Suppose. then. that when the first shipload of Africans was land ed in this country some one had risen on the floor of one of the assemblies of the States and opposed their landing because they would in the end prove the source of immense disturbance in the country. because their presence would occasion a great civil war. because they would produce precisely the effects we have since seen that they have produced in the South. how true these views would have been. though doubtless they wouldhavo been regarded as gromundless and fanciful alarms. And. digressing for one minute. I ask Senators to reflect what would have been the condition of this entire country if the same proportion of Africans had been in the North as were in the South I Isay. then. suppose that objecting to this immigration because it was the immigration of an incongruous race. of a race that could not assimilate or amalgamate with is. this speaker had urged the exclusion of the negro from our country. he would have uttered wise words arid given sound advice. How delusive would have been the rejoinder. in the light of our experience. of any one who might have said: We have broadh fields and extensive areas whre cotton. tobacco. and sugar can be raised. and itis for our common advantage to bring in these negroes and obtain the benefit of their cheap labor. A similar rejoinder. and one equally diusive. is today made to th facts and arguments in support of a measure to prevent the immigration of the Chinese. an immigration that threatens evils nmre portentous than could result fromt the importation of the African. The skill of the Chinese enables then to invade more of the industrial pursuits than the negro is capable of invading. Deft and subtle and able in manipulation. the Chinaman can be utilized in almost any kind of a factory . but his race is socially more incongruous to ours and less capable of assimilation with us than is the negro race.
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The speaker claims that the negro race cannot assimilate or amalgamate.