Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-04
Observation-Disclosures 4, 1886
The Chinese.


the lswless aliens who recently commit
ted the greatest Of outrages upon unof-
tending Chinese, and recommending
that body to take action in regard to
the matter. Nevertheless, he and all
other persons who expect Mongols to
be treated with favor in this country
will be disappointed. Should Congress
Iegislate upon the subject, its legisla-
ton would be, so to speak, shooting
straws against the wind. Race preju-
dices are ineradicable. CaucaslanS
consider theirs the ruling race. Indeed
they have not doubt upon this point.
Whatever they may profess. or however
much they may desire to do justice to
all men, their actions will always be-
tray that they are incapable of living
up to their professions. The eau
casian is a fanatic or a crank if he does
not look upon persons of any other
race as inferior beings. DR.. WATTs's
reason is the only one that can be given
for this weakness or trait-namely,
"God hath made them so.'
The Republican party originated in
the North, where there were compare
lively few negroes, and had for its sole
object at that time the exclusion of
slaves from the Territories. The found.
ers Of that party proposed to extirpats
slavery by erecting a Gordon of free
States around it. They boldly avowed
that this was their object. They rallied
all the working classes Of the North by
declaring their deadly hostility to the
placing Of free labor and slave
labor in competition with each
other. But ANDREW JOHNSON
showed clearly that the wages of me-
chsnics were at that day higher in the
slaveholding than in the non-slave-
holding States; higher in Richmond
and New Orleans than in Boston and
New York. For some reason, either
owing to the abolition Of slavery or to
some other cause, the reverse is the
case now. Doubtless the northern peo-
pie will now admit that the higher prices
Of former days were due to the exist
ence Of slavery in the South-that is,
that only a small number of mechanics
would consent to live in a section where
slavery rendered all kinds of labor
more or less unpopular. However this
may be, the demand that slave labor
should not be brought into competition
with free labor owed its great effect upon
the northern mind to the fact that this
slave labor was also negro labor. In
the North, then as now, the free ne
groes were regarded with absolute con-
tempt or else with antipathy. They
were not consulted upon any public
question. Indeed, in many if not most
of the northern States they were denied
the privilege Of voting. And it may
safely be asserted that nothing else
than a war between the two sections
would ever have induced the northern
Caucasians to make voters of the ne
groes. There was never day between
that on which Fort Sumter was fired
upon and that on which the battle Of
Gettysburg was fought, when the Fed
eral authorities would not have been
willing to make peace with the Confed-
crate States upon the unalterable con-
dition that the negroes of the South
should never be entrusted with the right
Of suffrage. The negro owes his freedom
and his ballot to the obstinacy Of the
Confederate authorities.
All this goes to show that Mongols
have no reason TO expect that the eau
casians Of this country will ever allow
their worse than slave labor to come
into competition with our free labor.
The President and Congress and all the
Federal army will be unable to protect
the Mongols. They must CO." But
Congress is not going to adopt any
stringent measures looking to that end.
The Chinese will have to take care of
themselves. No candidate for Presi-
dent and no party can count upon the
vote Of any Pacific or Rocky Mountain
State IL he or they shall have upon their
political garments the smell Of this
Chinese FIRE.
The fttest will survive. TIE fittest
ought to survive. The whole earth is
but a small patch Of ground. DIR. /
Mc6CFFEY once said that there was no 4
reason for supposing that the world
would come to an end in ten thousand
years. What will be the number of its
population even thousand years hence:
Where will the MOngols he then?
The northern people knew that the
way to kill off slavery was TO confine
Il to limited area. So with the Chi
nese. There will be fewer Chinese in
he world a thousand years hence IL
We confine them TO their own country.
There will be more Caucasians il we
et,ls in every land. The irrepressi.
lie and unavoidable conflict Of the fu.
ure will not be in America il we keep
nut Of it oil others than Csucasians.
thousand years are bat short space
, the worlds history. That conflict
not . thousand years of. For the