Frederick Douglass Response To The Opposite Nation

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Many people look at milestones in history and assume that life proceeding becomes perfect, until the next tragic event occurs. For example after the Civil War life did not turn into a completely joyous utopia. After the war a lot of prejudice reared its ugly head. In fact, there was a law set to prohibit Chinese men from becoming citizens. In response Fredrick Douglass wrote “ The Composite Nation” in 1869. This was his response to the events occurring and how he felt the nation should be.
He starts off by stating there are contradictions that lay within the nation. He explains that before the war, the country was living oppressed and the motives for the war was equality and freedom for all. When he says “ But that days has happily …show more content…

He mentions an apocalyptic vision, this is the plan God has for the world. Douglass goes on to describe how this vision is created so all men have the right to live and free and happy life. The Chinese want to immigrate to the states because the ruling in their country is much too harsh and they are expected to exceed gurling standardized. The states at this time are not Neutralizing them, meaning they do not have all the rights a naturalized citizen has. “ The fact that by the late treaty with China , we bind ourselves to receive immigrants from that country only as the subjects of the Emperor, and by the construction , at least, are bound not to naturalize them.”( Douglass) Douglass favors immigration because he feels everyone except the natural Indians are immigrants and that was how the country was formed. “ Those who doubt large immigration, should remember that the past furnishes no criterion as a basis of calculation. We live under new and improved conditions of migration, and theses conditions are constantly improving. America is no longer an obscure and inaccessible country. Our ships are in every sea, our commerce in every port, our language is heard all around the globe, steam and lighting have revolutionized the whole domain of human thought, changed all geographical relations, make a day of the present seem equal to a thousand years of the past, and the continent that columbus only conjectured four centuries ago is now the center of the world.” ( Douglass) America has influenced in a sense the whole world by this point and immigration to this country was looking the best for everyone. They have the most land to support immigrants and the best rights of all the nations. This helps the nation because with more people they have more laborers and more influence in the direction of growth. Say if other nationalities did not migrate to the states and only the white race inhibited this nation it

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