The population of China. according to the best estimates. is today 450.000.000 souls. That overgrown population in a great empire. where the resources of subsistence are now pressed to the utmost. is peculiarly exposed to the vicissitudes of famine. of epidemic. of foreign war. of civil convulsion. for the internal repose of China has frequently been broken by civil strife. which has forced considerable bodies of the insurgents to seek refuge in the neighboring countries. Considering. therefore1 China as it is. its overgrown population. its proximity to the Pacific Statesfor steam navigation has brought Canton nearer to San Francisco than Nashville was to Washington City in the administration of Andrew JacksonI say considering China as it is. it is no exaggeration to declare that the Pacific States are liable at any moment to a numerous. and therefore dangerous. irruption of Mongolians. These dangers. it is true. are merely conjectural. Butthere is no occasion to venture on the domain of speculation. for the people of California are menaced by real dangers in the shape of the steady growth of Chinese immigration. Since 1854 over one himdred thousand adult Chinamen ave established themselves on the Pacific coast. They come and go.
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