Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-22
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. CHIIESE IMMIGRATION. General Garfield Opposed to
 COOlie Labor. A DEMOCRATIC ISLANDER NAILED. A Conservative View of This
 Vexed Question. FROM THE ALPENA No Further Doubt Concern
 ing HeE. Fate.
POLITICAL.


 POLITICAL.
 That Chinese Letter-Genera1 Garfield's Denial Borne Out by Previously Ex- pressed Views.
 CLEVELAND, Oct 21-General Garfeld's positive denial of the letter regarding the Chinese which it is asserted he wrote to H. L. Morley of the Employees Union, Lynn, Mass, January 23d, 1880, is not in the slight est degree questioned by those who have had conversations with him on the subject of Chinese within a few years past. William J. Swift, city editor of the Cleveland Ledder, states that he twice heard him express views contrary to the ideas given him in the Merely letter, and while calling on Garfield at his Mentor farm before his nomination the fol lowing interview relating to cooIe labor oc- cured. MT. Swift wrote the matter out and the same day published it and preserved the article in his scrap book.
 'EWhat is your opinion, General, inrefer- ence to the Chinese question ?" IT have great deal of sympathy with the people of California and the other Pacific States in reference to this subject. And it was mis- take on the part of some Congressman to con- found the emigration of the regular Chinese to this country with that of the coolies who may be brought under contract and perhaps as slaves. We have right to reject all slaves. There are laws to prevent their i'm portation to the United States as in old times. The slave laws can be made to apply to the coolies just stringently. Or better still to obtain the end in view of preventing the introduction of coolie labor to the disad- vantage of the working classes of this country, we might make a treaty with China with which it would be understood that slaves or coolies were not to be landed on our shores. But to say that any well-behaved, law-abiding person should be kept away when desirous of coming of his own free will, aside from the coolie system, would be hard and contra " to the intentions of our institutions
 ''Will bill of the character you indicate be apt to pass ?'' "A bill in some modified form may be presented, and if in proper shape relative to the coolies I think the Republicans in Congress will be willing to help in it's passage and the President will concur in it, otherwise not"
 General Garfield and the Veterans-The
 Veterans Address Sent to Wade Hamp-
 ton.
 CLEVELAND, Oct. 21.-About two hundred veteran soldiers and sailors of Cuyahoga county and vicinity went to Mentor to-day to
 
 ing marched from the Lake Shore train to the lawn, headed by two bands of music, General M. D. Leggett, the leader of the vet erans, delivered speech urging the carrying out as citizens of the principles for which they as soldiers fought. General Garfield spoke as follows:
 $Comrades-Any man that can see twelve hundred of his comrades in froH-door yard [laughter] he has much reason to be proud. As for anything that can well hap pen to him in this world applause that has happened he need not much care what else happens or what else don't happen. Laughter and applause]. To see twelve hun dred men from almost every regiment in the State and from regiments and brigades and divisions of almost every other State, to see the consolidated afternoon field report of the survivors of the war sixteen yea rs after it is over, is great sight for any man to look on. And greet you all with grati- tude for this visit. It is great personal compliment, but there is another thought in it far greater than that to you and to me. Just over yonder about ten miles when I was a mere lad heard the first political speech of my life. It was a speech that Joshua R. Giddings was making He had come home to appeal to his constituents A southern man had drawn pistol on him while he was speaking in favor of human uD6xGy aQQ indrcQ6Q OV6E COWarQ n1m to shoot him down to stop his speech and quench the voice of liberty. I can remem- Der but one thing the old hero said in the course of that speech so long ago, and 1t was this: q knew I speaking for liberty, and felt that if the assassin shot me down my speech would still go on and triumph D Applause. Gentlemen, these 1>200 and the hundred times 1,2OO, the million of men that went out into the field of battle to fight for our Union felt just as the Speaker felt, that if they should all be shot down the cause of liberty and union would still go on. (Cries of Good GoodI') He felt, you all felt, that around you and above you and behind you was a force and a cause and an immortal truth that would outlive your bodies and mine and survive all our brigades and all our battles Here you are in the same bed. Some of you may die, all die, and yet we be- ieve that after us the immortal truths for which we fought will live in united nation and united people, against all factions, against all sections, against all divisions so long as there shall be continent of rivers and lakes. (Cheers.) It was that great belief that lifted you all up into the heroic light of great soldiers and the war, and 1t is that belief that you cherish to day and carry with you in all your pilgrimages and all your reunions In that great belief I meet you and greet you to-day and in that we will go on to whatever fate may have
 
 this splendid demonstration of your faith, confidence and regard for me. Why, gen. tlemen, this home of mine will never be the same place again. am disposed to believe that 8 man does not take anything when he takes his body away It was said that long after the | death of the first Napoleon his soldiers be- heved that on certain anniversary days he | came out and reviewed all his dead troops | himself being dead, and that he had a mid night review of those who had fought and fal- | len under his leadershiship. That doubtless was mere fiction of the imagination But I shall love to believe that in all time hereafter the character and spirit and impress sion of my comrades will live on this turf and under these trees and in this portal and l it will be part of my comradeship in all days to come. Gentlemen, I thank you with | all my heart, and ask you for your sake and for my own to let me introduce to you Sena- tor Matthews, & brother soldier. (Three l cheers and tiger At the close of General Garfeld's speech the Hon. Stanley Matthews was called for and made 8 fifteen minute speech.
 The following dispatch was sent by the vet erans on their return to Cleveland tonight To Mir. Wade Hampton, Columbus, s. c.
 Sir, POO union veterans, members of the Garfield and Arthur Veteran corps, of Cuya- hoga county, Ohio who have just returned in Mentor, hereby send you their compli- November 2nd, 1880, vote as they shot and
 M. D. LEeeETT, President of the Corps