The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-16
Trouble with the Interior Races.

CpnQf0f = 2
thousand Chinese immigrants now IN tnat
state: that they underbid the American
Cancasian |aborers that they are pagans,
.,d chow no desire to assimilate with our
institutions: that they add no material
wealth TO the community, taking away with
them to their native land, either before or
after death, all that they accumulation
.hcv never allow their bones to rest 10
American soil; together with other serious
affections 10 their habits and morality.
Tba. the Chinese are most Objectionable
when appearing in considerable NUMBERS
amongst white citizens We should suppose
al, will agree. But the question as to what
shall Le done with them is not free from en-
b,rrassmen. on account Of the national pol
icy towards another inferior race. The ques-
ton with reference to the Chinese settled &C
cordipg 10 the policy OF the nation deVei-
opcd in respect to the negroes would be 10
"ciye them the ballot" and educate them.
The ballot that they may ''protect them-
selves" and education that they may prove
tina, mentally and morally they are as good
As. il not better, than the white man l.!
It may be answered that Cinnamon don't
want the ballot, and will not be educated in
our schools, and will go home again, "allVe
or dead" But it's Of no use. Ballot"
him and educate him according to our
.sidecs " and he must become ga man and
brother" We apprehend that thls VIII
be the amount Of the comfort that Dir. SAR-
CENT will carry back to his constituents IN
California.
The United States Government of white
pcoplc has had to do with three races OF in-
rcrior men. First, the Indian second, the
negro third, the Chinese. Every step Oh
the history of the doings Of the white race
with regard TO them has been marked Dy
trouble-a world OF it. That the different
races were made each with traits ana pas
sions peculiar to itself, which cannot be
ersdieated, is very clear to all rejecting ana
dispassionate men. They were placed TO
themselves in different parts of the globe
snd whenever they have been brought in
large numbers into the same place trouble
has always followed.
Ia the intercourse of the people oil
the United States with the races we have
referred to there has been that kind
and degree Of trouble and conflict that
mainly tells the world that assimilation and
peace in a mixture Of distinct races are abb
soutely impossible. We have reasons and
examples abundant, and We are yet to have
more of them.
The Indian is the most heroic Of the
three. He has love Of native land, bravery
aud strategy in war, and spirit OF PRIDE
and manhood that makes it impossible to en-
slave him. Next comes the Chinese, re-
markable for ingenuity in art, bis industry,
and bis undyiDg devotion to his country,
which he adores as the "Flowery klnS-
dom" In industry and mechanical ingenuity
he excels the dian. He equals him in bis
attachment to country; but in bravery
and manly pride the Chinaman falls i'm
mensely below the Indian. The Chinaman
is submissive and bears oppression patiently,
and seems happy performing heavy labor
under severe taskmasters. The negro
the redskin to country. He is more docile
than the Indian and is on better terms With
labor than the Indian, but not so patient, nor
80 persistent, nor SO ingenious as the China
man, In heroism he cannot be mentioned |
the same day with the Indian, while he does
rot dream of the steady economy OF the Chi
nalnan.
We cl,ss the Indian first, the Chinaman
occond, the negro last in the higher tralts
OF human character. Each Of them is I'M
suited to citizenship amongst while men, ana
the more of these races there are IN TINS
country the greater will be the trouoie ana
disorder that they will cause in The country.
, We have had sad lessons already on the
subject, and we have more to learn. In the
end the principle of the triumph OF the
1jttest~ will prevail, and the white man Will
exclusively rule every desirable part OF this
continent. 1t must be so. Order must pre-
vail, and labor must be morally and physi-
cally symmetrical and harmonious. The
school OF labor must send out the best type
of man in order to rep'enish the higher kinds
of employment.
Society must be contented undisturbed by
inequalities and incongruities of race. The
mass must be endowed tremendously with
the habits of industry, with skill, and ca
pacity to grow and increase in all things that
promote social comfort and contentment and
make d nation prosperous, powerful, and
digniied.
Can this be done by a community into
which is injected large body of the infe-
rior types of men, who lack forecast, steadi-
ness, industry, and probity, and who in ply
steal features and mental dispositions are
widely different from the superior race in
the midst of which they live! Unquestion-
ably not. They must as long as the unratu-
raj association continues be cause Of do
mestic trouble, and q drawback upon all
progress and increase OF the community.
The Inaians will not be enslaved, aud they
will rescn. what they deem outrages. They
are heroic and shrewd in war, and we can
hardly expect to be long at peace with them.
Yet the Indian does the nation less harm
living apart from US and keeping us at war
than he would do il living III our midst.
And it would be better for the nation to
maintain the same relation towards any in-
ferior race than that that race SHOULD be in
corporated in the body polite to disturb the
peace and diminish the force aud dignity
of the nation.