The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-07-18
CHE s2larietta aonrnal.
Marietta, Georgia, July, 10: is7s.
[From the Memphis Appeal.
THE COMING MILLIONS FROM
CHINA.

THE COMING MILLIONS FROM
CHINA.
1t has often occurred t. the aver
age white man that he cannot dis
tinguish, of the five hundred negroes
that he encounters every day half
dozen from the rest. He looks
upon each individual negro as rep
resentative of his race, and never
undertakes to individualize or to
know one from another. Formerly
this was not the case. People had
a practical personal interest in their
servants, and each Southerner knew
by names and faces perhaps as many
negroes as whites. Ask an ex-slave
holder how many he can recognize
and name now even of those that
once served him. These were the
f rst to disappear, and the universal
abandonment of old homes following
this African dispersion begat uni
versal oblivion Of African faces and
forms, and it rarely happens that
any, save the ward politicians, have
any knowledge of the average Afri-
can. The personal separation of
races, despite colored schools and
Odd Fellows and Masonic celebra-
tions, and despite universal suffrage
and civil rights bills, is wider and
deeper, and more irremediable than
that of the two races under the old
system of African servitude.
There is no enmity of race devel>
oped. On the contrary, as natural
laws are suffered to operate natural
ly here in Tennessee, the relations
of races are more kindly than where
absurd force is sought to be applied
most adsurdly to social and person
al facts and conditions. But it was
not of these matters we proposed to
speak. Yesterday several China
men and Chinese women were bust
Iy employed about the Streets
They said tsey came to wash clothes,
and that others, ii they succeeded,
would follow. Chow many Z" was
asked. ave cannot count" was
the significant answer. If Chinese
invade the country, whatever disad.
vantages accrue, the greatest result
ing calamity befalls the colored race.
John Chinaman completes with
Cuffee in every avocation in which
the negro excels. They are skillful,
clearly BARRIERS. Certainly tn
worlds ingenuity has never deposit
ted such washing machine in
patent office as Yung Who, or Sam
Yup, gentlemen whose shingles
adorn the streets of Denver, with
branch establishments in the foul liz
en- business in St. Louis, and in ev-
cry city west of the Mississippi.
Rapidly have the Chinese over
spread the plains, and occupied ev-
cry village along the Pacific road
and its branches and strangely have
the numbers of these people in the
United States been under estimated.
The San Francisco Chronicle has
been inqairing into the statistics of
Chinese immigration. 1t discovers,
in reference to this "peculiar PEG
ple," the very state of facts which
pertains to the negroes in the South.
All Cinnamon are Cinnamon, and
that is all we know about them.
We could never, after several weeks
acquaintance with each of them, dis
tinguish Gee-Lang from Gee Whoa,
and Sing Yung was precisely like
Gun Chow, his next-door neighbor.
The difficulty Of discriminating, or
unwillingncss to make the effort,
was the same that affects the present |
personal relations Of whites and ne
groes in these States, and in both
instances for the same reasons, the
numbers Of Cinnamon in America,
and of Africans in each locality are
always underestimate. Cinnamon
of intelligence, engaged for years 10
importing their countrymen, say |
there are one hundred and twenty
one thousand in California alone.
There are six Chinese importing |
companies, and each reports the
number it has introduced, and these
companies declare that the number
coming this year is tenfold greater
than ever before. An English
steamship company has been estab-
lished between Canton and San
Francisco, and Cinnamon are starv-
ing at home while those in America
uniformly grow .ricb." Therefore
it happened few days ago, when
the ChroDicLe's reporter inquired Of
these Chinese importers of Chinese |
laborers how many were coming,
the answer was, "China could well
spare seventeen Millions If the
oranges begin to import them as
proposed, how speedily the whole
system of Southern life and industry
may be revoiutionized, and how rich
the present generation may be made
by the very poverty of toiling Chi
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