The Daily Phoenix

COLUMBIA, S. C.
Wednesday Morning, July 14, 1869.

SAMBO, JOHN CHINAMAN, AND THE MORMONS.

The New York Herald quotes from the Salt Lake Telegraph—Mormon organ—to show that those people have no objection whatever to the introduction of Chinese population into any part of the United States. That journal says as to the Johnny's devotions, the sectarians should be really glad of his saying his prayers to anything as long as they were the prayers of his heart, and that if his idols are mean looking things, some inventive Yankee will assist him in furthering his idea of architecture. It invites him to come, if his inclination prompts him, and says if he is treated as his station only demands, he will not want to get into Congress, ask to be appointed Minister to Hayti, or postmaster at Macon, Ga., without any bondsman, or commit outrages upon defenceless females. The Herald says these are dagger thrusts at Sambo, and show how much the Mormons esteem him. It says: "The fact is, Sambo and Dinah have been getting along a little too fast in this country, within a very few years past, to suit the interests of any class of people. In the end, the blacks as laborers, will find themselves crushed between the upper and nether mill-stones—the Irish, German, and other Europeans on one hand: and the Chinese and other Asiatic immigrants on the other. Even the once despised Mormons do not come to the rescue of the negro, now clothed in all the glory a state of freedom can confer upon him."