The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-03-30

lation under the treaty would not af-
feet persons who entered before it took
effect stimulated somewhat their CON-
ing. But the addition to the Chinese
was less than one seventy
second Of the whole immigration. All |
the Chinese in the country do not ex-
ceed the population of its sixteenth
city. All the Chinese in California
hardly surpass the number which is
easily governed in Shanghai by po-
lice of one hundr',' men, There are
as many pure biuoded Gypsies wan
dering about the country as there are
Chinese in California. What an in
suit to American intelligence to ask
leave of China to keep out her people,
because this little handful of almond
eyed Asiatics threaten to destroy our
boasted civilization. We go boasting
of our democracy, and our superiority,
and our strength. The flag bears the
stars of hope to all nations. A hum
dred thousand Chinese land in Cali
fornia and every thing is changed
God has not made of one blood all the
nations any longer. The self-evident
truth becomes self-evident lie. The
golden rule does not apply to the Ma
tives of the continent where it was
first uttered The United States sur
render to China, the Republic to the
despot, America to Asia, Jesus to JOSS.
The advocates of this legislation ap-
peal to two-fold motive for its sup
port.
First. They invoke the old race
prejudice which hes so often play ed its
hatefnl and bloody art in history.
Second. They say that the Chinese
laborer works cheap and lives cheap.
and so Injuries the American laborer
with whom he competes.
The old race prejudice, ever fruitful
of crime and Of folly, has not been
confined to monarchies or to the dark
ages. Our own Republic and our own
generation have yielded to this delu-
sion, and have paid the terrible pen
atty. l do not mean to go over the
ground which Mr.. Sumner, with his
accustomed industry and learning, so
thoroughly traversed in his lecture
upon caste. But | wish to plant my
self upon the greatest authority III
modern science, himself perhaps the
most perfect example of the greatness
of the capacity of the human intellect
under the most favorable conditions.
Listen to Alexander Won Humboldt, as
quoted by Mr. Sumner:
While we maintain the unity of the human species.
Of superior and nitri"r races Of men, here are ma
civilized more rnn"nlrd by mental cultivation. Thai
ohrrs. but nons In thsmsslv.s nobsr than othsrs
volume l3, page Isl.
What argument can be urged
against the Chinese which was not
heard against the negro within living
memory - The visionary Of the East,
as he was called, was taunted with
meddling with social arrangements OF
which he had no experience, and
standing at a distance to watch evils
from which he was safe. The negroes
We're savages, heathens, wild beasts.
The master and the owner could judge
much better how to deal with them
than these sickly philanthropists. /
do not need to go to the holders OF
slaves for examples Of this prejudice
The Attorney General of Massachu-
sets, in Faneuil Hall, compared the
negroes to Gagged wild beasts. He
charged DR.. Charming and his associ-
ites with the purpose of letting them
| loose to cut their masters throats,
when they demanded free speech for
the abolitionist. The great political
parties wed with each other in pan
dering to this prejudice. How com
pie ely has the experience of a single
generation vindicated the justice Of
the Creator and the truth of the I'M
mortal declaration. An eminent citi-
Zen of my own State has recent,
published an account of an interview
with the grand-sons of John C. Cal
houn.
II the S of upon the
houn. the writer somtwhat starli, by a Remark
"Ifmy gr ndfnrhrr and his associates had known ms
Tb aeo4. , h m as snw and could have had
have sttainrd rom my experience, there would
have nn been zen, neither nl, slavery nor war, ar,
father feared liberty The black however pass
Rrs besn f. f. %hnt hat
cinies believed that the two races could exist
masters and siaves."-EdpGrd dtkimson in scribner s
| for February, 1882.
Who now so bold as to deny the
colored race fitness for citizenship
Twenty years have not passed by since
the children of the African savage
were emancipated from slavery. In
that brief space they have vindicated
their title to the highest privileges
and their fitness for the highest duties
of citizenship. These despised savageS
have sat. in the House and in the SEN
ate. | have served with them for
twelve years in both branches. Can
you find an equal number, chosen on
any principle of selection, whose con-
duct has been marked by more uni
form good sense and propriety? |
have seen most accomplished debaters
unhorsed with as much dexterity as
courtesy by one of this despised race.
Coming to his place in the commune
ty, he has shown no memory of his
centuries of wrong. Revenge and
hate, those fires of hell, can find no
fuel in the negro's breast. When
Massachusetts desired to provide for
fitting eulogy to her great Senator she
summoned to her services two Of the
most famous orators in the country.
1t is no injustice to those accomplished
gentlemen to declare that their mas
terpieces did not surpass the address
delivered in Faneuil Hall on the same
theme by Robert B. Elliott, of South
Carolina, full-blooded African One
of this people has but lately left the
Senate. We have all of us seen him
here. | have seen him sitting in the
chair where you now preside. In