The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-23

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The naturalization bil1 faased by Congress
previous to its recent adjournment, and the
only object Of which appears to have been to
cut down the democratic majority in New
York city, is one Of the most monstrous pieces
of all the monstrous legislation of the present
infamous radical congress "Under this bill
no naturallzed voter can ever feel that the
rights he has acquired are secure, for he is
liable at any time in his life to have his certi-
ficate annulled, and be tried and punished for
perjury on the affidavit of an outsider who
wishes to gratify personal or political spite.
A commission is erected which is to decide
I upon the genuineness of each certificate pre-
sented, when called in question, and may
set aside the judgment of competent Court
ty indictable offences, punishable with fine and
Imprisonment, are created one section alone
containing over sixty, and Senator Casserly
did not exaggerate when he said that cit would
be easier for an applicant for naturalization
to calculate an eclipse than to understand all
the preliminary requirements to which he
would be subjected" In addition to all else,
the United States marshal is empowered to ap.
point deputies to preserve order at the polls,
and these deputies, we presume, can call out
United States troops whenever IN their opin-
! ion the emergency requires dose ofbayonets'
The bill besides the abominable provisions
above indicated, contains another feature
which must eonsign the radical party to eter-
nal ridicule and contempt. While it admits
all persons of African birth to all the privileges
of naturalization enjoyed by white immi-
grants, it peremptorily excludes the Mongo-
liam or Chinese. The ignorant, degraded, be-
sotted cannibal and fetish worshipper from
Africa can claim his papers in five years after
reaching our shores, the same as the educated,
polished Prussian, Englishman or French.
man ; but the Chinaman, although thoroughly
| chrisitanised by the missionary and enjoying
thorough education in the English langu-
age, as is actually the case with some of the
Chinese shoemakers in Massachusetts,, is for
ever excluded Why? The radical Senator
Stewart, debating the bill before the senate,
declared that ''thc extension of the privileges
of naturalization to the Chinese would occa-
sion popular revolution against the Repub-
lican party which would destroy it." This
frightened the radical senate, and the poor Mon
golan was cast overheard. But where now
is the radical boast of standing upfor the "act-
ual and absolute equality of all men in sight
of heaven and before the law "the unquaii-
fed and inalienable right of every man to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, except
when forfeited by the commission of crime y
and all that sort of hypocritical cant with
which the country was RECALLED while the rad
ical leaders were striving to make radical
voters of the niggers: If the negro, confess
edly the lowest type of the human race, is fit
to be made voter, why not the Mongolian
The exclusion of the Chinese by the radical
party from naturalization, for the sole reason
that they fear a loss of votes by not doing so,
is such proof Of the hollow hypocrisy of that
party as must sink it to the lowest depths of
contempt in the estimation Of all honorable
men. - -.T#-