Amador weekly ledger., 1857-11-28
Cinnamon and their Organ.


possessed sagacity sufficient to have inserted
a clause prohibiting Mongolian immigration,
they would have conferred blessing upon
the State; for the presence of people among
MS who are our ihferiors--who are not of us
and cannot be--who must ever be precl u9ed
from society, and with whom amalgamation
would be q loathsome bomination-who
must even remain distinctive class-who
cannot become citizens, and whose political
rights and privileges can therefore never be
equal with our owns an evil of such mag
nitude, aud of a character so difficult to shake
of, that it viii sooner or later produce vexa-
tious if not serious troubles The people of
the country have had experience enough with
inferior races-the presence of the negro has
given them trouble enough, more than once
greatly endangering the stability OF the gov
ernment-and if the Constitution of Califor-
MIA were to be made over again, there is no
doubt but that the people would vote almost
unanimously against admitting the swarms OF
human locusts from the Chinese Empire
Nevertheless, as stated in the outset, we care
but little now, in the abstract, about the
presence of Chinese. 1t is an evil which was
fastened upon the people at a time when
their only thought was for State Govern
ment; when they did not so well understand
what would be their interests as they now do;
and they must quietly abide the evil until the
day Of their deliverance comes, if, indeed, it
ever shall. The question is one for the dis
cussion Of which we have no relish; during an
editorial career of several years, in mining
nese, nor held them up as examples of virtue
We have never contended that they should
be compelled to comply with additional re-
quirements, or on the other hand that any
additional privileges should be extended to
them. They can pay their four dollars per
month tax, and in year make as much
money as they could in lifetime at home;
to increase the tax, would probably diminish
instead of augment the revenue TO The State
and the different counties. Hence, with
thousands upon thousands Of Others, VIC have
given the Chinese question quiet go-by, be-
cause we have thought that all had been done
that could be for the present.
We have been led to this explanation because
our course since the murder of an estimable
citizen, near jackson, short time since, by
band of Chinese robbers, has emptied the
yials Of the Placcrriiie Ameriiaa's upon our
heads There were certainly as many as four
directly engaged in the murder, together it is
thought with many others who have been the
recipients of portions of the booty and be-
cause we have endeavored to second the Off
GERS and citizens of the county in their efforts
to induce the Chinese population 10 gire up The
criminals 10 The lar and justice, the gentle
men who preside over the columns of the
american, a paper that has had some inAu-
ence, fly into passion, and either desgnedly
or stupidity, put forth in their leader TRADE
which can only be construed by the Chinese
(or any body else, to mean that they should
not gire up the murderers
1t has transpired that the murderers were
well known to the Cinnamon of this town,
and yet it was hard work to induce them to
take any active part in their pursuit. 1t is
well known that the murderers have been
harbored by the Chinese in various places,
and that thus far little hush money" from
the bags of gold they obtained when the
crime was committed, has suliiced to keep
them in security. II is well known that the
Chinese were only induced to offer a reward
two weeks after the commission Of the
murder, and after the leading Cinnamon be-
came convinced that their own interests would
suffer if they did not-that the white people
of the county and State, and the representa-
tiyes whom they choose to make laws, would
not tamely permit them to secrete murderers
whom they and they alone can deliver up to
Justice. Yet notwithstanding all this the
american says-not in so many words, but
in effect" Heed not the voice Of those who
would have you deliver up the criminals F.; C.
crete them until you can send them back to
China you are an oppressed people, and You
shall .havegreater privileges; by and by you
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