Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... Must The Chinese Go? "The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; 3Tea, they have oppressed the strang-er wrongfully."--Ezek. xxii. 29. "Therefore all things "whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.'--Matt. vii. 12. "What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others." --Confucius' Doctrine of the Mean (chap. xiii). The spectacle now presented by the Government of this country, in its attitude toward the Chinese, even leaving* Chtistianity entirely out of the question, ought to bring the blush of shame to the face of every honorable, fair-minded man. Seeking, even insisting upon, a treaty of amity and trade with a weaker people, pledging its national honor for the protection of any of that people who come to us, and yet, knowingly and willfully, allowing for years the most constant, systematic persecution of the Chinese in our land, in defiance of treaty, law, and justice; and finally, at the bidding of the lowest, wickedest, most brutal, of our population, --"the balance of power,"--enacting laws that deliberately insult this very nation with which we have such treaty, violate the whole spirit of our Constitution, dishonor God, and make possible such crimes as the Wyoming massacre. I believe before God that the anti-Chinese laws, and those who enacted them, are largely responsible for these massacres and other outrages that have made so black a page in our nat ional history the last few years. These laws were a concession to that element in this land which is the most to be feared, and should be the most carefully watched and firmly resisted. Every concession made to it only strengthens and makes said element more domineering1 and...
