2016 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Apr. 4

races of men who have been considered more or less a
menace to good government in the opinion of the reg-
istered voters of the United States.

First. The Aboriginal, Native Born American In-
dian, than whom no other race would seem to have a
greater inherent right to govern this country has al
ways been in the wisdom of our fathers refused the
right or privilege of suffrage.

Second. The celestial Chinaman whose civilization
antedates our own and from whom our modern nations
have acquired many and valuable suggestions in the
past and can still acquire much that will doubtless
prove beneficial, have been refused a voice in the
Government of this nation.

Third. The descendants of the African Negro, have
been always considered of doubtful benefit if not of
actual menace to good Government of this State and
nation.

Forty years ago, more or less, unexpectedly both to
himself and this nation, a Republican president as a
war measure struck the chains of chattel slavery from
the negro slave, and four years later, as a political
measure, the Republican party though not under the
leadership of the man who had abolished shivery,
caused the enaction of legislation that in its effect,
permitted a race of men who had no experience and
apparently no desire either at home or abroad, in the
African jungle or the Southern plantation to partici-
pate in any form of Government to become practically
the balance of power in this State and possibly the
nation. After the enfranchisement of the negro, no
question in this State could be decided by a majority
of the thinking, working, producing men of the State
but to overcome an element as thoughtless as children,
who had been injected into our body politic by a pure-
ly political measure, it is and has been necessary to
secure a two-thirds vote of the white voters to enact
any needed legislation that this mass of ignorance was
instructed to oppose by their Republican proprietors.

The Republican party claims the credit for abolish-
ing chattel slavery. They must take the odium for
establishing political slavery of the negro and the use