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

for conveying intelligence to China
and the English settlements In the
East Indies with greater expedi-
ton than tedious voyage by the
Cape of Good Hope" 80 !
But all the interest of America
the in Chinese based upon these
matters Of the past is small, very
small compared with that which
ARISES out of those which we
witness the beginnings in this
our own generation. The discov
cry of gold on the Pacific coast of
North America was the com.
mencement of revolutions in the
commerce, the politics, the, reli-
gions of the world, to which there
have been no parallels in all the
history Of the past. ~ ....- T..
The subject of Chinese immi.
grafton to this continent is one of
an Importance and interest which
language can hardly exaggerate.
The reader of history beholds in
this contact of the populations of
America and China, on the shores
OF the Pacific Ocean, the termina-
ton of that westward course of
empire which began i'll the first
periods of the history of man; Z;
and in it the completion of one
great cycle Of the Divine govern
ment on earth, and the commence
ment of another-the glorious and
golden age of mankind. The phi
losophic mind finds abundant ma
terial for the profoundest thought
in the numerous questions Of
political and social nature which
arise from the return of the grand
current Of civilization, transformed
by all the changes Which so many
ages and influences have wrought,
and freighted with the spoils of so
many lands, to tho regions whence
it originated; and in considering
the results as they will affect the
nations which hold thss siviliza.
tion in it's Oldest and in it's newest
forms, tho chief empire and the
chief. republic Of the world. The
patriot must speculate upon the
effects Of the introduction of q
new and boundless supply of pro-
ductive labor, Of mechanical skill
and of commercial enterprise, as
they shall tend to settle the nation
al embarrassments which have fol.
lowed our employment of the
African race; as they may prove
useful in developing the resources
OF the western portion of the con.
tinent, and elevating it to a full
level with the eastern portion :;
and as they may modify our insti,
tutions and possibly even our form
OF government. The Christian
must watch with deepest concern
the infusion Of new, snbtle and
powerful elements Of religions err.
rcr and forms of vice amidst the
more bold and unregulated mind
of our nation. And the man who
waits for the consolation of the
lsrael of the latter days must
praise God for the new form which
his almighty power has given to
the immense work Of regeneratins
the continent of Asia, through the
multitudes of its people to be
brought hither, enlightened with
Christianity and returned to it
again. Taken in whatsoever as
pect we will, the coming of the
Chinese to America is excelled in
Importance by no other event since
the discovery of the Now World.
1t is one of the impulses, beyond
all human conception or manage.
ment, by which God 10 moving the
history of mankind onward to its
great consammation. .S.as ..,s
To what this immigration may
come, and what it's influence upon
the tuture of this nation, npon
North America and upon South
America, no finite mind can i'm.
agine. There are two national
elements of the problem. Sepa
rated by an ocean whose passage
every year becomes more expedi.
tious and cheap, which is hemmed
not many degrees distant by a con-
tinuous shore-line, along which al
ready an electric telegraph has
been partially constructed, lie two
vast countries. Each resembles
the other in location, contour, cli-
mate, and other physical condi-
tons and capacities, more than it
does any other of the countries of
the earth. Each is occupied by O
people naturally thoughtful, earn.
est, acquisitive and enterprising;
each by a people strangely con
glomerate, yet strangely homoge-
neons; each by q people among
whom intellect and education con-
stitute the only patent of nobility;
each by people the freest upon
Its own continent, and governed
mainly by rulers of It's own elec-
tion and each country is now in
tho fpava;l oe n oko,.-- L. ~