Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 263 of 1,110

HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.

feel it stir in the-gray matter of his brain
and throb in his heart. Not a negro who
does not feel its power. It is not a sectional
issue. It speaks in Ohio and in Georgia. It
speaks wherever the Anglo-Saxon touches an
alien race. It has just spoken in universally
approved legislation in excluding the Chinaman
from our gates, not for his ignorance,
veins of corruption, but because he sought
to establish an inferior race in a republic
fashioned in the wisdom and defended by the
blood of a homogeneous people.
The Anglo-Saxon blood has dominated always
and everywhere. It fed Alfred's veins
when he wrote the charter of English liberty;
it gathered about Hampden as he stood beneath
the oak; it thundered in Cromwell's
veins as he fought his king; it humbled Napoleon
at Waterloo; it has touched the desert
and jungle with undying glory; it carried
the drumbeat of England around the world
and spread on every continent the gospel of
liberty and of God; it established this Republic,
carved it from the wilderness, conquered
it from the Indians, wrested it from England,
and at last, stilling its own tumult, consecrated
it forever as the home of the AngloSaxon,
and the theater of his transcending
achievement. Never one foot of it can be
surrendered while that blood lives in American
veins, and feeds American hearts, to the
domination of an alien and inferior race.
This problem is not only enduring, but it
is widening. The exclusion of the Chinaman
is the first step in the revolution that
shall save liberty and law and religion to this
land, and in peace and order, not enforced on
the gallows or at the bayonet's end, but proceeding
from the heart of an harmonious
people shall secure in the enjoyment of these
rights, and control of this Republic, the

homogeneous people that established and has
maintained it. The next step will be taken
when some brave statesman looking demagogy
in the face shall move to call to the stranger
at our gates " Who comes here?" admitting
every man who seeks a home, or honors our
institutions, and whose habit and blood will
run with the native current, but excluding
all who seek to plant anarchy or to establish
alien men or measures on our soil; and will
then demand that the standard of our citizenship
be lifted and the right of acquiring our
suffrage be abridged. When that day comes,
and God speed its coming, the position of
the South will be fully understood, and
everywhere approved. Until then let us,
giving the negro every right, civil and political,
measured in that fullness the strong
should always accord the weak, holding himn
in closer friendship and sympathy than he is
held by those who would crucify us for his
sake, realizing that on his prosperity our's
depends,-let us resolve that never by external
pressure or internal division shall he
establish domination, directly or indirectly,
over that race that everywhere has maintained
its supremacy. (Applause.) Let this resolution
be cast on the lines of equity and
justice. Let it be the pledge of honest, safe
and impartial administration, and we shall
command the support of the colored race
itself, more dependent than any other on the
bounty and protection of government. Let
us be wise and patient, and we shall secure
through his acquiescence what otherwise we
should win in conflict and hold uncertainty.
And as in slavery we led the slave through
kindness to heights his race in Africa will
never reach, so in freedom through wisdom
and justice we shall lead him a freeman to a
prosperous contentment to which his friends
in the North have slight conception. What