The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-03-13

OF honor and rectitude. The argunleptttDl
ad anUidian1 may suffice to catch the rab
BILE, but it is sure to disgust the rejecting
and upright.
ill-timed 7th of March speech, 1850, in
the United States Senate, in defence of
the Fugitive Slave Bill, no spectacle,
perhaps, has furnished greater cause for
surprise and regret than was presented
in that same body on the 18th inst in the
person of Senator Blaine, and his spe-
eious, vehement, race despising speech in
opposition to any further Chinese immi-
grafton to these shores. AS distin-
guished leader in the Republican party
party summoned by the exigencies of
the country, first to emancipate, and
next to enfranohise fearfully oppressed,
contemned and benighted class.
Yoked with the brute, and fastened TO the soul,
asserting their right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness, in common with
the most advanced Of mankind-high
expectations have been cherished by his
numerous friends and admirers that he
would in no wise falter in trampling upon
all opprobrious race distinctions, but
rather prove himself to be, not mere
calculating politician, but one born to
wise, humane and commanding states
manship, proof against all personal or
partisan temptation to sacrifice infexible
principle to a base eXpediency. But
these expectations are dissipated. 1t is
not an error of judgment, or simply a
lapSuS Hngu@, that marks the speech un-
der consideration. for that might readily
be pardoned; but it is the vulgar assump-
ton of superiority of race on the one
hand, and demagogcal cropping out on
the other, that go far to sap the founda
! Of nd
There is embodied in that speech-in it's
spirit and special pleadings-whatever of
contempt and prescription of race has
been fostered and exemplifed in the
world, from the earliest period of history.
THE osTRAcIsM OF RACES.
At the advent of Christianity the Jews
would have no dealings with the Samari-
tans, and regarded themselves as the
chosen people of God. In their turn
they were brought low, even to the dust,
left without a country and scattered in
divers parts of the earth, and for seven
teen centuries were under the harrow of
a merciless persecution. The Roman
invaders of England regarded the Saxon
race as little better than dogs, and fit
only for perpetual serfdom. Every race
in turn has had its day Of boasting and
of humiliation-has ostracized and been
ostracized How we have subjected the
African race and their descendants
among US to every indignity, every form
of cruelty and tyranny, in utter disregard
of the teachings of the Christianity we
profess, we need no reminder. 1t was
said of them by men as conspicuous as
Senator NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., with the
liberty to remain on this side OF the At
lantic, is but an act of dreamy madness;
'all emancipation, to however small an
extent, which permits the persons eman-
cipated in this country, is an evil, which
must increase with the increase OF the
operation; "it would be as humane
to throw them from the decks in
in the middle passage as to set them free
in our country; they constitute class
by themselves-a class out of which no
individual can be elevated, be his talents.
his enterprise, his virtues what they may,
and below which none can be depressed'F
here, therefore, they must be forever
useless more even than this, they must
be forever a nuisance, from which 1T
were q blessing for society to- be rid
| See annual reports of the managers OF
the American Colonization Society, and
the pages of its organ, The African Re
pository Is there a deeper contempt
or a lower estimate of the Chinese
among us than this ? Yet complete and
universal emancipation has taken place.
without expatriation and without disor
der; the people so despised and so given
over to hopeless degradation are daily
gaining in selfreliance and popular re-
| lance and popular respect, in intelli-
gence and virtue, in industry and thrift,
in sure perception OF their
rights and obligations as American citi
zens; they have schools of all grades
from the primary to the University,
which, though compelled to struggle In
some sections with formidable difficulties,
are doing much for their general eleVa
ton and improvement; and their black
represen tatives are in both houses OF
Congress. And this marvellous change
has been wrought within less than q
score of years, eliminating in the eleva-
ton to the office of United States Mar
shall for the District of Columbia of a
fugitive slave who had to find safety
under the British flag, and whose manu-
mission was purchased by British gold
And it is the gifted and eloquent Sena,
tor from Maine, par excellence, who, for
himself and in behalf of the Republican
party, is ready to stand by this once
unutterably hated class in the assertion
and defence of every right and privilege
that he claims for himself, while he
indulges in the most contemptuous and
deIogatory language toward the Chinese
laborers in California The former have
votes, and the latter have none; and it
is not difficult to draw a correct inference
from this sort of discrimination. Indeed,
while the Republican journals excepting
those on the Pacific slope) are commend
ably united in reprobating his course on
this grave question, they do not accord
to him any higher motive for this vol.
canic outbreak of race defamation on his
part than the pitiful one of hoping
thereby to advance his own Presidential
aspirations, or to achieve a local party
triumph in California at the coming
State election, that may be of special
service in the next Presidential cam
paign. 1t is his misfortune, at least, to
be SO regarded by those of his own affilia-
ton, who certainly have no motive to
dissent from him except a sense of duty,
and what belongs to "the eternal fitness
of things; and they deserve high praise
for their outspoken, independent ex
preston of opinion adverse to his treaty
breaking efforts.
THE BURLINGAME TREATY.
I see in the Tribune of yesterday Mr..
Blaine has made an elaborate reloinder,
at great length, to my brief criticism of
his speech which appeared IN the Irlb-
une of the 18th inst. 1t is simply a
repetition of the irrelevant allegations
and empty fallacies contained in his Sen
atorial rodomontade, but more consecu
tiyely arranged under ten distinct heads
Of these ten there is but one that touches
the real question at issue; the other nine
are mere padding and clap trap, ignobly
resorted to to infiame race passions and
preiudices Let US see, first, what is the
agreement contained in the Rurlingame
Treaty.: