The weekly Placer herald., 1854-05-06
The Chinese i'm California.


TEae Chinese i'm California.
MORE CHINEsE.-The Hamburger ship
Wilhelmsburgh, which arrived on Satur-
day last, brought the moderate number of
sac hundred Celestials from China.
Sun, .April H.
The CHINEsE.-The British ship Lord
Warriston, which arrived at this port
yesterday, brings seuen hundred and eigh-
ty passengers, two hundred of whom are
females. and all Chinese. Other vessels
are on their way here with full compile
ments of passengers, and others are load
ing at Hong Kong for San Francisco.
s. F. Chronicle, .April 90.
Our attention is drawn to the subject of
the Chinese in California by their daily
increasing emigration to our State, and
the consequent augmentation of their
numbers in our midst. Their dssimilari-
ty to our race in color, habits, manners
and religion; their undeniable inferiority,
and the evident impossibity of amalga-
nation with US, make the question of
what policy we should pursue regarding
them serious and most important one
Add to the other considerations of the
question the we'll known fact that they
come here as hirelings or peons,-thou-
sands being brought hither at the expense
of one master, and digging gold for him
,alone,--and it assumes shape and a
significance alike startling and momen-
tous to all who are concerned for the in
terests of free and untrammeled labor.
An eminent lawyer of San Francisco
lately stated in our presence that the See
Up company had at one time, to his
knowledge, ten thousand Cinnamon in
their service in the mines. In what other
light can we regard the servtude of these
creatures to their monied masters than
that they are plainly and simply slaves
foreign slaves--brought hither to occupy
the place of free American labor, to re-
duce its value and its dignity, and to take
our treasures without giving an equiva-
lent? They have been crowding into our
mines since early in 1850, and in that time
must have dug out large quantities of gold;
for which, we ask, what return have they
given us-what benefit has their presence
conferred upon our State? We answer
none. On the contrary, they are not only
a crying nuisance, from their filthy habits,
their idolatrous and lawless instincts,
their lying and thieving propensities, and
their proneness to idleness, gambling, and
vice of all kinds; but they will prove the
most fearful. and unmitigated curse that
nation was ever afflicted with, if we
supinely look on and permit their in
crease in our State. What are the labor
ers of California thinking of?-why are
true patriots silent, when their voices
should be heard denouncng this great
and growing evil-warnng the country
to meet and strangle it in its inception,
ere 1t becomes vitality and unalterably en-
grated upon our social system.
Indeed we are aware that there are
sham phlanthropists and religionists in
our State, who in their blind zeal of pro-
selytism, and consequent great love for
the Chinese, forget all other considera-
tons, desiring, for their own convenience,
that the heather may be brought hther.
These monomaniacs, not satisfied with
sinking the interests and welfare of their
own poor white countrymen, would even
admit these dingy barbarians to the sacred
rights of citizenship. If it were possible
to consummate this, what fine times we
would have on election days, with dema-
gogues taking them up to the polls to de-
post their votes! What be autiful in
sttution the ballot-box would then be-
come! Certain merchants, too, interested
in the shipping interest, favor their mml-
grafton to our shores, because 1t brings
money to their pockets. But the laboring
interest Of California, being paramount,
is entitled to some say regarding the i'm
portation of cheap labor, in the shape of
degraded foreign serfs, and if we do not
take action in the premises Immediately,
it will be our own fault if system which
is sure to work irreparable injury be fas-
tened upon US.
They are crowding into our mines daily
in great numbers, we are informed that
they can be hired to labor for dollar per