The Shasta courier., 1859-02-12
The Miners County Convention.

found published at length the proceedings OF
the Miners County Convention, which met at
Excelsior Hall, in this place on the 5th inst.
We endorse every word of the Memorial, and
every word of the Resolutions, except such
law abiding citizens, however, we cannot en-
courage our fellow-citizens of the mines to band
themselves in regular organizations for the pur-
pose of accomplishing their object in an unlaw-
ful manner We think the determined stand
which they have taken on this question, will
accomplish all that they desire, without any
necessity for resort to violence. The Chinese
are now fully aware of the fact that the white
miners of certain districts are irreconcilably op-
posed to their working therein, while in other
for instance,) the white miners are willing for
them to work. They will therefore remove to
these latter named districts, if they are wise,
where already the great body of the Chinese
miners of the county are residing.
1t will be observed that the miners have not
resolved to run the Chinese out of the county,
as has been falsely charged upon them They
at present only desire their removal from certain
districts, looking to the future for their removal
from the State.
For ourselves, with all the earnestness of one
who heartily sympathises with them in their de-
sire to get rid of Chinese, we advise them to await
the action of the present Legislature Already
our Assemblyman has introduced a bill to pro-
hibit their working the mines after the first of
July next. Their action, although pronounced
unlawful, it will thus be seen has been produc-
tive of some good effect. Our legislators, we
believe, will respond to the prayer of the min
ers. Gire them time
Many of those who sympathise with the Chi
nese in this matter tell us it is inhuman for
miners to drive them from the mines They al
the same time profess desire that the Legisla-
ture may impose upon them tax such as will
necessarily drive them out of the mines. Now
we contend that, on the score of humanity. it is
just as wrong, just cruel, and will infict upon
the Chinese just much suffering for the Legis-
lature to drive them forth as for the miners to
do so. The only possible advantage that one
plan can have over the other is, that one is le-
gal, while the other is Illegal. But SO far as the
humanity of the thing is concerned. the modes
stand on the same plank
That those men who are making such loud
professions Of humanity, however, are merely
doing so for effect, we are satisfied. We are in
formed that the very gentleman who in the
Convention, spoke so feelingly of the poor, snf-
fering, non-combatant Chinaman, and of the in
humanity of treating them so cruelty as to force
them out of the mines, has helped to run Chi
namen out of certain localities We are inform
ed by man who was with him that, only one
year ago, he led party of between twenty and
thirty men to where number of Cinnamon were
working on forbidden ground, somewhere back
of the Four Mile House, and that they whipped
them worse than any Cinnamon were ever whip
ped in this county before.
Other gentlemen, who are talking much of the
cruelty and inhumanity of the thing, we have
known to aid in having people tarred and feath-
cred, and hung, in this town, by mob.
Fit men are they, forsooth; to talk Of their hu-
manity and respect for the law
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PASSING AwAY.-As will be seen by reference
to our matrimonial department, one of the most
incorrigible of the Bachelor Fraternity, has
abandoned that most ancient and venerable or
der, INSTITUTED in the Garden of Paradise,) and
joined the Benedicts, that other next eldest order
| INSTITUTED also in the Garden of Paradise, with
the assistance of Mademoiselle Eye)
"The best laid schemes % mice and men
Gang aft gley,"
So sung the poet Burns. Not so sing we. For
the young Benedict, in his effort to gain en-
trance into {" the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth u
laid his schemes so skilfully as to defy the
effect of adverse circumstances and now, with
an increasing disposition to
-" grow vain
Of furniture and plate"
he is gradually undergoing that change, which,
when complete, will enable him, with the proper
sort of matrimonial dignity, to
-" Sit at home and toast his toes
Look stupid and sip tea,
and muse over the days when he
- wandered free,
And stole the dew from every flower,
The fruit from every tree"
Alas says bachelor friend at our elbow,
while tear tiickles down his cheek and pipe
trembles in his mouth,
They're stepping off, the friends knew,
They're going one by one;
They're taking wives to tame their lives,
Their jovial days are done;
l can't get one old crony now
To join me in spree;