Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-04-06

riotio duty and yours to protect aud de.
fend them against what they should
know and present as II wrong and claim
redress from the American Congress.
Applause.
Mr.. CURTIN. Mr. Speaker, ia my
time out.
The SPEAKER 1t is.
Mr.. CURTIN Ito Mr.. PACE.l What
say you, sir? Shall | have more time ?
Shall have five minutes more?
Mr.. PAGE. Very we'll
TheSPEAKER. The Chair hears no
objection to the gentleman from Penn.
syivania proceeding.
Mr.. RANDALL. To come out Of the
time of the gentleman from California.
The SPEAKER. The Chair under.
stands the gentleman from Penusylva
MIA Mr.. RANDALL to object to his col.
league proceeding unless the additional
time comes out of the hour of the gen.
tleman from California.
Mr.. MANNING. / understand that
the gentleman from Georgia Mr.. HAN.
NoNp Is willing to give hIs time to the
gentleman from Pennsylvania.
Mr.. PAGE. II the gentleman from
'''A 80 - "fliAAiE w Efhf ms i've bltil'
utes to the gentleman from Pcnnsylya
MIA. Of course have no objection.
Mr.. HAMMOND, OF Georgia. Under
the arrangement which has been made
| am TO have five minutes. of which the
gentleman from Pennsylvania may have
AS much as he likes.
Mr. CURTIN. | thank the gentle.
man from Georgia. We were enemies
once we grc friends now. | thank you.
my brother. Great applause. IL il
said we are in no danger from having
among Us this race Of Chinamen, with
their obedience To- centuries of civil.
zltion not IN harmony with ours: with
language, habits, religion, tradition and
educated, trained. and in the practice
of gross sensual morality which surely
the most ardent advocate of our duty
To all mankind could not wish to have
injected into the moral habits and lives
OF the American people. Mr.. Speaker,
early in our history we tried the assimi.
lHtion Of a race OF different traditions.
habits and faith Those of our anccs.
tors who !iEst settled thi. country found
the Indian. the man Of the forest, the
owner Of the soil, and they offered to
him our civilization and he refused to
accept it. They gave him their vices,
because we must be permitted to sup
pose they had them TO spare. do not
know that they offered him their vir
tues. nm glad they did not, bccau 20
the generation now present needs all
that kind Of legacy our ancestors left to
Us. Laughter.
Who now will pretend 10 say that il
Is not better that this great continent
should be pcopled' by civilized men
than by the barbarian men found here
| say, sir. they refused To- accept our
civilization. and the great wave ofcivIIi
nation rolled over them. 1t has bridgcd
our rivers. titled our fields. surmounted
mountaiuS-borcd through where II
could not surmoun,-felled the forest.
turned the virgin soil OF the prairics to
the living light Of the sun aud suti~c.
tel 1t to the uses Of humanity, aud in
it, progress at every step rose the school
house and the church. providing for ad
vancemont IN all the ways that lead TO
A national supremacy IN all fair buU.
ness and prosperity. The Indian neither
would accept II nor move upon IL, and
IL rolled over him; and the poor bar.
barian Is fast fading before the mighty
march Of the civilization Of the western
continent. There is the end Of one
race.
Mr.. Speaker. in passing through the
Rotunda Of this Capitol few days since.
| looked over it, vastness in admiration
OF its iust proportions and great beauty,
Il A.s.Ns s,. al
magnificent pile, the advance IN power,
art. and culture. the march OF a mighty
people, noticing around its base the
racord in the crude art OF our
earlier national life OF the great events
Of the beginning of our history. and
there. sir, above the periods in history
told In paint is the history OF the Indian
race. over the northern door OF the
entrance TO the Rotunda the Indian l.
presented "a receiving the white man
and extending To- him the hand OF
friendship. over the eastern door the
Indian gives the white man corn. Over
the western door in mercy, An attribute
OF deity, the Indian maiden falls upon
the PROSTATE Englisbman who was the
rohber oi her father, great forest king,
Httaus lpF MS llle, AUu va mercy Uls Ilie
Is spared. And over the door leading
to this Chamber the white man kills the
Indian. Sir, the story is told in i'm
perishable stone. II is the history Of q
race, put in the Capitol of great peo
pie 10y whom destroyed. whether to our
glory or our shame the future historian.
who will deal with us ~ we deal with
those who have preceded Us in the lives
Of nations. will tell and IL history is
philosophy teaching by example, we
may not be exempt from the destinies
of nations.
When we contemplate the ages yet to
come, when IL may be possible that all
the prosperity that now surrounds this
great people, this magnificent pile shall
crumble down TO earth and the records
of the great events Of our early history
in the crude art of the time are lost to
the magnificent dome 20 just in its pro.
portions, so symbolicAl of our wonderful
progress, learned srchmologst may
come and there may find amid its ruins