The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-05-19
From the Sonora Democrat.
CIVIL RIGHTS I'M 1898.

Liberty Equality! Fraternity
Negro Suffrage! Chinese Suffrage !
Digger Suffrage
The /" Nation" in the year 1893 was Of
no particular color Hung Yop and Mrs.
Smith were running for Congress.
They supported the long-tailed party.
Dir. Johnson, black man, and Miss
Jones were the nominees for Congress of
tho short tailed party.
YGng Hop addressed n large meeting
ON the plaza His party, the long-tails,
were opposed to white male suffrage.
lie urged that sthe white man was
we'll enough as he was. Nature had eyi-
IDENTITY intended him 10 be the inferior Of
the Celestial. Tho Ethio. Mongolian race
had governed the country for naasly thir-
ty years. They had been thirty years OF
peace aud prosperity. Should power once
more be placed in the hands Of that race
whose rule was characterized by the t,ir-
rnoils aud commissions which eliminated
IN 1861? Had they not shown themselves
most unfit for self government?
Such was the substance of Yung Hops
remarks, aud he CONCLUDED among the Hi
ya's of his hearers aud the stomach stir
ring strains of China band. In Ports
month Square, Mr.. johnson delivered on
the same evening an able and eloquent
abolition speech. He came out fairly
and Fqnarely for the rights of the white
man. They were our brethren, he re.
marked, if their skins were not black
They had been great people Civiliza-
tion and the arts had once existed among
them, and their poets aud historians had
written some Of tho finest things in their
language.
But il was evident that the white man Is
cause was very unpopular Few men but
Mr.. johnson would have dared to face
that angry crowd. Expletiyes burst forth
on every side, such as id Abolitionists
Worshiper-Go sleep with
your white brothers! etc. 1t was even
whispered that Mr.. Johnson had once
married white woman.
Tho commntion about the speakers
stand became more threatening. 4 show
er of dead cats darkened the aif.
They came from the Canton Dead Cat
Club, an organization intended especially
to break up short-tailed meetings. They
raised cats especially for that purpose.
The Young Chinaman's Christian Bad
Egg Association raised foul eggs for
similar purpose Mr.. johnson could not
stem the torrent of dead cats. His
friends managed to rescue him from the
furious crowd. Prejudice against color,
fanatieism and dead cats carried the day.
White was an interdieted color In
deed, the Ethiop-Afongo Association had
promulgated the fact that white was not
a color. Even white wash was colored.
blood in the veins of citizen was sufii-
eient to ostracise him from all decent
black society.
The Caucasians were banished to the
suburbs of the town. They were employ
ed as walters and bootblacks. They
drove svill carts and brushed stoves. /
saw sign, q B,ttes nectly potished by 4.
G. GibJs," beheld another, Whitc-
,cashiag dup here BY Col. Ha,ckins
The Board of education was dreadfully
abused for allowing white children to at
tend at some Of the Public Schools.
How changed was the system of educa-
ton.
Geography was limited entirely to New
England and Africa. Latin aud Greek
had given place to the Congo and Mongo-
liam classes. In mathematics cyphers
were represented by white men. Every
church had Josh in the pulpit. The
white man seemed going out of existence
In derision the thiop-Mongo race termed
them dodos.