The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-12

09sRHBs.G GHINEsRs QUEsTQol7: his
great Fourth Of July speech in New
York city, Senator Casserly seid: :,
HBut there is another question which
( has lately come .up-a very important
question. At first it was no bigger than
Q mans hand; but already it has spread
itself all over the horizon with its threat
ening and portentous shadow. I refer
oEthe question Of the introduction into
the country Of the debased and degraded
Asiatics as laborers, to the exclusion of
the white labor of the country. Gentle
men, I am one of those who believe that
no society can rest upon sound organi-
zation unless it rests upon sound aud
just organization of labor; OIL which de-
nies to the workingman honest labor;
anu you deny that to him, when you cut
his wages below the point of supplying
ms decent wants, or when you undertake
TO br1ng into competition with him the
debased,. degraded laborer of Asia. I
know what ls said about the importance
of capital to labor; there is no necessary
antagonlsm between them. But mean
to say this, and say it deliberately, on
subject of which have thought much,
that 1 know of no right under the Gov
eminent SO clear as tho right of the
Wofklngman to earn subsistence for
himself and family without undue inter-
terence. And when the capital of
country for any purposes of it's own I'M
dertakes to divorce itself from the labor
OF o country, it has put itself out of the
pale Of my sympathy and my respect
Ihls whole movement is sordid, I'M
christian, and had almost said devilish,
purpose on the part of capital to add it's
swollen profits out of the hard labor of
the .workingmen of the United States
In the face of the outcry of labor, in the
face OF Christianity, in the face of civil
zat1on, they propose to pour in upon
This land horde Of Pagan, vicious, de-
graded Asiatics, to take the bread out of
the mouths of the laborers of this coun-
try and send them to the poor-house or
perhaps to the penitentiary, and the
others to life of degradation and shame.
II shall not be: 1t is no party question.
1t is too high for party. It lies at the
foundation of society. It lies at the
foundation of our Government. We can
have no free Government, gentlemen,
without an intelligent, independent, free
working class. No matter what pre-.
tences are put forward, I say there is but
one party in this country to-day which
Is sufficiently free from the tolls of capi-
tallsts to enable it to stand by the laborer
IN the great contest which is coming.
You have only heard the sound of tile
first ripple of this mighty sea which is
coming upon you. We in California
have seen it face to face. You have got
to fight this question for yourselves; if
you don't you will lose it. I think I
know how the great heart of the party
OF human rights beats for you on this
subject. [ think know that the old
Democratic party will stick to the cause
Of the workinginan; if I am enabled to
Judge by what she will do in the future
by what she has done in the past, she
will take that course, whether at Wash.
lngton or at the corporate board. III
know myaelf, the Democratic party will
take that course, or cease to act with it.
But have no fears on this subject;
don't doubt the Democratic party at all
on this question"
The New York Tribune is opposed to
the importation of Chinese, and gives
up several of its columns to an article on
the question by John Swinton, in which
he opposes the movement on four
grounds, viz: race, industry, politics and
morality. 1t strikes one somewhat oddly
TO read an article in the Tribune, declar-
ing against the dwelling amongst us of
sAS OhtASoS3 Oi uCCOuub OI Luo 1QlGrlOrl-
ty of their race. and saying that "all
that here exists is owing to this white
race and is the work of this race, which
is the best base and best built, the
strongest and soundest, the dominant
and predominant, the most aggressive
and progressive race in the world" and,
adding, that "there is reason to dread
the result of the infusion and transfu-
sion of the Chinese. Mongolian or vel
low race with the white American race.
The Mongolian blood is depraved and
tlebased blood. The Mongolian type of
humanity is an inferior type-inferior in
organic structure, in vital force or ply
steal energy and in the constitutional
conditions of development. Can we af-
ford to permit the debasement of the
American race-types by intermixture
with On inferior racer" This is rather
singular language to find in the Tribune
the great advocate of the equality of the
black race, which is admittedly inferior
in intelligence to the yellow race. After
endorsing and swallowing the negro, the
Republican leaders cannot very consist
emily turn their backs on the Chinese.
But if they have seen the error of their