The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-12-02
GOV. sEYMoUR.s SPEECH.

We give elsewhere synopsis Of
Hon. Horatio Seymour's recent speech
upon the Chinese question. We are
pleased to observe that this distin-
guished Democratic statesman taxes
substantially the same position in re-
gard to the Celestials that Gov. Gro
yer maintained in his Inaugural Ad-
dress, and that he uses almost the pre-
else language of the latter gentleman
in his argument against their impor-
tation.
Mr.. Seymour draws no less truth
full than graphic picture of the char
acteristics and practices of the Asiat-
les who are swarming our western
coast by thousands, and arrives at an
inevitable conclusion when he asserts
that the question of their immigration
to our country is fast becoming one of
the first magnitude and moment in
our national politics. We believe that
the Presidential campaign two years
hence will be fought upon that ques-
ton mainly, as it is evident that the
present dominant party are determin-
ed to espouse the cause of the China
man and his cheap labor against the
white laborer and living rates for his
toll while it is no less the policy Of
the great Democratic party to cham
pion the cause of those who have the
best right to the protection and ben
eits of our laws and avenues Of labor
the white men of our country. The
workingmen are fast discovering who
are their friends in this contest, and
that is one of the causes which led to
the election of so many Democrats to
the coming Congress.
In the East, wherever the Chinese
question has been agitated, the Dem
ocracy have adopted the side of wise
craftsmanship and generous wisdom
and have opposed the policy which
would ruin the laboring interest of the
fairest country upon which the sun ever
shone; while the Radicals-true to the
policy which would build up monied
monopolies in every class of business
and place the wealth of the nation in
the hands of privileged class of aristo-
Gratis and nabobs, whose patriotism is
gauged by dollars and cents and whose
craftsmanship is perverted to vilest
corruption-have universally favored
the importation of these Asiatic pa
gans and wooden-god worshipers, and
have used every means to encourage
them to throng our mines, workshops,
hotels, laundries. public improve
ments, and every position which was
heretofore made to yield the white Ia
borer bread for his little ones and o
shelter for his head from the rude
winter blasts.
Ahc "Aiec "OiAin IISA VI auiSIiCza
will not much longer stand by party
who are not only allowing the inferior
races to absorb their political rightsand
privileges, but are also tbrusting them
into those avenues upon which the white
peoples only hopes of livelihood de-
pend and unless the Radical majori-
ty in the next Congress adopt some
measures to secure the working-men
against the inroads of Cinnamon upon
their departments of labor, the next
Congressional election will hardly
leave a Republican in the Lower
House of the national Legislature.
Let Democrats work together for the
interests of the white men of the na-
ton and for the destruction of every
"josh-house" in the Union, and VIC
tory will perch high upon our banners
in the contest of 1872.