The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-03-30
Chinese immigration.
SPEECH
OF
HON. GEORGE F. HOAR,
OF MASSACHUSETTS,
DELIVERED THE
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,
Wednesday, March I, 1882.
Mr. HOAR, said:

I'LL 1lOAlts odio.
Mr. PRESIDENT: A hundred years
ago the American people founded a
nation upon the moral law. They
overthrew by force the authority OF
their sovereign, and separated them
selves from the country which had
planted them, alleging as their justi-
fication to mankind certain PROPOSE
tions which they held to be self
evident.
They declared-and that declaration
is the one foremost action Of human
hi~tory-that all men equally derive
from their Creator the right to the
pursuit Of happiness: that equality
in the right to that pursuit is the
fundamental rule Of the divine justice
in it's application to mankind; that its
security is the end for which govern
ments are formed, and its destruction
good canse why governments should
he overthrown. For hundred years
this principle has been held in honor
under its benefcent operation we have
grown almost twenty-fold. Thirteen
States have become thirty-eight;
three million have become fifty mill
ion; wealth and comfort and educa-
ton and art have fourished in still
larger proportion. Every twenty
years there is added to the valuation
Of this country wealth enough to
buy the whole German Empire, with
its buildings and its ships and it's in
vested property. This has been the
magnet that has drawn immigration
hither. The human stream, hemmed
in by banks invisible bnt impossible.
does not turn toward Mexico, which
can feed and clothe world, or South
America. which can feed and clothe a
hundred worlds, but seeks only that
belt of States where it finds this law
in operation. The marvels Of COM
fort and happiness it has wrought for
US scarcely surpass what it has done
for other countries. The immigrant
sends back the message to hose he
has left behind. There is scarcely
nation in Europe west Of Russia
which has not felt the force Of our
example and whose institutions are
not more or less slowly approximat-
ing to our own.
Every new State as it takes its place
in the great family binds this declara-
ton as frontlet upon it's forehead.
Twenty-four Of the States, including
California herself, declare it in the
very opening sentence of their consti-
tutions. The insertion of the phrase
1.-The pursuit Of happiness" in the
of the natural rights for
which government is ordain-
ed, and the denial of which consti-
tutes just cause for it's overthrow, was
intended as an explicit affirmation
that the right Of every human being
who obeys the eqnal laws to go every
where on the surface of the earth that
MS welfare may require is beyond the
'ightful control Of government. It is
l birthright derived Immediately from
1im who made of one blood all ma
ions of men for to dwell on all the
ACE of the earth, and hath determined
he times before appointed and the
pounds Of their habitation." He made. |
10 our fathers held. of one blood all |
he nations of men. He gave them
he whole face of the earth whereon
o dwell. He reserved for himself by |
lis agents heat and cold. and climate.
nd soil, and water. and land TO deter
nine the bounds of their hahitation
t has long been the fashion in some
uarters, when honor, justice, good