Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-03-23
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Mr.. j. r.. Randall, the WASH
inston correspondents of the Au-
gussa Chronicle, writes the fellow
ing remarkable letter, to his paper,
under date of March 9TH We
commend it especially to every col
ored man who reads the Observer.
The most remarkable speech of
the day was made by Mr.. Jones, of
Nevada. He is a short, stont man.
His features are blunt, but very in-
telligent. His complexion is rud-+
dy. His large:head is partially bald.
The hair, moustache and beard are
silvery, with just compromising
shade of brown. He has a bulg-
ing brow. His voice is excellent,
clear and Tasty. He spoke with
out notes of any kind, and appear
ed to be as full of his subject as a
Leyden jar of electricity.
He went long way beyond ell
ther Miller or Teller in planting
himself squarely upon the platform
that this is white MANS govern
ment, and would be all the better
if it were purged of all dark races.
He proved that the Chinese were
not an inventive race, although
adept at the pilfering Of the dis
coveries of Western nations, where
it suited their purpose. None but
favored nations like the Caucasian
can maintain free institutions. The
Chinese know nothing of freedom.
The people of the Pacific Coast
would not recognize the equality
of Orisntals to please New England
ideality.
He secuted the pretense that the
Bible ught unity of race in the
common acceptance of that term,
as applied by the Massachusetts
Senators. The, pursuit of happi-
ness might be an 'inalienable right,
bnt it must not cross the line OF an
other mans happiness. The CHI
nese we're not diffused in this coun.
try, but massed in one part of it.
Chinese cheap labor was not an
under-stratunl lifting up American
workingmen, but destroying
agent. American labor had to de-
, scend to Chinese conditions or
starve.
: He noticed that the people who
r were SO much in love with labor
! degradation were also advocates o.
D protective tariff. The American
, laborer Of the future would demand
: an open market-not free trade
= but fair trade.
Cheap labor and poverty art
: twins. China had the m ost cheaI
9 labor, and was the poorest country
= = in the world. England built tn,
Il only railroad in China, and tha
: was torn up by Chinese. There i
= no wealth without intelligence. Th'
e forces OF nature are inert till quick
y ened by the wand uf genius. 4
foul stream always poilutes a pur,
!. one. No man would welcome ne
s. grees to this country, if they wer
u not already here. The coantr,
:, would be better off without them
II They were and arc a curse to tn
J South, ard the South would be ir
&c calculably better off if she could b
"a rid of them altogether. White me
81 would settle IN the South and max
70 her rich and pe werful but for tn
% presence of the blacks. The negr
'e made labor dishonorable, and ker
re white men at u distance, Any
'e body who thought this race prob
> lem settled was previously mlstak
% en-. He ventured to predict tn.
!e the African race would never agai
- rule any, Southern Common wealth
~ Negro suffrage was dismal failur
~ Men had tried to change an edie
hs OF AlInihgiy Ged, in this country
- but God was not Knocked. Omnip
y otenco had made the white man 8,
CO periur and the negro subordinat
y. = 1t is one thing to aspire to freedom
= and another thing to have the in
. telligence to maintain freedor
y y, The negroes in the South, if left
Ao themselves, could not preserve the
ss 81, freedom tor ten years. They wou
nc relapse into the barbarism fro
:, which they had come. No neg
~ would ever have been permitted
9" o enter this country if the founde
~ of the Republic had ever dream
!. - OF the possibility Of their enfra
'h' -, chisement. The North would
"e no better off than the South if n
- groes were as common there as
- South Carolina.1 This might
y" heresy to Republican ideas !; ;.but
j did not care if it was, It was ,
5ss truth, aud he stuck to it. Wisdt
tue yUo,,ld have ayciJ1ded tho rtarrn T: