The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-02-11

whllc mems rights and liberties known
Inc fourteenth and fifteenth aa,eudmep
wv Ihe sailing Of the MayAower for the &,
cargo OF Africans Just after she had land
v ftne Plstihs on Plymouth Rock was
greater crime, no greater wrong, sban d
1SmPoEtatioa Of Chinese laberers. All. bu
a stE 4s krlbune and other, philantror
!. srpalss Mr5 Sampson proposes TO p,
,n1 sS eni ao! &C , and then BY the fourteenth az
nftcehtH ahiendhetts they can marry L
!; f1aa'gScers Ofcur land II they desire to
eDsng Which Africans couMa not do
4 SSahceiy any Of tbe States, until Geore
j 4 1thog@ pS9p, Philips, Garrison, Sumner,
, q onaue ge'aas, BY great perrs,eeveranpcIe and
4, 1sTrupefCM OF the c5uhtfy. brought Il abou
4 I'ns what becomes of the labcress.. trirne
/ ont hY DIR, Sampson b lie is not bound 1
;. 'ake care Of Or provide for any Of them i
:. sickness sickness and old age, nor for The coolies, q
ar the statutes Of al the slayeholdio
Z ets'es. even Massachusetts, provided 70
: ineguO labOrers He mon Isim,m -.-I
1 Fl Recorded history Seems 70 show l4bs
: fsSeEt PEogrsssits and susesss6,h moe o
people were ~ oHly as lsngs q they move,
lss Westward syqlI while when they pushed tbei
fortunes eastward Che adventure was sool
! Terminated in retrogressionT and dccay
Nv o the last aud most aavsuced wave 3
tAat human tide which has been flowing fol
! ages toward the setting sup. having reached
with solid settlement, tie shores Of the Pa
c!hc. and, 50 to say, the region whict
I divides the two hetnispberes, find ourselves
iace e face with the stagnating civilization
q Inc remote East Osr march i, bound
p BE- as It has been already, upon the
deep as well as across The mountain chain
and through the wiidethcss. And since
even IN our youth, the tenpestuoussAt tIan
10 proved to US convenient highway, we
shall ind in the Pacific only familiar
path rather than an obstacle, which, in
these days Of steam, the enterprise Of our
people will soon comparatively bridge over.
IhGs we are broaght in contact with the
Chinese. We no longer have to 70 nearly
round the world to seek them. They are
our Dext neighbors; they are knocking at
our doors. '- 'd'.I 3ii ~
From this fact the question may we'll
arise shall we still leave these portals vide
open, as they have hitherto invitinply been
70 the whole human family, whom We were
glad't to see, such, at least, as wweS then ex-
PeCted would come, and in such numbers
as We could afford to welcome 7 This is
very important question to MS, and will, If
not solved by us, be one Of terrible IMPORT
In its consequences to our posterity and
our country. True, we have built and es-
tablishcd railroad and steamship. lines
avOwedly to foster immigration. So the
rice cultivator, at the head of tide water.
cuts bitches to irrigate his fields, aud
makos sluice-gates to retain the fertilizine
nuld but when a devastating fresbet sets
IN from above, or the salt tide rising, threa
tens to pour its poison upon his crop, does
be leave those sluice gates open? No.
And should we, in regard to the demoraIiz-
ing, labOr-crushing food of Chinese and
coolies ! Certainly not. Because grad
nal -axIerienee tan0ht us tn aprraciate tho
stream Of Irish, German, and other Euro
pean emigration, are we to accept the over
whelming Asiatic influx OF Chinese 7 Emi-
grants from Europe fed from tyranny to
enjoy the blessings Of. freedom under our
glorious stars and stripes. They love cur
country and its institutions. They have
attested this by moistening the soil Of many
battle field with their life's blood. Not
so the pagan Chinese. They come from
purely corrupt and merconary motives.
They detest our laws and institutions
they hate the shrines ef the Christian
they worship idols; they stay here only
until they acquire some money they have
no sympathy with us or ours; they are
thieves and liars aud hesthens.
This question Of irnmigratio to the
eye Of common sense, can never be one Of
abstract principle, but only of quality and
degree or quantity.
First, then, as to quality. Having dis
cussed, as far as time would permit, one Of
their qualities, that Of their religious be-
lief. and having digressed somewhat since,
! win return to further discuss this point.
Centuries before the time when our
Celtic and Tcutonic ancestors first ceased
to paint their bodies and abandoned human
sacrifices, or at time more remote, when
the Latins and Greeks we're still in state
Of savageism, these Chinese, like the Hin
docs, were by their own record much as
they are now. How-Hie, the contemporary
Of the Egyptian, Menes. Hourished in
China more than four thousand years ago,
(2188 BIC. j and eight centuries before
him, (2989 B.C.,) FO Hi sat on the
ttrone of China, the successor Of long
line Of kirgs. Nearly twenty, two hundred
years ago the Greek writer's, brought into
contact with them on the Indus, in India,
under Alexander Of Macedon, described
them as being in all main particulars as
they are to-day, in a state of semi-civiliza-
ton, which had long since reached the ut
most development Of which it was slscepti-
bic, and having fossikzed. has conse-
quently remained stationary, and without
material change, down to the present time
In passing, / may be allowed TO sllude,
very briefly, to the Findoos. as serving tC
illustrate my views Of the Chinese. These
\, two people, constituting one-balf Of man
Kind, SO ancient and SO thOreugh b is the
petrifsction of the semi civilization tc
which they bad attained untold ages since
that it has impressed and indurAted The
prsjudices to which it bad given rise int
} the very being Of these races. The Hin
: doc to-day, who fawns and crouches, and i,
eager for dollar and half month tC
: perform menial service for n British me
NAL, if the governor general Of India
: whom be has seen travel with fifteen hun
: dred elephants in his train, and whom ht
regards as the greatest potentate on eartl
{ if this governor general should touch il
q passing, with his foot or his garments. tn
/. vessel in which the Hindoo's miserable
/ meal is cooking or set away, that lIindo'
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