The Shasta courier., 1853-12-24
Address Of American Miners i'm Regard to
the Chinese Immigration.
LOWER SPRINGS, Shasta Co.,
DacanHor 10 1879

the Chinese Immigration.
LOWER SPRINGS, Shasta Co., }
December 10, 1853. !
At an adjourned meeting of the citizens and
miners OF Lower Springs, held this day, to con-
slider the subject of the recent Tremendous inn
migration of Chinese into this County,. B..
Gage being Chairman, and G. A. Wright, Secre-
tary-the committee appointed at previous
meeting to report au address to the citizens of
Shssta County, submitted the following, which
was adopted:- sa
TIE Cui-eus and Miners of Lorer Springs TO The
Cui-ens and MNers Of Shasta County:
We have assumed the liberty of addressing
you prompted to the task by no other motives
than those which duty dictates and the exigen-
cy and importance OF the subject demand
We are miners, and US such we speak to you !;
not with the vain desire OF controlling your feel
ings upon this subject, but simply one indi-
vidual addresses his views to another. We
speak with all Difference to the opinions of 9TH
ers, however they may conflict with our own,
relying only upon the necessity OF the case Tor
the attainment of our object.
1t is fact which requires no substantiation,
that within the past few months China has been
dissorging Into our midst her servile people,
until they have utterly overspread the land and
become a nuisance loo intolerable for longer ell
durance How to banish this evil from our
midst, is problem for you TO solve. We do not
assume the right to dictate the method by which
it shall be accomplished, but on the contrary
conline, ourselves to the mere assertion that it
mast be done in order TO prevent evils OF greater
magnitude.
Living as we do upon the main thoroughfare
of our county, and accustomed daily to see it
thronged with Asiaiics, we have, as last resort,
in view of the growing curse and In the alb
sence of any other move calculated to produce
the desired results, conceived it to be duty
which owe to our Mining Interests, no less
than to the general welfare of the country, that
we take the responsibility OF making known our
sentiments upon this matter, regardless of any
opposition which they may produce. We
esteem that citizen who would smother his views
in regard to pnblic evil, us unworthy the guar
dianship of free institutions, and hence, ullde-
serving the proud title of freeman.
The question has already been asked, "What
is 60 be done with the Chinamen % Our reply
is that they must be kept from the mines at all
hazards; otherwise, the question may soon be
asked with equal pertinence What Is to be done
with ourselves !--tor at the rate they are now
accommodating among us. they will soon be here
in such uncomfortable numbers as to take every
thing before them and the Illuminating alterna-
tive VIII then De lOtcfu upon us, Vi tltuef ieaN-
ing the mines in the exclusive possession of Chi
nanen or working them for "a bare living pit
tance. 1t is wiser and easier to remove evils In
their incipency, than when they become thor
ouslIy seated for when the nucleus is once
formed, it is continually gathering force to resist
the remedies applied.
ANY cause which palses the arm of industry
and takes from labor its true dignity and recon-
pense, should receive unmeasured condemna-
lion from every lover of his country.
Ii will be remembered that the citizens OF
Muine. a briei period since, resorted TO arms i'll
order TO preserve from foreign depreciation the
lumber oi their lands. Also, the Fishery Ques-
ton. a more recent affair, has been agitating the
public mind. not only OF this country but that
Of another great nation of the Earth, for the past
three wears. bringing them at times to the very
verge of war. and then again permitting their
raucor to be dissipated by the salative breath OF
diplomatic wisdom.
Now. if the timber of Maine and the fish Of
Newfoundland. are of such vital importance to
those who claim them. that fleets aud armies are
called into requisition for their preservation. OF
how much more importance are the Placer
Mines of California; and with how much greater
Vigilance ought we to guard them from the
.,ilinderins hand of strangers. and preserve them
as a common legacy To the industry and enter
prise of own people.
China han os upon orr western borders like
loomipg esilIence Prosirated under the ener-
waiting hand Of iutes,ine war, her menial mil
lions are focking to our shores to avert the inl-
nendipg caIau,ities which surround them at
home They do not come like the people OF
Europe for The purpose OF settling The country