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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 18: at Washington. (search)
oom and spend some minutes with his family. Mrs. Grant receives us, and presents us to her son, ColColonel Grant, and that son's wife. No princess does the honours of her house more affably than Mrs.ces in political passion? Why, puts in Colonel Grant, there were three thousand political murd he has made himself famous in some other way. Grant may not be, like O'Connell, the best-abused malarge cartoon, by Matt Morgan, has the title: Grant's Last Blow at Louisiana. A handsome female fnts the steps of the Capitol with a petition. Grant .comes out to meet her, with his two mastiffsof the moment, everything good and fine in General Grant is overlooked, even his genius as a captaiis right. The odium is undoubtedly great; yet Grant is suffering as much for Sheridan as Sheridan is suffering for Grant. The Black Question, like the Red Question, is broader than the policy ofday, and longer than the lives of Sheridan and Grant. Can coloured people live in freedom? Can a [3 more...]
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 24: a celestial village. (search)
Chinee. Unlike his countrymen as a rule, Tim is a man of politics. He owes no money to tihe companies. He has no reason to fear their spies and head-men. He is a native of the soil, and has no wish to see Canton. He wants his rights; he wants to have a vote; he wants his neighbours to have votes. Tim was the first Chinee born in California. As a native, he has the right of standing for any office. If he had his dues, according to the American Constitution, he might stand against General Grant for the Presidency. But the White people in California set the Constitution at defiance, as Ah Tim believes, by pretending that the legal maxim, every man born on the American soil is an American citizen, only means that every White man born on the American soil is an American citizen. Are you making a formal claim of citizenship? Yes, sir. I born in Melica Land; I marry in Melica Land; I live in Melica Land; my children born in Melica Land. Is not that all-ee-same? When t
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 26: Yellow Agony. (search)
Chapter 26: Yellow Agony. at length! exclaims a Senator in Sacramento, laying down his copy of the President's new Message to Congress, in which there is a short paragraph devoted to the Chinese immigration. Our master in the White House has spared one moment from the contemplation of his Black Agony on the Gulf to a consideration of our Yellow Agony on the Slope! No one will say that President Grant has spoken either too soon or in too loud a voice. Opinion runs the other way. In Washington men may talk; in Sacramento they must act. The Mongol invaders have put republican principles to a strain which they were never meant to bear, and under this burthen, republican principles and institutions have broken down. Face to face with a gigantic evil, the Californians have passed a dozen laws in self-defence; and these defensive laws of California violate the most sacred principles embodied in the common Constitution of the United States! The American Constitution opens
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 34: America at school. (search)
t a republic pre-supposes an instructed people is not only a truism in politics, but is understood to be so by every writer and speaker in the United States. Republics can only stand on the education and enlightenment of the people, says President Grant. The stability and welfare of our institutions must necessarily depend for their perpetuity on education, says Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior. The existence of a republic, unless all its citizens are educated, is an admitchools to State universities, as in Iowa and Michigan. In all these sections, there is close and constant effort on the part of some, weakened by indifference on the part of many, to give the people that aliment, without which, according to President Grant and Secretary Delano, the republic cannot live. Yet, after all, the main interest in this intellectual struggle lies in the South, so long neglected by the ruling race; and in the Southern States, the chief scene of conflict is Virginia.
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 36: Outlook. (search)
00,000 souls. The British Empire has a larger territory than Russia, a population second only to that of China. America is treading in the footsteps of her parent, taking up her own, as a loadstone takes up its own. The greater draws, annexes, and absorbs the less. Some months ago, Lord Dufferin, Governor-General of Canada, annexed the whole region, known and unknown, stretching from the recognised frontier of British America towards the North Pole; and, some months hence, either President Grant or his successor at the White House, will annex the great provinces of Lower California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, with parts of Cinaloa, Cohahuila, and Nueva Leon, to the United States. The present boundaries of the Republic will be enlarged by land enough to form six or seven new States, each State as big as New York. The surface of the earth is passing into Anglo-Saxon hands. Yet, glorious and inspiring as this story of White Conquest is, the warning on the wall is brief and ste
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