Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-17

rinan Governor, s'Bohold how the trade ofthe East
has been magniled!"
We have not room to notice the responses to
all tho objections successfully Governor Bigler-
but we must really let the reader, who, for aught
we know, may have the gold fever some of these
hot days, know how to make Hab Wa, Long
Aehich and Sam Wo tell the truth.
''ln what we here say, we have most carefully
told your exceency the truth; but we fear you
VIII not believe us, because you have spoken in
your message of us as Asiaics, Ignorant of the
solemn character of the oath affirmation il the
form prescribed in the constitution the stat
tutes" or indifferent to the solemn obligation to
speak the truth which an oath imposes 1t is
truth, nevertheless, and we leave it to time and
the proof which our words carry in them to salts
~ you OF the tact. 1t has grieved us that you
should publish SO bad a character of us, and we
wish that you could change your opinion, and
speak well of us to the public. We do not deny
that many Cinnamon tell lies, and SO do many
Americans, even in the courts Of Justice. But we
have our courts, too, aud our forms ofoaths, which
are sacredy respected by our countrymen as
other nations respect theirs. We do not swear
upon many little occasions as you do, and our
forms will seem as Ridiculous you yours do to
when we first see them. Y GU will smile whe n
we tell you that on ordinary occasions an oath is
attested by burning piece of yellow paper, and
on the more important ones by cutting off the
head ola cock; yet these are only forms, and
cannot be of great importance we would think.
But in the important matters we are good men;
we honor parents; we take of our children:
we are Industrious and peaceable; we trade much
we are trusted for small and large sums; we pay
our debts and are honest; and of course must tell
the truth. Good men cannot tell lies and be ignor-
ant of the difference between the right and the
wrong"
From our last Pacific dates we learn that the
Legislature of California has adopted the recon-
mendations the Governor, so far toimpose tax
ofotree dollars per head per month upon foreign
miners, but making no discriminat ion against the
copper coloured brethren of Long Achick This
probably may prove adequate remedy-it is
good thing thus far, that it the abour of
foreign diggers into source of public revenue.
In this point of view it will be of more advantage
to the treasury of that young Republic, to have
the mines worked by these Asiatics than to have
them worked by its fixed residents. But still the
outflow of gold will be very great, and the draw
back of So will be but an uncomfortable compen-
sation. If the capital in the shape of gold flow
ing outin steady current to Asia, could be in
vested in California, the tax-paying capacity of
that commonwealth would, in the course of
short time, amount to more than the capitation
tax collected from foreign miners.
But we trust that these Asiatics may, when
they fill their pouches with god return to the land
of Confucius. 1t would be a great evil if these
idolatrous enigrants were to fix themselves in
any of the States of this Union They would
not only debase the masses by introducing a
large admixture of an inferior breed, but with
their idolotrous usages corrupt the fountains of
Christianity, to which, in SO many ways, we owe
so large an amount Of our prosperity and republican
spirit. Some people suppose, that the Gospel of
Jesus Christ cannot be corrupted-and SO its
sence cannot be, but when it is received by the
clouded understanding of savage nations, its pur-
ty is impaired by mixture with heathenism. -
Gold is pure metal when it comes from the fur
mace, but cannot gold receive alloy from fusion with
the baser sort! And so when it comes from the
crucible of cultivated understanding, able to ap-
preciate its spotess morality and its refined doc
triaes, the Christian faith is pure, but when
leftwith the savage it soon becomes graftin e of
his own religion.