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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 11: the Rotunda. (search)
l Sherman takes no pains to hide his views. Vice-President Wilson opposes his official superior, and some of the leading journals are demanding that Grant shall retire from the White House, leaving his powers in Wilson's hands. More than all else, Hamilton Fish declares that if the President sustains Sheridan and justifies Durell and Packard, he will resign his post as Secretary of State. This menace tells. Fish is not only the ablest man in Grant's Cabinet, but one of the ablest men in America. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury, takes the same line as Fish. Without these gentlemen, the President's Cabinet could not stand a week; and if his Cabinet falls, who knows what else may fall? The Governors of powerful States are talking in an ominous way. A State has disappeared, says Governor Alien to the people of Ohio; a sovereign State of this Union has no existence this night. A sovereign State! The President thinks he put an end to all that babble about sovereign States on t
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 18: at Washington. (search)
in Louisiana, we meet Pinchback in the lobby. Cheated, sah, he bawls at me; cheated, sah. The Senators reject my papers! It is all dat Kellogg, sah! Has not Governor Kellogg signed your papers properly? Gubnor Kellogg! He gubnor! Dat Kellogg is a rascal, sah. He sign de papers all right; put big seal all right; den he write a letter underground, for de Republicans not to vote. He want to come hisself. He neber stay in New Orleans. Sah, Kellogg is de greatest big rascal in America! Pinch seems put out, the Senator remarks, but we must draw the line somewhere. A sound party man, I draw a line at the penitentiary. It may seem singular, but I object to sitting on the next chair to a Senator who has recently come out of jail. Emerging from the hall, and standing on the marble terrace looking over the Potomac towards the mountains of Virginia, I venture to say: A White Revival seems to be setting in, not only in the South, but in the North and West. Have you Rep
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 19: our Yellow brother. (search)
ehind him than an Arab pays to the bark of his street dogs. In Chicago, at the moment of starting for California, we make the acquaintance of Paul Cornell, chief partner in the great watch factory of that city. Cornell's watches are known in America as Breguet's watches are known in Europe. From the senior partner, who is going to San Francisco with a view to business, we learn that Ralston's busy brain has conceived the idea of opening a great watch factory in San Francisco, and doing theancisco, and has watched the coming of our Yellow brethren from Hong Kong with pained and speculative eyes. I have a strong aversion to this enterprise, he says to me in the privacy of his state-room. I am a born American, and I want to keep America for the Americans. Few persons see so much of our Asiatics as myself, and I can tell you, as a man of science and of moral order, that I should be sorry to see the population of China Town increase. What are the Cornell Company about? They sa
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 25: China Town. (search)
s an open colony, like May Fair in London, like the Second District in New York. The Chinese have squatted in the very heart of San Francisco. Lock Sin's tea-house in Jackson Street may be regarded as the heart of this new Asiatic empire in America; for in Jackson Street, grouped around Lock Sin's balcony, lie the Chinese banks and stores, the Chinese stalls and markets, the Chinese theatres and gaming-hells; while off this thoroughfare, to the right and left, extend the blind alleys and nor fighting is allowed within the house. So far as order can be made by rules, order is said to reign among Lee Si Tut's tenants; and the Globe Hotel in Jackson Street may be regarded as the royal khan and summer-palace of the Chinese empire in America. Pass in. Oh, Lee Si Tut! A sickening odour greets your nostrils on his steps. A reek comes out of every door, and dirt lies heaped on every landing-stage. The dust of years encrusts his window-panes. Compared with this Globe Hotel, under
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 26: Yellow Agony. (search)
ame, and tens of millions whence the tens of thousands came. Is it mere frenzy to imagine such a swarm of Asiatics arriving at the Golden Gate? In former days America was fed from Asia? Why not be fed again? The men are on the other side. The sea lies open to their ships. The transport pays. We are little more than thir dare when pressed by want? Hunger has broken through stone walls and braved tempestuous seas. Failure of a root transferred a third part of the Irish people to America; though an Irish kerne is just as fond of his native soil as a Mongolian peasant. Who knows the future of the tea-plant? We have had a vine disease and a potato a potato-blight Suppose the tea-plant were to fail? If such a disaster should convert China into another Ireland, the people would have to leave it in millions. If a seventh part of the Chinese people came over to America, they would swamp the ballot-boxes, and under a Republican Constitution they might assume the ruling power.
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 35: the situation. (search)
er warning as a guide. Suppose this panic in America is no other than a natural pause and stop? Independence closed, Europe has poured. into America more than seven million souls. When the peophave come from all quarters of the globe into America, more than five millions have come from the Bman in every dozen men. Thus, the planting of America has been mainly done by persons sailing from us supplies of English and German settlers in America. For forty years (1820-60) the rate of emi to check this movement of our people towards America. A right to emigrate is treated by our magisocieties, which exist in almost every city in America, keeping alive the good old English sentiment peasant or an Essex labourer who had been in America. America was a paradise from which no Munsteons born on my estate, twenty-five are now in America. That Pomeranian district is not far from V not likely to send out many more millions to America. Next take the Land. If we can trust th[2 more...]