The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-25
Wv MORNING. SEPTEMBER 25 1888

vice as captain oil the twentieth regl-
mcnt OF Mississippi volunteers, and was
afterwards made Brigadier General OF
State troops. In 1870 he was appointed |
one OF the Judges OF the Supreme Court |
Of Mississippi and elected Chief JUS
tice. He resigned his seat in 1881, and |
was elected to the United States Senate,
where he has been ever since. After he |
had finished his TRADE against the Re- |
publicans, Senator Mitchell, OF Oregon,
asked leave to say few words in reply. |
The following are the remarks OF the |
Senator from Oregon and others, us
taken from the Congressional Record OF
September 4, 1888, and can be found on
page 9,075 OF that publication:
Mr.. MITCHELL prefer to say what
intend to say right now. The Senator
from Mississippi declined TO yield on
statement made by myself that in my |
Judgment he had misrepresented the
facts. desire TO correct that Senator
in his statement OF facts, and it was
statement, by the way, upon which he
based the hours speech that he has just
concluded. He started out with the
promise that when the Burlingame treaty
was entered into there were no China.
men in this country. On surprise being
expressed by the Senator from Colorado |
at that statement, he modified it, as re-
member, by saying that there were ut least
but very few here then, and then he pro-
ceeded to state that it was by virtue OF
the provisions oil the Burlingame treaty
that the door was opened to Chinese I'M
migration to this country, and he at.
tempted to charge the responsibility OF
that legislation upon the Republican
party.
hand the'statistiCs showing the exact
number OF Chinese who had come into
this country prior to the existence OF the
Burlingame treaty at the one port OF San
Francisco alone. / have not only the
total number, which was l4l 800, but
have here the number in 1850, eighteen
years before the Burlingame treaty was
made, and | have also here the number
who came each year between 1850 aud
the time the Buriingame treaty went
into effect.
There were in this country 10000
Chinese prior TO the year 1852 who had
come in at the port OF San Francisco
alone, to say nothing OF the thousands,
perhaps, who had come in at other ports.
In the year 1852 there came in at that
port alone 20,05G; in 1853, 1870 came;
in 1854, lG,0S4 came; in 1855, 1929; in
1886, 4,SO7; in 1857, 1921 in 1865, 5,427;
1859, 3,l75; 1860, 7,34l; 1861, S,430; 1862,
S,l75; 1868, G,432; 1864, 2,6S2; 1865,
3,005; 1866, 2,242; 1867, 1890; 1868, be-
fore the treaty. II ,0Sl, 1869; before the
treaty went into effect, 14,9O0; making
total OF al 800 Chinese who had entered
the limits OF the United States at the
port Of San Francisco alone before the
| Burlingame treaty was made. So the
basis for all the talk here to-day made
blythe Senator from Mississippi to the
effect that the Republican party opened
the doors to the immigration Of Chinese
to this country falls to the ground.
The very reverse OF the charge made
by the Senator from Mississippi in refer
ence to the party and the men who invi-
is true.| can tell the Senator who it was
in San Francisco and in the State OF Cal
iiOrnia who first gave countenance in
most emphatic, direct and influential
terms to the immigration Of Chinese to
this country. In lS49 Peter II. Burnett
was Governor Of the State OF California.
He resigned and one John McDougal,
Southern Democrat, succeeded, he be-
ing Lieutenant Governor, to the position
OF Governor III that State; and in 1851 or
1852 that same Democratic Governor and
representative from the South, native
OF the South and a representative OF
Southern feeling and OF Southern inter
rests in the State OF California, delivered
message to the Legislature OF that State
in which he referred to the Chinese as
the "most desirable OF our adopted Citi-
zens." He was the first man in the
United States OF America who ever re-
ferred to Chinese immigrants as being
the most desirable OF our adopted Citl-
zens, or as being desirable at all as Citi-
zens He was Democrat, the head OF
the Democratic party in California,
representing Southern interests and
Southern sentiment, and was the Gov
ernor OF the State Of California.
The great Democrat land he was a
great man in his way, great in intellect,
/ believe afterwards member Of this
body according to the sentiments ex-
pressed in his message, preferred the !
Chinese to the thousands of worthy
Irish and Germans. and Scandinavians
and Norwegians and English, and to all
other OF our adopted citizens, by stating
in State paper that they, the Chinese,
were the "most desirable OF our adopted
citizens" That sentiment, that ex.
preston, that movement, II you please,
upon the part OF the Democratic Gov
ernor of California in 1851, or perhaps il
was 1852, had its fruit in the Legisla-
ture succeeding, which was Democrat
l., I htr ftn |
Archibald Peachy, believe, another
leading member OF the Assembly OF the
state OF California, at that time leader
OF his party, introduced bill into the
Democratic Assembly. providing for the
affirmation or legalizing in the United
States OF contracts for labor made in
foreign countries. The object OF the bill
was to make valid in the State OF Cali
fornia and in the United States OF Amer.
lea contracts made with the Chinese for
coolie labor, ranging from two to three
and five years, by which coolies were to
be brought to this country to work in
competition with the laborers OF Cali
iornia for wages at from IS to Sl2
month, and that ut time when the
ordinary common laborer in the City OF
San Francisco and in the State OF Cali
iornia could receive s. day for his Ia.
Dor, or S90a month. That bill passed
the Democratic Assembly OF the State of
California.
Mr.. stewart-Every Democrat voted
for it.
Mr.. Mitchell-Every Democrat in the
House, as suggested by the Senator from
Npvndn voted for H.
Mr.. Stewart-And every Wing voted
against it.
Mr.. Mitchell-And every Wing voted
against it. The bill went to the Senate
and there, thank God, it was defeated
by who? By one Republican Wing and
and one Democrat-old Philip Roach,
believe.
Nr cto,yor. No. poool, ,,os torit