The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-03-06

some states are excluded or admitted upon
conviction.
The Insane, LJfrns, Lnbecilc, Agcd,
Mrtmed, Incompetent to 0,dintaia them.
seiucs. Are universally subjects of police
regulation, under which many, if not
most of the states, they are liable to be
excluded altogether, or admitted upon
condition.
Slapes and Free Negroes. Have been
tho subject of Police regulation of each
state under which they were excluded by
reasons Of their endangcring tho domcs.
tic security of tho state.
Upon almost every page of tho lengthy
opinions of the Supreme Court, are to be
found rules and definitions and instances
with reference to the exercise by State
of the sovereign right of excluding from
her territory Objectionable persons.
In determining whether Cinnamon ought
to be considered as embraced in that
class, We can but regard their numbers,
language and condition at home tho in
ducements and facilities, prosent and
prospective for their emigration hither;
their continued relation to thoir own gov.
ernment, laws and religion, ESQ to speak
and with all this, their indisposition aud
ineompetency for naturalization.
Then our ancestry government, relig'
ion and laws our departments OF science,
labor and pursuit, differing so widely
from those of tho Chinese, as 10 exclude
for an indefinite period, the idea Of be-
coming with them one people; yet with
increasing millions pouring in, as will
certainly be the case, not only upon this
coast but throughout the United States,
to continue separate class of human be-
ings, in whom we eau have but little con-
Germ for their education or morals, who
will undertake TO determine how long
such a state of things could continue
without spreading throughout the land, a
moral pcstilence.
Time nor space will allow more than to
give u skeleton view of this branch of the
subject l leave il for the rejecting mind
to Gil out
Aside from what has already been said,
the adoption Of this measure by the State
Convention, goes far to establish its wis.
dom. 1t was introduced into the Cousti.
tuition by acknowledged ability-Judges
Deadly, Boise, Prim and Kelsey, now up
on the Bench. Col. Kelly, Gen. Lovejoy,
Judge Shattuck aud others, not now re-
membered, were members of the Consti-
tutional Convention, and most of them
advocated and supported the measure.
And whatever their views may now be,
they must then have believed it to be one
Of acknowledged right.
In the spirit of history, the Declara.
ton of Independence, the Constitution
of the United States, aud our naturaliza-
ton laws, confined to free tchite Europe
ans, Congress impressed the native Afri.
can and Cinnamon as subjects Of State
exclusion 1; and If, therefore, unfit aud
ausuited to be made citizens of the Uni.
ted States, BY parity of reasoning, they
are Objectionable persons in the es,ima.
tion Of sovereign State.
But Congress has done moro than cast
upon the Cinnamon and African the ban
of exclusion. II has admitted many
States into the Union by express enact
ments, whose constitutions contain a va
riety of prohibitory clauses, laying the
foundation for police measures in princi-
pie like ours. The Constitution of Ore
gOn, containing the provision in pursu-
ance Of which the China bill vas enacted,
was submitted to Congress, examined
modified, and accepted. Upon principle,
and under the repeated decisions Of the
Supreme Court of the United States, the
validity Of that clause of our Constitu-
ton is placed beyond question. Whether
the appropriate mode of carrying it out
be By tax, import, regulation of COM
mcrce, or as sovereign police measure Of
the State.
The decisions herein thus far has been
directed to showing that inficting a pen
atty, as provided in the 5th Section of
the Act for bringing Cinnamon into the
State, Is not Tevenne measure, interfer-
ing with the congressional power to regu-
late commerce with foreign nations, but o
police measure, under the sovereign
rights of the State, never ceded to the
general government.
la the veto, the 9Th and 9th Sections
Of the act are included in the objection
to the 5th. If the Sections referred to
were similar, no further discussion as to
Sections and 8 would be necessary, but
the author of the veto does not seem to
have made himself fully acquainted with
the nature and object of these latter sec.
tions. The 9Th is provision to secure
the State against the introduction of Chi,
nese slaves or involuntary servants; and
to this end forbids the master of vessel
from landing any Cinnamon, unless upon
certificate from the proper Chinese au.
thority that such Cinnamon are not sub.
jccts of "slGUery or Involuntary servt.
tude." No one will question that the
practice exists, and is carried on exten.
sively on this coast, of an involuntary
immigration of Chinese, introducing
among US q species of slavery, demoraliz.
ing and detrimental to the best interests
of the State. Without thorough &C.
quaintance with their language and laws
its detection would be next to impossible
Cinnamon are alike, and with few excep.
tions, it would be difficult to distinguish
one from another, after leaving the vessel
and mixing with crowd of their coun.
trymen. Hence the officer is required tC
demand thcir evidence of freedom while
yet on the vessel.
In view of the evils that must sorely
aflict every country wherein Chinese Ia
Dor may be brought in competition with
that Of the white man, and more espe
cially where such Cinnamon are subjects
Of slavery or involuntary servitude, am
surprised to find this section objected to