The Shasta courier., 1855-01-20
THE SHASTA COURIER
TRApPER's BAR, Clear Greek, I
Ian 6 l2ll.

| Jan. b, loo0.
MEssRs EpIroRs:-"Karl' suggests another
"decoction of green tea." and prayer to the
names of some Solon or Lycurgns Jefersonian
accepts the Erst portion of the prescription, but
respectfully declines the assistance of the musty
old w-givers-preierring more modern Philos-
ophy and the laws of the American Confedera-
cy. AS we. have become interested in the sub
ject of your correspondent, we cannot permit
his remarks to pass unnoticed, md with your
permission and patience, will lay before your
readers our criticism ihereupon.
"Karl'' starts out by saying: This is well
a free discussion of which the
Chinese question may result in suggestion of
some security for this evil Then he Sums up
remedy for this evil as very remote, violent
one as dangerous in ITSELF and dangerous
precedent and final one as next to imposs-
ble." We respectfully suggest that this is re-
fined nonsense. and means literally: Yes and
Move do and we don't-we hope against an
impossibli,y!
If Karl' thinks the evil fixed, and a cure
impossible, what is the use of free discussionl"
1t only tends to keep the open and irritated
We think differently we believe there Is ply
sican and that his Office is near al hand and that
the voice of the people will compel him to pre-
scribe. The remedy may be little nauseatng
but aftera thorough ponailing, the patiept-Cal
| ifornia-will be entirely relieved, and recover
her wonted health and prosperity.
| The lst Article. Sec. VIII and A. of the Con-
stitution of the United States, reads as follows:
| =" To estabisL an unitorm rule Of naturak-ation
and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies
| throushop the United States" This is the only
paragraph in the Constitution, or amendments
thereto, in regard to naturalization. 1t has lett
| to Congress the entire control OF this subject
| to say qchO shall become citizens OF the United
States, and uhat shall be their qualifications
| Congress has established laws regulating the
citizenship OF foreigners, SO far United States
citizenship is concerned; but no law has ever
passed that body forcing State to accept or toll
crate within her borders any nation OF people
or race whom the United States will not admit
| to the rights of citizenship. The Constitution
has wisely left it to the States Individually To
say what shall constitute State citizenship
Hence some of the Eastern States make State
| citizens OF Negroes with certain property quail
ifcations. We have not got the naturalization
| laws now before us, but we are pretty confident
| the words white male occur in them; If so
we have an issue at once; Is the Chinaman
| schUe male! II our memory of the naturaliza-
ton laws serve us Alright, the Judge who Issues
| full papers Of citizenship to a Chnanan, equals
| III sense and honesty his immortal brother
| the Bench, who refused to grant bill of excep-
tons Ter the reason that the spltor had most ril
| famous squint az The left eye
| Article 10, amendments to the Constitution
| says The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it
to the States. are reserved to the States respect
| lively, or TO The people,
| Now if in our naturalization laws there occurs
nothing regulating the manner of living in our
midst, or OF emIgratIug to our shores OF the col
ored mixed, or hatciviliZed races, why, most
| clearly each State may regulate her commerce
| with them as she chooses, provided she does
not in her dealings, conflict with any other
clause contained ia the Constitution. Indiana
and other free States. under the power guarall-
1 teed to them by this clause. have prohibited inn
migration thi,her OF free Negroes.
| Therefore. we hold that. i'll the absence of any
act OF Congress in reference to the Chinese race,
| that California has ii perfect right to pass any
prohibltory law she may deem necessary to her
/ peace aud interests, with reference to these
people. She may demand their absence, and
forbid them to enter within her territory.
4 If the naturalization laws contain aiy clause
! that makes null and void this reasoning, we will
thankfully stand corrected, we are debarred,
from our isolated location, the opportunity Of ex-
| alnnng them at present.
We agree with Karl in regard to the Chi
nese or foreign tax.
Article ", Sec. III. par. 9. of the Constitution
reads: The Congress shall have power to dis
pose of and make all needtl rules and regulations
res pectng the territory or other property OF the
United States, of any particular State"
1t is evident that the mineral lands of Cali
fornia are the property of the United States. All
the States Of the Upon contributed to their pur-
chase; she also came into the American conted-
eracy as other States made from O. S. territory
with no special reservation in regard to her un-
entered or unclaimed lands; therefore, she has
about the same legitimate right to make a law
imposing a tax for working this public domain,
as a farmer would have to thrash thirds mans
boy for tresspassing upon his neighbors water
melon patch
The simile Karl" draws between the posi-
ton of the Negro and Chinaman. is as fallacious
| as il is unfair. When the States composing the
Union came into the Confederacy, they found
slavery already existing as good or evil. The
Negro had become native to the sofia partand
parcel of the social system. The Confederacy
did not destroy the right of individual States to
retain or abolish this good or evil. The Negro
had become real estate, and as self and particu-
| lar interests predominated over other and more
humane action, the majority of the slave States
still hold their slaves. Further, the Negroes
native land--we mean those now in the u. S.
lis America; ell his natural ties Of blood and
kindred are centered here and locking at it in
| philathropic and moral point of view. it would
be most cruel and unjust, though you were to
| loose his bonds, to make him an tziie from his
native land. On the other hand, the Chinaman
| is of scarce FIVE years growth upon the soil OF
Caifornia-not yet identified with the social or
political organization of orr society. He can
not be wronged in any sense, by seuding him
back to the land that gave him birth, where are
still garnered up all his hopes of happiness
Again, it is admitted on all hands that his re-
naming here would only be laying up further
troubles and miseries for his descendants.-