The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-08-11

tory OF your national existence 1Or |
century, you have been trying to break |
down what you call the Chinese walls, |
within which they have excluded them |
selves from the rest of mankind. And |
Just, Mr. Speaker, as you have accom- |
plshed this, just as you have opened |
the ports of Cnina To your trade, just as |
you have sent your missionaries bearing |
the olive branch Of peace and good will |
To all mankind, you propose now to
adopt the very policy which for centu |
nv you have attempted by your diplo-
macy to break down in China and |
japan. Wonderful history of a wonder
iul people!
IL say, sir, / do not believe in restrict |
ing the power of American civilization |
10 plant its standard like the cross of |
Christ wherever the human race exists |
IF " hatever color and of whatever Ian |
guage. have said that We have bad q
severe test of this; and we have had it, |
sir, with reference to these people whom
we have with us here. More than a
century ago they came speaking in the
gibberish of the Guinea
negro. They were brought here by the
y gency of Northern people. They were
where the camelopard and the tiger
bounded in the vast amphltheatre OF his
native land. They were brought here
and settled in the inhospltable region OF
New England. They were found un
suited TO that cold and Incorporate
climate, and that same philanthropy,
guided by that over ruling Providence.
(which shapes our ends, rough-hew them
low we will, transplanted them to the
slumbering savannahs of the flower
scented South. There they took root
and grew and fourisied and waxed
strong under that patriarchal institution
which | am now aoout to hear for the
first time recognized in its large aud
intelligent benefcence and philanthro
py. In contact with the Caucasian
race, those slaves, at the expiration of d
century from the time they were first
brought here, all at once, as Minerva
sprung from the thigh of Jove, armed
capd pie to contend with the animals of
the forest and to proclaim her triumph
so this people, ignorant, uneducated
uned ucable as it was thought, unrelig
ious as ii vas thought, far more pagan
than the Chinese, at the expiration of
",
stricken from their limbs 10y the procla
nation of Mr.. Lincoln, and the results
of the war, they sprung at once into the
arena flaming with the intelligence of
the nineteenth century. They have oc
cupied your pulpits and your school
houses, aud your halls of legislation, and
have even been represented by distin
guished Senator in the other end of the
Capitol, while full-hedged African
spoke in the very citadel of liberty at
Boston to the descendants of the men
who fought at Bunker Hill.
am not afraid, therefore, when | see
the result upon the colored people, when
| see the intelligence they have attained,
when | see their religious feeling (for
they are an eminently religious people),
when | see the wisdom and prudence
which they manifested during the war OF
the rebellion, as you term it, and which
they have manifested since-I am not
afraid, are you gentlemen, that your
civilization and your power to plant the
cross of Christ and the principles of
liberty, shall find in the Oldest nat on il
the world a people incapable of appreci-
ating them?
Shall we turn around now, when we
have thus opened to the commerce of
| America, the civilization of America,
aid the religion of our people, this great
empire of the East; shall we now turn
around and puiid up high Chinese
wall ON the California coast, and say &c
these people, as did the inhabitants OF
Kansas and Topeka, when the negroes
went in there from the South too nu
L1erons for their peace-are We TO say as
they did: ave want 10 more paupers
here?' Is that what you are going t.
say 10 China? Is that your idea on the
subject? Is that your notion about it
Discussing this bill as we are almost
within hearing of the great Minister
from that empire, the oldest in the
world, shall we turn these people back
Shsl We, in the emphatic language Of
Mr.. Morton, that leader of the Republi
can party, that man of wonderful power
and might, who ruled that party in the
Senate and controlled and mastered il
in the country, when he went to Califor
MIA to investigate this great question
and returned and made his report to tn,
Senate, he said: "Are you going t,
take step century backward? Are
you going to adopt in America the yer,
principles which in all the light of you
fertilization you have labored to breal
down in China?' That was the argu
ment that he addressed to the Senate il
the memorable report which he made.
{ say IT. would be going back upon tn
history OF this country to undertak
now TO decide that we will exclude thes
) people. Exclude them if you will, Blu
5 do not do it upon false ground.
' What is the evidence as to what thes
!. people are? Sir, their civilization, thei
magnificent position in arts, in science
In politics, in everything that makes
It nation great, had been attained by ther
V hundreds of years before your national
4 ity ever had an existence.
Now shall we turn our backs agains
the Oldest people in the world bacaus
!. they are yellow skinned and almonc
2 eyed? i thought we had civilizatio
= ike our religion, that found no linn
= save that which the grand charity an
. noble dispensation of the Master of til
Il universe gave it; that, like the sunshin
: and the air, it went wherever the huma
10 vol ,e went, aud planted the cross by II
side of the human foot steps, whether
Is savage or civilized land
y On the subject discussed by "a
3 Hooker in these extracts, the Nation
= Democratic platform has the followir
"a declaration:
American civilization demands III
n, against the immigration or importatit
q. OF Mongolians CChinese] our gates
= CLOSED"
"A President Cleveland in his annu
message, said:
- The admitted right of governme
to prevent the influx of elements hostj
~ 70 Its internal peace and security. M,
10. not be. questioned even where there
tal no treaty stipulation on the subject.
:. IT existing laws are inadeous
to compass the end in view 1.-THE suspe
10. sion OF Chinese immigration shalt
ess prepared TO give earnest consideration
4. any further remedial measures. with
IN the treaty limits, which the wisdom
- Csngress may devise.
" When the vote was taken on the b
- which called forth Col. Hooker's spec
from which We have made extracts. /
= members Of the House voted for is .,
= sage. and SO against. Col. Hooker =,
Y "a my. The other pcmbers from Nj
- siasippi voted aye
Major Barksd.Ie' position on 4