The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-04-20

owe atonement and help in every form
in which the oppressor can atone to
the oppressed, in which the strong can q
help the weak. But the MongOiian is I
not here. He has only just begun to
come. 1t is not Paul W no invites him.
1t is Massachusetts,. On the original
fact we all agree. Paul and Moses and
alike affirm. that it was
the Most High who divided to the ma
tions their inheritance and separated
the SONS of Adam Paul and Moses
are willing to let them stay divided,
but here Massachusetts branches of
from the Bible and says that this sepa-
ration ought to be stopped and all the
nations fused into communism. Nroliy
enough, she grounds this anti-Scrip-
tural communism on the Scriptural
segregation. The Most High hath set
bounds for the nations, says Paul.
Therefore they shall sprawl all over
the earth, breaches Massachusetts,.
God has allotted certain places to GER
tain people, says the Old Apostle.
Therefore Government shall have no
respect to places, says the new. What |
God hath put asuDder let man joiH to- I
gether, is the revised version, the |
Massachusetts rendering of Holy Writ. /
Paul and Moses ANA Massachusetts .
Der the days of old" says Moses, "con- |
slider the years of many generations;
ask thy father, and he will show thee, /
thy elders, and they will tell thee. /
When the Most High divided to the
nations their Inheritance, when He
separated the sons OF Adam, He set
the bounds of thepeople."
Senator Hoar refers 10 our fathers
with equal iiial respect. He says that
they intended an explicit atfirma-
ton that the right OF every human
being who obeys the equal laws to go
everywhere on the surface of the earth
that his welfare may require is beyond
the rightful control of government"
Did they? Did they intend it in
February, 1903, when in Congress as
sembled, in a Congress in which were
Signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, in Congress serving under
Thomas Jefferson as President, they
enacted into law by unanimous vote
in the Senate and by majority of
more than three to one in the House:
That from and after the 1st day of April next,
no master or captain of any ship or vessel or
any other person. shall import OF bring, or
caise to be imported or brought any negro,
mulatto, or other person of color, not being
native, a citizen. or regis cred seaman of the
United States, or seamen natives of countries
beyond the Cape of Good Hope, into any port
or place of the United states. which port or
place shall be situated in any State which by
| law has prohibited or shall prohibit the ad-
mission or importation OF such negro.
mulattO. or other person of color; and If
| any captain or master aforesaid, any other
person, shall import or bring. or cause to be
| imported or brought any of the persons whose
| admission or importation is prohibiteI as alore-
said, he shall forfeit and pay tho sum of $1,000
| for each and every negro, mulatto. other
person of color aforesaid. brought or imported
ds aforesaid, to be sued for and recovered by
| oil debt Court
SEC. . That no ship or vessel arriving In any
of the said ports or places of the Uniteu States,
having on board any negro. mulatto, or other
person of color, not being IL native, a citizen or
registered seaman of the United States, or sea-
men natives of countries beyond the Cape of
Good Hope as aforesaid shall be admitted TO an
entry. And if any such gro, muatt9 or 9TH
er person of color, shall be landed from OH board
any ship or vessel. in any of the ports or places
aforesaid, OF on the coast of any State prohibits
ing the admission or importation aforesaid, the
said ship Or vessel, together with her tackle.
apparel, and furniture. shall be forfeited to the
United States, and one-half OF the net proceeds
of the sales on such forfeiture shall inure and
be paid over to such person OF persons on whose
information the seizure on such forfeiture shall
be made
} This looks as if our fathers intended
to affirm quite the contrary to what
Senator Aoar says. 1t looks as if they
meant to stand guard over their own
doors, and to open and to close them
to whom they pleased. They never SO
much as asked whether their mulattO
brother would or would not obey the
equal laws. They gave him no chance
, TO disnbey. They did not waste words
, on what human welfare required.
Their own welfare required no more
Africans. and they simply swept him
off the decks. They We're not concern
: ed about consistency. They were con-
cerned only to succeed III their eXper-
, iment of founding II republic. Their
= Declaration of Independence may have
been Il gIittering and sounding gener-
, ality, but their application of il was Il
sturdy and sinewy speciality. They
may have founded their nation on the
moral law, but they built il up with
: statute law. They were willing that
| all men should pursue happiness, but
: if they pursued it to America they had
got 10 start west of the Cape of Good
Hope. They expended small ingenu
, ity on AN asylum for oppressed races
/, They said tu the oppressed races
f lon shall not come into port" They
/, made short work of equal right. They
/ were not troubled by any Zone blood
, They said hlankly and frankly tha
, they would not have negro, muiatt'
= OF copper colored 10 muddIe their eX
= pertinent. They had 10 quarrel will
q Paul about bounds. They ranged
themselves on the Lords side by driv
@ ing Il stake down firm at The Cape o
= Coed Hope They did not trust Senate
4 Hoar's divine barrier of the water
, They Just stood on the wharf ant
= grabbed every ship, vessel, tackle, ap
/, parel, furniture, captain and negro a
4 fast as they came i'll. This was not il
{, the SaGd Lots of California. 1t wa
|
y 1t was the law of the land for seVcnt,
f years. 1t may have been Il bad law
# inhumane, exclusive, opposed to tin
: Declaration of Independence. But
V was framed by the trainers OF the Dee
y laratiOn of Independence, and it wa
= law. 1t was the law OF the land unit
the BGrlingame treaty tampered Will
it. and it excluded the Chinese NOR
9 effectively than the bill now befor
a the Senate. 1t was the law of tn
" land, and it never worked evil. Al
:. the trouble came from the revocation
h or neglect of this law. All the Pacifi
! State disturbance has come from viola
6 tion of the Pauline, Mosaic, Jefferson
1 ian boundary law, and the substitution
U OF the new law of the new revelation
:: that every body may go everywhere
J. Moses fathers and Senator Hoar'
q fathers may have been wrong, bu
: they agree in respecting the bounda
@ ries of nations Massachusetts denie
d to the community of nations ali famil.
authority, and declares the Who'll
v world to be one great gypsy cam
q wherein black and white and red ma,
# squat and stroll at pleasure. And if
l. comes to fisticuffs in the motley mass
= my Massachusetts may be relied on
n meet every wrangle with Thus Saitl
n the Lord-untiI the brickb bats begin t
h fly about her own ears.
g GAIL HAMILTON.
k Washington, d. c., March Is, 1SS.
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