The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-26

! frori northern China 10 the Caspian sea,
knnd ffpsn tn asts sselG md tsae pe0piD
are now the most degraded pagans on
earth. Have we not q right I'D prevent SUCH
irr,sptions from that emplrp0f IksGatls as
would endanger our whole country It's
frea institutions, it's religion a-evary thing
| that makee It's valuable 10 man
ssa thank nv God that it ts the condition
ofosir country that most Of our people To-,
hors aud of necessity labor, both male ana
female, to gain their subsistence. ~ ls tne
safety and strength Of our country: Bqs.
sir, there Is not Gne OF the myr,ads 9! 9tae
and females OF otEown race VINO now la a.od
l for their bread that cDtiidnOt be eonpseeu
with an,, deprived of his or her employ.
ment by the hordes Of Chinese that may W
I brought to this country. ,.,u,o +ho
Owe are not to look to what wiz pe t the
results to-day, nor to-morro", ~, aft.r
newt r1eneration. hut In the century alSer,
and the century following that OuI uo-
yernment ought to stlbsist @ anq 9ugh1 W
have life for thousand or nlteel Aulureo
wears. The life OF nations, tne 9eca .i. 20
of nations, Is not TO De ine'isuIsu Wy .naI VI
san,,ences that will result half century, a
contnry. or two centuries, from this day by
the admission of the Chinese.
"Sir, humble as am, with n feeble Intel
lect, and with no far-reaching wisdom,
predict this night of the 9th day of July, In
the year Of grace 1870, that, If the itnnliSra-
ton of Chinese is encouraged to our coun-
try, in one century they will have possession
of all the country west Of the Rocky noun
tains, and the population that exists there
now will be entirely absorbed by them. T.,
"Sr, appreciate the valtle OF our 90
vernment, its greatness, and it's resources.
| especially appreciate Its free institutions,
its Christian institutions, and its Chrlstlan
civilization. I would not give up these
grand features of our country for the trade
of all China or of all Asia--never; never,
neyerl The most sclettr and important
duty that has ever devolved upon any peo-
pie in the course of Providence has been de-
yolved by that Providence upon the people
Of the United States, and that is to dciend
their country, its institutions, It's clviliza-
ton. its liberties, against all attacks, physi'
cal or moral, and no less against, moral as
saults than against physical assaults.
81 agree with what the honorable sena-
tor from Nevada, who last addressed the
Senate, said of the alertness Of the Chlnese
as laborers, their preeminent skill ana sue
cess. There is no field of labor In America
in which our free and hardy sons and our
fair daughters, who labor for their sub
sistence, are now employed, from Whlch
thew could not be driven by these hordes OF
Chinese. There is not laborer, male or
female, in the United States that might not
be deprived of his or her employment, and
the wages upon which he or she has to sub
sist from day to day, by this competition.
Shall we open orr country to such COM
petition? A pretended, or an ethereal, or
an insane phi[anthrophy may say yen but
nevcrwill i give my consent to any irruption
of Chinese hordes upon our country. when
the effect will be to overthrow the Chris.
tian religion, popular government, consti-
tutional liberty, the Anglo Saxon and the
Caucasian race, to merge all and to absorb
all in the Monaghan race and in the Mon
goian paganism."