Sen. Cowan is giving answers— recorded in the
Congressional Globe, the official journal of Congress— in 1866.
Sen. Cowan, welcome to the show.
Hannity: Currently, we have a national emergency at our
unguarded Southern border. We have hordes of criminals overrunning our
outmanned border patrol. From your historical vantage point, what advice would
you offer?
Sen. Cowan: Now, I should like to know, … the
lines and boundaries which circumscribe that phrase, “citizen of the United
States.” What is it? … I have supposed, further, that is was essential to the
existence of society itself, and particularly essential to the existence of a
free State, that it should have the power, not only of declaring who should
exercise political power within its boundaries, but that if it were overrun by
another and a different race , it would have the right absolutely to expel
them.
Hannity: Senator, that’s an amazing idea! So,
it’s your view that Americans have a right to expel people from this country
because they are of another race?
Sen. Cowan: There is a race in contact with
this country which, in all characteristics except that of simply making war, is
not only equal to our race, but perhaps our superior: the Mongol race. They
outnumber us largely. Of their industry, skill, and their pertinacity in all
worldly affairs there can be no doubt. They are our neighbors. Recent
improvement, the age of fire, has brought their coasts in a very short time.
Are the States to lose control over this immigration? Is the United States to
determine that they are to be citizens?
Hannity: Fascinating point, Senator. We’re
still having problems with the Chinese. But more on point, you say that States
should control borders? And you capitalize State, I noticed. The Radical Left believes in open borders. These Socialists won’t let federal or state governments stop other races from coming to
our homeland. What’s your theory about this?
Sen. Cowan: Who was it that established
this Government? They were people who brought here the charter of their
liberties with them; they were the free men who emigrated to this country and
established these governments, and they established them under the charters
legally granted to them by the Crown of Great Britain. By the terms of the
charters they were the actual possessors of the political power of the colonies,
and they alone had the right to say whom they would admit to a co-enjoyment of
that power with them.
It is true that the colonists of this country,
when they came here and established their governments, did open the door of
these privileges wide to men of their own race from Europe.
Hannity: Said like a real patriot, Senator. America was founded by English and Europeans for their own people, no doubt. How
did your State deal with defining the rights of these inferior people, from other countries and continents?
Sen. Cowan: The identical question came up in
my State—the question whether the negro was a citizen, and whether he possessed
political power in that State—and it was there decided that he was not one of
the original corporators, that he was not one of the freemen who originally
possessed political power, and that they never, by any enactment or by any act
of theirs, admitted him into a participation of that power, except so far as to
tax him for support of government.
Hannity: Senator, I want to play a clip for you
from the mainstream media outlet, CNN. First, let’s listen to the Radical Socialist
senator from California, John Conness.
CNN Newsclip of Sen. John Conness: I voted for
the proposition to declare that the children of all parentage whatever, born in
California, should be regarded and treated as citizens of the United States,
entitled to equal civil rights with other citizens of the United States. . . .
We are entirely ready to accept the provision proposed in this Constitutional
Amendment that the children born here of Mongolian parents shall be declared by
the Constitution of the United States to be entitled to civil rights and to
equal protection before the law with others.
Hannity: Senator, what did the Founding Fathers think about giving away citizenship to people of different races who have anchor babies in America and start the process of chain migration. In other words, who did they envision being citizens?
Hannity: Senator, what did the Founding Fathers think about giving away citizenship to people of different races who have anchor babies in America and start the process of chain migration. In other words, who did they envision being citizens?
Sen. Cowan: They opened it to the Irishman,
they opened it to the German, they opened it to the Scandinavian races of the
north.
But where did they open it to the barbarian races of Asia or Africa? Nowhere.
But where did they open it to the barbarian races of Asia or Africa? Nowhere.
Sources: Jan.
30, 1866, 1866 Cong. Globe 499, 39th Cong., 1st Sess, available here http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=070/llcg070.db&recNum=604
May 30,
1866 Cong. Globe 2891, 39th Cong., 1st Sess, available here http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=073/llcg073.db&recNum=12
May 30,
1866 Cong. Globe 2890, 39th Cong., 1st Sess, available
here: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=073/llcg073.db&recNum=11
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