Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-10-05


hitherto been accorded to its African pro.
totype.
/ 1t would seem that a plain statement
of the facts, even in my crude and un-
polished style, would be enough to excite
the Indignation Of every Christian man
within the sound of my voice, and would
impel each and every lover Of his kind
upon this floor to rise up and do all in
his power to stamp out this damning tiat-
/ fc in human flesh but there are vet 9TH
er weighty considerations why this bill
should pass, to which | desire briefly to
call the attention of the House.
As the friend of human liberty, it is
eminently just and proper that II Repub-
lican Congress should do all in its pow
er to prevent slavery in any land and
among any people; but rs patriotic states
men, guarding jealously the rights, the
interests, and the liberties of this Repub-
lie, it is not only our privilege, but it is
our sworn duty, to zealously guard our
own people from contact with slavery in
any OF its hideous forms. 1t needs no
| historian to tell this House that we have
but yesterday closed u gigantic war,
caused solely by the conflict between free
labor and slave Mbor-a war which shook
! the Republic to its very foundations, and
the effects OF which are still vibrating
| painfully throughout the land. And it
needs no prophet to tell you that you are,
by a mistaken policy, in favor of a nation
of pagan shareholders building up in the
far West Il slave system which is en-
croaching day by day and foot by foot
upon the domain of freedom, until at last
the irrepressible conflict between the two
elements must culminate in an eruption
whose end no man can toretell.
The Chinese who come to our shores
/ could never, even if released from the
| bonds Of pagan superstition, become n
! homogeneous people with us. Their ideas
of government are So entirely distinct
from ours that Repubicansm is com
| pletely beyond their conception. As the
mind of the holicst man the earth mas
produced cannot expand enough to take
in and comprehend the delights, and the
beatitudcs that float around the throne of
the Most High, so the Chinese mind, en-
veloped in the superstitions and darkened
! by the despotisms of ages, cannot expand
enough to comprehend our theory OF self
government. A Chinese Republican is II
simple impossbility.
Another tallacy is that they are sober,
mild, and inotlensive people. This is
contradicted by all who have studied
their habits or read their history. They
are a debauched, n cowardly, and blood
thiSty people. Their debauchery is not
the drunkenness Of intoxicating liquors,
but of opium. 1t is the most filthy, the
most horrible OF all debauchery. Its
victims are numbered by thousands, and
its vOtaly may be known by his pallid
and death-like countenance, by his glar-
ing and eXpfe,slonless eye, and his rest
less and uneasy manner. He has no APP
petite, no strength; his habits of sleep
are changed his shoulders become un-
naturally high; the fearful opium disease
sets in, and he dies in the most eXeruci-
atng agony. Dooittle, in his excellent
work on "The Social Life of the Chi
nese," says that though the use of Chi
nese whisky is universal among all class
es, there can be no doubt that opium is
the producer Of an immensely greater
amount OF sickness, poverty and death,
than Chinese liquors.
That they are cruel and blood od-thirsty
will be partially apparent from the fact
that female intnntclde is so common
among them that some of their writer's
on moral ethics refer to its prevalence
without any emotion Of horror at 50 afro
cious deed.
But the revolving cruelties attending
WV lllNHublt VI lut lOltlRI ltNlItlt0 ~
| Ten Tsin on the DIST OF June, 1870, show
the "mild and peaceable Chinese" in
their true character.
The French consul, all the foreign mer-
chants, their wives, daughters and child
! ren, the Catholic priests, and the Sisters
Of Mercy, and about one hundred little
orphan children, were cruelty and pre-
meditatedly murdered by n Chinese mob
under circumstances OF the most revolt
ing barbarty. Having set fire to the
building occupied by the Sisters, they
entered the gates and dragged them into
the street. There they stripped them
naked. exposed them to the public gaze
plucked out their eyes, cut off their
breasts, ripped them open, dragged out
their hearts, and deibertely cut them to
pieces, and divided portions Of their flesh
among the nturated mob.
n
The mutilated fragments OF the dead
Sisters were, together with the little chill
dren under their charge, thrown into the
the burning ruins, making "A horrible hol-
ocaust, too terrible to dwell upon even in
Imagination. These are 1.-The mild and
poaceable " beings who, gentlemen think,
are the victims Of California prejudice.
But the opposition to this bill | most
fear comes neither from ignorance Of the
enormities Of the Chinese slave trade,
nor from misapprehension Of the char
acter Of the Chinese. ltcomes from the
capitalists cry that the influx Of Chinese
cheapens the wages Of labor This is the
true enemy Of this bill, let gentlemen
sugar it as they will.
| am aware, Mr.. Speaker that, super
! fcally considered, cheap labor may APP
/ t1 ha a Il yup1unaalI. u IN the HnnntTU
| But even in this narrow view, it Is no
| longer an open question that its supposed
advantages are rs nothing in the balance
when weighed against the national de-
moralizatiOn Of slavery. This question
has been decided upon the battlefield in
ballots OF blood, and the decision is ire
vocable.
But go further, and | confidently as
sert here to-day that cheap labor and re-
publican Institutions cannot live at the
same time upon the same soil. Fair
wages for fair days wofk is in truth
the key stone of this Republic. Destroy
the first and the latter must crumble 10
atoms. 1t il true that the cheap labor Of
other days has reared grand and beautiful
monuments Of Architectural skill, and
/ that under that system nations have be-
come rich, grand and powerful but be-
| hind this beauty and this power there
looms up the sullen specter OF despotism,
which must inevitably follow if it does
not precede national system Of cheap
labor.
The reasoning is simple and the logic
Irresistible. Under the cheap-labor sys-
TEN, which only pays the laborer enough
to purchase the common necessarIes OF
! life, his children at the tenderest age
must be put to work TO asst st in the sup
port of the family. There is no time for
school, and the child grows up unedu-
Gated, with mind and body alike dwarted
by incessant toll, with no hope, no pow
or. no inclination oven to better bis CON