The Shasta courier., 1854-12-16

American miner. Added to the intuitive preJn-
dice OF the citizen Ito the manner born, is The
TACT that these people do not come here to be-
come citizens. (and 1t is a grave aud serious
question whether naturalization laws can
admit them if they should apply for citizenshp,)
but simply to acquire gold to invest in their tar
east homes, thereby impoverishing the country
that hospitality invites them to wealth and en-
hShtenment. They are here as emphatlcally
seris to their king and his government, when
IN their native land-paying taxes and tribute
to his emissaries who accompany them. oil fol-
low hther. Admit their intentions were favo-
rable to adopting our country as their homes and
our laws construed as to receive them as
such, still there would be an insuperabe obec
ton IN their color, habits, customs morals and
religion. To any rejecting Californian, who
knows them as they exist i'll our midst, it is self
evident there can never exist an affinity.
clal and political life, between the Chinaman
and the American. We have already sectional
differences enough among the older States of
this great conederacy. God knows, resulting
from the Introduction of the African race by our
iorefatherS; shall we encourage future trouble
by the grating of the Asiaiic race upon our soil!
No! let us crush the evil in the germ.
But, Honorable Sirs, the State Of California
has and does encourage the immigration of these
people to our State. We say TO them, through
the medium OF our awS-come To our shores
ior four dollars per month we will permit you
to work our mines, and protect you in all the
privileges of the citizen miner Then to the
legal invitation is added the flaming newspaper
acco1nts which reach them, of the immensetor-
tunes which are TO be made by immigrating to
this golden Ell Dorado of the West. John, in his
simplicity, not knowing the salsity of these fab
ulous tales, has his cnpdity excited, gets his
permit, and soon finds himself i'll world.
He is not long. too, in discovering the eXaggera-
ting propensitles OF editors and writers OF gold
stories; he also finds that the Sheriff is very
punctual in collecting his four dollars per month,
whilst if his whittier brethren take his claim from
him. and drive him off, this same officer turns
a deaf ear to his remonstrances. This may not
be the intention of the laws, but it is the fact
The mines are full of helpless Cinnamon, who
can scarce exc out suificiency to pay their
taxes, and live starvingly upon inferior provis-
ions and as the surface diggings are being ex
hausted their is getting more lamentabe-
a to the State at large, and nuisance to
the neighborhood of their locale The Ameri-
can deems he has the first and best claim, and
justly too, to work the mines belonging to hls
native country. AS the gold placers are becom-
ing scarcer, the more apparent are the approach
ing troubles between the natives and Cinnamon.
Unle IS some measures are adopted to meet the
popular clamor, we fear scenes will be enacted
but little calculated to reflect credit upon u.s. as
law abiding people.
Now, Hon. Sirs. we, the miners of California,
would respectfully suggest, that at the present
session of our Legislature, you will frame and
pass such law shall strike at the root OF the
pending evil. We would, ALSO respectfully
suggest, that in our jud gment a law prohibiting
the migration hither of Chinamen in the future,
and specified and definite time appointed for
the Exodus Of all Cinnamon now in the mines of
Cafornia-giving them sufficient time for ma
king all preparations for their departure.
In making these suggestions, we would have
it understood that we have been Influenced by
selfish interested motives further than
sense of Justice due to ourselves Americans
and sympathy for an unfortunate race, who
neither fitted for slaves nor citizens.
Vox PoPuLI.
When the reader ceased, the air reveIberated
with cheers; then, as if by common consent,
The great mass dispersed, and was left alone
dreanless. JEFFERsoNIAN.