American civilization can better endure the savagery of the Indian, the ignorance and brutality of the Negro, and the semi-civilization of the Chinese, than it can afford to fraternize with a civilization that is impregnated with a spirit of ecclesiasticism, or endure the philosophies of St. Louis or the Internationals. Rather is it for us to overcome these forces that are the outcroppings of centuries of Roman development, as well as those of Indian or Chinese or Negro semi-civilization. This right of asylum involves another thing—the right of a man to say, “I will leave this land and go to another”—_the right to migrate_ if he does not find things subservient to him. We once hailed the Irishman to come and build our railroads. We welcome the German now, as he comes and terraces our mountains and teaches us how to garden. We welcome the Frenchman—we welcome all. But we say, “Lo! poor Indian, go West. East of the Appalachian is too good for you; we want it. Go West; go West. We will give no rest to the soles of your feet.” Do we want the Black Hills? Migrate! We will surround you with a cordon of soldiers and a cordon of Government agents, who will eat the life out of you. Keep on, poor ignorant, keep on! As to the African, there are not a few Americans, even in this day, who think a righteous solution of the African question is to ship them all off to the dark continent. So far as the American Colonization Society keeps in view education and other Christian instrumentalities, I bid them God-speed; but if they desire to send the Negro out of the country, I say, No!—a thousand times, No! Let us solve the problem right here where God has placed them. And we say to the Chinese, as he comes upon his ship, “Turn your prow back towards the Flowery Kingdom; don’t touch our golden West.” Is that the spirit that welcomes the Irishman, the German, the Italian, the Frenchman? Why not give as broad an opening to the Chinaman as to the Irishman?