New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-14
PAUL AND POLITICS.
AN HAMILTON oNTuE CHINESE

To the EdftOr Of The Tribune
SIR Nj Hoar, the able and accomplished sena-
tor from Massachusetts, said IN the Senate OF the
United States, March /:
A hundred years ago the American people
founded a nation upon the moral law. new
declared that all men equally derive ron ther
Creator the right to the pursuit OF happiness
The insertion OF the phrase the pursuit o. happl-
ness was intended as an explicit anlrmatloh
that be right of every human being VINO obels me
equal avs 10 20 everywhere on tile surface OI We
earth that his welfare may require Is beyond the
rghtful control of government. - Is olrthright
derived Immediately from Him who maze Oh Que
blood all nations OF men tor to dwell on an te lace
of the earth ANA hath determined the times !el0Te
appointed and the hounds OF their habltdt0n, lie
male. 80 orr fathers held. of one blood an the
nations OF men. He gave them the whole lace OF
the earth vhcrcOn 20 dwell. lie Reserved Tor linn,
sell bv MS agents heat, and cold ana climate anu
soil. and water. and land, to determine the BOUNDS
OF their habItauou.'
I suppose there are few topics on which, and few
assemblies in which, the word of a Senator from
Massachusetts, would not have as great weight as
that of the Tent-Ina ser Of Judea. When the Apostle
t. the Genules made that most sUave and gentle
mare address TO tie d!letanti of Athens, the set
tlcmeut of California was far IN the future that
there DO reason to suppose be gave It the smallest
attention. When senator H,ar addressed the
Infted states Senate on March l. he call OF Cali
f,rna was instant and pressing and Senator IL ar
had q perfect rght to bring the Pauline principles
~ bear on Pacific Coast practices. II IS necessary
however. TO keep clear the distinction between
SAINT Paul a2d Saint George, and IN the extract
have made the two little mixed.
saint Paul saws 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
hal:tation." The senator from Massachusetts
reaifirn- this but adds He reserved Tor Himself,
by his agents heat and cold and climate, and soil.
and water and land. 10 determine the bounds OF
their habitatIOn" This Is good enough gospel, but
let il be remembered il is the gospel according TO
achusctts not the gospel according 70 SAINT
Paul. Paul saws only that God hath determined
the bounds OF the haLitatOns OF the nations. NV
Massachusetts, gives Paul points. Her Senator-ot
whom in his Own character and accomplishments 1t
would be difficult To speak too highly. and whom ID
his official capacity, representative OF Massa-
chusets it L. always safe to present the outlines
OF BALKAN the son Of Beor-he hath said when
heard the words Of Cod anu knew the knowledge
OF the Most High. which saw the vision OF the Al
mighty. that 1t 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 communicate to
Massachusetts, the knowledge that lie separated
the nations by land and water and not by race in
st.ncts' Because | also am Massachusetts. and l
am determined that my dish shall be right side up
when it rains revelations. Hitherto 1t has seemed
that tie instinct of every race to cling TO It's own
and not % comminsle with other race; has hounI
each race within itself and barred 1t from every
other mo.e strongly than any other natural force.
Climate has been but an Intellectual barrier between
Asia and the United States Water has been hardly
= barrier at all between Africa and Europe. Com
MERGE has overcome heat and cold and climate and
soil and water AMI land through any ages. The
ID Ha ri aI
race have aourishcd on the soil of the United states
for a hundred wears side by side. Heat and cold
and climate and soil and water and land have
neither built M nor pulled down the one more than
the other But the inexphcabe. ineradcable IN
stncts OF race have kept them apart securely as
# Mountains rose and seas rollei between. Cen
Grafton after generation of coored families live IN
our Northern towns, ana no more mlngle with Can
ca.i,n frnilie, than they did hundred years ago.
Indian tribes have wandered freely over Caucasian
roads. neither modifying nor modified by the white
civilization around them. Freedom has not gone
one step beyond slavery in removing the antago-
u1,ru az race instinct. Everything that has been
done toward the amalgamat1n Of races IL this
country, in Africa, and III Asia, has been lone on
the lowering and degrading side, not on the eeyat-
ing and spiritual side IL has been not IN the mar
r!agc OF the better class Of Caucasian women 10 the
better class of AI,ugolan or African men, II has
been. with so few exceptions rs on.v TO emphasize
The rule, the anna camation OF connection so low
that il cannot be named.
These Caucasian and Monaghan human beings
were made by sod Just much the soil they TIL.
and the mountains they scale and the seas they
sal Why l. 1t not reasonable 10 believe that this
silent instinct which implies neither nferority nor
superiority, but only difference, which has proved
more insurmouutabe than al other natural baF-
rier,. is the very thing by which the Most High
determined the bounds Of national habtations'
Nothing +, 50 like the Divine way. II IS ike man
10 make tangible barrier and beat II down. IL is
like God TO make an invisible barrier and keep MP.
The Contact of Races in this country has been
Conflict Of Races and the conflict has been rs II che
fought against God. We came small handful
and foupd the Indian race in possession. We have
NOT benefited them and they have not benefited us.
In proportion TO our numbers and wealth we nave
no more Christian Indians to-day than Eliot gath
cred in Natick TWO hundred years ago. Our Indian
history has been a long record OF injustice rapine'
,,,,rler and misery one Of our most brilliant
writers. woman and poet, has been so deeply
stirred by its narrowing Incidents that she has
written uoon II a volume never discrelited, never
rofu,ed. and has called her book g. Century Of
Dishcnor.o Nobody has ever called it Century OF
Honor
The African race came to this coun try. might
almost say at the same time with ourselves. The
Caucasian race introduced it, ignorant, helpless LOT
IFS own convenience. A hundred years of trouble
over this African eliminated in rending OF the
Caucasian race which was only not unto death.
All the danger that has attended our experiment OF
self-government sprang from the war OF races from
the presence Of the African on the Caucasian
Threshold The first woe Is past. No man knows
how quickly the second woe may COME But Ger
tain]y the end is not yet. When churchmen ask
with something of contempt if Christianity is not
strong enough to cope with Paganism on our own