The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-15


selves to despair of the Republic,
they never have felt the NECESSITY &c
guarding against the intrusion of furth-
er elements of danger. @FS
In this view of the case, can we at
| ford to admit the unlimited Chinese in
fax with which tho country. is threat
encd? Can VIC afford TO add this dam
ger TO the other dangers which menace
our liberties? When the elements of
strength and weakness, of safety and
peril, are so nearly balanced as they are
at present, is it wise or prudent. TO per
NIT an unnecessary addition of forces
| TO the wrong side? Ii is through intel
ligence and virtue that We arc able to
keep tho strong yet delicate machinery
| of republican government in existence
and order; but ii the 'sbrute mass" be-
come ummanagcablc because of its vol.
umc, all will be thrown into confusion.
L make but suggestion on this point
| which is well worthy of deep consider
alton.
There is vast amount of social or
sexual vice in civilized countries. but
European immortality in this respect is
virtue itself when compared with Chi
nese immortality. In their indecent and
obscene, foul and Notifying vice, they
have gone to depths of which the mod
ern white race is happily ignorant. AS
| a consequence the most loathsome and
| destructive diseases are terribly preva-
| lent among them-prevalent to such an
extent that the blood and physical or
| ganism, as we'll az the moral and men,
| tai qualities of the Chinese race, are pro-
foundry affected by them. This is a
subject upon which nothing more than
hint is necessary for physicians and
philosophers, and upon which / will
| say nothing more in this place. But it
| is beyond doubt that in this respect. rs
| in many others, the heather immortality
| of the Chinese race, is beyond descrip-
ton, vile and disgusting to any people
| that possess the better traits of man.
hood OF the. sentiments of pride, honor
and decency. If we may quarantine
| ships which bring cholera infected en-
igrants to our shores, should we not
quarantine for an indefinite time the
vessel which would bring emigrants
whose blood is poisoned with malig-
nant virus, and whose physical organi-
zation is as mean and dcbased as their
mental and moral life? The Californi-
ans have been trying for years to pre-
vent the transportation into that State
of ship-loads of lewd Chinese women,
which are but little worse, in public
point of view, than the ship-loads of
incestuous and Sodomite Chinese men.
On the ground of morality, therefore,
solemn and observation-disclosures well rs
| on the grounds of race, industry, and
politics. object to the Chinese influx
to America.
If it be said that the Chinese Ameri-
can treaty which Mr.. Burlingame nego-
tiatcd at Washington three years ago,
provides for the admission of Chinese
TO America on equal terms with Amer
leans to China, il is enough to say in
| reply that the intention of this treat Y
was not TO allow any such thing as u
wholesale immigration of the Chinese
population to this country. Since the
treaty had no snch intent as this, it can
not be brought forward i'll its justifica-
ton. There is u popular feeling in this
country against determinations between
human beings OH the ground of race.
1t is an honorable and noble feeling,
and | sympathiZe with it deeply and
wholly. But it is mere trifling with
ones reason to say that this principle
would compel us to open our continent
al gates TO the myriads of debased
Chinese pagans who are ready to swarm
into our towns. Even the glitterin@
idea of E'AIl Rights for All Men" is
constantly subjected to the modification,
in its theoretical terms as we'll as in its
practical application.
l. i have no luminosity against the Chi
nese race. As human beings and chill
dren of God, entertain the most ami
able feelings toward them. l would
defend them against any wrong, under
all circumstances. Ny indignation has
been aroused by the outrages perpetra-
ted upon them in California. We must
i'll no case, permit anything of the Kind
toward the Chinese immigrants in these
Northern States.