Year: 1869

and the hospitalities exchanged with


foreign ministers, in which from theil


official position they ycould not but partic'


ipate. Then, too, the appointment of ca


diets at West Point and midshipmen at


the Naval Academy isvested i'll the menl-


bers Of Congress, and the cOlOred MEM


Der could hardly be expected-he could


not In fact entirely overlook his own


constituents in making the appoint


ments. At these institutions the most


intimate social intercourse prevails, the


boys board aud room together and these


schools form 50 to speak, the entrance


to the mess table and the ward room OF


the Army and Navy. So in our conf


mon schools, we already find the de-


mand made and acccded to in Washing


ton City and other places where negro


suffrage has been established that the


same schools shall be thrown open to the


children of both coIors. These schools


being under the the management of


the school boards elected by the people,


and being regulated by the laws passed


by the legislature will be entirely with


in the control of a popular political


majority. The demand will be made


by the negroes, that the schools shall be


opened to all cOlors indiscriminately-


as we see it already demanded in some


places by the negroes who are not salts


fled with seperate cOlored schools, and


the demand being made political issue


will be acceded to by the party which is


making the highest bid for the colored


vote.


The public schools and the public Of
fees which regulate the whole working
of society being thus open to both races
in common, aud the children growing
up together and attending the same
schools where will the line of social
be drawn. I do not write
this to eXeiteany prejudice between the
races, but merely to show the absTdity
of the claim that social equality and in
tercOurse has nothing to do with pOIiti-
cal equality and will not follow it. The
people should not be deceived in this
matter; they should take whatever steps
they do take with their eyes OPEN
They should understand that if they
introduce the African and Asiatic in
to the body polite by making him
a citizen and a voter they introduce
him for all purposes: that civil and
political and social life are SO intimate
ly blended under our system that the
lines can not be drawn between them.


certainly have no feeling against the
cOIOred people of this country. I would
extend to them and their property every
protection of law and would extend to
them by means of schools and colleges
of their own, every facility for improve
ment and cultivation and would leave
open to them every avenue of trade and
business. But in view of the teachings
of history and experience--especially
the experience Ofthe Mexican and South
American States-it is a matter of grave
doubt whether the attempt to incorpor-
ate the two people into one, on our soil,
will not result disastrously-elther by
ending in an amalgamatiOn injurious TO
both or on the Otherhand by generating
feuds and contentious between them,


the natural protests against such an
amalgimation. Many reasons
point to Africa as the true scene of the
and useful employment in
the future of our colOred population and
encourage the hope that they may re-
claim the land of their ancestors and
there found an empire and civilization.
The wisdom or possibility of incorpor-
ating it (our cOlord population into our
political system is certainly a matter of
grave doubt and should at least be left to
the gradual teachings of experience and
not forced upou us by an amendment to
our Constitution, hurried through the
forms of law with indecent haste and
with a total disregard of the provisions
Of the Constitution with regard to the
Of amendments.


But it is not upon persons ofAfrican de-
scent alone that the amendmentwilIcon-
fer the right ofpaticipating in and mold
ing our government. The immigration
of Chinese hitherto confined to the
Pacific States, is beginning to spread over
the other States and assume formidable
The completion of the
Pacific Railroad has thrown thousands
of them out Of the employment they re-
Gently had on it, and they are beginning
to find their way into the labor fields of
the South. While the writer of this was
at st. Louis during the past summer a
was received by the agent of the
Chicago & st. Louis Railroad requesting
him to procure transportation to LOU
isana for 5000, then coming to st. Louis
from California. a few days later it was
stated that 3, 200 were engaged to work
OH a railroad near Memphis, and since
then the papers have abounded with de-
tails Of the movements of Koopman-
sehap, the great California agent of Chi
nese emigration, who has conducted
across the Pacific thousands of the large
Chinese population which now people
California and Nevada, and who is now
contracts for their labor in the
states east of the Mississippi. He was
i'll New York and in Washing
ton, where he conferred with Mr.. Bout
well the Secretary Of the Treasurey, and
is now, it is stated, i'll the South making
contracts for Chinese labOrers at twelve
dollars a month. 1t is stated that he
expects to bring one hundred thousand
Of them to our shOres-all of them men
and all Of them i'll brief period under
this amendment voters. II is Il very
serious question for the people Of this
country to consider whether this is de-
sirable. 1 would excite 10 prejudice
against these people but we must not
refuse to look the facts in the face.
They are an alien race radically different
from our own in religion, manners,
habits Of thought and civilization. II
is 4 matter of doubt how far-apart from
all questions Of cOlor-they would ever
ningle and become homogeneous with
our people. Every city Of the world
where Chinese live at all has its Chi
neso quarter where thOy live by them
selves, keeping up their language and
customs. InCalifOrnia where there have
been many thousands of them for years
Lhls is the cAee: theY live by themaelYcs