This is a consideration of vital importance to the State which I have the honor in part to represent. to the whole South. and in an almost equal degree to New England. New York. and. indeed. the entire country. If this Chinese trade could not be secured by us except at the price of cooly immigration I would be the last man to raise my voice in behalf of it. The South has had quite enough of "race issue." as it is. and heaven forbid that another race issue should be precipitated upon the South. or the North either. by any further irruption of a Mongolian nature! But as the exclusion of Chinese laborers is assured under both measuresthe present law and the new measure under discussionand as the former nourishes our trade with China. while the latter would check and stunt if not rain it. why should we hesitate to express our preference for a continuance of the existing law? Speaking for South Carolina.
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