is time that we look at these things; and
that we look them full in the face. I am always glad and willing
to stand upon institutions that have been established in the
past; that have been sanctified by time; that have given to men
liberty and protection with which they were satisfied. But, sir,
when the time comes that we are to make a step forward, then
another and different question arises. I am utterly astonished at
my honorable friend from Rhode Island who doubted my sincerity in
this movement. Why should I not be sincere? Have I not as many
interests at stake as he has?

My honorable friend from Oregon [Mr. Williams] thinks this is
entirely preposterous. I have no doubt he does, and I give him
all credit for honesty and sincerity in the remarks that he has
made; but the trouble with him is, and with a great many
others--perhaps it is with myself upon some subjects--is that he
directs his gaze too long upon a particular point. It is
remarkable that when a man who looks long and steadily upon one
subject to the exclusion of every other, that subject at last
becomes to him the universe itself. I have met
fellow-politicians fellow-Senators, and fellow-coworkers in the
great battle of life, who really had so long contemplated one
subject that it was not within their capacity to see any others.

But it unfortunately happens that in this world there are others
besides the negro who suffer. When you have told of the injuries
and outrages which prevail on the earth in regard to the negro
you have not finished. Another, and in my judgment a much more
important personage, comes upon the scene; she lifts the curtain
and reveals to you a new drama, and she tells you distinctly that
you have not only been tyrannizing over your brother, your sable
brother, your brother at the other end of the national antipodes,
your troublesome antipathic brother; you have not only been
drenching the earth from the East to the far West with the blood
of savages of a different color from yours; you have not only
left your blood-stained marks in Japan, in China, in the East
Indies, everywhere, and in the West, where one of your Christian
bishops boasted that six million Mexicans at one time had been
sacrificed, and what for? To make them Christians; to make the
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