Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-06-30

| We have received the following letter, dated
Taylor's Flat, May 27th. Considering that the
point at which it is dated is only about thirty.
five miles distant, the letter has made slow time.
but as the subject matter is Of . nature which
loses nothing by the delay, we give place to it
it with pleasure
FRIEND GORDON If the enclosed county War
rants are worth anything in Weaverville, please
give me credit for the amount, and send along
the JOURNAL from this date. Down here they
are like an officials reputation for honesty, or a
recreant Union mans honor, politically of not
much value.
How about the Civil Rights Bill? Does it not
conflict with the law authorizing the collection
of Foreign Miners license? 1t appears to me
that it does radically. 1t is q singular thing to
me that the people of Trinity county, seeing as
they do that great many of the white miners
are leaving, while but few are arriving to fill
their places that real estate is held at so low a
figure that it is hardly worth paying taxes on !;
that no man can build up a property with any
prospect Of ever realizing his outlay ! say it is
singular to me that seeing all this, the people
should further desire to see the Chinese miners
driven from the county, they are being. 1t
appears to me that it would be to the interest of
our people to desire different state OF affairs.
Give us a laboring population, care not of
what color nationality, and the county will
prosper. Without that class land it is growing
less very fast) what community can flourish p
Don't throw up to me the old womansh objec-
ton that " the Chinese are a nuisance" That
was exploded long ago. The law of the land
now is EQUAL RIGHTS, irrespective of color or
birthplace Invite and extend helping hand
to all and fill the county with producers. Then,
and not till then, will our county be as prosper
GUS as it should be, and then will follow a revi-
val of business and return of the good times
of yore.
1t amounts to just this: Protect and encour-
age the producers, and all classes will flourish.
Proceed as we have seen things proceed for the
for the last two and one-third years. and rely up
on it, people of Trinity, that the few who re-
main will be glad to leave as soon as they can
get away. THEA's MY SENTIMENTS.
Whether the writer is aware of the fact or not,
his sentiments are in keeping with a majority Of
those who have the welfare of the county at
heart. The license question is a vexed one, but
it is evident that it is growing into discredit.-
The fact that Cinnamon alone, of all I" foreign
ers,'' are required to pay the tax, is beginning
to be looked upon as manifest and direct injus-
tice. There large number of Portuguese
in this county. Does single one of them pay
this tax? Or does single foreigner of any 9TH
er nationality pay it? We should like to hear of
single instance where the requirements of the
Foreign Miners License law have been met in
this particular. The trader butcher, or other
business man will tell you that the Chinaman' 8
patronage, when he is making money, is worth
double that of the native of Portugal. They live
quite as extravagantly, if not more SO, when
they have the means, rs great proportion Of
the white population. But here is the sequel
The foreigner from any other country is useful
when voting time comes, while the Chinaman is
not allowed to approach the ballot-box. The
ChinamaD can be pounded into disgorging his 81
monthly, while the other foreign-born citizen
would not stand it. Cinnamon are as lavish of
their money, and enterprising, under prosper
Gus circumstances, the people of any other
nationality. And we have heard of no instance
in this county where white miners have been
crowded by them On the contrary, il is only
few months since that Cinnamon paid S., 900 for
the Velker claims, on Trinity, which was more
than white men would give, and only three weeks
since Charley Hop and another of his country
men paid 50, 900 for mining property at Evans
Bar Under all the attending circumstances we
are not certain but the wiping out of this law
would prove beneficial to the State.