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 MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS 
 
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 HON. C. HARTSON. 
 
 Petition to President Arthur on the 
 Chinese Question. 
 
 XAPA, CAL. 
 
 JOURK'AL I'KINT, SKCOXD STI{I-:KT, XKAK MAIN. 
 1886. 
 
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Bancroft Library 
 
 OUR DEAD HERO, 
 
 Funeral Address on the Death of II, S, Grant, 
 
 BY CHANCELLOR HARTSON. 
 
 AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO THE HEROIC LIFE, ACHIEVE- 
 MENTS AND DEATH OF THAT GREAT 
 SOLDIER AND PATRIOT. 
 
 The following eloquent tribute to our late President was 
 delivered at Sonoma, Saturday, August 8th, 1885 : 
 
 FELLOW-CITIZENS: The people of the United Stales 
 have by common impulse and consent adapted this day as 
 a day of eulogy and mourning. To-day there is silently 
 and sadly borne to the .grave by the whole nation one of 
 America's most distinguished citizens : a child of the Re- 
 public and an example of its beneficent institutions, Ulysses 
 S. Grant, the laureled hero. 
 
 On the 2:->rd of last July, in the morning, the attention of 
 the whole world was directed to the Mount McGregor Cot- 
 tage, and the health of its occupant was anxiously inquired 
 for. In the morning hours death was entering that cottage 
 and to every pulsation and every whisper, fifty millions of 
 Americans were anxious observers and the whole world 
 gave respectful attention. Why this most profound and 
 universal interest? Death came to that cottage as to thous- 
 ands and tens of thousands of American homes, where the 
 tears are confined to few 'and where the circle is limited. In 
 the cottage were seen no royal garments, no insignia of 
 command or power, no ancestral titles, nothing to denote 
 that a great man had fallen. 
 
He was patient amid great suffering, and calm amid the 
 transforming processes that were taking place in the soul's 
 temporary tabernacle, while putting off' the mortal apparel 
 and dressing in the robes of immortality. No word of 
 passion or complaint fell from his lips. He was forgetful of 
 himself but very solicitous of the comfort and happiness 
 of his wife and family, and for the 1 concordance and welfare 
 of the whole people. 
 
 In life's supreme crisis he did not fail to appreciate the 
 words of commendation and tributes of respect which came 
 from every quarter of the Union. These he said were a joy 
 to his heart. He also exhibited towards his wife and fam- 
 ilv the most tender and solicitous affection and regard. 
 Neither the world's applause nor dissolving nature so ab- 
 ' sorbed his attention as to cause him to forget to direct that 
 in death as in life his wife should be at his side, a partner 
 in whatever home the country should give him. With him 
 affection for his wife was above all earthly pomp and all 
 human monuments. When he informed his physicians that 
 were it not for the hope of ultimate recover}' he would not 
 be willing to survive another day on account of his severe 
 sufferings, he enjoined them not to impart that knowledge 
 so as to pain or disquiet his family. Notwithstanding reti- 
 cence was a marked trait in his character, yet occasional! v 
 evidence of the inner life appear. 
 
 To his clergyman, Dr. Newman, he said, " I believe in the 
 Holy Scriptures and whoever lives by them will be'heneHted. 
 Men may differ as to their interpretations, but the Scrip- 
 tures are man's best guide." 
 
 HIS LAST MESSAGE. 
 
 Fourteen days before his demise he prepared an address 
 to his wife and children, which was found after tlie-stni^glo 
 of life was over, from which the following is taken : " Look 
 after our dear children and direct them in the paths of 
 rectitude. It would distress me far more to think that one 
 of them would depart from an honorable, upright and vir- 
 tuous life than it would to know that they were never to 
 arise alive. They have never given us any cause for alarm 
 on this account, and I earnestly pray that they never will." 
 
With these few injunctions and the knowledge I have of 
 your love and affection, I bid you a final farewell until we 
 meet in another and, 1 trust, a better world . You will find 
 this on my person after my demise." Such patience, calm- 
 ness, courage, wise counsel and endearing sentiments when 
 facing the king of terrors are most praiseworthy, yet 
 many obscure Christian men to fame unknown have dis- 
 played the same seraphic character. 
 
 Then why was the whole country watching and waiting 
 around that deathbed scene? Why is the country draped 
 in mourning? Why is the hum of business hushed and 
 why is the whole country engaged in these sepulchral cere- 
 monies? Why do even the most distant isles of the sea 
 gaze upon these obsequies with sadness and sympathy? He 
 was not known in the world of poetry or song, had not 
 vied with Homer, Milton or Shakespeare. He had not been 
 distinguished as an orator, and like Clay, Webster, Cicero 
 and Demosthenes, charmed and thrilled Senates and 
 aroused nations. He had not been a groat law-giver of his 
 time like Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln and (iarfield. 
 
 How. then, did he win his iireat renown, and why is the 
 nation in mourning? How has he connected himself with 
 the great heart of his countrymen and won the respect of 
 all nations and the admiration of all mankind? Let the 
 people of a grateful Republic answer. 
 
 THK SKCIJKT OF HIS POWKH. 
 
 They attribute the safety of the nation and liberty itself 
 to the laureled soldier. They feel that he has rendered them 
 and their country inestimable service. They feel that by 
 his labor, skill, perils and valor the Government of the 
 United States has been established on a permanent founda- 
 tion and the people saved from a state of anarchy and from 
 interminable fraternal wars and fraternal bloodshed. They 
 firmly believe that the victories of Fort Donaldson, Yicks- 
 burg and Appomattox have 1 contributed to their pence, 
 prosperity and happiness, to the permanent glory of the 
 Republic and to the world's advancement. Who can de- 
 scribe the rich fruit that has blossomed on the tree of pas- 
 
sion and war? What benign, auspicious results have 
 sprung from fierce contest. 
 
 The unity of the Government and the great truths of 
 liberty were submitted to the arbitrament of war, tried, re- 
 fined and perfected in the blaze of battle, ratified at the 
 mouth of the cannon and incorporated in the Constitu- 
 tion of the United States to be and remain the law of the 
 land forever. Problems of vast import to man and nations 
 have been settled on the field of battle. Under the myste- 
 rious dispensation of human affairs great truths have been 
 canonized on the field of carnage. Ours was the last great 
 war between ancient and modern civilization, and its de- 
 cision has done more to settle the principles of society and 
 government on a permanent basis, and to establish equality 
 and harmony among all classes, than any previous act of 
 history.. 
 
 RESULT OP HIS PATRIOTISM. 
 
 The hero whom we this day, with tears and lamentations, 
 consign to the grave led the armies of the Union to those 
 victories : 
 
 That have conclusively and forever established the su- 
 premacy of the Constitution and the sovereignty of the 
 United States ; 
 
 That settled the questions permanently that the States of 
 the Union are a nation, one people with one Hag, one lan- 
 guage, one system of government, founded on the equalitv 
 of the rights of man : 
 
 That broke the manacles of four millions of slaves and 
 made them and their posterity free forever; 
 
 That removed the cause of the irrepressible conflict 
 American slavery. Happily the country is now freed from 
 this powerful architect of dissension and disaster. This, 
 the inspiring cause of disagreement and dissension, is per- 
 manently removed. Mason and Dixon's bloody line, along 
 which the lightning and tempests of a century's conten- 
 tion and passion had accumulated, has been swept away, 
 and now broad fields are spread out on every side where 
 the flowers of peace and prosperity may bloom forever. 
 
 Through his valor and success and that of his comrades. 
 
civilization has triumphed and the Higher Law, teaching 
 the doctrines of National responsibility, and that there is 
 an inevitable chain of causes and effects linking together 
 National sins and National calamities, is now adopted as 
 the creed of Nations. They have given to us a land where 
 liberty and order and law shall walk hand in hand in happy 
 union forever. By their genius and heroism our Republic 
 has been redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled. To Gen- 
 eral Grant and his comrades we are indebted for our peace 
 at home and our standing abroad. To them we are in- 
 debted for whatever is valuable in our institutions and the 
 rising glories of the Republic. 
 
 As time advances the worth of their great services to 
 their country and mankind will be more clearly seen and 
 highly appreciated, and coming generations will rise up and 
 bless the gallant soldiers for their fortunate birth and in- 
 creased happiness, for the great good they have conferred 
 upon their country, their race and all mankind. 
 
 He who gained unperishable laurels in defense of the Hag, 
 the government and liberty ; who made this and all suc- 
 ceeding ages his debtors, was simple in his tastes, unaffect- 
 ed and unostentatious in his manners, confiding and tender 
 in spirit, inflexible in integrity and of iron-like courage, 
 one of the most .remarkable men of this or any age. Dur- 
 ing the thunder of battle when immense interests were at 
 stake, he was calm, self reliant and undaunted, never doubt- 
 ing but that he would wrest victory from the jaws of battle. 
 
 Uukind or disparaging words wore strangers to his lips. 
 He had a soul too lofty and magnanimous, even in the 
 hours of supreme exultation and victory to utter one word 
 of humiliation to a fallen captive chief. A noble life 
 crowned with a Christian death rises above and outlives the 
 pride and pomp of empires. 
 
 ins EPITAPH. 
 
 Let him sleep on a Nation's heart, embalmed in a. 
 Nation's love. As the eye of coming generations turns 
 back to pay its tribute to the gallant and great, it will see 
 most prominent in that august body Grant, Lincoln and 
 (JarnVld. An emancipated and disenthralled race and a re- 
 
generated country is his monument. Its freedom is 
 his epitaph. Its prosperity, its peace and its happiness 
 is his everlasting memorial. 
 
 After witnessing the results of the war, during the lapse 
 of twenty years from its termination, now, when the pas- 
 sions have subsided and interest and ambition are buried 
 with the past, all, both North and South, understand and 
 appreciate General Grant's unselfish and lofty character 
 and the most beneficent work accomplished by the magnan- 
 imous chieftain. 
 
 The angelic reflections uttered and spirit manifested to- 
 ward the close of life correctly interpret his life's history, 
 and reveal the true character of the silent hero and show 
 that he went to the field of blood and victory under the 
 highest and holiest motives. It was not fame nor ambition, 
 but it was the inspiration of sacred duty that made him 
 fearless and invincible. He was chosen in the councils of 
 heaven to re-establish our shattered Government on the 
 basis of freedom, with the sword. He executed the great 
 work assigned him with meekness, with humility, with re- 
 markable fidelity and courage. No other man, in ancient 
 or modern times, has accomplished so much and claimed 
 so little as the heroic Grant. 
 
 When his great work was consummated he claimed no 
 honor, displayed no pride or ostentation, exhibited no re- 
 sentment or malice, but the most exalted spirit of philan- 
 thropy and charity. At the age of 'sixty-three his suffer- 
 ings and his triumphs on earth end, and not only our 
 nation, but all mankind proclaim, " Well done, thou faith- 
 ful servant ; go up higher." 
 
 " The stars of our banner grew suddenly dim ; 
 Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him ; 
 Not for him, who departing left millions in tears; 
 Not for him, who has died full of honors and years; 
 Not for him, who ascended Fame's ladder so high ; 
 From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky." 
 
MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS, 
 
 BY 
 
 RON, C, HARTSON, 
 
 Before Kit Carson Post, G. A. R, at Hapa, 
 May, 1886. 
 
 This day is set apart as a memorial day, a day to pre- 
 serve the memory of those who offered their lives to the 
 preservation of the American Union, and to whose valor 
 and labor success was awarded ; a day to decorate the sep- 
 nlehers of those who have achieved distinction in rescuing 
 their country from its imperilled condition, who have per- 
 petuated the Government and contributed in a high degree 
 to the welfare, not alone of their countrymen, but the whole 
 human race. 
 
 We meet to honor our noble dead and rejoice in the rich 
 legacy they left us a magnificent country, a united coun- 
 try, with its ocean-bound limits and its great lakes, its im- 
 perial rivers and colossal cities, untrodden by the foot of a 
 slave. We meet to adorn the graves of those who through 
 the sharp conflict of battle on land and sea have averted 
 disunion with its horrors, and have established for us a free 
 government on a just and solid foundation, and, we ar- 
 dently hope, made it as enduring as the stars. In our land 
 
and in our time lias been fought the last great battle be- 
 tween the ancient and modern-civilizations and systems of 
 government, and its decision has done more to settle the 
 principles of society and government on a permanent basis 
 and establish equality and harmony among all classes than 
 any previous act of history. It was not alone the skill and 
 heroism exhibited, the sufferings endured, the magnitude of 
 the armies engaged or the magnificence of the victories, for 
 the contest was between giants alike in endurance and 
 valor, but that it determined the irrepressible conflict be- 
 tween freedom and slavery, which was coeval with the his- 
 tory of our race. This contest, to an American, is of tran- 
 scendent interest, because by it liberty and the American 
 Union were made one and inseparable, now and forever. 
 The importance of your actions does not depend upon the 
 battles though bloody, nor successes though brilliant, hut 
 because peace was established on a permanent basis, the 
 Union preserved and liberty triumphant. 
 
 The pages of history abound in descriptions of battles 
 of the most fearful, desperate and bloody character. The 
 victors and vanquished have mostly passed into oblivion, 
 their acts of gallantry are forgotten, and in most cases the 
 nations live on weakened by the loss of blood and treasure, 
 and the people often becoming more demoralized and de- 
 praved by witnessing and participating in scenes of cruelty, 
 injustice and carnage. Occasionally there is an oasis in 
 the great desert of martial strife. The battle of Marathon 
 is remembered because Grecian liberty was preserved and 
 Greece herself was saved. The battle of Waterloo is of 
 paramount interest, not on account of the numbers en- 
 gaged, for Napoleon is reported to have had only 124,000 
 men in battle, nor for its slaughter,, but because it ended the 
 career of the brilliant, aggressive and throne-destroying 
 Napoleon, confirmed the tenure by which kings held their 
 sceptres and gave peace to the dynasties of Europe. 
 
 The battles of Bunker Hill, Saratoga and Yorktown will \ 
 always challenge the regard and admiration of mankind, 
 not on account of their magnitude, but because the princi- 
 ples enunciated in the Declaration of Independence wore 
 
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 then vindicated and because the fate of the Colonies was 
 involved in the struggle. 
 
 The world will always attach peculiar interest to the 
 Civil War in America, especially that portion who regard 
 the perpetuity of the Union as the foundation of peace and 
 prosperity; those, also, who rejoice in its beneficent and 
 philanthropic results and those who revel in the inspiration 
 and enjoyment of natural, legal and constitutional freedom. 
 Through a succession of wars of the most desperate and 
 bloody character the heroic- and patriotic people of the 
 United States have thrown off the foreign yoke of arbitrary 
 and despotic power, reorganized her own political system 
 on the principles of equality and justice, established a Re- 
 public adapted to the development of enterprise, to the un- 
 folding of talent, to the exhibition of the loftiest flights of 
 genius and to the establishment of the most exalted and 
 sublime character. The people of the Republic can now 
 sav : 
 
 >( Oh liberty! heaven's choice prerogative 
 
 True hoixl of law ; thou social soul of property, 
 Thou breath of reason ; life of life itself.'' 
 
 At times every throne- in Europe has been shaken by the 
 enthusiastic people seeking to obtain this high degree of 
 perfection in national life. Fn the cause of liberty and jus- 
 tice the people of England, in 1215, wrung from their king, 
 John, the great charter called the Magna Charta, and in 
 1G49 King Charles was sent to the scaffold for usurpation 
 and tyranny. 
 
 The conflict between the people and monarchs has been 
 waged in every part of the old world with varying success. 
 In the new w r orld free government, the representative sys- 
 tem, -has had the highest development. To eradicate slav- 
 ery from the constitution, to perpetuate free institutions in 
 this western world, to maintain the unity, power and glory 
 of the United States and make them as in brotherhood so 
 in interest, affection and purpose, one and inseparable -for- 
 ever, was a work of colossal magnitude. The bloody fields 
 of Bull Run, Fort Donaldson, Vicksburg and the memorable 
 battle fields of Virginia, covered with fallen heroes, attest 
 
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 the immensity of the undertaking and the cost and worth 
 of the victory. 
 
 What lias been accomplished? Your victory lias conclu- 
 sively and forever established the supremacy of the consti- 
 tution and the sovereignty of the Government of the 
 United States. You brought out of four years of war, out 
 of the long night of woe, peace and victory ; peace to fifty 
 millions and their posterity, and victory not to arms alone 
 but to ideas and principles, to freedom and humanity. 
 
 You have given us a land smiling with peace and rejoic- 
 ing in plenty. 
 
 You have given us a country where liberty and order and 
 law shall walk hand in hand in happy union forever. 
 
 Through your sufferings and valor the Republic, our Re- 
 public, has been redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled. 
 
 The former fugitive no longer looks to the north star for 
 direction and safety, but looks to the imperishable stars, 
 equality, justice and liberty, set by you on the nation's 
 brow, for the assurance of freedom for him and his poster- 
 ity forever. 
 
 To you we are indebted for our peace at home and our 
 standing abroad. 
 
 To you we are indebted for whatever is valuable in our 
 institutions and the rising glories of the Republic. 
 
 Through your valor and victories, civilization itself has 
 triumphed, and the higher laws teaching the doctrine of 
 National responsibility and that there is an inevitable chain 
 of causes and effects linking together national sins and 
 national calamities, is adopted as the Creed of Nations. 
 
 Soldiers, comrades and members of Kit Carson Post, a 
 branch of the Grand Army of the Republic, you have the 
 honor of having borne an important part in achieving this 
 greatness and grandeur for your country and the world. 
 
 Whatever satisfaction and felicity belong to noble actions, 
 followed with grand and sublime results, are yours ; yours 
 to enjoy forever. 
 
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 Those who have the highest appreciation of your gallant 
 services and the greatest admiration of your character, con- 
 scious of their utter inability to make you a fitting return, 
 might well pray : Bancroft Library 
 
 " Oh ! call not to my mind what you have done, 
 It sets a debt of that account before me, 
 Which shows me poor and bankrupt even in hopes." 
 
 But every patriot the wide world over,' and every partici- 
 pant in the blessings scattered by you on every side with a 
 bountiful hand, will unite in this sentiment : 
 
 "Yes! rear thy guardian hero's form 
 On thy proud soil, thy Western world ; 
 A watcher through each sign of storm 
 O'er freedom's flag unfurled." 
 
PETITION 
 
 TO 
 
 PRESIDENT ARTHUR 
 
 OX THE 
 
 CHINESE QUESTION. 
 
 | When the present Chinese Restriction Bill was before 
 the President for approval or rejection, two Congression- 
 al Bills on the same subject having been previously 
 vetoed, General Miller presented to President Arthur . 
 the following address, prepared by Chancellor Hartson 
 and signed by prominent Republicans and business 
 men of the Pacific Coast. The President received 
 the same, assuring Senator Miller that it would receive his 
 careful examination and consideration. Two days there- 
 after the President relieved the people of this Coast of all 
 doubt, anxiety and fear, by informing Senator Miller that 
 he would approve the Bill, disappointing Eastern mer- 
 chants, statesmen and philanthropists, and giving great re- 
 lief and joy to the whole people of the State of California. 
 The reader will judge to what extent this address contrib- 
 uted to the safety of the commonwealth.] 
 
 CHESTER A. ARTHUR, 
 
 President of the United States. 
 HONORED SIR : 
 
 As Republicans and Americans, we, residents of Cali- 
 fornia and the Pacific Coast, wish, in ail frankness, confi- 
 dence, and friendship, to present for your earnest considera- 
 tion some reflections upon tne subject of Chinese immigra- 
 tion. 
 
 The most anxious, intense and profound feelings prevail 
 here among all classes, constraining us to state briefly the ' 
 reason for a well settled conviction adverse to Chinese im- 
 migration, founded on an intimate knowledge of their 
 habits and character for about a quarter of a century. 
 
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 Unlike our people in form and feature, in habit and char- 
 acter, tutored in the rights of a pagan religion, and disci- 
 plined under a cruel code by a despotic government, they 
 are not qualified for the exercise of the rights or duties of 
 American citizens, or for maintaining a government of 
 which Adams, Jefferson, Otis, Washington, and their com- 
 peers were the founders ; and from their tenacity and inflex- 
 ibility of nature, we believe the}' never cim become loyal 
 citizens of the United States. 
 
 They have no interest or care for our name, our honor, 
 our laws, our government, or our people. Patriotism, the 
 love of liberty, of a republican form of government, of our 
 free institutions, and of our country are sentiments to them 
 unknown. 
 
 Countless millions of this strange race have for unnum- 
 bered ages been shut up in the narrow confines of their 
 everlasting walls, and have been compelled constantly and 
 painfully, imder pressure of cold and hunger, to battle for 
 both food and raiment. By stern necessity they have been 
 bred and disciplined in the most severe methods of self- 
 denial and bestial economy, have been taught to perform 
 the greatest amount of labor with the least possible expendi- 
 ture in food, in clothing, and in shelter. Many accept the 
 dog's kennel for lodgment, and the dog's food for suste- 
 nance, with relish and satisfaction. 
 
 In their own country they exist in numbers so vast as to 
 be computed by the hundred millions. Our coast is acces- 
 sible and transportation cheap, and wages many times 
 greater than in Peking and Canton. With them wages are 
 extremely low, and labor abundant and population dense. 
 
 The natural temptations and inducements for them to 
 voluntarily colonize within our borders are manifold, and 
 to these may be added the power of that mercenary spirit 
 that speculates in the labor and servitude of those too poor 
 to pay the lowest rates of Coolie passage. This greed gave 
 rise to the Coolie slave trade that has annually landed a 
 slavish, brutish, idolatrous horde upon our shores. 
 
 These conditions and causes have brought multitudes of 
 this strange people to our shores and imperilled every class 
 
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 and every interest.' They come among. us without wives or 
 children to support, with no schools or churches to sustain, 
 with no social rank to maintain, no character to assert, and 
 no government to vindicate or defend. 
 
 Many years of observation and experience have taught us 
 to abhor the idea of subjecting our fellow countrymen 
 with families to educate, clothe and supply, with a position 
 in society to maintain, with a government to defend and 
 support to competition for SUBSISTENCE and EXISTENCE 
 with the Asiatic labor machines. 
 
 And this is the mechanism now placed in competition 
 witli the American laborer, the child of the Republic. 
 
 With such physical conditions and with their aptitudes 
 they are enabled to supplant our own people in all trades 
 and departments of manual labor ; and the destruction of 
 one class of society, like the destruction of one member of 
 the body, involves all of the rest in the calamity. 
 
 Year after year we have witnessed the different trades 
 surrendered to these Mongolians until we are alarmed at 
 the defenseless and perilous condition of our society and 
 people. 
 
 They invade American interests and institutions and 
 society itself with insidious weapons more destructive than 
 shot or shell . And when their speculations and spoliations 
 are complete their cash and bones find a common recep- 
 tacle in the land of Josh. 
 
 The places occupied by the Chinese in our cities and 
 towns lose all utility and value except for their own pur- 
 poses ; and from these infected spots our population recedes 
 as from a loathsome nuisance, and on every side property 
 shrinks largely in value or loses it entirely. Like Kansas 
 grasshoppers, the Chinese mark their places and progress 
 with desolation like the grasshopper, he survives at the 
 expense of the country. 
 
 Would we not judge a parent pusillanimous, cruel and 
 inhuman, who would allow some mercenary adventurers by 
 wile or art or adventitious circumstance to force a dutiful 
 son from the fireside and home of his youth and cast him 
 upon the cold charity of the world for precarious existence ; 
 
and is a NATION any the less guilty that permits its own 
 citizens, aye, defenders, to be supplanted, displaced and 
 driven forth wanderers, by a foreign Pagan horde deficient 
 in patriotism and all of the prerequisites of American citi- 
 zenship? 
 
 It ought not to be, it cannot be, that this paternal and 
 beneficent and powerful government will suffer its own chil- 
 dren, its defenders, its own laboring masses, largely the 
 hope and strength of the Republic, its reliance in cases of 
 invasion and dire necessity, to be impoverished and ruined 
 by a false spirit of utilitarianism or sacrificed to themoloch 
 of cheap labor. 
 
 We cannot but regard such a policy as an act of injustice 
 and cruelty to our own people, calculated to entail upon us 
 disasters and calamities of the most alarming and shocking 
 nature. 
 
 May Heaven avert the deserved vengeance that we fear 
 will visit any nation that commits or tolerates such a crime 
 against its own people. 
 
 History has too often taught us that when an unemployed 
 and demoralized people in great cities become a starving 
 people, as has often happened and surely will again, when 
 the surging masses are maddened with want, suffering and 
 a sense of injustice then avenging justice, armed with dis- 
 order, anarchy and revolution, will make the skies lurid 
 with conflagration of cities and the streets red with human 
 gore. 
 
 The Republican Party sprang into existence in opposi- 
 tion to slave importation, slave labor, and the extension of 
 slavery. 
 
 For many years she has battled manfully for the protec- 
 tion and elevation of the American laborer, and in his cause 
 she has won sublime triumphs and unfading laurels. The 
 Republican party cannot now, in disregard of her cardinal 
 principles, afford to favor or permit the importation of 
 coolie slaves, those who are insensible of their condition 
 and indifferent to their fate, and thereby degrade labor or 
 reduce the meanest citizen of this Republic to a like servile 
 condition. 
 
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 We might point to our Clays, our Liricolns and our Gar- 
 fields, and thousands of our illustrious countrymen, and 
 say to you that unrestricted Mongolian immigration will 
 hereafter make the production of such characters impossible 
 in this country. We might say, too, that the Republican 
 party with its long line of brilliant statesmen and heroes, 
 loaded with honors and triumphs, and with the glory of the 
 proclamation of universal emancipation written upon its 
 brow, could not survive with Chinese immigration as its 
 watchword ; but we make our appeal to you from higher 
 considerations and loftier motives if possible, and we say 
 that we do not believe that our institutions, our people, and 
 liberty itself, on this continent can survive if this great evil 
 remains unrestricted. 
 
 We are not indebted to China for our language, litera- 
 ture, arts, sciences, civilization, forms of government, laws 
 or religion ; and as she has done nothing to create this great 
 Republic, with its varied and mighty interests, neither she 
 nor her people should be allowed to do anything to de- 
 stroy it. 
 
 We implore you, the honored Chief Magistrate of our 
 people, by every interest and consideration that can be ad- 
 dressed to the President of this majestic Republic by every 
 consideration dear to an American citizen proud of the past 
 history of his country, and anxious for her future advance- 
 ment and renown by the recollection that this nation was 
 begotten in the throes of the Revolution, baptized in the 
 blood of an innumerable host of patriots, has been main- 
 tained and transmitted at an immense cost of blood and 
 treasure ; we beseech you, by all of these reflections and 
 incentives, in behalf of both the rich and the poor all 
 classes, in behalf of the present and future generations, to 
 disregard all minor objections and considerations, and to 
 sanction any measure passed by Congress that has for its 
 object the SUPREME MERIT OF AMERICAN PROTECTION, and 
 thereby preserve both our people and the Republic. 
 
 (Signed by the Republican State Central Committee, 
 the author and others.)