Have we not the same right. and is it not an equal duty. to exclude any and all persons who we know or believe would injure and lower the moral standing and condition or degrade any class of the people whose interest we are sent hero to look after and protect? I am one of those who hold that the one duty is as sacred as the other. From all we know of the Chinese laborers. the coolies. a population. as has well been said. diseased morally and physically. who can doubt that their unrestrained and unlimited introduction into our country and a general intermingling of these people with our laboring population would have the effect of increasing vice. immorality. and crinm among them. I believe it would have this effect generally in the North. the East. and the West. wherever they are introdiuced. but no one who knows the colored popl can for a moment doubt what the effiet will be if these Chinese coolies are allowed to freely intermingle in the South with our colored population. No ..i who does not know the negro as we know hirn. and who has not seriously reflected upon this aspect of the subject. can imagine what would be the state of society and the condition of things in the South among that people if the Chinese coolies were injected atnioig them. It is idle to say there is no danger of their going South. WVith the population that China has. if our ports are kept open to them. the day is not very far distant when they will not only fill the actories and workshops of the North and East. but when they will seek the workshops and the ricefields of the South.
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Chinese laborers are diseased morally and physically and will increase vice, immorality, and crime.