The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-04-20
Gail HamiltOn's Gospel.
PAUL AND POLITICS.

How the Gospel According to tho
Apostle to the GentIics and the
Gospos According to Senator II oar
EEeur upon isss Chinese Question.
Miss Hamilton Squelches The
Mnssach usetts Senator and says
the Chinese Must go.
The following letter of Gail Hamil-
ton, (sister-in-law of Hon. James G..
Blaine) i'll reply to- the speech of Sell
ater Hoar, Oh the Chinese question we
copy from the Washington Sunday
to the editors of which pa
per it was addressed:
SIRs: Mr.. Hoar, the able and ac-
complished Senator from Massachu- |
sets, said in the Senate of the United !
States, March l:
A hundred years ago the American people |
Thay declared that m All men equally
derive from their Creator the right to the pur !
suit Of happiness. The insertion of
was Intended as an explicit affirmation that the
right of every human being who Obeys the equal
laws to go everyw here on the surface of the
earth that his welfare may require is beyond
the rightful control of government. 1t is a
birthrlght derived Immediately from Him who
dwell on all the face of the earth ami hath de-
termined the times before appointed and the
bounds OF their habitation.' lie III ade, our
fathers held ofon blood all the nations of men.
io gave them the whole face OF the earth
Whereon to dwell. He reserved for HIMSELF by
Hi agents. heat. and cold, and climate, and
soil, and water, and land, to determine 1.-The
bounds OF their habitation.''
suppose there are few topics on
which and few assemblies in which
the word of Senator from Massachu-
setts would not have as great weight
as that of the Tent-maker of Judea.
When the Apostle to the Gentiles made
that most suave and gentlemanlike ad-
dress to the dilettanti of Athens, the
settlement of California was so far in
the future that there is no reason to
suppose he gave it the smallest atten-
tion. When Senator Hoar addressed
the United States Senate on March ]
the call of California was instant and
pressing, and Senator Hoar had per-
feet righ to bring his Pauline princip piles
to bear on Pacific coast practices 1t
is necessary, however, to keep clear
the distinction between Saint Paul and
Saint George, and in the extract l
have made the two seem a little mixed.
Saint Paul says God made of one
blood all nations of men for to dwell
on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the bounds of their habita-
tiOn." The senator from Massachu-
setts reaffirms this, but adds: He
reserved for Himself, by His agents,
heat, and cold, and climate, and soil,
and water, and land, to determine the
bounds of their habitation." This is
good enough gospel, but let it be re-
membered, it is the gospel according to
Massachusetts, not the gospel accord
ing to Saint Paul. Paul says only that
God hath determined the bounds of the
habitations of the nations. My Mass
achusetts gives Paul points. Her Sen
ator-of whom in his own character
and plishments it would be diff
cult to speak too highly, and whom in
his official capacity as representative
of Massachusetts,, it is always safe to
present in the outlines of Balaam the
son of Beor-he hath said which heard
the words of God, and knew the
knowledge of the Most High, which
saw the vision of the Almighty, that
it was by heat, and cold, and climate,
and soil, and water and land, that the
Almighty determined these bounds.
Now, how did the Most High COM
municate to Massachusetts the knowl-
edge that He separated the nations by
land and water, and not by race in
stincts? Because | also am Massa.
chusetts, and 1 am determined that
my dish shall he right side up when il
rains revelations. Hitherto it has
seemed that the instinct of every race
to cling to its own and not to cOmmin
gle with other races has bound eacl
race within itself and barred it from
every other more strongly than any
other natural force. Climate has been
but an Intellectual barrier betweer
Asia and the United States. Water
has been hardly a barrier at all be
tween a Africa and Europe. Commerce
has overcome heat, and cold, and eli
: mate, and soil, and water, and land
through many ages. The Indian race
and the African race, and the eau
j.. casian race have fiourished on the sol
of the United States for hunded years
side by side. Heat and cold, and eli
mate, and soil, and water, and land
have neither built up nor pulled down
, the one more than the other. But til,
ineXpiicable, iueradicahle instincts o
race have kept them apart as securelN
7 as if mountains rose and seas rOilet
[ between. Generation after generation
Of colored families live in our Northern
towns, and no more mingie with eau
casan families than they did Il hun
) dred years ago. Indian tribes haV,
. wandered freely over Caucasian roads
neither modifying nor modified 10y tn
white civilization around them. Free
dom has not gone one step beyon,
. slavery in removing the antagonisn
of race instinct. Everything that ha
. been done toward the amalgamatiol
of races in this country, in Africa, an,
in Asia, has been done on the loWerin;
l and degrading side not on the elevatin;
and spiritual side. 1t has not been il
a the marriage of the better class O
, Caucasian women to the better class O
M0ngoliau or African men. 1t ha
been, with so few exceptions as onl,
to emphasize the rule, the amalgama
tIOn of a connection so low that it can
not be named.
These Caucasian and Mongolian hu
man beings were made by God just a
much as the soil they till, and th
mountains they scale, and the seas the,
. sail. Why is it not reasonable to he
lieve that this silent instinct whicl
y implies neither inferiority nor superi
ority, but only difference, which ha
, proved more inSurmountable than al
. other natural barriers. is the yer,
thing by which the Most High deter
! mined the bounds of national habita
=. tions? Nothing is so like the Divin
Y way 1t is like man to make a tangi
! BILE barrier and beat it down. 1t is lik
. God to make all invisible barrier an
1 keep it up.
The contact of races in this countr
: has been a conflict of races, and tn
# conflict has been as if one Tough
@ against God. We came, a small hand
ful, and found the Indian race in pos
session. We have not benefited ther
and they have not benefited US. l
O proportion to our numbers and wealt
we have no more Christian Indian
d today than Eliot gathered in Matte
!, two hundred years ago. Our India
e history has been long record of in
justice, rapine, murder and misery
One of our most brilliant writers,
e woman and poet, has been so deepl
b,