The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-29
0ur Pagan Population.

a San Francisco correspondent OF the Bal.
timore Sun wrieS:
every mouth $500 Mopgolian laborers
are added to the 90, 900 already on this coast.
Our statesmen are re.puzzled to foresee what
effect the in.erminging OF so great number
Of an uncougenial race may exercise socially
and politically on this section Of the Union.
Already they regulate the wages of labor
not only on public works, but in factories
and in our households. They monopoIze
Wishing and vegetable peddlng; they con.
troll cigar. making, boots and shoes, under
wear, &c. they are tinsmlthS, watch makers,
carpenters, broom.makers, fishermen. and
gardeners; they are very expert in Wooiien tat-
rtcs. 1t is amazing how quickly they learn 10
use American machinery. They are excellent
cooks and chamber-Scrvauts; they are eX-
pert money. counters in banks. In fact, they
can turn their hands to almost anything.
They are in 1ustrious, expert at bargaining,
and very economical. AS houSe-servauts
they are ceauly, but apt to strike for higher
wages, and yacate without notice. Disnon-
esly is rather too frequent, but the notions
OF European domestics are eXorbitant, aud
hOusekee; ;nrg would be impracticable With
out Chinamen. ChnaWOmen never hire
out. Cinnamon snow no disposition to re-
gard politics. We never saw Chinaman
tlpsy, but they gamble universally, and ex-
change knocks among themselves. shli.
ling goes further tuau a. dollar with Amcri-
cans, and though they are quick to strike for
wages they work for whatever offers rather
than be idle. Every man can read and
wfite."
For our own part, We look with unmin-
gled loathing and abhorrence upon the Chi
neSe inundatiou in California. No one who
values Christianity or AngIO-SaXon civi'izt.
ton can regard it 10 any other light except
capitalists aud their organs. The Chinese
are low down enough in the scale Of hu-
mauity, but lower still, vler, more selfish,
more .inhumaE, more barbaroHs, are the
American slaves Of Mammon, who, to
cheapen labor and increase their own s~o-
len gains, would encourage rhe introduction
of this heathen and besotted element into the
population of the United States. Men who
would be guilty Of such an abomination
would not hesitate to import cannibalS,
devil worShippers, tigers, or boa constructors
into the Uulted States, with full liberty to
prey upon every poor man IN the country II
they could convert the importation into a
means of enlarging their own already coios-
sal fortunes.
We have always been opposed to Know
Nolhingism as applied to the civilized and
Christian people Of Europe. But if we had
the power we would prohibit COW anh for
ever the immigration OF degraded Pagan
barblriaus to this country. would never
permit them to take the bread out of The
mouths of bone>t European and American
laborcrs. Who that knows aught OF the
vices and gross immoraities Of the Chinese,
to say nothing OF their wretched idoIatrles,
| would desire TO see them taking the place
here even OF the Yankee abOitionists
| What is this country to become if Asia is 10
empty itself into America! Better that We
should never have acquired California, bet
! ter that the limits of tile Old Thirteen bad
never been extended, than that the Pagan.
| ism and depravlly Of Chlua should acquire a
foothold upon this continent.-L LynchJur9
Ne,cS.