The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-09-07

when Ju3JlHee cOlHScaLOH5 or the pas
sage of such an act under the right of
conquest, could read whole chapters !
from Grotfous, or Vattel, or Pufendorf.
and from Wheaton and Story and Kent,
which cohdemn this bill. II Is Id utter
defiance Of natural, and national, and con-
stitutionaI law, and | say to 1ou now, that
may be concerned in it, many of you will
live to repent of the tyranny here about
to be perpetrated, as bygone tyrants have
Of 1ike tyranny perpetratcd upon their
people. / might cite the prize cases if I
had time, and show that they condemn
the principles Of this bill
All history condemns 1t, too. Rome
was built up 10 utter defiance Of the prin-
ciples of this BILL Rome governed every
country, not by conquest and subjugation
such as you propose, but by assimilating
the conquered subjects with Roman citi-
zens, by giving them Roman rights and
Roman privileges and Roman citizenship,
while here are eight millions OF white peo-
pie whom you deprive Of every right Of
an American citizen. Even the Tartars,.
when they conquered China, did not de-
stroy theiv institutions with those of the
conquered. And when Cyrus conquered
the AustTians Of old, he respected their
rights and privileges, and guaranteed to
them al the liberties they possessed.
There is no barallel in history for this bill
but that of the infamous conduct Of the
Duke Of Alva, in Spain. Answer me not,
that he destroyed twenty thousand lives,
for here you destroy what is more preci-
Gus than life-the right of man TO his III
erty, the sentiment that he Is man, that
he is equal before other men. Why, siT,
/ had rather lose my life thousand times
than live under the government Of these
FIVE monarchs, as established by the infa-
nous principles Of this infamous bill Our
English ancestors, even Charles H., after
the bloodiest Of civil wars, gave peerages
TO Monk and Fleetwood, and mitre to
Baxter, while you have only given mill
tary tyrants to your people, and declared
q total abnegation to their rights. Even
Louis XVIII, though Bourbon, made
marshals and statesmen Of Bonapartists,
while you have exeTted in this bill all
your ingenuity to deprive the white peo-
pie of their right to vote. When HIM
gary was subjugated and overthrown, the
Emperor Of Austria did not exert such
tyrannical power over the Huns, for he.
gave them a constitution and he gave.
them parliament, while you take away
from the Southern people their constitu-
ton and laws, and refuse them presenta-
tiou In the national legislature. The Duke
of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel. two
great Tories, we're more liberal and merci-
ful TO the Irish people than you are to the
people of the south. Although 0'Connell
was the iustigator of riots in Ireland, the
Duke of Wellington and his party did not
refuse him a seat as a member from the
County Clare, while you shut ont the
Kentucky delegation from seats here sim
ply for the reason that they differ from
you in politics, and for that, and that
alone.
Sir, ] deprccate the passage of this bin In
| Its effect upon the people of the Southern
country. Far better would il be for that
land, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande,
10 be as il was one hundred and fifty years
ago, bowling wilderness. thGn to be SUBJ
ject 10 the amalgamation Of raees which you
are proposing in this bill. Our country Is
now made up Of many different races, not
only Caucasian, Mongolian, Indian, Chi
nese. with japanese about to come here in
the Pacific steamers by thousands, and at
last the Esquimaux but you have selected
the least intelligent, the poorest informed,
except the EsquImnux /; you have selected
the African TO share with you copartnership
in this Goyernn ent, while your own wives
and children. your minor boys, are shut out
from the right Of suffrage. You have given
TO the negro equality and copartnership with
the white mai. Sir, il is impossible for
these two races, in my judgment, ever TO live
together on terms Of intimacy, amity and
friendship, as you propose in this bill. You
have stored up, ard are still storing up for
them, the elements of an awful strife, which
! viii produce conflict of races.
Sir, the negro Haytien is wiser than you.
He allows no white man to own real estate
on that Island. The black Liberian is wiser
than you. lie allows no white man to share
with him the government of that country
: The experiment in Jamaica Of a mingled
government Is broken down, and all free gov
ernment there is absorbed BY the British
Parliament, which now, through orders in
, council, disregarding both whites and blacks,
! exercises supreme power. Nowhere on earth
has ever this mixed government succeeded.
One race is superior to another. God 80
ordained, and no fat of society OF yoars can
bring down the Caucasian to the African, or
bring up the African to the Caucasian. All
, efforts, all struggles will be In vain And
this is no new experiment. It has been tried
! throughout the whole Of Spanish America.
Jua-ez, half Indian, now Governor ard
ruler OF Mexico, is just now showing Thea q
the barbaric character Of this miAgled Gov
: ernment of unraturally associated races,
while the numerous other Spanish-negro-
} Indian hybrid States are almost all Of them
in constant civil war, armies running md
, overrunning one another with the blood c1
the white man and the blood of the Eegro both
. deteriorated by thus eommingling, AM YET
here this rash, this fearful experiment? Nc,
not an experiment, for experience has al
ready shown that it never can succeed, You
!. propose to mix and mingle the twelve mil,
| lions of your countrymen in the southern
States of the Union. You take the most 10,
norant, the most uneducated, the most bru,
J tish of the population, and give them absc-
: lutte control IN boards of registration or
0 through the ballot-box. It needs not the eve
4 of prophecy, it needs no skill of diyinati0n
o to foretell what must be the effect of such a
y crime as this, for all history shows YOU what
has been its effect, and pronounces what il
will be hereafter.
But, sir, find that must draw to close,
: and allow me to say, IN doing so, that /
0 know that just now you are here above pub
lilo opinion, not only the public opinion of
g this country, but of the world But there
! is an unwritten law, there is a law Of God
that embodies itself in public opinion, which