Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-03-18
Kearney and the Hoodlums-An
Apology Tor the Kearney War.

war in California by Kearney, Kali
loeb d Co, is sort of providentlal
punishment inflicted on that people
for their oppression of the "Heathen
Chinee." The law enacted by the
Legislature OF California, that no cit
izen should hire and employ a Chi
naman under heavy penalty is saw
age and barbarous and a disgrace to
our pretensions to civilization. When
President Johnson organized the
State out of half whipped rebels and
unconverted slave holders, their Leg.
islatures with one accord, passed
laws of the same character, prescrib-
ing that the negro should not hold
land, should address the white man
by the name of "master," and should
not leave the plantation where he
worked without pass. Such were
the codes of South Carolina and Mis-
sissippi. These relies OF barbarism
may still be found in the State Lii
brary at Madison.
But who would have dreamed of a
similar, more barbarous law in CAL
ifornia? AT present, Kearney and
kalloch and their infatuated hood
lums whose mouths are watering at.
ter the sDoils to be secured in plum
dering peaceable and industrious
people, have the advantage of ap.
pearing on the side of the law. There
are two hundred persons in San
Francisco who openly violate the
law in employing Cinnamon. May
not Kearney read off list of their
names in the hearing of the Sand Lot
guardians of the law in open meet.
ing? Were they not TIT subjects of
sand lot vengeance ? Even Senator
Blaine at the distance of Maine was
alarmed at the filthy and nauseous
food and practices of the Johnnies
threatening American blood with
Asiatic leprosy. The authorities of
San Francisco accordingly declared
Chinatown nuisance, and every.
body knows that such a nuisance if
it does not leave itself, may be GUST
ed by force, by sword aud fire and
any umigation.
But certain class of citizens of
San Francisco, the aristocrats, the
men that have fattened on the mus
Giles OF labor seasoned with its sweat,
and the best portion of the Republi.
can party ssrise and explain" to the
sand lot brigade, "if you attempt to
carry out your threats of extermina.
ton against the Chinese, we will ex.
terminate you, and we can muster as
many men and cannon and Henry
rifles as the sand lot millionaires can
buy or steal"
In SO far as the present opposers
of Kearney have hither to aided him
in creating and fostering these race
animosities against the Chinee, we
do not regret they are now reaping
the whirlwind from the wind they
have sown; that the vipers they have
aided him to hatch from this Internal
sort of eggs are now entwined
around their own wrists. They must
do as St. Paul did, shake them off in.
to the fire.
But they who are curious to OBJ.
serve how history repeats itself will
not fail to recur to the fact that the
northern people had long industri.
ously taught and entertained this
wicked prejudice against the negro
that both nature and revelation
had doomed him to the condition of
a chattel. But an everything and
just providence determined to punish
this inhuman hatred and prejudice
by exacting of US an ocean Of blood
and saddllDg us with national debt
which should be labelled, oThe Pc.
cuniary Fine Imposed by Almighty
God on Nation that Proclaimed all
Men are Created Free and EQUAL.
and then reduced Three Million of
their Fellow Men to the Status of
Cattle"
The true reason of the hoodlum
hatred against the Chinese is, that
they work perpetually and con slant.
ly and do not indulge In those vices
that leave nothing in the hoodlum's
pocket but tobacco and nothing in
his belly but poisonous rotgut. Their
nauseous habits certainly are not
more disgusting than the rum holes,
debauchery, the profanity, the pol.
luted breath and Internal orgies
which distinguish the Five Points of
all our large cities and with which
the sand lot hoodlams are no doubt
familiar. But Kearney and his fol.
lowers are afraid of the leprosy, bah !
It's white and snowy fleeces would
be just the covering for such limo.
cent lambs as they.
Can we believe in the hon.
esty, Justice or magnanimity of the
mlsoresnts who arrogantly assuming
TO be the patrons and protectors Of
the laboring classes, would drive In
to the sea an humble community of
men whose only ambition is to earn
there living by the sweat of their
brows
The citizens of California and of
all the States are now clearly shown
to what fearful danger this God-con-
temnlng prejudice against the poor
Chinaman may lead them to, to blood.
shed and civil war. And since the
United States are composed of peo.
pie OF different races and nations, il
IS infinitely perilous for any national
ity to attempt to expel another from
the continent which the Creator de.
signed for the occupancy of all races.
exercising the arts of industry and
obeylng the laws A cunning dexter.
Gus and avenging providence will
certainly turn the tables on any ma.
tionality that adopts this course.
Already the prosecuted Chinaman
has secured the great worlds sympa
thy and if Kearney and his satellites
continue this inhuman persecution,
over them and their apologists, the
angry waves of public opinion will
begin to roll, while the Chinaman
will rise like the negro. He may vet
become a citizen, member of Con.
gress, Senator.
Our national creed is that all men
are entitled to live under one flag,
obeying equal laws. He who would
trample on this principle. treads tic