The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-03-15

i5unl. Il can hardly be otherwise
aaca every chla can lite our u door.
more than ha.f q every year, aud wilI
prefer io Do so, The question they ass
Is. not 10 what denomination does :
man belong not wba. his atiainmaais.
+ bat Wha, can THE follow 10 ADd
/ tbs standard 81 doing something and
much, With tie climate aud .as thous
/ aal incentives p effort, will, Is tie ID.
ture. ] have no doubt, produces not g.
ants, but u noble race Of men, Il not sa.
/ p5rior % any now IN The world
Oa the great Eastern Continent, west
oi tho yellow Sen, is a great plateau q
tbo most fertile land sarroaadod by
mountains, watered by vast rivers, con
lEcctci by a canal seven hundred miles
long. teeming With multitudes % hu.
man beings, packed together and hard
/ ~ getting food enough 10 sustain life,
I Nearly a third Of earth's population are
crowded together there. The people
are almost as ancient as the flood, and
were probably there when Abraham
was in Canaan. Two strong men have
tried to impress their own minds upon
the people Buddha in India who liy-
cd about GOO years before Christ, AND
Coniucius, ii China, who lived about a
century later You now understand
nae 10 be speaking Of China aud tAe
Chinese. The latter OF these men gave
laws and religion; but the laws were
barbarous, and the religion had no
stamp Of divinity upon il, carried no
divine sanctions With it, and only 81
human character, like mortar, without
eleyatng or advancing it; the most il
hoped to do, was to stand still. SO the
generations have come and gone now
aud then q vast revolution, but as Pres
ident Hopkins, in bis admirable ser
mon before the College Society says, it
was the mountain-pressed giant simp-
" turning over. "Thero have been,'
he also says, stability and order, but a
stability without growth, and an order
without progress" Such is the amount
of human life in China, that men take
the place Of beasts, and dozen will do
the work Of single horse, for the wa
ges which one horse ought to earn. =
The result is, that this people, half
starved from generation to generation,
are dwarfed-not larger or heavier than
our women. Still the Chinaman is
1.-THE, strong, active, enduring, quick to
initiate, quick to learn, mild in disposi-
ton, taught to respect law and obey
magistrates, kind to animals, industri-
GUS, willing, economical and able to live
on very little. His religion is gloomy,
and suicide is more common than with
other races. The oyergrowth Of popu-
lation induces infantcide and a disre-
gard Of human life. The Chiuaman has
very little self-rcspect and is, of course,
tricky, Geceitful, and untruthful; but
he is never malicious or royengeful l
am speaking Of the mass. Among tie
educated and mercantile classes, there
are fine specimens OF integrity and all
the commercial virtues.
The Cinnamon viii often learn our
alphabet, and even to put syllables to-
gether at a single lesson. He is a good
washer and cook, aud will make a little
go great way for himself or his EN-
ployer Such is the Chinaman, when /
have added that he is an idolater, is su-
persti,ious, carries his temple and his
gods with him, lives upon tea aud coi-
fee, and smokes opium with his tobac-
co when ho can get it
When the gold mines were discover
ed, their report went out into al the
earth. Thousands Of Chinamen were
soon scattered over California, digging
gold When the railroad was 70 be
built, they were on haud ready to en-
gage by thousands The moro they are
known, tho more their labor Is in de-
mand and now, there are al least one
hundred thousand on our shores, and
within year that number is to be
doubled and they viii probably be num-
bered by millions in q very few years.
They could send out forty millions,
equal 70 the population Of our nation
aud be benefited by the depletion
They can all, without exception, read
and write in their own language. The
great besotting sin Of the Chinese il
their inordnate love Of gambling.
Thus far they feel that they are strau-
gers, and intend aud expect to so back
to their country All their dead are
carried back for burial. Over twelve
hundred bodies, il is estimated, are an
nually carried back to China, At cost
of ons hundred dollars each, in gold
The State Of California has law that
every man who works in the mines
shall pay 4 tar Of four dollars a month,
unless be Is 8 citizen, or declares his in
teniioa 70 become one; bat no China
man has, 50 iar, ever signiGeI bis pnr-