The union Democrat., 1869-08-21

stances. have referred TO this case at our
own doors because it most thoroughly Illus
trates how very unfit the central power at
Washington Is to'control matters Of local con-
Germs such as suffrage III remote State. The
leading men of the business circles IN this
city, vino we're SO contumeliously ignored st
Washington, are doubtless very much better
ena lied to comprehend the danger and i'm
policy of enlarging the power OF Congres.
over our local concerns. The Fifteenth
Amendment Is the longest stride vet made
towards centralized power at Washington.
Its effect is very greatly TO impair the rights
Of the States and 10 cut down their conse-
quence and rights IN the Union. But step
or two further in the same direction, and
the States will be scarcely better than bun
die of counties.
Having stripped the States of their most
essential powers as States, and having rem
dered them sufficiently weak and contempl-
bic, the next step in our downward course
will he TO abolish them altogether.
For this great reason alse, the amendment
ought to be rejected by California, and if
she il true to herself and 10 the country, it
will be. tCheers.)
Fellow-citizens, when We consider what a
thing negro suffrage has proved itself TO be
in the States upon which it has been forced
by Congress, We may well understand what
it will be In the States in which it is 10 be
established, under this Fifteenth Amend
ment We may also know how enormous a
thing Chinese Suffrage will be. Five years
ago, who would have dreamed of negro suf-
frage in the States? Three years ago, who
could have predicted the evils which have
flowed from negro suffrage? Did any body
think of that? Negro suffrage brought in
the first place, negro Office holding, by negro
votes in the States of the South, and after
wards under Gen. Grant by Federal appoint
ments at Washington and elsewhere. Negro
office-holding completed the plan of political
equality for the negro, and 80 rapidly do
events march In these high Radical times,
they have already brought after them tho
most unmistakable signs of negro social
equality. 1t requires no great stretch of
| imagination to foresee, as the next change,
negro, political, if not social supremacy.
You can already see it in Washington. Al
the last election in that city, the negroes
drove away from the polls not only the men
of their own color who did not vote with
Them but also numbers of white voters.
That, / should say, was rather strong asser-
ton of political supremacy, and from that
it is no long step to social equality. ZAP
plause.) We see, also, that in several States
of the South they are passing or demanding
laws making it penal to deny person o.
color any. place in the steamer. the hotel ol
the theatre. In Washington, too, the othel
day, We saw a message sent in by the Mayor
to the Council, urging that both white an(
colored children should so to school in tht
same building. Who does not know what al
this means? In the public offices in Wash
ington the favored race is literally repre-
sented. Our Minister to Hayti is negro
whose principal qualification is that he is no
white. After the eXcesses at the Washington
election, they held mass meeting, a
which they refused to condemn the exeesse
or to rebuke the riotous spirit among thei
own people, and they passed instead a mos
extraordinary resolution, namely, that the,
chopped the necessity for those acts of vic
lence would not occur again" daughter.
If in any Southern city the whites had s.
; acted, what an outcry would have been raised
But has there been any outcry against tn
, negro rioters at Washington, either for thei
Outrages at the polls or their audaciou
threat of a renewal of those outrages, if, a
they say, "the necessity should arise" Th
King can do no wrong; and III this countr
the Negro is King, at least until he is dc
: throned by the Chinaman. Chinese suffrage
under the Fifteenth Amendment, must dra'
after it the same results. First, and not les
speedily than in the case of the negro, wi
follow Chinese office-holding. A Chlnama
: as American Minister at Pekin, is not nearl
: so great an impossibility to-day as would hav
been. five years ago, negro to represent Il
, st Hayti. What, then, is to delay Chimes
! social equality? With political and soci:
= = equality for the negro and the Chinamar
= the Phillipses and the Tiltons of the Radica
!. advance guard may we'll look to see realize
+ their revolving idea of what they call "A fl
r sion of races"
= The alarming circumstance about that j:
8 that those men have always been the pioneer
- - of their party. AS often as they have take
= an advanced position, the Radical journal
= have cried out against them, but after awhil
' you find the Radical party coming up t
. their line. Who can assure us it will not b
so now? What the poet says npon anothe
: subject is true of the Radical proclivities fo
: the black and yellow races:
"Vice is monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated, needs but to be seen.
But seen too Oft familiar with her face,
We first endure then pity then embrace
I Growing out of the Fifteenth Amendmen
and what makes it more formidable and POI
tentous in this State than it yet is in an
5 other State of the Union, is the great ques
tion of Chinese labor, which of late has force
itself so powerfully upon your attention
haze not often i'll my life noticed news
paper misstatements. But before proceedin
} to speak tonight on the subject of Chimes
Labor to the exclusion of White Labor i
California, wish TO correct the widesprea
gross misrepresentation of portion of m
|
by which | was received on my recent II
rival in this city.
/ am charged with having said then, tha
"the Chinese are the most frugal, induStri
Gus and ingenious people on the face of tn
earth"
uttered no such fulsome eulogy of tn
Chinaman no such absurd libel on tn
working man of America and Europe. spok
of the Chinese as competitors not to b
| IaSn,SaA hc SE1llA1 Doorb0nirs fN
the reason that as q race, they were indus
trious and frugal, and ingenious III man,
hsndicrafts.'
My remarks, which were wholly erten,pore
were reported next day in all five of III,
San Francisco morning papers. or the foul
principal papers, not one taislfied my Ian
guage on this point. Two of them, though
strongly for Chinese Labor, reported me
using nearly the same words-substantially
IS spoke The extrsvagant nonsense am
correcting was put into my mouth first by s
single morning paper, much more con
spicuous for its extreme partSanshil
on the Chinese Question than for the
accuracy of its reports. Its synlpathizer:
of the Radical press throughout the
State and Coast understand all this per
fectly we'll; yet with some creditable ex
ceptions, they adopted this false report; and
separating what il made ue say of the Chinese
character from what l did say of the conse
quent danger Of Chinese competition with
our skilled labor, they used it as the basis OF
their attacks The Eastern journals natu,
rally took what they found current here. II
| is rather q striking instance how readily
Throughout the country man may be made
responsible for language he never uttered.
| make this correction, also because | have
no wish 10 be regarded by friend or foe, on
this question, IS falling in with the adulation
of the Chinese, which seems to be an cpl
demie folly in certain quarters here and
elsewhere. IApplsuse.l
In like manner. / have been reported as
having said that sit were better the Pacific
Railroad had never been built than that it
should have been built by Chinsmen." Ap-
plause.
This also is untrue. What I said WAS, that
''if the Pacific Railroad was to be the cause of
iutiicting on this coast and the country,
Chinese labor to the exclusion of White
labor As fixed elenaut in Our stN,isl oro3ni-