The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-09-24
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GEO. q. PENELEToN's aTALK."

characteristic of all the leaders Of his party.
He deprecates the immigration of the Chin
ese, because they are an alien, an inferior
and idolatrous race-they have not our
tastes, or habits, or manners, or development,
or religion, 1t is quite refreshing to hear
this Democratic apostle talk about trans
ferriDg the Chinese wall to this continent,
in order to exclude the down. trOdden people
of the old world from participation in the
privileges and benefits of our Government
and country, on the ground that they have not
our tastes, habits, manners, development or
religion 7 Why, suppose the Anglo -Saxons
who established this Government, had adopt
ed this modern Democratic test of taste,
habits, manners, religion DC, where would
have been the millions of German, French
/ and other nationalities which now contribute
to our great PopulatiOn2 Religion, indeed
Mr.. PendletOn is quite too late for caVeat
on that test of citizenship. The Know
Nothing patent ran out years ago, and Mr..
Pendleton can hold no exclusive right to the
discovery. What does that gentleman pro-
pose to do about the various religions al
ready among US? Would he take for his
State creed the Roman Catholic or the Pro-
testant.-the Evangelical or the Liberall
Is there greater difference in this respect be-
tween the Chinese and Mr.. PendletOn, than
between him and the Jews, atheists, deists,
&C., upon whom he relies for votes this fall2
And upon whom does that gentleman rely
for establishing this religious prescription,
but the very men whom his proposition
would Danish not only from the polls but
from the countryf He would probably re-
ply, that it is only the 'idolatrOus race that
he would exclude. But why prescribe the
the man who wOrships God in the sun or
stars, and admit him who not only WOrships
no God, but denies the existence of suchl
He will need to be more specific before his
religious standard for citizenship will be
understood.
Mr.. Pendleton objects to the Chinese be-
cause they are an alien race. Who, aside
from the aborigines, were not aliens in this
country2 We supposed it to be a special
glory of our heritage, that it was equally
free to the native and allen born but
this Democratic teacher proposes to change
all this.
But the Growing objection of Mr.. Pendle-
ton to the admission of TIM Chinese to the
right of coming to this country, is, that it
will give US cheap labor Cheap human
labor p he e1claims, Il despise the word.
1t signifies crime and shame. 1t signi-
fss squslOr, degradation, ignorance, vice.
Are not laborers men3 our fellow menu
Again he says:
Labor is too cheap now. Labor does not
receive its just reward. This country needs
skilled labOrers, and honest, intelligent, un-
tagging, Jealous industry; it needs that such
labor shall not be cheap, but that it shall be
most bountifully rewarded. The relation Of
capital and labor is now badly adjusted
Idle mOney-mOney which has no human
wants or affections, or mpathies-earns
more than labor, with all its sweat, and toll,
aud suffering
This is all very glib. 1t reads like the
words of 'hard-6sted conan, who knows
all about the sweat and toll and suffering
of lsbOr-at least, like the language of LIFE
long advocate of the rights of labor. In view
of such extravagance in profession, one would
not suspect that 1t came from lips which,
from earliest childhood to this very hour has
advocated and defended the most stupendOus
and heartless system of human slavery the
world ever saw. You 'despise the word
lcheap labor, do you Mr.. Pendlston? Labor
erS' are 'men'-'fellOw men'-are they? Did
you ever attend a slave-auction, under the
good old Democratic times and hear the
cries descant upon the capacities of your 'fel-
loW-meD' for furnishing cheap labor and
knocking them off to the highest bidder
ilike so many horses or oxen? Did you
despise the word thenl And when it was
proposed, under the infamous Dred Scott de-
IcisiOn, Congressional legislation and Exscu-
tive power, to make this iniquitous system
national and introduce it into Ohio as it then
existed in South Carolina, where ,Cere youy
Did you raise you voice against bringing
the cheap labor of slavery into competition
with the free labor of your neighbors2 When
your candidate for Vice President advocated
the doctrine that capital should ogn labor,
did you protest that the relations of capital
and labor were badly adjustedl' Not a word
Ofill No extent of 'squslOr, degradation,
ignoranee, or vice among 'laborers, was
then sufficient to excite the sympathy you
Inow profess. The unrequited toll of the
'idolatrOus' Africans, with tastes, habits and
development 50 different from those of Mr..
PendletOn, was all right and eminently
Democratic, so long as it was owned by
the Capital of the slaVe-master. There was
then no danger Of idle money getting too
'cheap labor, and Mr. PendletOn was ready
to compel the white wOr kmen of Ohio to
compete in the market against this proper
i ty' of capital
And when capital invested in our fell
lOWmen, sought to Perpetuste and strength
en- its subjectiOn Of labor by the overthrow
of the government, where was this new
champion of sweat, toll and sufferingT 2 Was
he found on the side of labor aud the
Union, or of capital and rebellionY The
question needs no answer, for it is well
known that FROM first to last, George H.
Peudletons voice and vote were in approval
and support of the PrO-Slavery rebels, He
has never to this day, uttered word in dis
approval of that gigantic and wicked attempt
by force of arms to nationalizs the sytem of
human bondage and degrade labor and the
labOrer at the North, as they always have
been at the South, to the most complete sub
lection Of soul and body TO the 'naney which
has no human wants or affections or sympa-
thiesl' For four years he stood in his place
as the representative of the skilled labOrers,
and honest, intelligent, jealous industry Of
an Ohio district, and opposed every effort
put forth to defend that great interest from
the monstrOus outrage threatened by the
Slave eligarohy. In fact, the chief ground
on which he justified his opposition, was
that the war was likely to result in the Gboli,
ton Of Slavery, and thus free labor from the
thraldom of capital.
The secret of all this talk of Mr.. Pendle-
ton is found in the fact that he thinks that
as his personal ambition prompted him to
take the side of Slavery and cheap labor in
the former case, the same motive leads him
to take the opposite ground now. He sup
poses something may be made out of the pre-
iudices Of .race asd religion, and hence his