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| NOTICE.
|\yiLL He let to the lowest bidder, before the
■\\ Court House door in Jefferson,- Jackson
■ r y. Ga., on Saturday, October 30th, 1880, the
I. Xt for superintending, managing and caring
■ tl inmates of the Poor House of said county,
I county to furnish all provisions, clothing,
I- iical attention, &c., necessary for the paupers,
I ! the person making the lowest bid, per month,
said service of superintending, &c., will be
■yarded the contract, upon the following condi-
Ins: The contractor will be required to do and
■ rform all duties necessary for the comfort and
It iiare of said paupers, and to control said in
with humanity, looking both to their wel-
I and the county's interests; to plant and cul-
I ,itc. at his expense, a garden sufficient to sup-
Hv vegetables for the inmates of said Poor House ;
Iwill be required to give bond, with good se
| j;ty, in the sum of live hundred dollars, condi-
I mod for an honest administration, respectful
Had humane treatment of the paupers, and faith
■ d-charge of all duties thereto required; and
H; be required to make monthly reports to the
I 'mary. showing the number and condition of
H, inmates, amount expended for provisions,
luting, medical attention, &c., during the
|rnth. and the amount of provisions, Ac., on
Hud at the end of each month. Besides forfeit-
H said bond, the contractor will be subject to
H; 'V?.t by the Ordinary at any time upon a case
Hide for failure or refusal to comply with any of
I conditions or regulations. The person to
Hvm said contract shall be awarded will be al
|vd the proceeds of the farm, cultivated at his
Hr. expense, to be taken as a, part compensation
Hr-••rices as Superintendent.
U:. x at the same time and place, will be let to
H yh/siciaii who is the lowest bidder, the con-
Hrt for rendering medical services to the inmates
H Poor House per month, subject to like
|. btions as to duty, monthly reports, &c., as
H Superintendent.
| Far more definite specifications, apply at this
Hoc. 11. W. BELL,
H 'ept.2o, ISSO. Ord’y Jackson County.
JU)KGII, Jacksoit County.
<nrt of Ordinary. Sitting for County Purposes.
October Ist, 1880.
n RPEnKD, That five-tenths of one per cent, be
■'h ! and collect on-the taxable pf
fc'kson county," as per Tax'.Digest Tsso.- ]>V
Tax Collector of said county, as County Tax
" year ending September Ist, 1881, for the
'wins; purposes, to-wit:
and seven-tenths of one per cent.,
) pay expenses Superior Court $3,019.25
half of’one-tenth of one per cent.,
pay. for repairing ai\d building
rdges ® SSB.OI
and eighty-one hundrcths tenths of
' -tenth of one per cent., to pay the
pil indebtedness of the county, due
- J to become due 3,196.85
' ■l'.ird of one-tenth of one per cent.,
pay for the support of paupers 592.01
1 sixty-eight and half hundred
: a f one-tenth of one per cent., to
v the salary ol'County Treasurer... 300.00
and sixteen and half hundreds of
f'-tentii of one per cent., for con
sent fund 384.04
T ;; nd eighty-one and half hundred
1 - of one-tenth of one per cent.,
I' l pay jail foes 500.00
IT. W. BELL, Ordinary,
-true extract from the minutes of said Court.
11. W. BELL,
' 1 Ex-Officio Clerk Court of Ordinary.
Administrator’s Sale.
i hREEABL V to an order from the Court of
v ''"dinary of Jackson county, obtained at the
r term, 1880, there will he sold, beiore
■'urt House door in the town of Jcfierson,
the first Tuesday in November, 18S0,
the legal hours of sale, the following do-
T r perty of Anarchy llcfpson, col'd, de
•• t<-v it : One house and lot, situated in
fkwa of j e ff e r S on, (la,, on the Lawrenceville
ting lflts of Albert Shaw, Mrs. ilan
4a:' ’• the colored church, containing one acre.
i less. The house is a single story frauvcU.
Wo rooms, in good repair. Sold for distri
-1 a, t i to pay the debts of said deceased.
a ' i cash. iv. A. WATSON, Adm’r.
? Administrator's Sale.
j' v irtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary
county, will bo sold before the
. y hppse door in the town Lawrenceville, on
"8 Tuesday in November, IS3O. during the
; . ' ' rs of sale, tho following described tract or
°f land, situated in Jackson county.
1 - la i and belonging to the estate of JSsse
" n '> deceased, to-’wif: One hundred acres of
In °re or less, adjoining the line between
and Gwinnett counties on the west, the
.* ,Jt -LX. McMillan on the east, Martha Benson
, north, and on the south by the road lcad
pjiu l.awrenceviile to Jefferson, and being
..V aoe whereon Mr. Shellnutnow resides. Sold
Y le purpose of distribution, and to carry out
“ i ' r - wifi of said Jesse Osborn, dec’d.
ROBERT H. BRADFORD,
Adm’r de bonis non.
p ililllA, Jackson County.
J. H. Maley applies to me, in proper
,fV or Letters of Administration on the estate
i j’ lSor > Maley, late of said county, dec'd —
\ ti 'To cite all concerned, kindred and cred-
Ty , lj ?bo\v cause, if any they can, on the first
‘ a - v hi November, 1880, at the regular term of
/ J 1 of Ordinary of said county, why said
(~ s *i°uld not be granted.
~v n wilder my official signature, Sept. 29th.
11. W BELL, Ord’y.
Administratrix’s Sale.
A GREEABLY to an order from the Court of
•XX. Ordinary of Jackson county, there will be
sold, on the first Tuesday in November, 1880, be
fore the Court House door in the town of Jeffer
son,* Jacksrirr criunty/Ga., Within the ushd ftouts
of sale, the following property of E. 11.-Borders,
deceased, to-wit : A tract of land, situate arid
lying in said county, and known as the E. li. Bor
ders home place, lying on the waters of Turkey
creek and the North Oconee river, seven miles
from Jefferson, two miles from Harmony Grove,
on the Northeastern Railroad, and a quarter of a
mils from a good merchant mill; adjoining lands
of Dunson, Jackson, Davis and others. Said tract
of land has been divided up into three lots, and
each lot will be sold separately. Lot No. 1 con
tains forty-three acres of upland in cultivation,
fifteen acres in old field pine, and the balance, one
hundred and sixteen acres, in original forest. This
lot contains all of the buildings of the place, con
sisting of a good framed dwelling house, with ten
rooms, in good repair, framed kitchen and smoke
house, and all other necessary out-buildings, all
in first-class condition ; good well and spring ;
excellent orchards of apples and peaches. There
are four framed dwellings for tenants, also a good
gin house and packing screw in good condition.
All convenient to schools and churches.
Lot No. 2 contains fifteen acres of upland in
cultivation, fifty acres of first-clasS river bottom
.land in good state of cultivation, sixty acres of
original forest and seventy-three acres of old field
pine. No improvements on this lot.
Lot No. 3 contains fifteen acres of creek bottom
in cultivation, twenty acres in old field pine and
eighty-seven acres in original forest. No improve
ments on this lot.
All of said land is good farming lands, and the
lots arc conveniently arranged for making settle
ments on tho same.
Also, at the same time and place, another tract
of land, belonging to said estate, situated in said
county, on the waters of North Oconee river, six
miles from Jefferson and two miles from Nichol
son, on Northeastern Railroad, containing two
hundred and thirteen acres, more or less, adjoin
ing lands of llaynie, Potts, Gathright and others,
formerly known as the Clark Gathright place. On
said place is a good frame dwelling, good kitchen
and other necessary out-buildings, and good well
water and springs. Fifty acres in a high state of
cultivation, twenty-five acres in good river bot
toms. fifteen acres bottom land not in cultivation,
ten acres in pine field, the remainder in good
original forest. The place is in good repair. Any
one wishing to purchase a splendid farm, w uld
do well to look over before day of sale. Sold for
distribution. Terms cash.
E. A. BORDERS, Adm'x.
Jack son Sheriff’s Sale.
\I T ILL be sold, before the Court House door,
7 r in the town of Jefferson, Ca., within the
legal hours of sale, on the first Tuseday in Novem
ber, 1880, the following property, to-wit: The
tract ©f land in Jackson county, Ga., on which
Amanda M. Duke now resides, lying on the Wal
nut Fork of the Oconee river, adjoining lands of
estate of Calvin Long, dcc’d. the lands of Sims
and Martin, the dower of Elizabeth Bowles and
others, containing three hundred and forty-three
acres, more or less. On said land is a good, com
fortable, framed two-story building, and elegant
framed barn and stables, corn cribs, &c.. and
usual out-buildings; seventy-five acres of good
bottom land in a high state of cultivation;
acres upland in cultivation ; good orchard of fruit
on said place. Levied on as tho property of said
Amanda M. Duke, by virtue of and to satisfy a
ii. fa. issued from Jackson Superior Court, August
term, 1878, in favor of J. E. Randolph, Executor
of J. 11. Randolph, dec’d, vs. Green S. Duke,
principal, 11. R. Howard, A. M. Duke and E. C.
Adams, securities. Written notice given to
Amanda M. Duke as the law requires. Property
pointed out by J. E. Randolph, Ex'r. plaintiff.
T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh’tf.
Administrator's Sale .
BY virtue of an order granted by the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county, Ga.-, atthoSop
tQTnljer term 1880. of said Court, to me as the
MhnkdstdtyCff of Mary G. Simmons,
’deceased, I will, on the first Tuesday in Novcm-’
ber, 1680, .by virtue of said order granted as afore
said, prdceed to sell, before the Court House door,
in the town of Jefferson, in said county, within
the legal hours of sale, at public out-cry, to the
highest and best bidder, for cash, the following
real estate, situate and lying in the county of Jack
son, State of Georgia, to-wit: Gne tract of land,
consisting of two parcels ; one parcel containing
one hundred and twenty acres, and another parcel
containing ten acres ; both parcels adjoining each
other, and bounded on the north by lairds of Hil
liard J. Randolph, on the east by lands of J. P.
Doss, on the west by lands of Sarah Ann Stewart,
and on the South by lands of Rachel V. Simmons.
And also an undivided half interest in one hun
dred and twenty-six acres of land. more or less,
bounded on the north by lands of Mary G. Sim
mons, on east by lands of J. P. Doss, on west by
lands of Sarah Ann Stewart, and on the South by
lands of Rachel V. Simmons. All of said lands
unimproved ; twenty acres old field and balance
original forest, S. P. HIGGINS, Adm’r.
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL be sold, under an order of the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county, Ga., granted
at the September term, 1880, of said Court, at
public out-crv, before the Court House door m
Jefferson, in said county, on the first Tuesday in
November, 1880, the following property, to-wit:
Seventy-six and one-half acres of land, ljipg
about one-half mile of the town ol Maysvibe, m
said county, adjoining lands of Atkins, Llbson
and others. There is on said land a good framed
dwelling house and all necessary out-buildings ;
about fifty acres in cultivation, fifteen acres ra
original forest and balance in old pine fields
\ Iso. one dwelling house and lot, in said town of
Marseille, fronting the North Eastern Rail Road
fifty feet and running back one hundred feet, ad
joining P. P. Casey’s lot. . ,
\ Iso at the same time and place, twelve snares
of Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company
sooek The above property sold as the property
of Amanda M. hoggins, dec'd. for the purpose of
navin"- the debts of said deceased and for distri
bution among the heirs-at-law.
Administrator of A. M. hoggins.
Jacksoji Conaity.
Whereas John F. Evans. Executor of the last
will and testament of David Evans, deed rep
resents to the eonrt, by his petition duly file-.,
that he has fully administered the estate of sa.d
Ihceased. and is intitled to a discharge— ,
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and
creditors, t*> show cause, if any, on the urst
Monday in November. 1980 at the regular term
of the court of Ordinary of said county why the
letters of Dismission should noi.be granted the
"'TS’unclor my official this A j-gust
3d 1880. H. M . BELL, Ord y .
' N KOKCJIA, Jaikson Coanty.
Whereas, W. P. Cosby, Administrators on the
estate of Frances C. Cosby, late of said county,
deceased, applies for leave to soil the lands De
longing to said estate — , . , . , ,
This is to cite all concerned, kmared ant. cred
itors to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county
on the first Monday in November. UyO. why saul
leave should not be granted the applicants.
uulkr my
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER S, ISSO.
The Chinese in America.
▲ DISCOURSE BY REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE.
ON SUNDAY MORNING, BEP. I^TH.
• A keen lawyer had Christ under a cross
examination and this was one of the ques
tions. Christ’s answer enlarged tho idea of
neighborhood, and the idea has been enlarg
ing ever since. It once seemed a figure of
speech to call peoplo on the other sides of
the earth our neighbors, but nations are so
rapidly intermixed. Steam power from South
ampton t,o New' York, from China to San
Francisco, and iron tracks across the conti
nents andi cables under the seas, make tho*
world oire neighborhood. Is the Chinaman,
a neighbor? Does he belong to the race of
which God is the Father? Is ha a brute or
an immortal? How ought you to treat him?
Will he help or hurt us?
These important questions are pressed up
on the attention of this Nation and decide
them we must, and decide them we will. It
will be as agitating question in Brooklyn as
iu San Francisco. I want to have you start
right in your opinions, and for that reason 1
give you the result of my summer observa
tion in California, where the Chinese popula
tion has become a tremendous factor.
Arriving in San Francisco Saturday, Au
gust 7th, I had been but a few moments in
the hotel when the highest officers of tho
State called upon me in the interest of the
anti-Chiucse sentiment. From that time and
for many days from morning till night there
was scarcely a half hour in which, by com
mittee or document or letter, the subject was
not presented. The Chinese quarters, call
ed Chinatown, are shown to most Eastern
people who get to California. The papers
this week say that President Ilayes was
shown Chinatown, but the roughest part was
covered up so that he should be deceived as
to bow bad it was. No one can say that of
my inspection, for it was the one interest of
the gentlemen who took me there to make
me see the worst side. The five gentlemen
who took me there were openly opposed to
the Chinese emigration. Dr. Hears, a most
obliging gentleman, the President of the
Board of Health, went with me at the request
of the Mayor, and there is no man on the
continent more pronounced against tho Chi
nese than Dr. Hears. So I saw Chinatown
at its worst. It is bad enough, filthy enough,
dreadful enough; but underground New
York is 50 per cent, worse than underground
San Francisco. New York American vice
is five-fold more brazen than San Francisco
yellow-covered vice. The difference in mal
odor is the difference between whisky and
opium ; and the malodor of whisky is a hundred
fold worse than the malodor of opium. The
drowded tenement houses of New York are
more fearfully crowded than the Chinese
quarters. As I told them face to face in
their Grand Opera-house, if their three hun
dred police, together with an extra force of
five hundred police sworn in from among
their most worthy citizens, would, in the
name of God, and in tho strength of the law,
go out to do their whole duty, in one night
they could break up the last iniquity of Chi
natown. Do you tell me that- 280,000 law
abiding people of San Fraucisoo could not
put down the 20,000 bad people? From my
observation this summer, and ten years ago,
T give my opinion, an opinion in which thou
sands of the merchants and clergy and best
people of California agree, that o£ all the for
eign population who have come to our shores
within the last forty years, none have come
more cleanly, more industrious, more sober,
more courteous, more harmless, more genial
than the Chinese. I have in my possession
a long list of affidavits by the first farmers,
merchants, manufacturers and professional
gentlemen of California, testifying as to their
| integrity and hard work, and ingenuity anil
love of good order. They have no equals as
laundrymen, and in many of the homes I
was told that they had no rivals as house
help. One of them, I was told, would do the
work of three ordinary servants.
It is objected of them that they underbid
other workmen, being able to live cheaper
than other nationalities. Mistake 1 They
get higher wages in many departments. No
such wages are paid in Brooklyo for domes
tic services as are paid the Chinese servants
in California. So far from hurting the com
pensation of others they have made possible
vast enterprises which have given employment
to other people. But suppose that in any
case they did underbid. If you turn them
out on that account then you ought to turn
out all those people who work the sewing
machine, or reaper or hayrack, since these
machines underbid tens of thousands of hard
working people who toil only with the hand.
But the fact that refutes all of these stories
about the ruinous competition of the Chinese
is that wages have been higher in California
than in any State of the Union. When there
shall be twenty thousand Chinese in New
York and Brooklyn, as chore will be, there
will be just as large wages for all our people
and more prosperity than now, for then in
stead of one million of people, we shall have
three or four millions.
Again it is objected that the Chinese do
not spend their money where they make it.
False again! They pay rent in San Fran
cisco for residences, wash-houses, and so on.
$2,400,000 yearly. Would you not consider
$2,400,000 added to the income of Brook
lvn a prosperous addition? The Chinese
pay to the State of California a tax of over
$4,000,000. They paid in custom-house U
ties to tjie United States ie one year $8,404.
379. Now, take back that falsehood about
Chinese not paying any money where they
make it. Ido not wonder that many of
them send home their money and do not
make large investments i;i this country.
How much of your money would you invest
in a land where you were not allowed citi
zenship, and might any moment have to suf
fer outrage or expatriation? Ido not wo : ■
der that the}' have their bones sent back to
China. It you and I were treated as badly
in Brooklyn as the Chinese have been treat
ed in California, we would not want to be
buried within 3,000 miles of the place where
such indignity was possible. We won; i nr
jguo : If they do such things to us while we
j have our arm strong for defence, what may
.they not do when Wc oecome helpless? But
FOR THE PEOPLE.
what an inconsistent tiling t is for us to com
plain that they send their money home 1
Have we not for the last twenty years been
complimenting and praising the German and
Irish serving maids for that, denying them
selves almost every comfort, they have sent
so much of their wages to their fatherland?
Is it not to their everlasting, credit that they
arc so kind to the old folks at home that
they send their wages to Ireland and Ger
many? Perhaps you have not been told what
is done with much of the wages which the
Chinese send home. Hear it, and blush that
you have ever derided them so unjust
ly. Their parents in China are serfs, the
subjects of a base feudal system, and much
of this money goes to liberate these parents
from bondage. I "have this from a mandarin
high in authority. If your father and moth
er were in bondage, would you not pay some
thing to set them free? Do you not sup
pose the Chinese love luxuries as much as
you? Shall their magnificent self-denial for
others be the cause of their assault ?
liut, it is objected, they use such close
economy. Well, that is a crime of which our
nation is not very much guilty. I think in
this we may learn something from the Chinese.
They are not only economical, but they pay
all their debts, two peculiarities for which, of
course, tlfey ought to be punished. What a
low order of civilization these Chinese have,
for they work all the time, live within their
means, and pay all they owe! Such habits
ought to be put a stop to.
It is objected that they are Pagans, and
that their dress is so very different. What
do you refer to now ? The Chinese queue ?
Whj% George Washington wore a queue,
Benjamin Franklin wore a queue, John
Hancock wore a queue, our great grand
fathers wore queues. Anything that Wash
ington, and Franklin, and John Hancock, and
our revered grandfathers did must have been
respectable. Besides that, again and again,
our American dress lias been more absurd than
the Chinese apparel. The crinoline mon
strosities of twenty years ago, the coal-scuttle
bonnets of our grandmothers, the powdered
hair arid knee-buckles of our grandfathers,
and at different times the elaboration, the
over-topping and appalling mvstery of
woman’s head-dress in our time ought to make
us lenient with Mongolian eonspicuities. As
to their other religious peculiarities—-for their
dress has a religious significance—can it be
that in this country a man’s religious belief is
to be interfered with ? Do you suppose the
Pilgrim Fathers and the Huguenots and
Revolutionary Fathers would have endured
what they did in behalf of religious liberty in
this country if they had supposed their
descendants would ever make the style of
religious belief the ground of residence or
citizenship ? If our government is to stand,
the Joss-house of tlie Chinese is to be as
secure and undisturbed as the Cathedral of
the Catholic, the meet ing-house of the Quaker,
or tlie church of the Presbyterian. If the
choice must be between a religion that
persecutes, and insults, and stones a man be
cause of the color of his skin or the length of
his hair, of the economy of ills habits and the
industry of his life, on the oue hand, and the
Paganism which bears patiently all this abuse,
keeping right on with its work—ifl must make
a choice between such a religion and such a
Paganism, give me Paganism. If yon have
a superior religion, in a kindly and persuasive
way present that superior religion.
And this brings me to tell you 'what I saw
arid heard of the glorious work being done
among the Chinese in San Francisco. My
first Sabbath morning I spent in a Chinese
mission church, and had there the opportu-
nity and joy of telling these Mongolians o!
Him who came, not an American Christ, nor
a Chinese Chirst, nor German Christ, nor a
French Christ, nor a Spanish Christ, nor an
Italian Christ, but the round world’s Christ.
There they stand this morning, doing a work
renowned in heaven, though little appreciated
on earth —the Presbyterian Mission of Dr.
Loomis, the Methodist Mission on Washing
ton street, the Congregational Mission near
the Park, the Episcopal Mission and other
great charities. The Chinese make grand
Christians, and there will be live hundred
million of them yet, when according to the
prophecy the land of Sinim shall surrender
to the one God. Will not this generation of
Christians seem small enough and contempt
ible enough in the future, when it shall be
found out that these Mongolians were brought
here, not so much by the stigmatized six
Chinese companies, but by the God of the
Bible to have them Christianized, and then
multitudes of them sent back for the evange
lization of their native country. Now, my
friends, these Chinese are either onr inferiors,
or our equals, or our superiors, if they are
inferior, ( here is no danger that they will be
come our masters. Flat heads cannot rule
high foreheads. Stupidity will never dominate
large brains. If they are our equals, then
they ought to have equal rights. If they are our
superiors, then we cannot afford to insult them.
Do you know who these men are ? Their
ancestors have forgotten more than we ever
knew. Education is far more general in China
than in America. You cannot find a China
man that cannot read and write, while you
can find tens of thousands of Americans who
cannot write their own name. Ages before
our nation heard of it the Chinese invented
printing, paper, making gun-powder, the
mariner’s compass and porcelain. Five hun
dred years before Christ came Confucius
anticipated the Golden Rule, and when asked
to compress into one sentence a directory for
human life, said, “Do not unto others what
you would not have them do unto you.”
I think the Chinese are God’s favored na
tion. Why ? Because lie has made more *
them than any other kind of people. More
over, He lias made China the wealthiest of all
lands. Oh, the ruby, and the amethist, and
the porphyry, and the turquoise, and the
jasper, and the agate, and the sapphire, and
the lapis’ lazuli, and the crystal! Enough
precious stones to build the four walls of
heaven ! Oh, the gold, and the silver, and
the copper, and the salt, and the coal, and the
iron that lie waiting for the cellar door of her
great hilts to be opened? Oh, the rosewood,
and the ebony, and the camphor, and the
j cypress, and the varnish-tree, and the cedars,
and the ivory, waiting to be transformed into
ne cabinet-work of the nations 1 Oh. tho
wheat, Dd the barley, and the mango, and
the pine apple, and the orange, and the per
simmons, and the cocoanuts, and tlie rice
enough to provide pudding for all the earth,
and tea enough to refresh alt i-afjyms. You
stupid man to begrudge tlie Chinese room
here! Why, it all implies a permission to
go there. Before many years there will bo
more Americans in China than Chineso in
America. The question all over China will
be, “ Shall the Americans go ?” If Ameri
cans went to California by emigrant wagons
When it took six months, do you not sup
pose that New Yorkers and Long Islanders
will in great multitudes go to China when
tliev can go in five weeks? It is the design
of Providence to put all the nation on wheels,
moving them East, West, North, South. The
tide happens to be setting this way, but after
one world is tolerably populated the tide will
set the other way toward Ireland, toward
Germany, toward Switzerland, toward China.
All the natives will intermarry until far down
In the future a man will have the blood of
fifty nationalities in bis arteries, and there will
be only one nation left occupying the five
continents—one grand homogeneous, grand
hearted, all climated, five-zoned, world-en
circling Christian nation. They broke to
pieces at tlie Tower of liable ; they will come
together at tlie throne of Christ. Under the
shadow of one they were confounded, under
the light of the other they will be harmo
nized.
Again it is objected that tho Chinese who
come to this country arc mere slaves under
tlie bondage of the Six Chinese Emigration
Companies—Sim-Yup Company, King-Chon
Company, Sang-Wo Company, Wing-Yung
Company, llop Wo Company, Yan-Wo
Company. Now, say the two political plat
forms, we don’t want any slaves of such com
panies introduced here. Hear this one fact:
tiie Six Chinese Emigration Companies give
free passage to these Chinese, they contract
ing with the Companies that they will work
: t out after they get here. This is as honor
able and righteous as any contract ever made
in New York or Brooklyn. I want to go to
Italy to study art, and have not the money
to go with. You say : “ I will pay all your
expenses, if all the pictures you make the
first year in Rome you give me.” Right!
Is it not just as right for the Six Chinese Com
panies to say: “You are poor, and I will
give you clothing, and outfit, and passage
and food across the Pacific Ocean, on condi
dion that for a certain number of months or
years you will give me all you make.” That
is just before God and all reasonable men.
The Chinese who come to this country are no
more slaves of#he Six Companies than } T ou
lawyers are of the clients who give you a
retaining fee, than 3’ou builders are the slayes
of the capitalists who prepay you for under
taking a job. These Chinese have only been
prepaid before embarkation, and are now
working it out. The Anti-Chinese planks in
the political platforms are a lying swindle on
the credulity of this nation. I tell you people
of the Atlantic coast that this Chinese scare
is the most groundless and absurd humbug
that UsrS been practiced on the American
people. After twenty-five years of emigra
tion, as compared with the enaigr&tlou of other i
nationalities, it is the saow flake oa a aea. Do
not he afraid they will overcome us. The
Chinese Government is ©boosed to tho
departutfe of'her people, and at tjie slow rate
they have, been’qoming, conquered with other 1
llaifirinalities, they will never trouble us with
tlihir number;). . " ...
What a,pitiable thing it is that the two
great political parties had, for the sake qf
jetting the Electoral vote of California, put
an anti-Chinese plank, thus insulting the lar
gest nation 1 God ever created. I was not
surprised at the Democratic party, because
they have always said that the color arid
race question was a reasonable question.
But when I saw the Republican party, which
had fought a four years’ horrible war for the
sake of establishing* that all colors before
God and the law had equal rights, when I
saw that party surrender that National
principle which they had purchased with the
blood of 500,000 men, and widowhood and
orphanage, all the land over, making a dif
ferent regulation for the yellow man from
what they had made for the black man, I
said of that party, “ Her scepter is gone.”
The simple fact is this : In 1784, nearly a
century ago, the American flag first appear
ed in a Chinese port. Ever since we have
been begging the Chinese people to come out
and come over and be sociable and neigh
borly. In* 1844 the Government of the Uni
ted States said practically : “ Oh, you dear
Chinese ! Do come over and see us. Come
and bring your work with you.” In 1858
we practically said: ‘‘Oh, you dear, dear
Chinese, we can’t live without you. Do, do
come and see us and live with us.” In 1868
we sent Mr. Burlingame, a skillful Embas
sador, to say practically : ‘‘ Oh, you dear,
dear Chinese, you have no idea how much
we think of you! You are oil our minds
day and night. We dream about you.”
Mr. Burlingame acted so pleasantly that he
has been deified hy the Emperor of China,
and has become one of the gods of that Na
tion. The Chinese said, “Will you protect
us ?” “ Oh, yes, you shall not only be pro
tected, but you shall be welcomed. You
shall worship what god you will. Dear me.
if you will only come we will do anything to
make you feed at home.” Overpersuaded
and against all their national habits they
came. But finally the pot-house politicians
got hold of the question and stirred up
against the Chinese tiie hoodlum of San
Francisco, the most accused population with
which any city was ever afflicted. Kearney
their archangel. And the Chinese are mal
treated as no foreign people have been ; brick
batted and 3iain in the streets ; as no other
Nation, made to pay tax for the privilege of
entering the country; after arriving here,
made to pay a tax to a Government which
refuses to defend them; taxed for street
cleaning, while not one dollar of it was spent
on their Chinese quarters. In other words,
our United States Government, in the sight
of God and the Nations, broke its treaty.
, Eight hundred thousand dollors did the Chi
nese Government cheer fully pay as inletn
*Vk '*• v tr- i*m<*nt *f an'ue A *ieri-
S TERMS. $1.50 PER ANNUM,
) SI.OO For Six Months.
cans in China. The Government of tbei
United States refused fc> pay indemnity foe
wrongs indicted on Chinamen in this oomo
try. In the name of Almighty Ged—the'
Got! of Nations, who made of one blood all
impeach the United States Gov
crmnent for its perfidy toward the Chinese.
* l. want to forewarn people of the At
lantic “Coast agitinst joining in any crusade
against the Chinese! as they are now coming
into these States. While von meet the mul
titudes of Europe at Castle Garden with
hopes for their future prosperity, have the
same treatment for the children of Asia who
by the great Union Pacific and Central Pa
cific Railroad are being forwarded over tho
Sierra Nevadas. Offer them civilization and
Christianity. There is no gospel in tho
brickbats. Under a Government like this
there is no room for violence. The most
insignificant, abandoned, besotted, leprous
Chinese that ever lay in lazaretto will live
as long as God lives. He is immortal.
That Chinese Nation is going to be saved
whether Trans-Pacific or Cis Pacific. In the
millennial glory will yet stand side by side
Europe, Africa, America and Asia. The
Rocky Mountains and the Himalaya will an
swer each other with salvation echo.
As to the whole question of Chineso emi
gration let me encourage you by the thought
that the God of nations will regulate that in
the right way. Ever and anon in this coun
try we fiy about in great excitement as though
every thing were going to pieces. But God
never gets excited. The Chinese question is
going to be settled. What a time we had
with the slavery question ! For half a cen
tury the North proposed one thing and tho
South proposed another thing. Matters
grew worse. Missouri compromised; that
didn’t settle it. Fugitive Slave Law passed
that didn’t settle it. Riots in all the cities;
that didn’t settlo it. Ecclesiastical Courts
passed resolutions, and Congress deliberated
for a quarter of a century ; that didn’t settle
it. Lovejoy’s printing press thrown into the
Ohio river, and Pennsylvania Hall burned in
Philadelphia, and negroes shot, negroes tar
red and feathered, negroes hung—all that
didn't settle it. Then God rose up and said :
“All human wisdon lias failed. I will settle
it.” And he settled it at Shiloh, and Cor
rinlh, and South Mountain, and Gettysburg
—settled it by the graves of one million of
brave Northern and Southern dead. So this
Chinese problem is vast, complicated, tre
mendous. Chinese emigration is a ques
tion higher than the dome of your city halls,
higher than the heathen goddess on the top
of the Capitol at Washington, higher than
the highest clmrch-steeple, so high that it is
on a level with the throne of God and the
same power that controls the tides of the
ocean, sending this way and that, will de
cide the great tides of human emigration,
turning them wherever He will. If lie say
come, they will come ; if He say go, they will
g°- Do not get nervous about their coming
and build a high, strong wall to keep them
out, while you let other Nations come in..
Such a wall would bo shaken with the earth
quake of God’s indignation from boneatli and *
struck with the thunderbolt of God’s wrath
from above and it would heave and rook an 4
fall upon the demagogues who constructed it,
and upon the Nations that favored it and
upon Christianity that was too cowardly to,
denounce it, and Got] would say : “ I built
that Arabrican temple for civil and religious
libert}' and the ; Gospel that would have all
ru.cn saved. I/ounded that temple in tho
blood of the American revolution. Its arch
es were lifted by'the shoulders o/ men who
died for their principles. Its baptismal
fonts were filled with tears of those who
were exiled from other lands, coming hero
for refuge. Tho swords of your patriot an
cestry were the trowels that mortared tho
foundations. But you have sacrificed on
your altars the swine of passion and hate.
You have defaced the pillars by unholy land.
Let it go down, column and captal, arch and
dome; and in some other land, among more,
generous people, and in some brighter age,
of the world, I will demonstrate before earth
and heaven how I would have all men equal
and free.”
The Family Rudder.
A Comstock man who was having his hair
cut in Virginia City the other morning, gave
the barber particular instructions not to re
move a long lock that projected in a some
what unsightly way from the front of his
head.
“It don’t become you.” said tho barber.
“ Can’t help that,” said the customer.
“ Better let me take it off,” said the bar-,
ber.
“Just 3 T ou leave it as it is,” said tho man.
“ But,” persisted the barber, “ I can’t
give you a smooth, decent cut if I leave tho
hair so long in front. I can’t see what you
want it left there for?”
“TbatG because you don’t know what it
is—you don’t know tho use of it.”
“ I know that it’s a bunch of hair and
know that it is very unbecoming just whero
it is.”
“ Yes, a bunch of hair, and something more,
than a bunch of hair—it’s the family' rudder/**
“ The family what?”
“ The family rudder. When things don’t
go right at home my wife always grabs that
lock of hair. She would feel lost without it.
When she gets hold of that she can handle,
me, steer me in the right course, so to speak,
and when I go in the right course all is well.
I’ve got used to it now, and don’t mind it.
Should I lose ra3 r hair and become bald, or.
should you give me a fighting cut all over.
there would be no way of steering me, E
shoukl become unmanageably and sooner or
later a total wreck. No,sir; don’t disturb tho
family rudder.”
The “.hermit” polonaise defines tho figtir#,
loosely' bnt is drawn to the required size by
a rope or wide belt at the waist; the skirt is
almost as deep as the under-skirt, and is
turued up en revers in the washwoman style ;
the sleeves cut wide and deep are also turn
ed up, and the neck is finished with a cardi
nal cape, a cow!, and narrow, uprig! t collar.
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