New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-07

canvass in California than tho question Of
cOuntenanCing and defending Chinese labor
and immigration. The Republicans were t1c
protectors of the pereoujed immigrants and
thcir labor; tho Democrats were their fierce
enemies in and out of season
IG there was another question upon Which
these two parties differed moro widely than
on this, It was That OF accepting the results Of
the civil war as embodied finally in The Four
tccnth and Fifteenth Amendments The great
bulk Of the California Democracy was IN
tcnseIy Rebel during tho w.r and rose and
fell in enthusiasm ls The cause Of the Con-
fcdcracy triumphcd or sucoumbed Oh the b2--
tle-fclds of the South. Reinforced now Ivy
men whose interests or mild patriotism al
fachcd them for q time to Sanitary Comm's-
sion Unioui3m, this Democracy is as impla-
cable rs ever, bat more wary. The example OF
the Ohio Dcmocrlcy having Jcen fol-
lowed by nearly every State organic
cation which has considered the So
called Now Departure, tho California
Democrats, With many . wiy fs'e, swallowed
The litter pill and accepted ths Amendments.
And that party to-day presents tho singular
spcctlclc of an organization indorsng rs legal,
Anal and inst that portion Of the Fundamental
law which they have, over and over again, de-
nounccd % Illegal, fraudulent, null and yoid.
Not only so, but they have placed on tins
platform Of party rcr3gross.0n, rs canida-3
for reelection, Henry II. uaight Who, as Gov
craoF. sent a message to tho Legislature, bot
a few months since cubodying q bitter and
lahorad argument against the validity Of the
very Amendments which he is now compelled
to indorse in the platform Of bis party This
is accepting Repu5icanism.
But the Republicans, too, have gone backward.
IN their party platform, adopted Ior this cam
paign, they resolve that the presence OF the
Chinese in California is a serious and con-
dnuous injury to The best interests OF the
"Satep and that It is an evil that ought to
abe abated," and that it be demanded OF the
Federal Government TO adopt such treaty
"rogulatiou5 and legislation rs shall discourage
" their further immigration" Possibly out
sidcrs have no right to cTiaciSe these local
family doings but this is leaf out OF the
Dcmocracy's book. II Is precisely what the
Democrats have said for years. Worse than
Thu, it looks like forsadins q noble principle
fOy the temporary purpose Of inviting votes
that do not belong to republication until the
voters are better men than they are.
1t may be said Of both these parties which
have made this odd exchange Of opinions that
neither is in earnest We know very well
that tho bitter BOurbOns who hate freedom
and hate the instrument that brought eman-
cipgtion and the ballot to the black race never
Will give up any plan for the reestablishment
of Slavery nor any hope OF it5 accomplishment
And we cannot believe that any considerable
norton of the Republicans of California wlil
favor legislation which shall DO hostile to
Chinese immigration or labor, or formally IN
woke the Intervention OF Federal power to put
an end to both. Ono prominent Republican,
at least, declared somewhat effGsiyely in their
late Convention at Sacramento that " che
"Chncse must be citizens OF foudal slaves
AS he was candidate Cor leading nOmina-
ton. it is hardly necessary to say that he was
promptly defeated; but he had many votes,
nevertheless.
These things may not De popular nor discreet
to say in California; but the truth couTa-
geousy told is always best, and time viii show
that the brave, honest Republicans of the
Pacific States, who fought against great odds,
endured obloquy and hardship for humanity's
and truths sake, and finally conquered because
they fought in just cause, were really
ashamed of a weak iueglery with words which
could not hasten the victory they now seem
bound 10 win. "