(Niall Ferguson)
Sunday, April 22, 2018
RE FERGUSON TAIPING THE CHINESE MUST GO CHAPTERS GREAT STUFF THE LINCOLN FALLACY
While all Northern whites were bent on getting rid of only four million negro slaves, by attacking and conquering Southern white Americans, they all almost let 20 million Chinese immigrant coolies tumble in through California, at just about that time, from the Taiping Wars, Wars which we had started with our Christian missionary egalitarianism! Parallels Ferguson points out to great effect.
Lincoln's Immigration Act, 1864, the first and only major law in American history to encourage immigration....
Lincoln’s law was then moved forward by Senator John Sherman of Ohio, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. The committee shared Lincoln’s belief that the encouragement of immigration was of the highest importance and in their report stated that “labor has special wants in every department of industry; vacancies caused by recruiting calls for a large increase in foreign immigration to make up the deficiency at home. Furthermore, the South, after the war is over, will present a wide field for voluntary white labor and it must look to the immigrant for its supply.”After the act was implemented,
'Numerous queries were received especially from the former slave states asking permission to import Chinese laborers. In all of these instances the Bureau rejected the requests and pointed out that it considered the importation of Chinese laborers a violation of the California “Act to Protect Free White Labor Against Competition with Chinese Coolie Labor, And to Discourage the Immigration of the Chinese into the State of California,” or commonly known as the “Anti-Coolie Act of 1862” which had attracted increasing support in the nation’s capital.'
One of many tragic upshots of all this is that Lincoln's Immigration law was intended to bring in a lot of white only people to replace the freed negroes who were supposed to have been transported elsewhere by Lincoln in the first place.
If replacement labor, though not coolie labor, were imported, as Lincoln explicitly intended his law to do, then these freed negroes would of course have been rendered economically superfluous (this after all had also been part of his campaign promise), though Lincoln had no real workable plan to transport negroes at any time.
He put in place an act in 1864 to federally fund import of white only labor, amid freeing four million negroes whom he had no plan to transport, had no plan to fund removal, and for whom he was trying, and succeeding, in eliminating their economic raison d'etre.
How much Lincoln Fallacy hypocrisy are you prepared to take?
Is this almost enough, or not?
If not, I can give you some more!
Lincoln's Immigration Act, 1864, the first and only major law in American history to encourage immigration....
There seems to have been no significant pressure for governmental encouragement of immigration until President Lincoln, in his Annual Message to Congress on December 8, 1863, called for government assistance. “I again submit to your consideration the expediency of establishing a system for the encouragement of immigration. All though this source of national wealth and strength is again flowing with greater freedom than for several years before the insurrection occurred, there is still a great deficiency of laborers in every field of industry, especially in agriculture, and in our mines, as well as of iron and coal as of the precious metals. While the demand for labor is thus increased here, tens of thousands of persons, destitute of remunerative occupation, are thronging our foreign consulates and offering to emigrate to the United States if essential, but very cheap assistance, can be afforded them. It is very easy to see that under the sharp discipline of Civil War, the nation is beginning a new life. This noble effort demands the aid and out to receive the attention of the Government.”
That part of the President’s message referring to immigration prompted Congress into action. Little more than a week after Lincoln’s message a bill to encourage and protect foreign immigrants and to make more effective the Homestead Act, which had become law on May 20, 1862, was presented in the Senate. Two weeks later Lincoln’s words on immigration were referred to a special committee of five on immigration, chaired by Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois. From there a bill to establish a formal Bureau of Immigration was introduced shortly after the New Year.
Lincoln’s law was then moved forward by Senator John Sherman of Ohio, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. The committee shared Lincoln’s belief that the encouragement of immigration was of the highest importance and in their report stated that “labor has special wants in every department of industry; vacancies caused by recruiting calls for a large increase in foreign immigration to make up the deficiency at home. Furthermore, the South, after the war is over, will present a wide field for voluntary white labor and it must look to the immigrant for its supply.”After the act was implemented,
'Numerous queries were received especially from the former slave states asking permission to import Chinese laborers. In all of these instances the Bureau rejected the requests and pointed out that it considered the importation of Chinese laborers a violation of the California “Act to Protect Free White Labor Against Competition with Chinese Coolie Labor, And to Discourage the Immigration of the Chinese into the State of California,” or commonly known as the “Anti-Coolie Act of 1862” which had attracted increasing support in the nation’s capital.'
One of many tragic upshots of all this is that Lincoln's Immigration law was intended to bring in a lot of white only people to replace the freed negroes who were supposed to have been transported elsewhere by Lincoln in the first place.
If replacement labor, though not coolie labor, were imported, as Lincoln explicitly intended his law to do, then these freed negroes would of course have been rendered economically superfluous (this after all had also been part of his campaign promise), though Lincoln had no real workable plan to transport negroes at any time.
He put in place an act in 1864 to federally fund import of white only labor, amid freeing four million negroes whom he had no plan to transport, had no plan to fund removal, and for whom he was trying, and succeeding, in eliminating their economic raison d'etre.
How much Lincoln Fallacy hypocrisy are you prepared to take?
Is this almost enough, or not?
If not, I can give you some more!
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