Year: 1869

The visit Of Choy-Chew and Sing-Man to
this city is an event of some Importance.
Cinnamon in New York cannot be considered
novelties. We can see genuine son of the
Flowery Land any day we choose to take q
walk down Vesey street. Even a Chinese
mandarin, thanks to Mr.. Burlingame, is no
longer an object of curiosity in these streets.
1t is something, however, not quite common to
have in the midst of US Chinese gentleman
who is familiar with our habits and our history,
who conforms to our customs and who speaks
| our English language with ease and elegance
| Choy-Chew and his friend Sing Man have, we
| believe, been long settled in California, and
have practically become American citizens
but they are naturally deeply interested in the
| prosperity of their native land and in the well
fare of their many fellow countrymen who have
sought and who are seeking home on this
| Continent.


| 1t is something to hear Chinaman address
us in ''our own tongue wherein we were
born" We took occasion few days ago to
compliment Choy- Chew for the very able
| speech he delivered at Chicago. His views
were broad, philosophic, far-reaching; and
| we were encouraged to hope that as an ad-
wiser Of his brethren he might safely be
trusted. 1t appears, however, that we were
a little too generous in our Judgment.
Choy- Chew does not look with favor on
the project of importing Chinese to the South.
His argument is a paltry one and betrays
gross ignorance of the situation. The South,
| he says, cannot offer the Chinese sufficient
| compensation to induce them to emigrate; but
| California can. We do not think the Chinese
are fools, but we do think that Choy- Chew
| does not reveal much wisdom in 80 stating his
case. 1t is true that the South is not yet
recovered from the disastrous effects of the
/! war; and that some time must elapse before
the Southern proprietors can again be regarded
as rich men. But signs of returning life are
already abundant. In the course of few
months the late rebel States, one and all, will be
restored to their places in the Union. Order
will be re-es tablished everywhere and pro-
perty will be secure. Northern capital will
seek employment in the South. The large
| landholders wiN find 1t to their advantage to
break up the enormous plantations and to
exchange land for gold. The estates will
| become smaller, but the wealth of the soil will
be more eHectually developed. Landholders
| will become more numerous but individual
proprietors will be not poorer, but richer than
ever. Nor is this all. Henceforward the
South will not depend merely on the SOIL


Cotton mills and tobacco factories will spring
| up in all directions, and the manufacturers OF
the South will compete successfully with the
manufacturers Of the Eastern States and even
with those of England. A magnificent future
is in fact already dawniny upon the South.
The harvest promises to be rich, bul
the laborers yet are few. 1t is labor rather
than gold which is wanted, and for such labor
as the South requires the Chinaman is admira-
bly, adapted. We do not disparage the advan-
tages offered by the great Pacific slope. There


is room there for millions Of the Celestials


But there is room also in the great valley o


the Mississippi; and it remains to be seer


whether the Chinese laborer will not find him.


self as much at home in the plantations Of the


South as in the rich fields of California. Lei


the experiment Of employing Chinese labor il
the South be fairly tried, and we have no hes


taton in saying that even Cioy Chew will find
it necessary to change his opinion.


1t is impossible in considering this subjec


not to be struck with the many present sign:
indicative of the great future Of this country


The enterprise Of our people is such that we
cannot wait until our native population cover'
and utilzes our vast territory. Our 1eld


must be ploughed, our mines worked, our fac
tories run IL we should bring laborers from al


lands. Europe pours her surplus population
in upon us by increasing thousands every year


There is room and work and plenty for then


all, and to spare. The emigration fever which


has so long ragged in the nations of Northwest.