The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-08-28

exclusively ueVoSeu 70 the man e4IoAA
Africa, is alarmed at the new labor
movement on foot in the South. It
realizes the gravity that that movement
has for the negro population that it
will crowd it into the cotton and sugar
fields or make it more into new locali-
ties. Wherefore the Tribune says Of
the Southern labor movement
No part Of these treaties binds Us TO allow an
immigration Of persons bound TO service and la.
Dor under conditions which virtually establish .
system Of Slavery. The whole policy Of our gov
eminent is against it; aud nothing could be more
inimical TO the permanent we'll being Of the eoun
try. We feel satisfied that Congress aud the Ex-
eeutive win unite to prevent this great wrong frem
being committed.
That looks quite positive. Never
theless it is boot for only one leg
In this Pacific country there is no me-
gro people, hence that perpetual stream
of philanthropy which finds one Of its
sources in the Tribune does not flow
hitherward. A convenient escape from
the act of 1862, SO far as it relates to
the Western slope, is found. That
which is called "the Coohe trade" in
the South is only Chinese Immigra-
ton" out here. That which Congress
is called upon to prevent, as o great
wrong, in the South, is declared to pos
sess "great and manifold advantages
in California and Oregon. And where
fore the difference?
Is the status of the $4,000 or 40
900 Chinese lately employed upon the
c. p. Railroad different from that oi
the 80, 900 or 40, 900 proposed for em.
ployment in Georgia? Certainly not
The east-side railroad has no more
business relations with each of the
three or four hundred Cinnamon thai
it employs than it has with the horses
hitched to its dump carts. 1t contracts
with agents. So does the Burnt River
Ditch Company, as the recent transac
tons between that Company and
Messrs. Tong Duck Chung & Co. suf
fciently show. As to manner, meth
cd, terms, results, ETC., there is not {
percepible difference between the ar
rangement by which the cotton glowel
gets his Asiatic employees and that b,
which SIr. Holladay gets his railroad
graders. The emminent services o
such individuals as the renowned
Koopmanschap and Messrs. Ton,
Duck Chung & Co. are called into req
uisition in both cases.
The distinction which the Tribun
seeks to enforce is, that the Chimes
emigrant comes from Hong KonI
while the Coohe laborer comes from
Macao. The distinction is simply ab
surd, and the more 50 since it come
from source where we have o righ
to expect candid, at least iutelligen
argument.
This mania for mongrelzing th
American nation is one of the marvel
of the age. There is enough to chal
lenge wonder when men trample ol
the ties of nationality, religion an
race; but why they should becom
imbued with sentiment of entire de
votion for the lowest grades of human
ity and for them alone; why the.
should devote solely to them, thei
press, their pulpits, their ballots; VIII
they should pile high upon these hen
then affairs all of the blessings Of dear
" bought and long cherished institu
tons is most difficult and perplexin;
question. The philosophers who com
to live in a cooler period may regar'
this unreasoning conduct as one of tn
most remarkable phenomenon of al
times. Madness sometimes has
method, but if this has q method
where is it, and if this Radicalism b
not madness, what is it?