President. in the course of this debate allusion has been made to some similarity of circumstances supposed to exist between the people of the Southern States and their relations to the African in the past. and some supposed evil moral influences resulting from that. No arguments can be drawn from the relationship and the experience of the people of the Southern States with the African race. If the contact of the Mongolian with the civilization of this country. with Caucasian civilization. would have such beneficent effects as the contact of the Caucasian and the African race in the Southern States has had. it would be a most beneficent and happy influence. .In no country in the world was there ever developed a higher class of people than the Caucasian. or white people of the Southern States. a people of higher individual character. of greater integrity. ofgreater devotion to liberty and to learning. of greater humanity. than was developed by the contact of those two races. the African and the Caucasian. in the South. So far as the African was concerned. brought from Africa a barbarial. of a different color and race and of the most opposite characteristics. he became a useful laborer. a member of the social family. and the records of the existence of that institution will exhibit as little of crime. as much of beneficence and. of personal kindness as time relations of any people throughout the history of mankind. While. therefore. the political complications which might ensue from the migration of the Chinese here is a subject certainly worthy of the consideration of statesmen. and while. in my judgment. an absolutely determining consideration for the passage ofthis billis the entire unanimity with which the people of the Pacific coast demand this protection. it ought to be separated from these general considerations. it ought not to be placed upon the ground that there is an antagonism between the Asiatic civilization in China and the Caucasian civilization of ours which cannot be overcome and subjected to the needs of our higher and stronger race. For one. I do not give my assent to that proposition.
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