The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-31
MIR. TAYLOR, OF OHIO.

orator, feathered and unteathered, when
the anti Chinese bill gave its garlsh
banner to the breeze of debate in the
United States congress. The wings OF
opportunity invited all, equally, the
trained and practiced debater and the
milder statesman whose pin feathers
were just emerging from the breaks OF
the rash pr oduced by the emotion in
cident tc congressional life, to the lofty
Ciceronian flight which all men, as well
as women and children, admire and
few attain. As the student Of COntem-
poraneous history turns over the Con-
gressional Record he is struck with the
steady march of eloquenCe that flows,
speech after speech on the anti Chi
nese bill, through its pregnant pages.
1t is noticeable that on this question
the palm of eloquence must be award
ed to the opponents of the bill, perhaps
because in the transcendental field of
opposition the subtler powers of mind
were enlisted while the energies of it's
advocates, who meant mostly business,
roughed it over the Doggy acres of
common sense.
Among the earnest and eloquent
speeches against the bill was that of
Mr.. Taylor of Ohio. He said:
| come now to the main thought in
this whole discussion. We have been
told in every speech in favor of this
bill at the other end of the capitol and
at this end of the CAPITOL that in this
case we must throw sentiment aside"
"Throw sentiment aside ~ Others
may "throw sentiment aside" but the
republican party is founded on sentl-
ment, and it cannot throw sentiment
aside" A party that could find it
equally easy to vote for Tilden or
Greeley may possibly throw sentiment
aside but a party born out of the an
ti-slavery sentiment, born out OF the
principle of liberty, cannot disregard
sentiment. What is sentiment! Is it
something to be thrown aside! 1t is
that which results from the intellectual
and moral faculties, pervading and be-
coming more part of a man than any
other ofhis belongings. Throw senti-
ment aside. Sentiment is thought as
we'll as feeling. Sentiment is reflect
i've opinion guided by conscience and
by the moral perceptions. Throw SEN.
timent aside! What is our reverence
for Justice! 1t is a sentiment. What
is our love for mercy! 1t is sentl-
ment, the head and the heart APPROX
ing both. What is patriotism! A SEN
timent growing out of intellectual ap-
preclation and moral feeling. In order
to vote for this bill we must throw
aside our Sentlment;we must throw aside
the sentiment of justice, we must throw
aside the sentiment of mercy, we
must throw aside the sentiment of pa
triOtism, and | cannot i cannot
make the triune sacrifice in favor of
this bill.
Mr.. PAGE, of California. Will the
gentleman permit me to ask him a
question
Mr.. TAYLOR: Certainly.
Mr.. PACE: | want to ask the gen.
tlemen from Ohio if he regards the
sixth plank of the Republican platform
Of 1880 as a mere sentiment! That
plank reads as follows:
Since the authon'y to regulate i'm
migration and intercourse between the
United States and foreign nations rests
with Congress, or with the United
States and its treaty making
power, the Republican party, regard
ing the unrestricted immigration of the
Chinese as an evil Of great magnitude,
invokes the exercise of those powers to
restrain and limit that immigration by
the enactment of such just, humane,
and reasonable provisions as will pro-
duCe that result.
The gentleman can take his own time
in answering, but want him to answer
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