Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-08-16

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| gae, JE. G..
Mr.. Seymour, last Democratic Candidate
for President, on the Coolie Question
At a mass meeting of the workingmen held
at Rochester on the 4th instant the following
letter was read from Ex-Governor Seymour on
the question Of Chinese immigration to the
United States: $. s5 81
.e,s.e UTICA, August 3, 1870.
| 80 Sir put off until this time my answer
to your letter a>king me to speak to a meeting
at Rochester upon the subject of Chinese i'm
migration as hoped it would be in my power
to do so. am sorry that | cannot attend =
All agree that 1t is grave subject. 1t is one
that must be met, and it must be met now
Strong influences are at work to open the food
gates and pour in upon us the worst classes of
Over-crowded China. They can get to our
shores at less cost and in greater numbers than
the people of Europe. If they continue to
crowd In they will overthrow the customs, civ
lllzation, and religion, of the whole Pacific
coast. and they will also crush down the posi-
ton OF laborlng classes throughout our coun-
try. | am against this. Lam not.willing they
should gain a foothold here No nation in Eu-
rope would suffer such an invasion. IF Brit
ain, Germany, or France, should allow any,
thing of the kind their Governments would be
overt brown. Why should we give up our civ
ilization In any part of the country for that of
Asia :? eY
'lt Is said we want cheap labor. We do
not want cheap labor, but ll-paid labor In
terest as we'll as justice and humanity calls for
this IF all who labor in this country took the
same wages aud spent as little money as the
| Chinese laborer our Government would be
bankrupt and business would shrink up. Well
paid labor spends freely with the business man,
and fills the national treasury by the imposts
and duties it yays upon what it uses. This is
the whole source of our financial strength as
compared with other people, If labor is
brought down to the Chinese standard there
| will at once be difference in the condition of
classes which will in the end overthrow our
Government. We pay higher taxes and in
terest than any other people, and if the price
of labor is put down to Asiatic rates capital
will swallow up the earnings of toll more rap
idly than was ever yet done in the history of
nations. If this is to be our future we have
lost in vain nearly million Of lives in the late
civil war. 1t is not the object of Government
to undersell others-to pinch ourselves that We
may pinch others. The great end of states
manship is to give comfort and plenty to each
home, and to take care that labor is we'll paid
! We should seek to give happiness to each fire.
| side circle, and not to Gil the Golfers of capi-
talists. na.ii2 sa15 aa
1t is said by some if we shut out Chinese
immigration we do so in the face of all our
former professions. This is not So We in
vite European immigration because it adds to
our power and happiness. Europeans do not
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They do not bring here any strange blood. 1t
| has always been our practice to shut out any
immigration that is hurtful We send back to
Europe criminals or paupers by virtue Of State
and national laws. Every city and town guards
against incomers who endanger social order or
safety. We are in no way bound to take into
| our public system any mlschlevous elements or
to destroy it by personal influences. If We be-
leve in our reli gious creeds, in the form and
principles of our Government, then we must
believe that Asiatic creeds and customs are
baleful. To-day we are dividing the lands of
the native Indians into States, countless and
townships We are driving off from their
property the game upon which they live by
railroads. We tell them plainly they must
give up their homes and property and live up
on corners Of their own territories because they
are 10 the way of our civilization. If we can
do this then we can keep away another form
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| Il have no doubt the Chinese have useful
qualities They are said to be good servants, ready
to do the work of men or women, but they have
not the traits which will build up on this con-
tinent great and high-toned Power. We must
| not judge OF those who come here by those who
stay at home. We get only the dregs. There
is but one way of dealing with this matter. The
policy of exclusion must be as sharp and as
vigorous as that of Massachusetts or New York
against the coming pauperism. 1t must be
borne in mind that, under the late amendments
to our National Constitution, you can give them
no qualified condition; you put upon them no
political restraint, made necessary by their pc
culiarities. They can grasp the rights ofvotng
and law making despite all State legislation. 1t
is to be hoped that this subject will he taken up
and discussed n fair and temperate way by
all classes. We must not let it drift and settle
itself Unless we are ready to give up the con.
sequence of this new danger to the public peace
and home happiness OF our people we must
confront the problem at the outset.
Truly yours, HoRATIo SEYMOUR
| Young ELoPERs. Rs.-The youngest elopement
on record took place at Hudson, Michigan, last
week. Master Frederick Tubbs, of that town.
| aged five years, took Miss Schermerhorn, aged
three years, combed her hair, put the doll s
things in box, and proceeded with her to the
depot, Wnere they got on tue TeaT pideloIm y!
the Western bound train without being noticed
/ till the conductor received dispatch for them.
They were put off at Osseo, and returned on
| the next train, we'll pleased with their trip.
The flower charity, as it is called. is new
and rather pretty Yankee notion. So far, it is
confined to Boston and Providence. At fixed
Intervals, bouquets are distributed to all the
sick throughout the city: -,
The flour charity, we hope, will not be neg
| lected for the it's new tangled rival.
| Agassiz says that every great scientific truth
! goes through three stages First, people say
it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it
/ had boon d;scovered before: lastly, they saw