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339. The other question is, What will be the failure in the American Republic of these three Races. the African we may be sure will either die out, which is most probable, or become a low caste., the Pariahs of the new world; retail trade & a few of the lower kinds of labour & employment will be open to them. They will possess civil, but not political rights. The Irish will be absorbed into the general population; & so one may speculate to what extent this will affect the American character. The Chinese can never be absorbed. What therefore will be the position that they will occupy in the Union fifty, or a hundred years hence? Hitherto only one State has been open to them, that of California. Can any thing be inferred from he position they have created for themselves in that state? I think we may be safe in supposing, that as they have already crossed the Pacific, to the number of sixty thousand, when by the completion of the Pacific Railway the whole of the Union is thrown open to them, they will not remain cooped up in California. In a few years I believe they will be found in New York, & in all the large cities of the West & East. Voltaire said that the true unclear of China was the American continent, the interposition of which saved it from European invasion; but it appears now that the American Continent is the very point at which the European races will be invaded by the long pent up population of China. To what extent will this invasion be carried? & what consequences will unclear from it? One thing I think may be foreseen-the Americans will not admit these Asiatics, aliens in religion as well as in race, to political equality with themselves.