San Andreas independent., 1857-10-31
, work them. and Che State of California


cannot give any exclusive rights or priv
ileges to the townships or the occupancy
of the mines, but merely enact laws to
protect the citizens of the mines in the
enjoyment of the equal rights to the
townships and occupancy of mining
grounds, IN accordance with their own
laws and regulations, and had no more
right to grant special privileges than the
notorious being referred to, to confirm
his extensive proffered grant. The agri-
culturalists, | will admit, are valuable
and worthy portion of our citizens, and
their occupation should be respected
The farmer is the main pillar of our ma
tlon's greatness and prosperity. But, as
California abounds in plenty of good
farming lands, without encroaching on
the mines, where they can obtain title,
and be safe in rearing their fruit trees
and beautifying their homesteads, and
can safely repose under the shade of their
vine and ig tree, and no miners to mo-
lest them, or if they prefer sojourning
in the mines, justice, as well as policy
would dictate that the cultivator of the
mineral lands should do it at his own
risk, or obtain preemptions from the
general government, as the only legal
way to get it, and | may add, the only
way compatible with the rights of the
mining community. If the United States
had intended this country for farming, it
would be surveyed and sold for farming
lands; but every American knows it is
mining country.
entirely agree with +" E' in his esti-
mate of the evils of the Chinese working
out the mines and living in California;
A greater evil does not exist, truly; and
he has my sincere thanks for the correct
and lucid manner he has portrayed these
evils, and hope he will exercise his pen
again on the same subject 1t is mat
ter more than anything else | can think
of, which should attract the serious atten-
tion of every person who expects to re-
main in California, or is possessed of the
feelings of patriotism, which should ac-
tuate every American. In country like
ours, adapted to the constitutions of
white laborers, of whom there is at pres
ent surplus to perform all the labor re-
quired in California, more than can OBJ
tain profitable employment, it is certainly
bad policy for the white working men to
allow the country to be overrun by peo-
pie who can afford to work for less wages
than white men, and work poorer paying
mining ground than white men are will.
ling to work at present. / would ask,
what are they here for, but to rob the
country? Have they any interest in the
prosperity of our common country?
answer no. The American miner either
intends to invest his gold in California,
or return to some sister State, and there
by increase the wealth of the United
States; whereas, the Asiatics, as fast as
they can procure enough, send it to China,
never to benefit this country. Is the
country under any obligations whatever
to China And l would ask, what will
be the situation of our State in the event
of the mines being entirely overrun by
Aslatlcs Will not white men have to
leave the mines, and our country become
Chinese colony? / confess / see no
other reasonable conclusion, as the mat
ter now stands.
The capital of the white laborer in the
United States, is a fair field to work in,
and no competition but his white breth-
ren. That is our national birthright-
the great Magma Charta. Any other
competition is encroaching on the sacred
rights Of American freemen. In market
ing the crude material, such os cotton,
wool, &c, to the European manufactu-
rers, great complaint has been made be-
cause of the cheapness of those fabrics
when offered in our markets, occasioned
by low wages paid to the operatives in
foreign factories, which our countrymen
thought, with good reason, would ruin
the operatives in our own factories. But.
in California, where labor is pre-eminent-
| ly the capital of the white man, our coun-
try is fast filling up with a people whose
wages In their own country are the lowest
OF any other people in the world, who
make any pretensions to civilization.
What would be candid, rational conclu-
sion, if the two races should continue in
California for few years longer? Would
not nearly all the white men be driven
out ! To say nothing about the relative
rights OF the two races to work the mines,
the answer most certainly would be, yes.
Can any one for a moment. think, or have
the presumption to say that justice or pol
icy would justify the white miner in SUBJ
mitting longer to this most outrageous
imposition, which has not one analogous
case in the history of the United States ?
This is case which requires the Ameri-
can laborer to assert his prerogative with
that promptness and independence, which
should always characterize the American
freeman, when his inalienable rights are
invaded. | call on you, by all you hold
sacred, to rise in the dignity of your
might, assert your rights, and maintain
them too. Up, boys, and at them, is the
war cry, and no quarters.
More when called on. A MINER.
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