New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-29
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CHINA IN AAEh1CA.
Some points are presented in this edito-
rial, which we reproduce from the Washing
ton Chronicle, that are worthy the consider
alton of the people Of the United States
where there is room enough for all, what
ever their nationality. THIS sentence il
very suggestive: "At all events, 1t is most
probable that what we have lost by the re
bellion, on other seas, will be compensated
BY a mighty commerce on the Pacific, Ut
once restoring activity to our paf2lyzed
shipping interest all over the Union, re-
versing the currents of international wealth
and establishing the z reat capitals of cos.
mopolitan trade on the shores of our PaCi-
fc states:
When the great friend of the United
States, Professor Rene Lafevre Laboulaye,
who lives in modest retirement at Versailles.
near the French capital, asi0nished his own
people and ours by writing his book on
HParis in America, in which, without ever
having visited this country, he described
infinitely all our habits, customs, manners,
and peculiarities, the style of our houses,
with their furniture, even the secrets OF
the kitchen, he performed service not
dreams, for mis- book was dream and moth.
ing more. Perhaps one of these days We
shall enjoy treat even more >curiOus-the
translation of the experience of John China.
man in. America. For John has at last
began to travel. no longer in single
spies, but in heavy battalions, and if be
is half rs good correspondent as Irish
Patrick or German Johannes-and We
know that he is vOluminous
writer-his tissue letters will soon
be read all over the Celestial Kingdom, to
be followed, perhaps, by myriads of his
ig.tailed brothers and sisters. They are
ali readers aud workers, and ut last, after
ages of exclusion, they begin to feel that
there is better world outside OF their own,
even on the same planet, and are rapidly
setting about that work of emigration which
il at once the solution of many social
problem, and the salvation of many suffer-
ing people. To open China, all of it, to
trade, has been the ambition of the COM
mercial nations for thousands of years; but
they have never really penetrated beyond
the frontiers. 1t seems to have been
reserved for this country to reach
the body of the Chinese people, and when
they have once fairly moved to the west,
it is At least possible that they will
disclose the mystery of those hidden
stores of gold and silver which China
has absorbed during many centuries with
out perceptible return. At all events, it is
most probable that what we have lost by the
rebellion on other seas will be compensated
by mighty commerce on the Pacific. at
once res .oring activity to our paralyzed
shipping interest all over the Union, revers-
ing the currents OF international wealth.
and establishing the great capitals of cos
mopolitan trade on the shores Of our Pacific
States. He reads the signs feebly, indeed,
who can not divine such future in the
present discussions of the Chinese question
by statesmen and philosophers. and in the
majestic enterprises projected by our daring
countrymen, Cyrus w. Field and his asso-
ciStes.
The favor with which the Chinese rulers
regard the United States as the country
with which they are alone most anxious to
open friendly relations, was first shown in
the selection of the illustrious BurlingSme
as their missionary to the world at large:
but far more significant than this is. their /
encouragement of the emigration OF their
own people to the great republic.
1t is in this light, and not in the narrow
fear that opposes the introduction Of new
species of labor. that we should study the
arrival of the Chinese. Within few days.
two large detachments of these people have
been employed in different fields, the first,
seventy-tive in number, being now at North
Adams, Massachusetts,, working in the ex-
tou6lVc SuOc ldCtOEy VI mEs ChiVlu L. ShLu-
son, and filling the places of the old opera
tives, who had worn him out by
repeated demands for higher wages;
the second, one hundred and forty eight in
who reached Omaha on the four
teenth of June from San Francisco, in !
charge of Mr.. Henry j. Gardner, intended |
to work the great sugar plantation of Ames |
Z Gardner, in Louisiana. George Francis |
Train was on the spot to welcome this last |
soldier Of fortune, hero OF |
Fenianism, martyr to creditors, guest of |
jails, and candidate for the Presidency" as |
Theodore Tilton calls him, and yet by no /
means humbug in everything, as his re.
mark to Mr.. Gardner shows II am glad"
he says, ''that you have had the good sense |
70 give this new labor chance in the South. |
We can raise ten million bales Of cotton rs
we'll as two; and, what is more, we can man.
1facture it.; and to do that we want 4 mil |
ion Cinnamon. a million of Irishmen, and
million of Germans annually, to work out 1
The destiny of this mighty empire"
So that the experiment beGins at the two
extremes of the Republic-iADld anti-slavery
and in old prO-slayery Lou
siana. Let US hope that the questions it
must arouse, will therefore be met in
or rather Catholic spirit. They
sre too vast to be belittled by psrtisanship.
that they may lead to the open
ng up of a commerce for which all the civ
lzed nations have been struggling for CEN
Iuries, and which will incaculably
the American Republic, and that
~ the overthrow of the Chinese wall of pre-
udice, we may be the instruments of q vast
we should approach their con-
liberation without passion or prejudice. |
Ind perhaps 1t is wise, if, not providen-
ial coincidence, that the trial of John
in two such diverse industries
hould begin at the same time among the
actories of New England and the cane
'rakes of Louisiana. |,