Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-12
WHOLE NO. 1886.

Olner ASlat1cS. "
II is on one !. OF The great strong powers OF the
earth, and it is on the earth to sIay '
] IL IS true st. Paul said in his sermon at Atb
ems: " God hath made of one blood ali nations
He M hatn hxed the bounds of their habitations y
] The Chinaman has his habitation let him
| stay In it, as GOD has fixed il. 'o' A-''i
bnt our Eastern fellow citizens asia us 'sWhat
are we going to do with our grand America N
principles OF the sacred rights of expatriation
! and OF free Immigration Has not a man in
the pursuit of happiness the right to 90 ariy
where ne may choose to go? Is not expatria-
ton natural and laalienable human right?
We say DO. There is no such thing as an abso-
iute right either of exTatriation or emigration
man has the righI 10 enter and ilhabit any
country that will consent to it in a word. that
VIE allow him 10 come, and there his right as a
right ceases, and passes into the domain of
necessity and force.
In one sense, any man or body of men. driven
from their own country by necessity have the
night as matter of self-preservation to enter
anotner country by force. but it is justified as
the struggle for existence is justified and eoms $
10 be the right Of the strongest like the struggle
over plank in shipwreck
The children OF Israel emigrated from Fgypt
because they were badly situated. When they
came TO the land of promise. after having hav-
ing satisfied themselves that il was a land to
their minds snd flowing with milk and honey,
they drew their swords entered and took it, 1t
lstrue the Lord had given it TO them. but it was
their swords and spears that ayailed to put
them in possession
I
the sacred right of emigration or expatriation
NO la%-wrlter of any reputation has ever
maintained to the contrary
NJ. Vattel is . high authority upon public and
international law. This is what he says:
The country which u nation iuhabits
whether that natien bas eDigrated thither in
body or the different families OF which it con-
sists were scattered over the country, and then
uniting formed themselves into a political Sc
c:ety, that country say, is the settlement of
the nation, and it has Il peculiar and exclusive
203. 2isi' - t. '"''ei' ''oA l. 'H"p' xviii sec
''The whole of the country possessed hv a.
nation and subject TO its laws forms its territory
and IS the common country Of all the ;ndiyidn-
as of the nation" Ibid.
He goes on: " As the society cannot exist and
perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children
the conditions Of their fathers and succeed to
all their rights Vattel book l, chap. xix,
See. 212.
'The sovereign may forbid the entrance to
his territory either to foreigners in general or in
/ particular cases, or TO certain persons or for
particular purposes, according as he may think
| il advantageous to his state"
Formerly the Chinese fearing lest the inter
course with strangers should corrupt the man
! ners OF the nation and impair the maxims of q
wise but singular government, forbid all people
/ entering the empire-a prohibition that was not
at all inc nsistent with Justice
| " 1t was salutary 10 the nation without violat-
| ing the rights of any individual, or even the
duties OF humanity, which permits US in case of
| competition to prefer ourselves TO others."-
| 10 q, book IL, chap vii. sec. -.
| Many rulers have in the worlds history in
! viled immigration to their country sometimes
1t has been beneficial; sometimes the reverse
The Emperors FToSus and Valels, being to1
WeGk or cOWardly to res. st. permitted the Gepi-
| dse, well as the Goths and Vandals to cross
the flontieT and settle in the empire greatly to
the pubic injury for they contributed materi-
ally to the final destruction of the Roman
i power.
Bands of armed emigrants from Denmark and
north Germany poured in upon the British Isl
ands in the early centuries of the Christian era.
and the Normans oveIrun central and southern
| Europe. In both instances they were resisted
| in the same way they came, with force and
arms. There was then no thought Of The rights
! of men 10 emigrate in pursuit of happiness.
| The Emperors of Russia AT various periods in
the history of that country, and esp. cially to-
wards The close of the last century invited Ger
man immigration, and there is no doubt that
the result in that case proved the wisdom of the
policy: but it was people of her own race and
religion. and who assimilated with the natives
OF the country in single generation.
Our country has without doubt been benefited
bg the coming hither of emigrants from Europe
of our own race and religion, some speaking our
own language and all speaking closely allied
| languages, and with similar manners and Gus
toms-peope who have become identical with
| ourselves in short time.
How long now this character of immigration
will continue to be beneficial is probIematical
1t therefore appears that immigration even OF
people OF the same race and generaitype of the
human family, of people capable of rapid as
l
sometimes beneficial and sometimes mischiev-
Gus, depending upon circumstances that are
| liable to change.
But we assert that the immigration, whether
voluntary or forced into a country, of non
| asslmilative races is always an unmixed evil
| and public calamity.
The same spirit of greed and avarice which is
at the bottom OF the coolie immigration of this
age, lay at the bottom and was the impelling
motive for the forced immigration of African
slaves into the country all through the eight
teenth century,
No doubt the slave-traders and slave-purchas-
ers of that day tried to make the world believe
that they were doing good, and that their mo-
tives were noble and patriotic. Men are fond
of giving themselves credit for lofty motives in
all they do.
No doubt they talked loudly about develop
| ing the resources of the country, and about
J Outstanding the poor African. But at the
bottom was the old Mammon of cheap labor,
/ and the money TO be got out of it. The world
| has not changed much.
The sefishness of those men has already
| borne much bitter fruit; through it the curse
! of race hetrOgeneity has taken deep root ia the
soil of our common country. Out of that evil
| we have had one bloody war for which the ma
| tlon has not yet thrown off its mourning. But
the war was hing TO what it left behind. 1t
| is true that it has settled the slave question.
But the negro question, the question of the re-
/ latiops between the white man and the black
man, and the relations of each to the State has
| only Just begun. Twenty generations of men
/ will not see it ended.
And our fellow eountrymen at tie South who
are compelled to carry on a government under
1 such conditions, to preserve order and maintain
! law and civilized society, are entitled to the
I sympathy of all thoughtful people; they have
a task, the difficulties of which are not appre-
| ciRted
| But for the effort to get cheap labor a hum
| dred years sgo all the States of the Union, from
! the Lakes to the Gulf, would today have the
| same people. the same prosperity, and the same
political system, same schools and academies.
that now exist in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illi-
| nois.
7 mt. r. =
| territory south of the Ohio, having the mildcst
climate and the richest soil, wo9id now have
! the densest population and most rapid progress
! aud development and the greatest accumtila-
! tion OF wealth and enlightenment.
Is there any man east or west north or south
white or colored, who alter reflection, will not
admit that il would be better il the colored man
had been left in Africa, and the Southern States
/ were without race friction and race antag-
onism?
But for the mixed population of the South
| those States would never have gone to war
there would have been no rebellion. And had
they gone 10 war, having l2,0O0,090 white men
united in sentiment as the white men were in
stead OF S,O900GO white and 100000 colored.
and fighting they did defensive war on in
! terror lines, they could not have been con-
quered.
they not, lay in the zoo 900 men of another
| race planted there in the heart of their country
carrying information, aid and comfort 10 the
enemy, always requiring to be watched, and
/ whom they did not dare to trust with arms
| It viii be said that this was because they
were slaves. 1t is doub ful if they would be
| more dangerous, and greater source of weak
ness free than as slaves. If the South should
! have another war, they would find this to be
the case
! And If ever this country is invaded by for
| eign foe, it is in South Carolina and i'll Louis-
ana and in Florida the enemy will attempt a
! lodgment. Not because of the dsloyalty of the
white population, but the indifference, the dis,
content, the disaffection of the coored. And
| as for the difficulties of governing such a So