The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-09-15


Some people say there ought not to be am |.
They are iufidels, of course for the Scrip.u,.
SAYS that there will always be poor peonla d
be taken care Of, and one oughtnt to wish
what isn't allowed Bat it does seem al,o0..
as if they were sent upon us for our sinsp
So runs the complaint translated into H.,
gossip dislect--which is the ittest for s,c,
grumbling, that we are acquainted with
And now there has arisen new troubls
the Chinese are gathering in such numbers :,
California, that the question arises, What e
they were to apply for naturalization Tbor
are not white, certainly, and just as certainlv
they are not black and, purtus sequitur u,r
trum! (which is Latin for cursing a niger,
these barbarians are free born, and cannot \.
legally reduced to chattel slavery; for tb.,
were not caught in Africa, nor smuggledi n,o
the State in handouts. And what is MI,
done about it, the Alta California and a.
st. Louis Inteliigencer are in pueker to gUss
They are not whife, it is agreed, and this thss
editors would fain believe sufficient; but thu,
win not do. White in slaye-law language doe.
not mean color, but descent A negro il.
slave, though an albino with alabaster skin
pink eyes and silver white hair. Trace N.
whitest and handsomest woman ia Charles,o0
to the stock for two centuries devoted 10 hs
American yoke, and che goes to the auction
block, and the darkest colored white man IN
the nation may buy her and be her owner
II is not color, but kindred, that settles the
question. Cursed be Canaan, or Cusb. Or
Quashee, or whoever has wool SO curly that i
first grows out of his head, and then grows in
again but any human being whose ancestors
had hair long enough to wear tails to their
heads, are out of the scrape. 1t won't do
gentlemen, to take the people who manuiac.
ture your silks, porcelain, fans, grapes and
carved ivory, and exchange their tea for your
dollars, and reduce them to slavery Nor will
you attempt it. They actually have treaties
with our Government and our Executive sends
no less a dignitary than r. ]. Walker min.
lister to the head of their nation; and YOU
are without principle, prescription, precedent
or prophecy, for your purpose.
What then will you do with them If thew
have the arts, industry, and frugalty, that are
available in the civilized scramble for wealth,
and you let them into the country, the mum.
cipal laws which are equal in their operation
upon all the inhabitants, will secure their pros
perity, and you will not be able to deprive
them either of personal liberty, or civil rights
and political power You may exterminate
the Indians, and hold the Africans in chatta
slavery, but you cannot put civilization, well
advanced in the industrial arts, under the ban
of barbarism or of color. Their idolatry was
an objection yesterday, but to-day there are a
million of them protesting our own religion,
and tomorrow Christianity may be on the
throne of the Celestial Empire. When they
come to us baptized, with the ten command
ments in their hands, and the faith of the
Redeemer in their hearts your religious rea-
son for degrading and enslaving them will be
nonplused and your piety itself will be their
pleader.
In short, the doctrine Of despotism, eccles
astical and political, which has served you 80
we'll and SO long in the extreme cases to which
it has been applied, is going to be gradually
dissolved in the intermediate shades Of color
ing to which it will be exposed, so that you
will not be able to tell black from white, for
any purpose that you now make the distine-
ton. Reason, religion, and republicanism, hare
all failed with you; but now Providence is
about to take you in hand, and you are as good
as done for.
If Fun Hoam can learn Christianity as
we'll as silk-weaving and card-painting, he
can substitute photography for his alphabet
of three thousand characters; and, after call
ing you brother for a generation or 80, in good
Yankee, he will marry your cousin, and then
how will you keep him out of Congress! The
home of the exile and the asylum of the OPP
pressed will surely vindicate its pretenslons
and Justify its boast, by indicating the liber'
ty, equality, and fraternity Of man, in despite
of your resistance
When the United Colonies revolted, they did
not think of limiting the controversy to the
Anglo-Saxon race, but they appealed to God
and the world for the right of all men to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness God
and the world took them at their word, and
will hold us to the contract; and here, in these
United States every kindred and tongue and
people under heaven will, ere long, sit down
and enjoy the blessings which you think our
fathers should have reserved as we'll as Csc
cured for ourselves and for our posterity."
And 80, you will please to consider this mat
ter settled by the fat of Fate, and comport
yourselves accordingly. f.