Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-16
The Aurkpille Gnquiter,
YORkVILLE. S. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. l6, 1882
All SIN VS.. SAMBO.

THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. Is, 1882.
All SIN vs.. SAMBO.
The discussion in the United States Senate
of the Chinese Treaty bill has had the effect
of bringing to the surface much of the real
feeling of the Republican leaders towards the
negro, which, heretofore kept concealed, could
not be withheld in making their arguments
against the admission of Chinese immigrants
to our shores-the opposition Of these hypo-
critical humanitarians being intensified by the
fact that the Chinee seeks home among them
alice samee as the negro who comfortably lives
in the South And it is there the two-edged
sword cuts. 1t is to be regretted that the
colored people cannot be correctly informed
of the true feeling of the Northern Republi-
cans towards them, and made to understand
that they are respected by that party only as
they cast ther votes in Southern States to per-
petuate in Washington the party of ring rule
and plunder. In the course of his speech on
Monday, in favor of excluding the Chinese
from America, Mr. Jones, Republican Senator
from Nevada, enlarging upon the considera-
ton that the intelligent and creative genius
of the country in overcoming obstacles, not
it's material resources, constitutes it's wealth,
said that the low wages of the Chinese, while
beneftting individual employees, would ultl-
mately impoverish the country by removing
the stimulant to create labor saving machinery
and like Inventions Mr.. Jones spoke of what
he called the dearth of intellectual activity III
the South, in every department but one, that
of politics. This was because Of the presence
of servile race there. The absence of South
ern names in the Patent Office is an illustra-
ton. We would not welcome the Africans
here. Their presence was not blessing to
US, but an impediment in our way. The rela-
tions of white and colored races of the South
were now nearer adjustment than they were
years ago. He would prophesy that the Afri-
can race would never be permitted to domi-
nate any State of the South. The experiment
to that end had been dismal failure, and a
failure, not because we havenot tried to make
it succeed, but t9cause the laws away above
human laws havt placed one race superior to
and far above the other. The votes of the
ignorant class might preponderate, but intel
lect, not numbers, is the superior force in this
world. We clothed the African in Union
blue, and the belief that he was one day to be
free was candle light in his soul, but it is
one thing to aspire to be free and another
thing to have the intelligence and sterling
qualities of character that can maintain a
free Government. Mr.. Jones here expressed
his belief that if left alone to maintain the
Government, the negro would gradually re-
trogade and 60 back to the methods OF his
ancestors. 'sThis, - he added, "may be here
sy, but believe it to be the truth. If, when
the first ship load of African slaves came to
this country, the belief had spread that they
would be the cause of political agitation, civil
war, and the future had been foreseen, would
they have been allowed to land? How much
of this country would now be worth preserving
if the North had been covered by Africans as
is South Carolina to-day? In view. of their
non-assimiate characteristics, the wisest poll
cy would have been to exclude them at the out
set. So we say of the Chinese to-day" he ex-
claimed, ''and for a greater reason, because
their skill makes them more formidable COM
petitors than the negroes. Subtle and adept
in manipulation, the Chinaman can be put in
to almost any kind of factory. His race is as
obnoxious to us and as impossible for us to as
simulate as the negro race. His race has out
lived all others, because it is homogeneous and
for that reason alone. 1t has imposed its re-
ligious peculiaritieS upon its conquerers and
still lived. If immigration is not checked
now, when it is within manageable limits, it
will be too late t. check it. What do we find
in the condition Of Africans to induce us to
admit another race in our midst? 1t is be.
cause the Pacific coast favorS our civilization,
not that of another race, that they discourage
the coming of these people. They believe in
the homogenity OF our race, and that upon this
depends the progress of our institutions and
everything on which are built our hopes"
In the same debate, Senator Teller. Repub-
lican, of Colorado, said
No man in this country ever discussed the
question of the rights of the human race with
as much intelligence as Abraham Lincoln did,
and yet he declared over and over again in
| that memorable debate between Stephen A.
Douglas and himself in 1858, which attracted
the attention of the whole world, that the ne
gro was an inferior race to the white man.
He repeated it again and again, and notably
at Columbus in 1859, that the negro was and
must ever remain the inferior of the white
race. Now, because he thus asserted, did he
deny to the negro any rights that man ought
to exercise He said : "Because he is my in
ferior in intellectual and mental development,
and because he has a color to his face not as
good as mine, it is no reason why should de-
nv to him any of the rights that were given
by the Almighty" 1t was, however, a fact
that the man was lower in the scale of hnman
development, and he ought not to be deprived
of anything that would enable him to rise.
That was Abraham Lincoln's position upon
this question.
Thus it seems that even Mr.. Lincoln did not
have very exalted opinion of the colored
race :; and while the Republican Senators give
utterance to sound doctrine when speaking on
measures involving their own welfare, unfor-
tunately when similar questionis transferred
to the South, and Republican votes are to be
secured, they lose sight of their theories alto
gether.
GEN. GARFIELD'S ILLNESS.
A Washington letter says the minority of
the committee on expenses incident to Gen.
Garfeld's illness will oppose the extravagant
allowance to the physicians made by the ma
iority. They will not recommend any specific
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