whose characters, tnstes, and aflini-
ties are SO distinct from ours as to rem
der community of feeling and sympathy
Impossible. It threatens us politically,
socially and morally.
Take the Chinese. They are accus-.
toned to lives that arc SO different from
ours that their employment amongst us
must produce the most disturbing influ-
ences. 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 bo
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 n change of habits as
is next to impossible, it will produce dis
order and bloodshed. This is now