Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-09-24

ballot, than we can by what may fall from
our pen. North Carolina will have labor
Labor means population. We are upor
record and will abide the issue of our acts
A correspondent OF the Wilmington Journal
whose letter appears as an edltorsal, seems 10 DO
ie7e that Germans and Irishmen arc no better
than the Cinnamon. Hear nun
"Oongress has power only to establish an
uniform rule OF naturalization consequently,
80 long as the Germans and Irish arc allowed TO
come, the Chinese can come also and on the same
terms. All come as freemen and all como aa
equals"
We differ entirely with the writer. We can never
admit that the barbarian Ohinaman is the equal
of tho civilized European. We can never admit
| that the Pagan ia the equal OF tho Christian.
| There is no nation more enlightened, more
| scholarly, than the German. Is the degraded,
beastly Ohinaman the equal of q German?
| There is no nation whose poOplo excol In gGn-
crosby, noble impulses, wit, and bravery the
Irish people. Is the blear-eyed cowardly China
man the equal OF the brave freshman He who
dares say so must indeed be blind. How do our
German and Irish friends like being lowered to
the level of the brutal Chinese? Do they agree in
this estimate placed upon them by this Demo-
| cratic paper ? We do not believe it. We have too
much respect for our German and Irish fellow
citizens to believe that they would submit to
such an insult.
We publish the above article in full from
the Raleigh Standard, to let our readers
see how arguments and facts are met by
the leading Radical paper of the State. So
frequently has that paper appealed to tho
ignorant prejudices of the negro that in
transferring them to intelligent white
men, the editor, unmindful of the change,
makes no effort to hide his fiimsy dema-
gogism.
| In the first place it comes with bad
grace from O paper to attack as an edi-
places at tho head of it's own columns the
announcement that 1--WE are not respon-
sible for the views of correspondents. -
| The mere fact that the letter IN question
was placed upon the second or editorial
page of the paper in no wise makes it zap
pear as an editorial" The arrangement of
matter in newspapers is altogether ques-
ton of taste, and in view of the large adj
vertising patronag of the JOURNAL, ques-
ton also of necessity. Some papers do not
feel the same necessity for economising
space.
But what we object to in the article of
the Standard is the total and disingen
uous misrepresentation of our correspon-
dent Is that paper warranted, by the
extract from the letter which it published,
in its statement that our correspondent
g seems to believe that Germans and Irish-
men are no better than the Cinnamon "?-
| r., int no WI
the entire article that the s. barbarian Chi
naman is the equal of the civilized Euro
pean -? or the Pagan the equal of the
Christian? Is not the whole article the
most palpable Misrepresentation ? Had
not the words of the letter been published
we would have thought the misrepresenta-
ton was wilful as it is, it is merely stu
pid.
Our correspondent in the extract quoted
was arguing as to the right of Cinnamon
to come to this country and become citi-
zens, and possess and enjoy all the rights
and privileges enjoyed and possessed by
other foreign born American citizens
That as Congress has power only to "es-
|
consequently all COME as freemen and all
COME as equals. The very next sentence
to those quoted by the Standard land that
paper for some reason omitted to italicise
the word ataiforna in making the extract)
shows to what this equality refers. as will
be seen below. How any one can read
the following paragraph from the letter of
our correspondent and pretend not to
know that equality before the law" WAS
referred to, is either blind, stupid or
worse. When we read day by day from
the columns of that paper of the equality
of the whites and blacks, we are some
what inclined to doubt the sincerity of its
new born zeal for the German and Irish,
and suspect the tears which it sheds to be
manufactured for the occasion. In this
case the Standards " sweet German accent
and right Irish brogue'' is most awkwardly
} affected.
We republish the paragraph from which
the extract commented upon is taken
"But suppose, however. tor the sake OF the
argument that 1t Is desirable to prevent this pro.
can it be done? We can prevent it only by an
entire change in the fundamental law OF the
land. If a Thousand Cinnamon publish in all the
papers tomorrow morning their intention to take
up their residence in this city there is no power
under the law to stop them. In defiance OF the
wishes OF the citizens, the Mayor, tho Grand
Jury, the City Judge. the Governor, President
and Congress-, those Chinese can come to
Wilmington, declare their intention TO be-
come fully naturalized and possess and enjoy all
the rights and privileges enjoyed and possessed
by other foreign born American citizens
Congress has power only " to establish an asni-
form rule OF naturalization" Consequently, 80
long as the Germans and Irish are allowed to
come, the Chinese can come also and upon the
same terms. All come as freemen and oil come
as equals. For this equality OF the Chinese with
negroes before the law and for their rights under
the law to enjoy the privileges OF American
citizens, we have to thank those OF our
| rulers and citizens who made the Four.
teenth Article (Howard Amendplent) a
part OF the United States Constitution, who are
now following it up with the Fifteenth Amend.
ment. LII any harm comes of Chinese auffra ge,
| upon their shoulders. and not upon ours, rests
the responsibility. In tho olden and honest time
each State exercised control over the right of
suffrage. at least in State elections and granted
or withheld it from the citizen i'm such cases as
in the discretion Of the Legislature seemed
proper"
| The Governor of Minnesota urifas Nh al